Hello to Modern Guitars readers. Hope all is well, it's been a few months since my last entry. My band, Mambo Sons, starts up next month after several months of inactivity due to the demanding schedules of the three of us. We are looking forward to going out this time, and we'll be adding a few covers to our show of otherwise original music. This time out, we've added "Thirty Days in the Hole", the great Humble Pie track, "Over Under Sideways Down" from The Yardbirds, and "Don't Bring Me Down" by The Animals, in deference to Hilton Valentine, with whom I recently spent the day...
It's been awhile since I posted here and just wanted to drop a line to say hello. I am grateful for those of you on this site who have bought the new Mambo Sons disc "Racket of Three" and also to those publications like Modern Guitars who have given the CD a thorough and positive review. This is our third disc and I think our best work to date, but these things don't just promote themselves, you have to gig, make contacts, send a bunch of them out and at the end of the day, you can only do this if you believe in your music...
My band Mambo Sons and are releasing a new cd on August 1, which we've titled Racket of Three for a few reasons. One, we make a big racket, two, we are a trio, and three, it's our third album.
I'm recording a new CD, and have been for the past five months. It has been an incredibly long and arduous task but I'd have it no other way. It takes time, it takes care and it takes determination...
I typically don't watch the Grammys because they usually leave me with an incredible empty feeling, but thought I'd check it out this year because I had read that Page and Jones would be accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Does it bother you when someone asks you "who is the BEST guitarist"? It bothers me, as its not quantifiable, like an athletic event. Its all subjective! Equally as bothersome is when someone asks you "what's the BEST guitar"...I always respond with "the best guitar FOR WHAT?"...and there is still no right or wrong answer...
Hi fellow guitar fanatics...this is my first journal entry on Modern Guitars, and it's a pleasure to be here. I have been playing guitar now for what seems like my entire life and an early high point was being featured in the Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Player magazine tribute edition, in March, 1991. Over the years, I have recorded and played with Rick Derringer, Max Weinberg, The Dirty Bones Blues Band, Mark Nomad, Muddy Waters' bassist Charles Calmese, Jaimoe from The Allman Bros., Second Son, Adolph Jacobs of The Coasters, and The Delrays. For the past ten or so years I have operated...