There are only two kinds of musicians in the world. Which are you? Which would you rather be? Let’s find out. Let me explain what I mean. I have been trying for some time to get a little band together just for fun. I really do prefer my solo show but there is something very …

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Take It From Me by Edward Lapple I’m a bass player, at least I’ve been playing at it for four decades now. I’ve tried playing guitar but I have never even been beginning good at it and I always blame my lack of competence on my fat fingers. My fingers just always seemed to mash …

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There is a thing I do every day and I have been doing it for a really, really, really long time. I add a third “really” now that I just had a birthday. I’m pretty sure that means that I have been playing guitar, very nearly every day, for 50 years. Even during the years …

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Grigorian Chance is a pet project I have on going with my son, Tom, who lives in San Francisco. Whenever he comes down we try and do a recording. He is the guitar player in an awesome indie band there, “Sister Grizzly.” Check ’em out on YouTube. Playing guitars with my son is one of …

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No matter what you do you can’t make everybody happy, so quit trying. This is particularly true with music. Just forget it. I don’t care who you are, what you play or how good you are. It can’t be done. It is also true that if you put music on the internet and open up …

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by Edward Lapple When the friendly man in the music store smiles reassuringly at you and says the 1000-watt, 8-speaker monster stack that you are about to finance is the hottest amp in the world, Watch It! He’s Lying. When your session bud tells you his ’57 Tweed Twin is the mellowest amp that there …

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This video really isn’t so much green screen as it it composite but it was still a challenge to shoot and edit. Once we had a setup with the jib and the lights and the background that we liked it took, on and off, 4 days to edit the 6-camera, 2-day shoot. This is so …

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The best thing my Dad ever did for me was buy me a guitar. He was kind of a mess otherwise. My folks split when I was rather young.  For a while, Wednesday visitation with my Dad was spent driving to the city and taking Flamenco guitar lessons. The memories from then are a little …

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