Music World Mourns

Another guitar hero lost... first was Jeff Healey earlier this year.

Now - Bo Diddley...

Both a great loss to the guitar/music world. Inovators, showmen, class acts.

Both will be sorely missed.

Unbelievable Guitar Work - Bohemian Rhapsody

A friend of mine came across this on YouTube. Edgar Cruz is a guitar player out of Oklahoma who has a talent for taking the sound of an entire song and bringing it down onto a guitar.

In this clip, he does Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and gives a lesson on how it's done as well. Beautifully done.



Here's another of him doing Dream On by Aerosmith. A few dropped notes here and there, but still pretty damn good.

Jimmy Page Still Got It!!

A buddy of mine send me to this link on YouTube to see a clip of Jimmy Page working on stage with the Black Crowes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyK_SnQiXDM

Page is still real smooth and in the clip is playing a Gibson Les Paul... wonderful axe!!!

The Power of Invention and the Mind

Looking at the paper today and the Rocky Mountain News did a small story on Les Paul - inventor of the electric guitar (among other things).

The man is 92 years old and still making music and inventing things!!

I remember seeing him when he was 77 years old at a small jazz club in NYC called "Fat Tuesday's". The man is a genius!

Not only did he develop the first electric guitar, but also multi-track recording and vinyl records! Without the man, the music industry wouldn't be what it is today. The world is a much better place because of him.

To read the article - http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,2792,DRMN_54_5661584,00.html

Les Paul Website - http://www.lespaulonline.com/