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Aug 5, 20213 min read

Keith Richards and the Recording Session from Hell

I love all of the tracks that Keith sings for the Stones — they tend to sound like gloriously messy first takes, and while some of them...

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Aug 5, 20211 min read

What’s that Strange Chord at the start of Bowie’s ‘Starman’?

‘Starman’ is a Bowie classic that we’ve all heard countless times, but what’s that chord he plays at the start? We know the sound of it...

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Aug 4, 20211 min read

Brian Jones and his Gretsch 6118

For the first couple of years the Stones were bashing away on some fairly ordinary guitars — mostly from the Harmony range (often seen as...

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Aug 3, 20212 min read

REVIEW: Music Nomad’s F-One oil

This is one for all the guitarists out there — you know who you are! In late January, I changed over the bridge on one of my Gretsches...