Category: Happiness

I filed this piece under happiness because, if you’re older (40 or above), and you make your own music, you need to know this in order to be happy. Many guitarists start playing in their teens sometime and dream of...

Earlier today I blogged about how this is a great time to be an artist, especially if you do it part time, because technology is so great.  But there’s a flip side to doing anything creative part time – nobody...

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.  How do you categorize guitar players?  Nobody fits perfectly in a box, unless the box is super general, like “guitar player.”  But in the world of web, you can...

Let’s be blunt – most people, once they hit about 35, stop looking for new artists to listen to.  By the time they hit 40, they’re locked into the stuff they listened to in their teen years and rarely venture...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… knowing my audience, that would be “lady and mostly gentlemen of the jury…” Some younger (and some older) players have taken to calling the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender...

I received an AAS degree in Music Merchandising and a BS degree in Music Business, just so I could have a website and YouTube channel to talk about guitars.  I mean, that wasn’t the original plan.  The original plan was to...

I was 18 years old, broke, about to start college, and I was in an all-original band with my buddies called Maxwell Grant.  I ended up with a Electra Strat copy and an old 30 watt Guyatone tube amp and a MXR MicroAmp pedal.  No...