RIP Dickey Betts
he was top gear. Sad news that founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, guitarist Dickey Betts as died aged 80. read the rest of this rubbish
Tag: guitarist
RIP Jeff Beck
the guitarist's guitarist. Sad news that another rock icon, Jeff Beck, has passed aged 78, one of the big names of the British blues-rock guitarists to come out of the 1960s. read the rest of this rubbish
Not Eddie Van Halen as well
damn you 2020, damn you to hell. Just when you thought this year couldn't get any worse, it did, when Wolfgang Van Halen announced that his dad, the Eddie Van Halen, died last night after his long battle with cancer, aged just 65. read the rest of this rubbish
RIP Peter Green
the greatest British guitar player. Sad news that Peter Green, founder of the real Fleetwood Mac, died at the weekend, aged 73. read the rest of this rubbish
RIP Bert Weeden
Mr. Guitar. All those guitar players that came out of the coffee shops and clubs of Britain in the 50s and 60s in Britain pretty much have one thing in common Bert Weeden's 'Play In A Day' book. read the rest of this rubbish
R.I.P. Hubert Sumlin
back alongside the Wolf. Sad news that another blues legend, Hubert Sumlin, has died. read the rest of this rubbish
Weekend World with me Bwian Walden
tomowwow at noon. This one goes out to Leslie West, some classic Mountain tracks one of which brings back memories of a boring political programme shown by ITV on Sundays at noon. read the rest of this rubbish
The dark art of the pedal steel
guitarist. There's a number of these strange people out there sitting down and running a metal bar up and down an instrument, Maggie Björklund is such. read the rest of this rubbish
Still got the blues
for you. R.I.P. Gary Moore. Came as a great shock when I read during the Super Bowl half-time that blues, rock guitarist Gary Moore had died in Spain aged 58. read the rest of this rubbish
It happened this week
This week in music history - June 11th to June 17th - with who was born and who died, including the Irish blues guitar master Rory Gallagher. read the rest of this rubbish