This was recorded last week but I got dragged away on a loooong weekend with the wifes side of the family and didn't get a chance to post it. We went a couple of hours from home to a small country town

It arrived the other day in a beautiful cardboard box that not even covid could delay. My new (to me) Fender USA telecaster, olympic white, maple neck, brass saddles. So while it is technically straturday

Official Old Bastard gets new life!

It's the end of another year already! Who'd have thought eh? While things are still pretty messed up I've been playing guitar more that I did when I was in my 20s, or at least more constructively. A few

You don't need me to tell you this, but it's been a long year. A sometimes productive year but loooong. I've been pretty consistent with the guitar practice and uploading of my progress so maybe not making

So Christmas is almost upon us and while some people are winding down for the holidays many more seem to be desperate to get things done before the western world resets, the calendar ticks over and everything

So I asked Mr @andrewmusic for a suggestion of a song or solo to play and he kindly suggested "Still got the Blues" by Gary Moore. I hadn't heard this track for years but thought I'd give it

Most weeks I try and learn a new song or solo to play as a way of practicing, but last weekend I had some virus (not that one) and slept for almost 2 days straight. I bounced back pretty quickly but still

So here we go again. Things seem to be going back to normal-ish. Shops are open, people are again buying crap they don't really need. Oh, that reminds me, I could use a new guitar. In a couple of weeks

Life is a highway and mine's been pretty busy lately, not sure if there's been an accident or if they're doing roadworks up ahead. I've been asked to take some annual leave so I've pulled over to the side

It's been a busy week. I missed last Straturday as we had stocktake where I work. It's always a bit of a stressful time with 2 different factors. One is the process, there is always something that goes

I've been playing around with this new software Ripx that pulls apart the tracks of a song allowing you to create your own backing tracks and while it works quite well... it kind of doesn't. There always

I've loved this song ever since hearing it on YouTube a couple of years back in a live version that he did. Such a great SRV sound! Since then I've been trying to find a backing track for it so I could

Killer weekend. Springtime has arrived down under and the weather is perfect! Sunny and 20 degrees. Dunno what that means in the US but here it means a beautiful day. Also it's official that I'm getting

We're in lockdown again and this time it doesn't seem to be working that well. In the past they've been looking at the number of infections go down but with this new delta variant numbers still seem to

I'm a list kind of guy and on the weekends I go through the list of stuff I need to do as fast (and as well most of the time) as I can. Yesterday I vacuumed, mowed, built a small retaining wall took the

We've been watching a TV show at our house called Dr Death. It's a "true" story about an American spinal surgeon that was less than competent with just a few issues. It has some big names in

I got off my ass a while back and started to loose some weight, mainly though diet. Being back in the office seemed to help shed about 6kg but since going back into "delta lockdown" I've put

My wife has discovered a couple of women that own an online clothing store called Moto. They advertise on Facebook and have these videos that go for what seems like hours with low quality audio that sounds

Last post I did contained a video for #teletuesday that was a bit more full on that my normal 80's and 90's soft rock. I thought I'd balance that out with something a bit more chilled. Released in 2002