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12 Bar Bidness, Baby
10/22/10 19:19, by Dan Grigor, Categories: Guitar, BFMN Exclusive, Dan Grigor, Video , Tags: 12 bar, 12 string, 12-bar, 12-string, blues, dan grigor, guitar, live music, music video I went to a great birthday party the other day. It was a JAM party and I brought my guitars. It was also a costume party so I wore my leather and cape. As a guest of a friend of the birthday girl I only knew 3 people there, my guitar-player son-in-law, m… more »
Lies Are More Honest than Truth
05/23/11 01:03, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: barefootmusicnews, beatles, blues, fiction, jazz, julian lennon, kathmandu, lies, lucy in the sky with diamonds, media, music, news, paul bourgeois, stories, trumpet, truth It sounds weird, doesn't it? But it is easier to tell the truth about stuff if you are making it up. Otherwise you have to contend with permission forms and people saying "I don't want my story told or my face used." more »
Marry a Musician?!?
10/18/10 01:03, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: blues, musicians, rap, richie havens, rock A musician? The guy's a rock musician?!? Well, never let your daughter marry a rock musician. Their brains are wired differently. That's all I can say. more »
The Story So Far
10/11/10 05:33, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: blues, dentistry, guitar, harmonica, howling wolf, the blue monsters, willie dixon Once upon a time... There is some truth to what follows, and it is also fiction. And somewhere between the truth and the fiction there is the story of the "The Blue Monsters". The names, places, instruments, events and histories have all been changed to protect the guilty. more »
Holmes Versus Page With a Touch of Hart
07/12/10 00:06, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: advertising, blues, copyright infringement, dazed and confused, jake holmes, jimmy page, led zeppelin Sometimes the desire, pain and frustration hits me so intensely - everything has to be right and perfect, and I have to be willing to do anything to achieve - I get IT for one instance. more »
21st Century Schizoid Band
07/05/10 02:30, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: 21st century schizoid man, blues, emerson lake and palmer, king crimson, music, performance, scale, the blue monsters, theory Once you've been there... the memory of belting out the simplest riff on your instrument and having an audience go wild... will just keep dragging you back in and you will keep looking for that insane sweaty high again and again forever. more »
Is the Harmonica Player Really a Musician? - Part 1
06/14/10 00:27, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bar fight, blues, harmonica, jazz, keys, music theory, musician, rhythm, schecter diamond series, the blue monsters Dan Grigor said he loved these articles because they were “a wonderful look into the mind of the working musician.” I don't know about that, but it warms my wretched heart. more »
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