Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois media/blogs/a/PaulB/Image112.jpg"> It has been 14 years since Tupac Shakur’s death, and ten years since The Rose That Grew from Concrete, and I don’t know what’s going on with stuff, or if other… more »

by Frank Butler We ran into James Demeter at the NAMM Show. Interesting guy. He was the guitarist for “The Heaters” back in the 70’s. (That’s him in the center, in the photo at left.) Although he knows his way around a guitar… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois There’s a reason I don’t own a TV. I envision a nightmare world of doers and watchers. Life isn’t lived by watching it. But then again, maybe – just like I traveled about a lot in my twenties and now… more »

On July 13, 2010, NAMM announced that it will sponsor OpenMic.US, the largest online promoter of live-music open mic events in the United States, in order to reach more people with its messages about the proven, powerful benefits of playing music. more »

Review by Mark Taylor Ozzy Osbourne is now a household name, but sadly not just for being the Godfather of Metal. He almost lost that status after making a moany divering old fool of himself on the reality show of his family the “The… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois 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.  What right do I have to… more »

by Steven Rask If you study the history of rock bands, words like Devotion, Ethics, and Loyalty are rarely used in a positive sense, especially in Hollywood. Yet these words were the thesis of Donna Halper’s introduction speech at the Hollywood… more »