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All rock singing might be subjective, but Steven Tyler knew when some of his favourite artists let him down when he saw them in concert.
Donovan tried to recruit Hendrix when he went in the studio in the late 1960s, but ended up working with the soon-to-be Led ...
In the midst of balancing textbooks for his philosophy classes and the steep responsibilities of being chair of the ...
Folkd rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch ...
Boyd Recital Hall hosted Collegium Musicum, a chamber music experience designed for the performance of early music literature ...
IF YOU’D heard Donovan singing in the 1960s about sunshine, love and psychedelia, you’d never had guessed he was from Maryhill. San ...
was followed in May 1968 by the rockier Hurdy Gurdy Man, with the singer crediting Jimmy Page and Allan Holdsworth as the song’s “guitar wizards”, creating “a new kind of metal folk”.
There are some bands who are like a blast from the past in that they’re influenced by the music of the ‘60s, ‘70s and/or ‘80s ...
Animal Collective’s Geologist plays hurdy-gurdy on a couple of tracks. Vitiello says, “Sometimes, my projects are more conceptually driven, but I think this was more musically geared.
electric guitar, hurdy-gurdy, pedal steel and percussion on 2006’s The Crane Wife alone, is fresh off a European tour and at home in Oregon, a state whose spectacle and character lured him from ...
Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...
Business owners across Canada have been impacted by the ongoing trade war and that includes Riversong Guitars owner Mike Miltimore. Riversong headquarters are in Kamloops, but the company’s recently ...