Attention studios of the JFK assassination: This piece of news is the biggest thing we’ve heard since…the Zapruder film? This raises a lot of new questions. Meanwhile, let’s get some answers for music
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For centuries, music and nice and clean. While different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of these notes were expected to be projected with clarity and purity. Yes, you could add a
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Before Tool took off, guitarist Adam Jones was a special visual effects expert who worked on Hollywood films, something that was put to good use in the band’s early videos. Now in concert
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Every walk of life has its stars, the famous people who get all the attention. In business, it’s the CEOs. In sports, it’s the quarterback, the homerun-hitter, the big goal scorer. When it
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] When Les Paul and Leo Fender introduced their electric guitars in the early 1950s, they were looking for a way to compete with louder
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Les Paul is known for (a) the Gibson guitar that bears his name; and (b) this pioneering work in developing multi-track (or as he called it, “sound-on-sound”) recording. But until I found this
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History of full of stories of people who did great things but aren’t remembered for them. For example, Scott Neeson was the head of 20th Century Fox in Hollywood. But hit with a
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All right, back to work. Only 78 days until spring. And while we’re on the subject of a new year, this isn’t going to sit well with religious types. (Via Tom) And now,
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Off to Dublin tonight. Anyone have any tips? Can you tune a tree? (Via Tom) Some say that Johnny Cash is the author of the greatest love letter of all time. Scott Weiland
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