Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
The News Review:
- Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
- Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour rejected by Glastonbury
- Instruments strike a chord at National Music Museum
- Metallica to Receive ‘Guitar Hero’ Treatment in 2009
- Gore’s golden girls grab country music honours
- Bo Diddley dead at 79 after heart failure
Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
Washington Post – Jun 3, 2008
A self-taught guitarist Diddley developed dynamic fingering techniques that allowed him to do more with less. For example he tuned his guitar to a D major chord and could fret many chords with his just index finger. In Diddley’s music the guitar functioned with the drums and maracas almost as a percussion instrument unusual because blues music often had the guitarist playing solos. Using the tremolo effect of his amplifier Diddley’s notes were broken into staccato fragments that enhanced the percussive effect. Adding to his stage flamboyance was his electric guitar often a red rectangular model custom-built for him from his own design by the Gretsch musical instrument company. His guitars were prominently displayed on his record covers for years and became part of his image. Rock musicians have borrowed the Bo Diddley beat for their own songs including Buddy Holly’s "Not Fade Away" in the 1950s the Who’s "Magic Bus" in the 1960s and the Smiths’ "How Soon Is Now" in the 1980s.
Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour rejected by Glastonbury
NEWS.com.au – Jun 3, 2008
If you start to break it then people aren’t going to go. I’m sorry but Jay-Z? No chance. "Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music… But I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. "Meanwhile Jay-Z is planning several parties to celebrate his forthcoming Glastonbury festival appearance. The rapper – real name Shawn Carter – is determined not to let critics of his headlining slot at the world famous UK event spoil his fun. He has already ordered cases of £300 bottles of Armand De Brignac champagne for his bashes which are believed to be taking place in both the US and UK.
Instruments strike a chord at National Music Museum
USA Today – Jun 3, 2008
— ne visitor might be drawn to the six-string Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs. Another might gaze in awe at one of just a handful of Stradivarius violins still with its original neck or a 1767 Portuguese grand piano considered one of the earliest best-preserved pieces known to survive. Each is important to the National Music Museum which focuses on a piece’s place in musical history rather than just its beauty. “When you think of other collections especially other collections in the United States they are in art museums” says Sarah Richardson curator of musical instruments. “And so a lot of times when the instruments are collected they’re collected for their artistic value rather than their musical value. The 800 instruments on display at the museum — tucked away in the small university town of Vermillion — make up just a fraction of the more than 13500 items in its collection which museum director Andre Larson calls “by far the largest most comprehensive one anywhere now. “This is the only place really where you find all these things brought together American European and non-Western” Larson said… “It’s really great for tours because children can hear it and often try it” she said. Antonio Stradivari is best known for his violins but the famed Italian craftsman also created other stringed instruments such as guitars and mandolins during his lifetime. A circa-1700 Rawlins Guitar on display at the museum is one of only two documented guitars made by Stradivari known to survive. Another exhibit case houses a 1680 choral mandolino called The Cutler-Challen — also one of only two known to exist — which is even a rarer find because it survived with its original wood case. Visitors can see one of only two violin bows known to come out of Stradivari’s workshop. The museum also houses the world’s oldest known surviving violoncello (commonly known as a cello). Nicknamed “The King” the bowed string instrument was crafted in Europe in 1545 and played by King Charles IX of France in 1562.
Metallica to Receive ‘Guitar Hero’ Treatment in 2009
Rolling Stone – Jun 3, 2008
Metallica is one of the greatest bands of all time. there is no reason to get all whiny over a gd video game. They were done long before St Anger(which sold jack).
Gore’s golden girls grab country music honours
stuff.co.nz – Jun 3, 2008
There was no stopping their group E-Liza at the weekend as it took title after title including the overall senior award. Just for good measure Mackay and Mahon bagged the overall runners-up prize for their duet performance while Mahon also won the female vocal title. Each already has a cabinet full of trophies from the Gold Guitars and other country music contests so it seemed inevitable that they would one day dominate their hometown event. The young women – Mahon a nurse at Gore Hospital Cairns and Mackay senior pupils at Gore High School – have been friends for 10 years and singing together for five and this showed in their polished performances… There was no stopping their group E-Liza at the weekend as it took title after title including the overall senior award. Just for good measure Mackay and Mahon bagged the overall runners-up prize for their duet performance while Mahon also won the female vocal title. Each already has a cabinet full of trophies from the Gold Guitars and other country music contests so it seemed inevitable that they would one day dominate their hometown event. The young women – Mahon a nurse at Gore Hospital Cairns and Mackay senior pupils at Gore High School – have been friends for 10 years and singing together for five and this showed in their polished performances. The trio made the finals in all six sections they entered and won four titles on their way to the main award. By rights Cairns and Mackay both 17 were too young to compete in the senior section which has a minimum age of 18. But by teaming up with 22-year-old Mahon they qualified.
Bo Diddley dead at 79 after heart failure
NEWS.com.au – Jun 3, 2008
Born Ellas Bates in 1928 in McComb Mississippi he took the last name McDaniel from his adoptive mother and played classical violin as a boy. He was given the nickname Bo Diddley as a teenager after moving to Chicago where he started playing music on street corners in the 1940s. Inspired by blues musician John Lee Hooker’s Boogie Chillen Diddley used his violin skills to craft a guitar sound that laid the basis for the funk music of the 1960s. He found fame in the mid-1950s with his signature song Bo Diddley. Even among the first wave of rock music the song stood out with its tremolo guitar maracas and trademark beat. Diddley’s unique guitar playing and rhythm influenced generations of rockers from Elvis Presley to Bon Jovi. Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi made guest appearances on his records and Diddley played with the likes of The Clash and The Grateful Dead.
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