Guitar Licks

Simon and Garfunkel are going to be playing May 12th, 2010 in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre and I hope to be there! These guys have produced so many great memorable tunes that it’s not funny! Do you plan to go and see them on their up coming tour?

I remember seeing these guys in the late 80’s at the old CNE bandstand and I’ll never forget it. We had concert seating which was like a free for all at the front of the stage. We brought a small blanket and some beverages, if memory serves me correctly. Our piece of the turf was center-right of the stage about 30 feet away.

The place was full of people sprawling out where ever they could with blankets, pick nick baskets full of food and wine. I was totally surprised to see little kids as young as 2-3 years running around everywhere! It had a nice small town fair feel to it.

The best part of that show for me was when they performed Scarborough Fair. For many year I’ve attempted to play this song and it turned out fine but this was the time to see it done right!

Before the song began, I noticed Paul Simon was practicing the beginning of it, so I asked this guy beside us if I could use his binoculars. I watched every single movement of his fingers and I found out that I was doing it ok except for a few parts. When I got home all I did was play the hell out of that song and I finally have it perfect!

So that was my favorite part of the show. Does anyone out there have a neat Simon and Garfunkel moment that they’d like to share with the rest of us?

Keep on Jammin’

I’m not really too sure what to think about a guitar that is created to look like a fish. It looks kinda neat and might drive your cat crazy but besides that I wonder how this one plays? Maybe it’s for the fisherman’s inner guitar player in him/her. I’d love to see it’s case!

Keep on Jammin’

Who was on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts club Band album is a question that I have tried to figure out the answer to this question every time I picked up the album or looked at a picture of it on line. I’ve looked at this great album for years trying to figure this who was on it and it was always fun to guess but now I’ve finally found out who is who!

To view this classic album cover, check out this link for a great picture and test your musical knowledge, without using the references below!

Top row left to right

• Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)

• Aleister Crowley (occultist)

• Mae West (actress)

• Lenny Bruce (comedian)

• Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)

• W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)

• Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)

• Edgar Allan Poe (writer)

• Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)

• Richard Merkin (artist)

• The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)

• Huntz Hall (actor)

• Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)

• Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)

Next row down left to right

• Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)

• Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)

• Aldous Huxley (writer)

• Dylan Thomas (poet)

• Terry Southern (writer)

• Dion (singer)

• Tony Curtis (actor)

• Wallace Berman (artist)

• Tommy Handley (comedian)

• Marilyn Monroe (actress)

• William S. Burroughs (writer)

• Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)

• Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)

• Richard Lindner (artist)

• Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)

• Karl Marx (political philosopher)

• H. G. Wells (writer)

• Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)

• Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist) – barely visible below Bob Dylan

• Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)

Next row down left to right

• Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)

• Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)

• Max Miller (comedian)

• A “Petty Girl” (by artist George Petty)

• Marlon Brando (actor)

• Tom Mix (actor)

• Oscar Wilde (writer)

• Tyrone Power (actor)

• Larry Bell (artist)

• Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)

• Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)

• Stephen Crane (writer) – barely visible between Issy Bonn’s head and raised arm

• Issy Bonn (comedian)

• George Bernard Shaw (playwright)

• H. C. Westermann (sculptor)

• Albert Stubbins (soccer player)

• Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)

• Lewis Carroll (writer)

• T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)

Finally the front row left to right

• Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)

• A “Petty Girl” (by George Petty)

• Wax model of George Harrison

• Wax model of John Lennon

• Shirley Temple (child actress) – barely visible, first of three appearances on the cover

• Wax model of Ringo Starr

• Wax model of Paul McCartney

• Albert Einstein (physicist) – largely obscured

• John Lennon holding a French Horn

• Ringo Starr holding a trumpet

• Paul McCartney holding a Cor Anglais

• George Harrison holding a flute

• Bobby Breen (singer)

• Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)

• An American legionnaire[1]

• Diana Dors (actress)

• Shirley Temple (child actress)

If you cannot make out who is who in my description then check out this link and I hope that it will make it a little clearer!

Keep on Jammin’