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Guitritus
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The humble guitar blog of nick - trying to be a better player, one lick at a time.
Recent Posts
catch up
So I've been away for a while, and it would seem that the apathetic border collie of the interweb has allowed my plump flock of guitar-themed sheep to wander off over the moors somewhere, never to be seen again....
Alter Bridge @ Brixton Academy - 8th Nov 2008
I should probably warn you: a Guitritus review of an Alter Bridge concert is not going to be winning any objectivity awards. For it could safely be said that, during a year that cried out for the catharsis of substantive thirty-something RAWK, "A...
Night of the Gigging Dead
This most hallowed of eves saw the first deployment of Got Carter, my current covers band of choice, upon the festively dead and decaying folk of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. We were top of the bill at the "The Cock Tavern" - a name to test a ch...
New adventures
This time next week, I shall have two gigs, on consecutive nights, that will each be the maiden outing of two completely different bands. I say "completely different bands" but actually, in a moment of freaktacular cosmic coincidence, it̵...
A change will do you good [updated]
Some new acquisitions recently, and a somewhat profound change to my rig after an amp-related epiphany. First of all, there was a need to replace the effects - primarily delay and chorus - lost when my G Major kicked the reliability bucket. It might...
A trio of Mis-Spelled gigs
It’s been three gigs in as many weeks with the nefarious Mis-Spelled Band, due to my former partner in crime, Captain Jules T. Hairy, having assorted musical and matrimonial antics demanding his attention. A somewhat hurried – got the ca...
