April 23, 1976 one of my favourite bands, The Ramones, released their debut album Ramones. Fourteen songs of three chord awesomeness that changed the world! Pretty much all of my bass playing style came directly from The Ramones. Fast 4/4 time rhythms, low tone three to four notes tops. Simplistic, repetitive, strong bass playing at [...]

Yeah, the Vancouver Canucks are down 3 to 0 in the best of four against the LA Kings in the opening round of this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. Last year, they were in the finals…this year, well, I think they are done in the next two games. Until then be happy and dance to these [...]

One of my favourite songs is “Where Is My Mind?” by Pixies. The airy background vocals, melodic acoustic guitar, the droning electric guitar and lyrics which express confusion – all things this sometimes emo boy enjoys. Many folks were turned onto this song from the closing credits in the movie Fight Club. A perfect piece of accompanying [...]