Monday, 14 September 2009

Tropea Blues


Not posted for a week or two because I was invited to play at Tropea Blues! It was wonderful!!

Friday, 14 August 2009

Puzzled of Umbria

Why when I innocently type into Google 'belt clip watch' do I get

adult sex video clips, all pantyhose sex....??!!

Hmm......

Legend: Les Paul Dies at 94

Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y. . He was 94. Apparently Les Paul guitars account for 50% of Gibson Sales!!!

www.nytimes.com

Monday, 27 July 2009

Trasimeno Blues

Opening night with a collection of 80 vintage Fenders!!


Then Matt Schofield: great young British Blues player: good voice!

Jamencuz!










Did a series of three gigs with Carmelo: Cortona in the main square: a location I've always wanted to play!...ever since I saw Steve Winwood and Tito Puente there, eleven years ago........ Then Citta della Pieve at Bistro del Duca and then I Girasoli in Camucia.

Cena della amicizia PACIANO


Played with Alberto di Giacomo: percussionist from Rome: great fun!

Monday, 13 July 2009

Reflections on the starving artist

Reflections on the starving artist

Excerpt:
'The artist looks back on a poor, unfortunate but colourful upbringing and reminisces about a personal struggle to achieve their goals, despite the negative elements of their early days. It also implies that a certain level of personal suffering, is beneficial, almost mandatory, for the creative soul. I don't believe there is any evidence that implies any correlation between suffering and creativity. There are certainly examples of artists dying in poverty, only to be discovered' posthumously, however that doesn't imply a causal link between starvation and inspiration!'