So who am I ?
- A guitar player that has played guitar for about 38 years
- A lover of music
- A guitar player who specializes in guitar education
- A musician that plays acoustic guitar, jazz guitar, blues, bluegrass, fingerstyle, plectrum guitar, Indian music, open tunings, a songwriter, world music
- A cartoonist
- A person that wishes for all people to be his friend. Unrealistic…here’s a challenge, try it yourself, see how far you get.
- And most of all, a human being who has an incredible desire to live with more compassion each day, because I feel a life minus compassion is meaningless.
33 Comments
September 5, 2007 at 3:19 am
Thanks Tony
Great info on your blog .I look forward to reading more :=).
October 2, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Hi Tony,
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving your comments, especially the poem! Seems like you’re a man of many talents. Wishing you a great week.
Elaine
March 23, 2008 at 12:57 am
I agree that life minus compassion wouldn’t be worth living. I do try to live a conscious and compassionate life myself but sometimes I fail to live up to the goals I set.
March 30, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi Tony,
I enjoyed reading your site. I’m ok on the guitar, I’m just teaching my 13 yr old daughter who is doing really well. If you have any magic dust that will turn me into the next Hendrix then send it over.
I just started listening to Angus & Julia Stone and agree they are excellent. I am going to see them in Brighton (bottom of England) on May 1st.
If you have the chords for Here we go again, then email them to me and save me a job, thanks..
Get your daughter to listen to Gregory & The Hawk and Joanna Newson if she hasn’t already, both are great.
Take Care
Nick
July 25, 2008 at 10:29 am
Hi Tony,
This is just a quick note to let you know of a new website that may be of interest to you and your members. It provides quite a useful source of information and should be a useful tool for the many guitar enthusiasts who visit your blogs.
It is the Street Musician – Top 100 Guitar Blogs, and it can be found at :
http://www.streetmusician.co.uk/top100guitarblogs.html
The Street Musician – Top 100 Guitar Blogs shows the best guitar blogs on the internet and their positions collectively ranked by Google PR, Technorati, and Alexa rankings and is updated daily.
It is a great source of information and also includes a Recent Posts page showing all the latest posts from the listed guitar blogs.
Your blogs are also nicely ranked on the list so feel free to contact me if you know of any other blogs we can add in our search for the best on the net.
Thanks
Kier
July 26, 2008 at 8:11 am
K
Thanks for dropping by. I have checked out your directory/site, great idea and good resource.
and yes, there are a few I recommend. And I will only recommend those of a high standard
August 19, 2008 at 10:38 am
You’re blog is fantastic, really interesting stuff!
September 1, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thomas
Looking forward to seeing the developments with your site.
Tony
September 8, 2008 at 5:00 am
Hi Tony …
I love what you’re doin’ here. I especially love the bit about being friends with everybody, I figure that to some extent I already am your friend.
In case you haven’t seen this clip I leave you with the extraordinary Sid Jacobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimNW8hVAYo
cha
t3rry
September 8, 2008 at 5:41 am
Thanks Terry
This guy is quite a good player. Not sure what country he is from, he doesn’t sound American.
He sort of reminds me a bit of Mick Goodrick without the tension. Good arpeggios and nice chords, I don’t know that piece.
edit:// in fact his chord voicings are beautiful
I used to do bthe Billy Strayhorn song Lush Life
Thanks T
November 26, 2008 at 6:03 am
Tony, I just got on your terrific site and really am impressed with all the great videos you posted. So many great guitarist for sure! Loved the singing as well.
I went through many of the videos on the first page!
Thanks again
If you have the time, I have over 270 pieces of fingerstyle guitar music available for free!
December 25, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Just discovered your blog… love all the youtubes! Please tell me you have heard of Monte Montgomery? If not you are in for a real treat!
Don’t think he’s been downunder… way… I beleve he’s just started hitting some euro dates in the past few years! He and his band are a must see live show for anyone into guitar/power trio!
JT from Chicago
December 26, 2008 at 1:01 am
JT
No. Thanks for mentioning Monte. Someone may have previously mentioned him about a year ago, I’m not sure. But if he’s good it’s worthwhile mentioning him here on this site
Cheers Tony
December 27, 2008 at 8:05 am
Tony – Lovely and informative website. May I humbly suggest you give a listen to the following acoustic guitarists:
Andrew Winton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OAsUF9UP8&feature=related
Paul Finley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95X7kpaJ08&feature=related
Brian Andrew Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BG4R59xk4
I don’t even play acoustic guitar(bass), but I love listening to it played well!
Have a happy New Year.
December 28, 2008 at 7:22 am
Thanks Steve
Will check him out when I come up for air after Christmas duties and joys
Tony
January 8, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Tony,
Thanks so much for pointing out that other site that is taking my content.
I think you have a great blog here and will add you to my blog roll.
Take care and keep up the good work.
January 9, 2009 at 3:39 am
Fitzgerald
My pleasure.
I think that if we go to the trouble to create content, it should be respected
Wishing you a happy new year
I would like to create healthy relationships with other musicians on the web. The role of my site is to educate and inspire and is not to create income for other people who have not enough skill or understanding of music of their own to use as content for marketing purposes.
Tony
February 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi Tony, my name is Ava and I’m over at Jemsite (http://www.jemsite.com/) We do a guitar series over at the blog (http://www.jemsite.com/blog) called the Guitar Heroes series where we interview guitarists and musicians every week. We wanted to interview for this week but I failed to find your contact info on the site. If you could write to charismaqueen100@gmail.com, that would be most appreciated. I would rather tell you about all of this through e-mail rather then through comments.
Thank you,
Ava
March 2, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Hi Tony,
I am new to your blog site and I found your blogs pretty educative especially for learners like me. Would it be possible for you to comment (reply through email will also help) on this website I came across:
http://www.iperform3d.com
I felt its a pretty neat and easy way for learning to play guitar, but yet to decide whether to buy the full package (I have taken the 1st lesson package tough). They have a 3d animated interface where while learning we can zoom in and out and see the exact finger placements of the instructor, also control the speed with which we want to learn. What do you suggest…..your comment would be of great help.
Thanks
March 3, 2009 at 1:25 am
Trisha. It’s inappropriate for me to evaluate someone’s product like that, it would be sort of unprofessional, although I’m not a direct competitor to them and am not marketing learning products, I am in a way another web resource and I would not like to create any disharmony with anyone, the more resources that help people create better music the happier I am. I have never heard of these guys, but it’s a big web.
Here’s a few things that I would look at . First is there DEMO VERSION, which enables you to test it and see if it works for you? If so, try it. Is there a way of getting feedback on your progress or to quickly deal with questions? is there good tech support to problem solve issues? What is it that you want to learn? Is there a local teacher who could step you through the learning process on a one to one? I would never talk up or down a product because my site is about inspiring players. Everybody learns differently and what works for you may be unsuitable for others. Regards Tony
March 16, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I thought the site was really cool. Thanks Trisha!
March 28, 2009 at 1:33 am
Hey Tony, came across your blog, nice work!!!
Tom
March 29, 2009 at 2:01 am
Thanks Tom.
April 18, 2009 at 3:01 am
hay there Tony,
great site! very encouraging.. i feel as though my Guitar has taken a back seat to the Piano.. hopefully now i can even the score…
Jo
April 19, 2009 at 8:54 am
Jo, thanks for the positive feedback, will email
Even the score, is that musical joke?
Tony
April 19, 2009 at 10:39 am
bah ha ha yes indeedie it was
August 5, 2009 at 12:19 am
Hey Tony,
You’ve got a great site here. We are really enjoying it! Very informational and educational for acoustic guitarists like us.
If you are interested, we have a great deal of video content on our YouTube page (originals, covers, album songs, etc.) that we wanted to pass along:
http://www.youtube.com/socciandpency
Thanks again for the great site. Looking forward to new material.
Cheers,
Socci & Pency
September 4, 2009 at 12:24 am
Hello,my name is Pete Swanson of Dagmar Custom Guitars. I recently made my debut at the Montreal Guitar Show just this past July. I have a new take on guitar construction and the attention my design has been getting is pretty crazy! A lot of unbelievable opportunities have presented themselves.
A video interview by Premier Guitar Magazine in Montreal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOfMVZdUkQ
My Facebook page – become a fan and get the low down as it happens!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Niagara-in-the-Lake/Dagmar-Custom-Guitars/112135287016
My official website that sometimes does not work with Internet Explorer 8
http://www.dagmarcustomguitars.com
A great article revealing a new pickup technology that I will be helping to develope and debut on one of my guitars with Professor Hans Peter Loock of Queen’s University.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/278178
September 4, 2009 at 8:39 pm
hi tony,
i m really desperate to learn open tunings as played by kaki king
cud u pls suggest something where i can start from
regards,
sagar_INDIA
September 14, 2009 at 8:20 am
Sagar
I don’t have any Kaki King tutorials. A good starting point is to find out what tunings she uses and from there, become familiar with the tuning by playing some simple melodies and chords. And then, start to see what other tunes are available in the same tunings and work your way towards playing her material.
Tunings of Interest
Tony
January 9, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Hi Tony,
I thought I would say hello. This is Gerry Cott – former lead guitarist and co-founder of The Boomtown Rats. I have just recorded a solo acoustic fusion guitar album URBAN SOUNDSCAPES. For a sample listen please hit http://www.gerrycott.com and tell me what you think? All the best for 2010.
Gerry.
January 10, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Gerry, thanks for dropping by. Will check out what you’re up to
Tony
March 25, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Hi Tony,
Just found your site by landing on your blog post about Olson Guitars. That you are featuring some of the best of the best in terms of luthiers is great.
I’d like to invite you to check out Lichty Guitars, http://www.lichtyguitars.com. I am one of the new luthiers on the block and my guitars have some pretty fabulous musicians excited. Hope you’ll check my work out.
Thanks for generating great content and great conversations.
Jay