Author Archives: Sammy

A Summer Washout?

This year is looking awful for the festival scene, the season is now underway and it’s still raining, windy and cold, looking at the long term weather forecast it’s due to continue well into July too. I bet Michael Eavis … Continue reading

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Black Sabbath to Tour Again

Those ageing rockers Black Sabbath, are once again getting ready to hit the road for a 2012 tour. This is the second time the band has reformed for a tour, however this time they are writing some new material and … Continue reading

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The Top 5 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

“Top however-many greatest” lists are never really conclusive, and generally we only put them together to spark a debate of some sort.  This is never more apparent than when you see somebody looking through a list of the top 5, … Continue reading

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Record Sales and Gigs for Bands

So in these times of recession, the whole music industry still seems to be thriving, despite all the bands such as U2 complaining about people downloading their songs on the internet for free, they still seem to have a few … Continue reading

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Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin died in October 1970 so I was only a few months old at the time, so there is no way I could remember her music, my parents didn’t listen to particularly rocky music or the blues, so I … Continue reading

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About this musical blog

Just to be clear, when I referred to this as a musical blog, I don’t mean in the same way as a musical box, as in it belts out a tune every time you open it up, I just mean … Continue reading

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Just getting started for now

Hello, if you found this post you are either reading this at some point in the future or somehow just found my brand new blog.  Anyway there is nothing here of interest, so move along now, I’m just writing a … Continue reading

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