Guitarist, Composer, Instructor
If you ask pro athletes many say they want to be musicians. If you ask musicians many want to be pro athletes. I still have the occasional recurring dream that the Padres manager tells me to grab a bat! Im in the show! Grass is always greener I guess….I think we gravitate towards the things […]
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Dear Everyone, (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) I am sorry to report that our beloved summer is in its waning hours. Today is the last day. Fall is great and all with football, baseball playoffs, the holidays and all, but, summer is the best. Swimming, the beaches flip-flops, warm nights. Who am I kidding its […]
Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope you have a fun and safe holiday while celebrating the anniversary of our Nation’s Independence! Just wanted to post two quick versions of the Star Spangled Banner guitar style. I recently saw Yngwie Malmsteen in San Diego and he performed a tribute to the military with a rendition of the […]
IT looks like your business is thriving! I sure hope so! Matt just graduated from Auburn University in Alabama, and is back in SD looking for jobs. (He has a degree in economics). You were such a great influence on his life, and it went beyond the guitar. Your smile is infectious your patience was […]
Wishing Tony Gwynn a happy birthday today. You may ask why a baseball player is being featured on a music website… If you follow this blog you probably know I am a huge sports fan. Growing up watching the San Diego Padres, was/is not much to root, cheer, (insert verb) for! But in 1982 along […]
Growing up a rocker I never had much interest in country music or Willie Nelson. In 2002 a movie called, “The Rookie,” was released. Dennis Quaid starred as an aging high school baseball coach who, egged on by his students, tried out for the big leagues and made it all the to MLBs Tampa Bay […]
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Van Halen’s fourth album, “Fair Waring,” released on this date 1981. This is one album that I have never grown tired of…If I had only one CD to take on a deserted island…this would be it! Eddie’s guitar tone and creativeness were at peak levels! The album was also one of the bands heaviest and […]
Becoming a blogger this year has been a lot of fun. There were certainly some surprises for me along the way some include; -That just under 10,000 viewers would visit, read & reply to this blog. -How many cool people I have hooked up with to chat about music. -That no matter what your opinion….someone […]
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Congrats to the San Francisco Giants on their 2012 World Championship! The Giants swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in baseball’s Fall Classic. Of course the Giants were my pick to win it all! On a somewhat different note did you happen to catch the rendition of God Bless America during the 7th inning stretch? As […]
This is it! The end of the 2012 Major League Baseball season is upon us as baseball’s Fall Classic, The World Series, starts today. When the postseason started I made my predictions with Heavy Metal songs. So far I have done pretty good. I picked the Giants over the Cardinals and the Yankees over the […]
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Mike Slayen ~ Guitarist 