Hey fellow musicians/guitar players!
Very nice backing tracks site if you don't know it yet: guitarbackingtrack.com
The tracks are basically tunes with their guitars removed, and you can dowload as mp3!
Enjoy!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Best iPad and iPhone Apps and Devices for Guitar Players
After a lot of hesitation, and with the death of my old PC laptop recently, I did cross the iPad2 line to find... A whole new world of media! I know it souns "cliche" but this thing just delivers on its promise.
It is the ultimate 2011 tool for anything you like or want to do! Again nothing new but I never hear anybody say this about the iPad, so let me state it this way: the key strength and awesomeness is that iPad is for anyone and everyone. I can simply not go wrong but of the intrinsic customizable nature of this beast. It is what you make be, it does what you make it do, the sky really is the limit. Surfing the net, reading a book or pdf documents, watching videos, of course listening to music or the radio, reading or writing blogs, playing games, video chating....or ANYTHING you would need as you will surely find an app that does it.
On the subject of music, nice like below if you need examples, and also: the release of the Alesis IO Dock for iPad. Just found about it yesterday, and will probably be back to say more.
Best iPad and iPhone Apps and Devices for Guitar Players
Enjoy!
Olivier
It is the ultimate 2011 tool for anything you like or want to do! Again nothing new but I never hear anybody say this about the iPad, so let me state it this way: the key strength and awesomeness is that iPad is for anyone and everyone. I can simply not go wrong but of the intrinsic customizable nature of this beast. It is what you make be, it does what you make it do, the sky really is the limit. Surfing the net, reading a book or pdf documents, watching videos, of course listening to music or the radio, reading or writing blogs, playing games, video chating....or ANYTHING you would need as you will surely find an app that does it.
On the subject of music, nice like below if you need examples, and also: the release of the Alesis IO Dock for iPad. Just found about it yesterday, and will probably be back to say more.
Best iPad and iPhone Apps and Devices for Guitar Players
Enjoy!
Olivier
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Live at the Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
Hi everyone,
I really had a great time at the Philadelphia's Magic Gardens yesterday. Part of their Music & Mosaics Concert Series, this special "a night in Paris" in honor of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts featured Dallas Vietty's Musette Project, The Philly Musette Project and... my Bluesy French-Pop!
Very nice night in Philly, we played outside while the attentive public was doing a sort of picnic on mosaic! Dallas Vietty openened and set the ambiance to a true "soiree parisienne". Dallas is a great accordion player. It is amazing how much you can tell that he has a true passion for his instrument. Again, one thing is to play, another thing is too play well, but it is definitely more when you see this kind of love.
With great guitar manouche lead Barry Wahrhaftig, rhythm guitar Joe Ellis and Jim Stager at the bass, they really lit up the gardens with their musette!
The Philly Musette Project - pianist/ accordionist Heath Allen and vocalist Phyllis Chapell - closed the evening with a beautiful tour of French classics from yesterday to today with songs from Edith Piaf, Pink Martini and our one and only First Lady Carla Bruni. They define their style as "elegance, charm and maximum joie d’vivre", and that is exactly what we saw heard, and felt yesterday.
In between, I played songs from "Paris-Chicago" and more. After some technical sound problems to begin with (always adds to the pressure!), I really started to get to know an incredibly open-minded public, who really wanted to listen to something different for them: songs they never heard before and that they also don't understand... it's always my challenge, but they made me feel good about it yesterday.
Check-out this souvenir, and I'll post more soon.
A bientot,
Olivier
I really had a great time at the Philadelphia's Magic Gardens yesterday. Part of their Music & Mosaics Concert Series, this special "a night in Paris" in honor of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts featured Dallas Vietty's Musette Project, The Philly Musette Project and... my Bluesy French-Pop!
Very nice night in Philly, we played outside while the attentive public was doing a sort of picnic on mosaic! Dallas Vietty openened and set the ambiance to a true "soiree parisienne". Dallas is a great accordion player. It is amazing how much you can tell that he has a true passion for his instrument. Again, one thing is to play, another thing is too play well, but it is definitely more when you see this kind of love.
With great guitar manouche lead Barry Wahrhaftig, rhythm guitar Joe Ellis and Jim Stager at the bass, they really lit up the gardens with their musette!
The Philly Musette Project - pianist/ accordionist Heath Allen and vocalist Phyllis Chapell - closed the evening with a beautiful tour of French classics from yesterday to today with songs from Edith Piaf, Pink Martini and our one and only First Lady Carla Bruni. They define their style as "elegance, charm and maximum joie d’vivre", and that is exactly what we saw heard, and felt yesterday.
In between, I played songs from "Paris-Chicago" and more. After some technical sound problems to begin with (always adds to the pressure!), I really started to get to know an incredibly open-minded public, who really wanted to listen to something different for them: songs they never heard before and that they also don't understand... it's always my challenge, but they made me feel good about it yesterday.
Check-out this souvenir, and I'll post more soon.
A bientot,
Olivier
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Barry Eisler - Thriller Novelist, and so much more...
To say that Barry is a novelist is true, but it is also an understatement: former-CIA (Directorate of Operations), attorney in an international law firm, in-house counsel at the Osaka headquarters of Matsushita Electric, spending his life between San Francisco and Tokyo, Barry is also an expert in Judo, a Jazz enthusiast, a single malt whiskey connoisseur, and an extremely pertinent and knowledgeable political analyst. What's not to like?
OK, now that I told you that Barry was not only a novelist, let me tell that he is also a novelist, and invite to discover his books.
About "Rain Fall" (first of a series of 6 starring the secret agent John Rain), as The London Time wrote "... an original, adrenalin-filled romp through an exotic cultural landscape with an engaging murderer as a guide...".Rain Fall became a movie (featuring Gary Oldman), even though I have to admit that I did not enjoy it as much as I did the book...
Have fun discovering Barry's world!
Olivier
Politics and MySpace are actually how I discovered Barry. After I read 2-3 of his blogs on Myspace during the 2008 US presidential campaign, I kept thinking "wow, it's pertinent, balanced, and also so well written"! No surprise to then find out that he was a writter, and after a couple of comment exchanges I went on and subscribed to his Discussion Board a "fun forum with a lot of interesting people talking about writing, the Rain books, politics, single malt whisky, and anything else that strikes people's fancy" as he states himself. Another good place to go is his blog, The Heart of the Matter which is his "nonfiction venue for discussing what's going on in the world".
OK, now that I told you that Barry was not only a novelist, let me tell that he is also a novelist, and invite to discover his books.
About "Rain Fall" (first of a series of 6 starring the secret agent John Rain), as The London Time wrote "... an original, adrenalin-filled romp through an exotic cultural landscape with an engaging murderer as a guide...".
Have fun discovering Barry's world!
Olivier
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