Download or read book Carry Your Own Guitar written by Bill Aken and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we go, you think, another entertainers autobiography. WrongYou have never and will not ever find another story like Carry Your Own Guitar. How an abused, abandoned, 8 year old little white boy adopted by a beautiful Mexican woman who was working under an assumed name in Hollywood films, managed to be transported from a California barrio to the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City, and survive an horrendous automobile accident after being read The Last Rites. This is only the border of the puzzle of Bills life. Fill in the middle with the part where he went on a fishing trip with Rick Nelson and married a beautiful blonde girl that he had only known for three daysA marriage that is still going strong after more than 50 years. Next, find the pieces that fit the years Bill was a member of the elite L.A. recording studio band that played on hundreds of major hit songs in the 60s and 70s. Some guy named Elvis, used to call Bill, The Fixer because of his unique musical ability and insights. No stranger to trouble, the young guitarist almost ended up as a missing piece, when Bill made fun of a foreign dictator over the air on a San Diego radio station. He got put on the rulers international hit list. That could be one of the reasons Bills lifelong friends and members of Los Nomadas used to joke: Dont let em kill the white kid. But, the puzzles not done yet. So, youll have to read the book to see the whole picture. Hold onto your sombreros. Youre in for quite a ride Cant wait for the film version. Holly Rose Garrett, Front Row Lady Music BMI

Download or read book Guitar written by Nigel Osborne and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most authoritative and comprehensive reference work on the full range of guitar designs and playing styles ever produced. An info-packed and intricately detailed, illustrated glossary that helps you 'talk guitar' with authority. Taking you all the way from deciding which instrument is best for you and your music to learning the essential techniques in ten of the most popular guitar styles and maximizing the potential of your guitar, effects, and amplifier, this book is a one-stop, fast track to fluency in all aspects of the most influential icon in the history of popular music. In this book, the world's leading specialists tell you what ingredients go into a vast range of guitars and amplifiers to make them sound the way that they do; coach you on making the most of your instruments, effects, and amps; tutor you in the essential playing skills of genres from Rock to Jazz to classical-and everything in between. Contributors include Dave Hunter, Tony Bacon, Robert Benedetto, Dave Burrluck, Walter Carter, Dough Chandler, Paul Day, James Stevenson, Kari Bannerman, David Braid, Carl Filipiak, Nestor Garcia, Martin Goulding, Lee Hodgson, Max Milligan, and Rikky Rooksby.

Download or read book How to Succeed as a Female Guitarist written by Vivian Clement and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, we have a book written by a successful and experienced female guitarist on how to work in the male-dominated music business. How to Succeed As a Female Guitarist will guide you through the challenges and rewards that await you on the path to following your dreams. You will gain insightful tips and information about business, gear, performance, and interpersonal relations---as well as important music lessons and exercises to improve your chord playing, songwriting, soloing, and general musicianship. This book is an essential read if you are a female musician and want to make a living doing what you love. The CD includes audio examples of all the music lessons in the book.

Download or read book Acoustic Guitar Owner s Manual written by String Letter Publishing and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (String Letter Publishing). Acoustic guitarists can now better understand their instruments, preserve and protect their value, and get the sounds they really want, thanks to this new book from the experts at Acoustic Guitar magazine. This indispensable guide begins by acquainting players with their instruments and laying to rest some pervasive guitar myths, then proceeds through various aspects of basic care, setup, common repairs, and pickup installation. Whether it's cleaning and polishing a beloved guitar, protecting it from theft or changes in humidity, selecting a case, or performing diagnostics, readers will become more savvy acoustic guitar owners and repair-shop customers and can forego dubious advice from well-meaning friends and anonymous "experts" on the Web. Includes a primer and glossary of terms.

Download or read book Guitar Player Repair Guide written by Dan Erlewine and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded edition for beginners to experts is a step-by-step manual to maintaining and repairing electric and acoustic guitars and basses. Players learn how to set up a guitar and keep it in top form by mastering basic maintenance. Features an essential DVD that makes guitar maintenance easier than ever. New features include set-up specs of leading players; stronger coverage of guitar electronics, including pickups and wiring diagrams; and expanded coverage of acoustics.

Download or read book From Darkness to Light written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the trade secrets of all the religions to propose propaganda that humanity has to be saved. It is a very strange idea, but it is so old that nobody seems to look into the implications. Nobody asks why you are worried about saving humanity. And you have been saving humanity for thousands of years, but nothing seems to be saved. In the first place, does humanity need any saving? To answer this question all the religions have created an absolutely fictitious idea of the original fall, because unless there is a fall the question of saving does not arise. And the religious conception of the original fall is just rubbish.

Download or read book On the Road with Janis Joplin written by John Byrne Cooke and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2014 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show--and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar--and depart the stage too soon. In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker's film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then on, Cooke was Joplin's road manager amid a rotating cast of musicians and personnel, a constant presence behind the scenes as the woman called Pearl took the world by storm. Cooke was there when Janis made the difficult decision to leave Big Brother and form a new band. He was with her when the Kozmic Blues Band toured Europe in the spring of 1969, when they performed at Woodstock in August, and when Janis and Full Tilt Boogie took their famous Festival Express train trip across Canada. He accompanied Janis to her friend and mentor Ken Threadgill's 70th birthday party, and was at her side when she attended her tenth high school reunion in Port Arthur, Texas. This intimate memoir spans the years he spent with Janis, from her legendary rise to her tragic last days. Cooke tells the whole incredible story as only someone who lived it could. INCLUDES PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Download or read book On the Road with Janis Joplin Deluxe written by John Byrne Cooke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deluxe edition of On the Road with Janis Joplin includes over 20 minutes of video shot by author John Byrne Cooke while touring with Janis and over 50 minutes of audio interviews with those who knew Janis best, conducted over the course of twenty-five years. Interviewees include band members Peter Albin, Sam Andrew, and Snooky Flowers; her friend and roommate Linda Gravenites; filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; and many more. As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show—and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar—and depart the stage too soon. In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker’s film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then on, Cooke was Joplin’s road manager amid a rotating cast of musicians and personnel, a constant presence behind the scenes as the woman called Pearl took the world by storm. Cooke was there when Janis made the difficult decision to leave Big Brother and form a new band. He was with her when the Kozmic Blues Band toured Europe in the spring of 1969, when they performed at Woodstock in August, and when Janis and Full Tilt Boogie took their famous Festival Express train trip across Canada. He accompanied Janis to her friend and mentor Ken Threadgill’s 70th birthday party, and was at her side when she attended her tenth high school reunion in Port Arthur, Texas. This intimate memoir spans the years he spent with Janis, from her legendary rise to her tragic last days. Cooke tells the whole incredible story as only someone who lived it could. INCLUDES PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Download or read book Make Your Own Spanish Guitar written by A. P. Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Say No to the Devil written by Ian Zack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Finally, the biography that Rev. Davis deserves. Ian Zack takes ‘Blind Gary’ out of the footnotes and into the footlights of the history of American music.” —Steve Katz, cofounder of Blood, Sweat & Tears Bob Dylan called Gary Davis “one of the wizards of modern music.” Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead—who took lessons with Davis—claimed his musical ability “transcended any common notion of a bluesman.” And the folklorist Alan Lomax called him “one of the really great geniuses of American instrumental music.” But you won’t find Davis alongside blues legends Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The first biography of Davis, Say No to the Devil restores “the Rev’s” remarkable story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with many of Davis’s former students, Ian Zack takes readers through Davis’s difficult beginning as the blind son of sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South to his decision to become an ordained Baptist minister and his move to New York in the early 1940s, where he scraped out a living singing and preaching on street corners and in storefront churches in Harlem. There, he gained entry into a circle of musicians that included, among many others, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Dave Van Ronk. But in spite of his tremendous musical achievements, Davis never gained broad recognition from an American public that wasn’t sure what to make of his trademark blend of gospel, ragtime, street preaching, and the blues. His personal life was also fraught, troubled by struggles with alcohol, women, and deteriorating health. Zack chronicles this remarkable figure in American music, helping us to understand how he taught and influenced a generation of musicians.

Download or read book The Guitar Repair Book written by James Lister and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been estimated that there are over 700 million guitars in the world. Every one of these will at least need some maintenance in its lifetime, and a large proportion will need repairing. Many of these guitars will be discarded or left to collect dust, never to be played again. Players will not be aware that their playing experience can be enhanced by improving the condition of their instrument. Even cosmetic repairs may help to encourage a player to pick up their guitar and practise. Many of the procedures covered can be tackled by anyone with some aptitude for working with their hands, whilst others will require a greater level of skill and practice. Each task in the book is assigned a level of difficulty ranging from 'Easy' to 'Moderate' to 'Challenging.' Each procedure is accompanied by detailed photographs and diagrams. While it would be impractical to include every single variation of repair that might be required for an acoustic guitar, the book covers all of the common repairs and many more. Practice of all of the techniques covered will, in time, enable you to cope with almost any repair job you encounter. James Lister has a well-deserved reputation as a maker and repairer, and the book draws on this wealth of experience to present the reader with clear, logical text, explanatory drawings, and many excellent colour photographs that show the sequence of steps for each job, leaving no room for uncertainty. The Guitar Repair Book is a welcome addition to the guitar aficionado's bookshelf. – Roy Courtnall

Download or read book Why I Still Carry a Guitar written by Yusuf Islam and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally celebrated folk singer and philanthropist chronicles his profound personal and spiritual odyssey and reveals why he has taken up his guitar once again. In 1970, Cat Stevens rocketed to fame with his Top 10 Billboard album, Tea for the Tillerman. Less than a decade later, this beloved artist had converted to Islam, changed his name, auctioned off his guitars, and embraced a life of spirituality and charity. Now, more than thirty years later, the famously reclusive singer and songwriter has taken center stage again to share the gripping and often moving story of his personal journey and deliver a powerful message of peace. Dispelling the myths that have long surrounded his actions, Yusuf Islam recalls his transformation from a boy experiencing the dizzying heights of superstardom to a man defined by his Muslim faith who chose to give up his musical career. He speaks poignantly about Islam and what it means in the world today, and shares the hopes that have propelled his return to music. Wise and illuminating, as compelling and thoughtful as his finest songs, Why I Still Carry a Guitar is an inspiring story of an extraordinary leader who transcends the East-West divide; a man brave enough to take a leap of faith—and the difference it has made to his life and the world.

Download or read book The Greatest Rock Guitar Fake Book Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). This is the ultimate rock guitar collection! It features 200 classic and contemporary hits with melody, lyrics and chord frames, plus authentically transcribed guitar parts in notes and tablature! Songs include: All Day and All of the Night * American Woman * Angie * Another One Bites the Dust * Ballroom Blitz * Bang a Gong (Get It On) * Black Hole Sun * Blue on Black * Carry On Wayward Son * Centerfold * Change the World * Come Out and Play * Crazy Train * Cult of Personality * Don't Fear the Reaper * Double Vision * Dream On * Dust in the Wind * Every Breath You Take * The Freshmen * Give Me One Reason * Gloria * Heartache Tonight * Hey Joe * The House Is Rockin' * I Feel Fine * Iris * Iron Man * Layla * Learning to Fly * Little Sister * Money * My Generation * Nights in White Satin * Owner of a Lonely Heart * Paranoid * Patience * Piece of My Heart * Pride and Joy * Push * Revolution * Rhiannon * Roxanne * Semi-Charmed Life * Smoke on the Water * Something to Talk About * Suffragette City * Sultans of Swing * Susie Q * These Eyes * Twist and Shout * Two Princes * Welcome to the Jungle * Woman from Tokyo * Wonderwall * You Got It * more!

Download or read book My Years with Townes Van Zandt written by Harold F. Eggers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in.'” So writes Harold Eggers, Townes Van Zandt's longtime road manager and producer, in My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage – a gripping memoir revealing the inner core of an enigmatic troubadour, whose deeply poetic music was a source of inspiration and healing for millions but was for himself a torment struggling for dominance among myriad personal demons. Townes Van Zandt often stated that his main musical mission was to “write the perfect song that would save someone's life.” However, his life was a work in progress he was constantly struggling to shape and comprehend. Eggers says of his close friend and business partner that “like the master song craftsman he was, he was never truly satisfied with the final product but always kept giving it one more shot, one extra tweak, one last effort.” A vivid, firsthand account exploring the source of the singer's prodigious talent, widespread influence, and relentless path toward self-destruction, My Years with Townes Van Zandt presents the truth of that all-consuming artistic journey told by a close friend watching it unfold.

Download or read book My Way written by Paul Anka and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame with a slew of hits-from "Diana" to "Put Your Head on my Shoulder"-that earned him a place touring with the major stars of his era, including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. He wrote Holly's last hit, and just missed joining the rocker on his final, fatal plane flight. Anka also stepped in front of the camera in the teen beach-party movie era, scoring the movies and romancing their starlets, including Annette Funicello. When the British invasion made his fans swoon for a new style of music-and musician--Anka made sure he wasn't conquered. A rapier-canny businessman and image-builder who took his career into his own hands-just as he had from the very beginning, swiping his mother's car at fourteen to drive himself, underage, to his first gigs in Quebec-Anka toured the world until he could return home in triumph. A charter member of the Rat Pack, he wrote the theme music for The Tonight Show as well as his friend Frank Sinatra's anthem "My Way". By the 1970s, a multi-decade string of pop chart-toppers, including "Puppy Love" and "(You're) Having My Baby", cemented his status as an icon. My Way is bursting with rich, rollicking stories of the business and the people in Anka's life: Elizabeth Taylor, Dodi Fayed, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Adnan Khashoggi, Little Richard, Brooke Shields, Johnny Roselli, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brigitte Bardot, Barnum & Bailey Circus acrobats, and many more. Anka is forthcoming, funny and smart as a whip about the business he's been in for almost six decades. My Way moves from New York to Vegas, from the casino stage to backstages all over the world. It's the most entertaining autobiography of the year.

Download or read book How To Make a Living Teaching Guitar and Other Musical Instruments written by Guy Lee and published by Guytar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Troubadour Travels written by Graham Cain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you sing? Play an instrument? Juggle? Entertain people? Do you like travelling? Are you a professional soloist, or have you performed in a duo or trio? Are you an amateur with the confidence to perform in front of other people? Perhaps all of the above? Then this guide book is for you. This book has 36 chapters that will guide you through all the things you need to do to travel around the world performing. There are various options for professional and amateur performers. You can perform indoors or outside, or try 8 different forms of busking. Choose the one which suits you best. If you want to travel around the world on a working holiday, playing and performing, earning enough to cover your food, accommodation and travel expenses, still have enough money left over for other great times and hardly spend any of your own money, welcome to TROUBADOUR TRAVELS.