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Music Review: Soulbook by Rod Stewart

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , , on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I like listening to the music recorded by Rod Steward in the 70’s when he was part of The Faces. I like a fair amount of songs that he recorded in his Great Americain Song Book albums but a lot of those songs sound very similar to each other. His latest album is definitely a [...]

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Finger Style Guitar Delight

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I recently experienced the bliss of attending a finger style guitar gig in Toronto. I am not too big a follower of the genre but I do own all of Andy McKee albums and I have listened to a fair bit of Don Ross music as well. To my surprise the place was packed with [...]

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Opeth Rocked!

Posted in Life, Music, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I watched Opeth play live at the Sound Academy in downtown Toronto. The opening band, Enslaved, played progressive black metal. They played some good music but I was thinking about Opeth the whole time. The crowd started to rush in after the opening band finished playing. I was at the front left.
Opeth finally [...]

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Music Review: Opeth

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A few weeks ago I started listening to a band called Opeth. I would describe it as a progressive melodic death metal band. Most of their songs are over 10 minutes in length and combine soft acoustic and heavy electric guitar music. Their lead vocalist, Mikael Akerfeldt, often uses both clean and growling vocals in [...]

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