My focus was usually on Super Hero comics. But I admit I read a lot of ARCHIE comics while growing up. It was before the TV cartoon of “The Archies” — which I thought pretty lame. The gags were lame, and the stories lame … but it was all about the comic babes — Betty and Veronica. Whoa — imagine reaching puberty in about 1967 or 68 —
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— After the jump, of course.
WADE
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Modes lesson two covers improvising over the IV chord (sub-dominant chord) or Lydian Major 7th.
Improvisational Guitar
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Notice that Pizzarelli plays the 7-string guitar. Jazz legend George Van Epps is probably best known for utilizing this configuration. He had Epiphone build him a custom guitar in the 1930s and Gretch made a special edition for him in the 60s and 70s.
The rockers decided to experiment with 7 strings in the 80s. The added string was a high A, so the highest two and the lowest two strings were the same pitch two octaves apart.
Alex Gregory had Fender make a prototype 7-string Stratocaster for him and a couple of them were shown at the NAMM show in 1987, but Fender never put them into general production.
The Ibanez UV7 was adopted by Steve Vai while he was with Whitesnake. Since the High A tended to break too easily, the guitar featured a low B. He featured the instrument on his 1990 album Passion And Warfare.
Korn, Rush and Metallica are other bands who featured 7-string guitars.
Legendary 12-string player Roger McGuinn of the Byrds developed a 7-string folk guitar which is now in production by Martin. It features a double G string — same as a 12-string guitar — but all the rest are single strings.
Russian and Brazillian musicians and luthiers have developed and utilized the 7 string guitar for about 100 years.
WADE
This lesson covers the use of the ionian mode which you will use to improvise over the I chord.
Improvisational Guitar
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Love him or hate him, you have to admire the tune Barry Manilow wrote for Johnny Mercer’s “When October Goes.”
Written toward the end of his life when he was fighting a losing struggle against brain cancer, Mercer expressed a fondness for Manilow. The first hit for Barry was “Mandy” — the name of Johnny’s daughter.
After Mercer’s death, his widow gave Manilow some of Johnny’s unfinished lyrics to work with. “October” was published in 1984 and was not only a big hit that year, but is an evergreen that surfaces every year on television, movies and in recordings.
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The next best thing to a visit from St Nick has to be comics featuring the Jolly Old Elf.
And in my opinion — the best comics are from the Golden Age… take a look at some of the covers that I gleaned from Dell’s Christmas series after the holiday season.
Golden Age of Comic Books
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Animated short by Graham Annable from his Grickle things.
Just watching his drawings one can’t help thinking: “I’d like this guy.”
via Drawn!
And this one for dessert, because what would Halloween Day mean without screams?
Starting in the late 19th century, the major product sold by the music industry was the piano roll. There were no radios, TV, record players or movies.
But most homes had a piano, and even though a great number of people learned to play the piano in those days, the piano roll gave them the opportunity to hear many styles of music and virtuosos.
As popular music gained strength in the entertainment world — eclipsing classic and religious music — music publishers flourished and cultivated songwriters. The area of New York where most held offices was called Tin Pan Alley.
Here is a brief article about this magical place and its role in popular music — after the jump.
WADE
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