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The Keith Richards riff machine is still in fine working order as the Rolling Stones return with new single Angry The first single from long-awaited new studio album Hackney Diamonds proves that after all these years no-one does rock 'n' roll guitar quite like the Stones

Bernie Marsden, former Whitesnake guitarist and giant of blues-rock guitar, has died Co-writer of Here I Go Again, Marsden leaves behind a profound legacy following a lauded career, and was “writing and recording new songs until the end”

Hey! How you all doing?

I finally got around to fully restoring my 1981 Yamaha SG-2000 so this is the first vid featuring that guitar.

Back in the late 1970s I had a guitar lesson with Kevin Peek, the lead guitarist in 'Sky'... and he'd just got one of the very first SG-2000s in the UK. Kevin was kind enough to let me have a go and I fell in love with it. They were way out of my price range at the time, but I finally got my hands on this one in 2015 after driving down to Portsmouth to get it.

The neck was way out, but I managed to straighten it, the original pickups had been replaced and the coil tap circuit had been ripped out. It's finally back to it's original condition after managing to source some original pick ups and a new bridge from Japan... (although they are probably from the later SG-200 reissues they were built just the same). It's as close as I'm gonna get.

Hope you like the vid... and RIP Kevin. Thanks for the magic.

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Tina was the ultimate professional in everything she did... a true hero of mine; extremely talented and creative... she even used hair from Africa to made all of her her own wigs.
"Rest in Power" 👊

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly. (© Peter Lindbergh)

1980 Y A M A H A SG2000

"My mother country England is, thank god, an Empire no more, but in that country now, there is a new catch phrase “Eat or Heat?” you can’t do both. It’s a cry echoing round the whole of Europe.
Apparently, the only thing the Powers that Be think we can all afford is perpetual war. How crazy is that?"

There's no money for the nurses, and the rest of the workers that pay their taxes dutifully in order to provide the money... that will go instead, towards perpetual war.

It makes you think don't it? Read George Orwell 1984.

On Wednesday Feb 8th, I briefed the Security Council of the United Nations:

https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1e/k1e98hhxei

Madame President, Excellencies, distinguished members of The Security Council, Ladies and Gentlemen.

I feel profoundly honoured to be afforded this singular opportunity to brief your excellencies today. With your forbearance, I shall endeavor to express what I believe to be the feelings of countless of our brothers and sisters all over the world, both here in NY and across the seas. I shall invite them into these hallowed halls to have their say.

We are here to consider possibilities for peace in war torn Ukraine, especially in light of the increasing volume of weapons arriving in that unhappy country. Every morning when I sit down at my laptop, I think of our brothers and sisters, in Ukraine and elsewhere, who, through no fault of their own find themselves in dire and often deadly circumstances. Over there, in Ukraine they may be soldiers facing another deadly day at the front, or they may be mothers or fathers facing the awful question how can I feed my child today, or they may be civilians knowing that today the lights will go out, for sure, as they always do in war zones, knowing that there is no fresh water, that there is no fuel for the stove, no blanket, just barbed wire and watch towers and walls and enmity. Or, they may be over here, in a big rich city like NY, here brothers and sisters can still find themselves in dire straights. Maybe, somehow, however hard they worked all their lives, they lost their footing on the slippery tilting deck of the neo liberal capitalist ship we call life in the city and fell overboard to end up drowning.. Maybe they got sick, or maybe they took out a student loan, maybe they missed a payment, the margins are slim, who knows, but now they live on the street in a pile of cardboard, maybe even within sight of this United Nations building. Anyway, wherever they are, all over the world, war zone or not, together they make up a majority, a voiceless majority. Today I shall endeavor to speak for them.

We the people wish to live. We wish to live in peace in conditions of parity that give us the real opportunity to look after ourselves and our loved ones. We are hard workers and we are ready to work hard. All we need is a fair crack of the whip. Maybe that’s an unfortunate choice of idiom, after five hundred years of imperialism, colonialism and slavery.

Anyway please help us.

To help us you may have to consider our predicament, and to do so you may have to take your eye off the ball for a moment, to put your own goals momentarily to one side. What are your goals by the way? And here maybe I direct my enquiries more to the five permanent members of this Council. What are your goals? What is in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Bigger profits for war industries? More power globally? A bigger share of the global cake? Is mother earth a cake to be gobbled up? Does not a bigger share of the cake mean less for everyone else? What if today, in this place of safety, we were to look in another direction, to look at our capacity for empathy for instance, to put ourselves in other’s shoes, like, right now, for instance, the shoes of that chap on the other side of this room, or even the shoes of the voiceless majority, if they have any shoes that is.
The Voiceless Majority is concerned that your wars, yes your wars, for these perpetual wars are not of our choosing, that your wars will destroy the planet that is our home, and along with every other living thing we will be sacrificed on the altar of two things, profits from the war to line the pockets of the very, very, few and the hegemonic march of some empire or other towards unipolar world domination. Please reassure us that that is not your vision for there is no good outcome down that road. That road leads only to disaster, everyone on that road has a red button in their briefcase and the further we go down that road the closer the itchy fingers get to that red button and the closer we all get to Armageddon. Look across the room, at this level we’re all wearing the same shoes.

So back to Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not “unprovoked”, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms. There, that’s got that out of the way.
When I wrote this speech yesterday, I included an observation that the power of veto in this council only lay in the hands of its permanent members, I was concerned that that was was undemocratic and rendered This Council toothless…. This morning I had a revelation……..TOOTHLESS! maybe toothless is in some ways a good thing……..If this is a toothless chamber……..I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless without getting my head bitten off……. How cool is that. I read in the paper this morning, some anonymous diplomat quoted as saying, “Roger Waters! To address the Security Council? Whatever next?..... Mr Bean! Hwah! Hwah! Hwah! For those of you who don’t know, Mr Bean is an ineffectual character in an English comedy show on TV. So it’s a penny to a pound the anonymous diplomat is an Englishman, Hwah! hwah! hwah! To you too Sir! Ok, I think it’s time to introduce my mother, Mary Duncan Waters, she was a big influence on me, she was a school teacher, I say was, she’s been dead for fifteen years. My father, Eric Fletcher Waters, was a big influence on me too, he too is dead, he was killed on the 18th of February 1944 at Aprilia near The Anzio Bridgehead in Italy, when I was only five months old, so I know something about war and loss. Anyway back to my Mum. When I was about thirteen I was struggling with some knotty adolescent problem or other trying to decide what to do, it doesn’t matter what it was, I can’t remember anyway, but my mum sat me down and said, “Listen, you’re going to be faced with many knotty problems during your life and when you are here’s my advice, read, read, read find out everything you can about whatever it is, look at it from all sides, all angles, listen to all opinions, especially ones you don’t agree with, research it thoroughly, when you’ve done that you will have done all the heavy lifting and the next bit is easy, “Is it? Ok mum what’s the easy bit?”…….”Oh, the easy bit is, you just do the right thing.“

So speaking of doing the right thing brings me to human rights.
We the people, want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. To be clear, that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law for, for instance, Ukrainians, and for instance Palestinians. Yup, let that sink in. And obviously for all the rest of us. One of the problems with wars is that in a war zone or anywhere where the people live under military occupation, there is no recourse to the law, there are no human rights.

Today our brief is the possibility of peace in the Ukraine, with special reference to the arming of the Kiev regime by third parties.

I’m running out of time so,

What do the Voiceless millions have to say?

They say
Thank you for hearing us today
We are the many who do not share in the profits of the war industry.
We do not willingly raise our sons or daughters
To provide fodder for your cannons.
In our opinion
The only sensible course of action today
Is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
No ifs, no buts, no ands.
Not one more Ukrainian or Russian life is to be spent.
Not one.
They are all precious in our eyes.

So, the time has come to speak truth to power. You all remember the story of the Emperor’s new clothes? Of course you do. Well the leaders of your respective Empires stand, in one degree or another, naked before us. We have a message for them. It is a message from all the refugees in all the camps, a message from all the slums and favelas, a message from all the homeless, on all the cold streets, from all the earthquakes and floods, on earth. It is also a message from all the people, not quite starving but wondering how on earth to make the pittance they earn, meet the cost of a roof over their head and food for their families. My mother country England is, thank god, an Empire no more, but in that country now, there is a new catch phrase “Eat or Heat?” you can’t do both. It’s a cry echoing round the whole of Europe.
Apparently, the only thing the Powers that Be think we can all afford is perpetual war. How crazy is that?

So, from the four billion or so brothers and sisters in this Voiceless Majority who together with the millions in the international anti-war movement represent a huge constituency, enough is enough! We demand change.

President Joe Biden, President Putin, President Zelenski,
USA, NATO, RUSSIA, THE EU, ALL OF YOU.
PLEASE CHANGE COURSE NOW,
AGREE TO A CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE TODAY.

That, of course, will only be the starting point. But everything extrapolates from that starting point. Imagine the collective global sigh of relief. The outpouring of joy. The international joining of voices in harmony singing an anthem to peace! John Lennon pumping the air with his fist from the grave. We have finally been heard in the corridors of power. The bullies in the schoolyard have agreed to stop playing nuclear chicken. We’re not all going to die in a nuclear holocaust after all. At least not today. The powers that be have been persuaded to drop the arms race and perpetual war as their accepted modus operandum. We can stop squandering all our precious resources on war. We can feed our children, we can keep them warm. We may even learn to cooperate with all our brothers and sisters and even save our beautiful planet home from destruction. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Your Excellencies,

I thank you for your forbearance.

Roger Waters

J A M
Just jammin'...

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Hi everyone here's my last song recorded on page 365... the last day of 2022.
My cover of Pink Floyd's 'SORROW'

I'd like to wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2023.
All my best and thank you for your support.

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‘And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before’

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Bought this for recording... love it! -

SQUIER P BASS MINI - SHORT SCALE BASS

S U P E R N A T U R A L - In memory of Peter Green

Hi! Hope you're all doing OK...
Here's the latest video in memory of Peter Green. Peter spent a few years locked up in West Park asylum (which is near to where I am)... before being rescued towards the end of his life by friends.

Peter wrote this tune, many say he was one of the greatest blues guitar players and I tend to agree... this is my tribute to Peter and in no way, am I even attempting to compete! I don't see the point in trying to play a tune the same way as anyone, no matter how great... I am me and they are the masters of the guitar.

Peter Green's story is a tragic one really... mental illness is a serious problem; but seriously if you're gonna fall victim to drugs and alcohol you're asking for trouble... opening the door, for your demons who will come in.

Stay positive, stay safe... and stay in the light man. Hope you like the video, thanks for all your support.

P E A C E

Lone Arrow

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Jerry Lee Lewis, legendary rock 'n' roll wild man, dies at 87 The rock 'n' roll pioneer's death was confirmed by the singer's publicist in a statement, after his passing was erroneously reported by numerous outlets earlier this week

ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY - Cover version

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New video COMFORTABLY NUMB : my cover version of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb.
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Cover version of the original Top Gun Theme - - -

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IN LOVING MEMORY - HER MAJESTY - QUEEN ELIZABETH II
1926 - 2022 - MY QUEEN

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F U C K - W A R - N O W
'The Strat From Hell' - it was sitting in my mates garage for years and took a lot to fix, but it's fixed now! -

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Thank you Ma'am
With love and gratitude
From all at Apple

SOVEREIGN - CHASING - RAINBOWS
Part two of the Eclipse FM Broadcast and "Chasing Rainbows" - when it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark, look for stars!

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A band I was in the mid 1990's including live broadcast on London's Eclipse FM Radio. -

SOVEREIGN - CHASING - RAINBOWS

Hey! How you doin'?

New video: A band I was in the mid 1990's including live broadcast on London's Eclipse FM Radio.

For all you musicians out there here’s a tip:
Rule #1 in any live performance: NEVER STOP!
If it starts to go wrong, keep going and fix it… that is the No1 difference between and

As you might have noticed we go out of sync during the lead break. I was the only one plugged in, we had no cans or monitors and just one microphone so consequently I couldn't hear a thing other than me. I had to watch Chris strumming his acoustic to get back in which I managed to do. No one ever mentioned they noticed it after the show but I hear it every time!

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Sovereign’
Early 1990s Eclipse FM was cable radio that wet out live across the whole of London and the SE.

We played live in a tiny studio with no cans and just one mike. I was plugged in but the others were not… so I couldn’t hear hardly anything with no monitors!

We did go out of sync for a bit… I got back by watching the other Chris strumming his acoustic.
I couldn’t use my ears so I used my eyes instead… while still playing my guitar live… in front of the whole of London.

Afterwards no one who was listening to the show ever noticed we went out. But I hear it every time.

Coming up later. Sovereign in Eclipse FM. 🇬🇧 calling!

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"W I R E L E S S" was featured in Thomas Blug's Instagram Story Today! All I'm gonna say about that is this: Be Positive. And believe in yourself. Dude.

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