Small Hours...........

2008-10-25T19:47:00.000-07:00

2008-01-07T06:14:00.001-08:00

2007-11-07T10:10:00.000-08:00

2007-07-26T15:59:00.001-07:00

A couple of views of my newly created music room. They say you can only play one at a time....you'll never hear that from a guitar player! His long suffering wife on he other hand.....

Actually no, not in my case. Aforementioned long suffering wife doesn't suffer at all - said laydee is as we speak awaiting delivery of her Epiphone EB-0 short scale bass! 'natch. Shes gonna need an amp for that, maybe some effects etc.......

2007-07-26T15:58:00.001-07:00

Hmm....yeah, I still need a telecaster and a decent acoustic.

2007-07-26T15:45:00.001-07:00

Yep, new kit time. Arctic White Fender standard Stratocaster -
and.......Marshall 15 watt mini-stack!

2007-07-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

*NEW KIT*

2006-10-11T16:31:00.000-07:00

acoustic - open c tuning

2006-08-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

Running out of room!

2006-08-20T15:58:00.000-07:00

My newest guitar....Epiphone Les Paul standard.

Rig photos

2006-05-05T17:41:00.000-07:00

This is my set-up at present. Bog standard Squier affinity series stratocaster > Korg Toneworks AX100g effects unit > Fender 90 Deluxe 90 watt amplifier with celestion speaker.

2006-05-01T19:51:00.000-07:00

well then.....

we're married and we've been on honeymoon. The wedding was perfect and the honeymoon equally so. I don't want to bore anyone with the slush so have a look at some of our holiday photos instead. I'll post more if I can persuade the camera to give up the goods (its like pulling teeth - there are more photos on the card than the computer will admit, grrrr....)

Honeymoon photos (but not ones of us)....

2006-05-01T19:44:00.000-07:00

Meerkat and Komodo Dragon, Palmitos Park
wildlife centre, Gran Canaria.

Canarian cat....

2006-05-01T19:34:00.000-07:00

look at this lovely wee chap! A suposedly stray, but very well cared for little fella. On our visit we encountered many cats and the one thing they had in common was the curious chunk missing from the ear......apparently its some sort of identification method (possibly to indicate neutering). Local people take a lot of care of these cats and we often found them getting tore into chicken and other food left out for them in the shade.

photo by Kochanski.

Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria

2006-05-01T19:26:00.000-07:00

here we have the view
from our balcony on the
top floor of the Cala Nova
apartments!

sun-up at 36,500 feet!

2006-05-01T19:19:00.000-07:00

Homeward bound........at sunrise.

a message from Angus...

2006-04-20T16:09:00.000-07:00

You lookin' at me?

2006-04-20T12:44:00.000-07:00

A wave of nostalgia has washed over me. What you see here is quite simply the best car I ever owned (sadly, its gone to the great manta graveyard in the skies over germany).
What a car that was. 2.0 litre GT/E coupe, lowered 2" all round on shortened bilstein struts, many, many Irmscher goodies, twin headlights, 400 series door mirrors, Borbet alloys....
I plan on buying another as soon as possible. How difficult it will be to find one remains to be seen.

The great thing about these cars is the handling - perfectly distributed weight means easy, predictable fun. Man, I could cry.....

I've also included a pic of my Golf, not a bad motor either but I'd really like to source a late model oak green 16v.....

2006-04-17T18:22:00.000-07:00

2006-04-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Please. Bland music for beige people has no place in society, nor indeed in the collective conciousness of the safe middle class smug arseholes that are attracted to it. PLEASE, I beg of you - make these magnolia tinged buns a thing of the past. Fast. Tom x

Wee Nat.......

2006-04-09T12:46:00.000-07:00

Natalie (my youngest and loudest) doesn't like having her picture taken. Well, miss defiant - here it is for the world to see!

Has the devil really got all the best tunes?

2006-04-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

I've been toying with digital filters of late. I'm publishing this early experiment to see what it looks like in the context of a web-page. I think I need to learn more about it.

2006-04-07T09:17:00.000-07:00

here is a rare photo of me NOT looking like Ian Gillan of Deep Purple circa 1973 (i.e - I've tied my mop of hair up). It was taken last week by our very own "kochanski" during a trip to Dumbarton castle. Very nice it was too.

dirty sg......

2006-04-07T08:28:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite guitar, my beloved cherry red SG.I also use a very trusty Squier Strat, but can mostly
be heard playing my battered old acoustic, regularly
incorporating alternative tunings to make me sound
much better than I really am.

Flavour of the month (tunings wise) is open C, which
is (fat to thin) CGCGCE. Dick Gaughans marvellous
version of "The Granemore Hare" can be replicated
fairly easily this way, as can John Martyns
beautiful take on "singin' in the rain".
I very often play in open G
and DADGAD too.