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The Guys Who Sell Rolls-Royces For Next To Nothing

The Guys Who Sell Rolls-Royces For Next To Nothing
A Rolls Royce vehicle on a showroom forecourt at Rednal, Birmingham. [ Update: August 2022... This area has since been redeveloped and is ...

Storify: Good, Bad and Ugly

Storify: Good, Bad and Ugly
I’ve poked fun in the past at ‘ convenience blogging ’, and I’ve never before felt much impetus to try out Storify , with its staggeringly s...

Why You Shouldn't Delete Your 'Likes' on Tumblr

Why You Shouldn't Delete Your 'Likes' on Tumblr
One popular Google search term I’ve noticed since I began adding Tumblr-related material to this blog is: “ How do I delete all my Tumblr ...

Google Service Drops Support for Opera

Google Service Drops Support for Opera
Please read my original post below in conjunction with the Supported Browsers UPDATE from 11th July 2012. Just a brief notice for any use...

How to Prove a Profile Pic is Fake

How to Prove a Profile Pic is Fake
You know it’s fake . You just know it. If that guy really looked like the dude on his profile pic / avatar , the absolute last thing he’d be...

Tumblr SEO - Surprise Results!

Tumblr SEO - Surprise Results!
I mentioned at the close of my Things You Should Know Before Using Tumblr epic that I was going to spend some time properly experimenting w...

Getting Tumblr Photos Onto Google 2

Getting Tumblr Photos Onto Google 2
UPDATE: 2022: Revisiting this post after more than a decade, I found the Photobucket upload displaying behind Photobucket's watermark. ...

Getting Tumblr Photos Onto Google 1

Getting Tumblr Photos Onto Google 1
Tumblr and photos . Sadly, not quite a marriage made in Heaven. True, it’s incredibly simple to upload an image to a Tumblr Photo Post. T...

How to Use a Forum / Message Board

How to Use a Forum / Message Board
I thought tonight that I’d have a break from the silly stuff and try writing something vaguely serious for once. It’ll still be moderately...
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1980s Guitarist Magazines Malmsteen? Sickened by Vinnie Moore? Surely not?... Let's re-live the full, gossip-filled story of the UK guitar press, circa 1980s and 1990s. Nostalgia galore in The Rise of the British Guitar Magazine... Read article...

The Vintage Reissue Story

Vintage Reissue A trip back through time to discover how the vintage guitar market started, and when the vintage reissue concept was born... Read article...

Guitar Pickup Calibration

Guitar pickups What is pickup calibration, and do we really need it? ... Read article...

The Birth of the Relic

Fender Stratocaster Relic in Sea Foam Green The back-story behind Fender's Relic concept, from underground to mainstream... Read article...

Hidden Secret of the Fender Esquire

Fender Esquire in Butterscotch Blonde An article begins with the question of why a single-pickup Fender Esquire has a pickup selector., and ends with a profound secret from Fender history.. Read article...

Get Great Tone With Poor Pickups

Guitar strings Some long lost secrets from electric guitar string history, that explain why '70s guitarist got great tone with poor pickups... Read article...

Confusing History of Olympic White

Olympic White guitars Was Olympic White actually white, or cream? And what was "Vintage White"?... Here's an end to the confusion... Read article...

The Classic '80s Yamaha DX Synths

Vintage Reissue They put session musicians out of business, from bassists to harmonica players. Here's the story of the synths that changed the way music was made.. Read article...

Telecasters of the Late 1960s

Paisley Telecaster Fender didn't anticipate the 'Hendrix Effect', and opted to make the late 1960s all about the Telecaster. Here's how they pumped their innovation budget into the Tele, only to discover the world wanted Strats after all... Read article...

Free Tonewheel Organ VSTi

The Seductress tonewheel organ VSTi Direct download for this classic tonewheel organ simulator with built-in dual-spin rotor and twin-manual drawbar control - all splittable across a single input keyboard... Download page...

Stratocasters in the 1970s

1970s Stratocaster Firemist Gold Were 1970s Fender Strats good, bad or ugly? Here's an article that separates the truths from the myths... Read article...