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The Vintage Ultima is one of the Virtual musical instruments made for the VST environment by Planet Botch. Planet Botch is a blog/websit...

Spend More Time - lyrics and song

Spend More Time - lyrics and song
Spend More Time is an early '80s-style reggae track, which started as an exploration of our tendency to spend our lives doing things ...

Magic Words - lyrics & song

Magic Words - lyrics & song
Magic Words is pop track which mocks the fiasco of mid noughties recruitment. It was written in 2004, when I first perceived that corpora...

No One Ever Grew - lyrics & song

No One Ever Grew - lyrics & song
No One Ever Grew began life as a slightly goth-orientated track, which I used to play at live venues with a solo-guitar-and-vocals setup....

She's Back - lyrics & song

She's Back - lyrics & song
She's Back is a 2009 pop song which uses a double-time beat, and is built around the acoustic output of a 1965 Epiphone Casino guitar ...

Fires of Hell - lyrics & song

Fires of Hell - lyrics & song
Fires of Hell is a high-production reggae track which raises the issue of fake religion, and the concept of religion being used as a get-...

Just Bullshit - lyrics & song

Just Bullshit - lyrics & song
Just Bullshit is a song that looks at the way complexity can persuade us that something is true, when actually it's just a lie. Incre...

If You're Up There - lyrics & song

If You're Up There - lyrics & song
If You're Up There is a mock gospel track, which questions some of the inconsistencies in the conventional theory of God, and perhaps...

Live Wire - lyrics & song

Live Wire - lyrics & song
There's also an alternative, guitar and vocal only version of Live Wire, which I've added below... Live Wire was created righ...
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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

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The Birth of the Relic

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Hidden Secret of the Fender Esquire

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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...