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  1. I borrowed Pekka Laine's and Tommi E. Virtanen's book "Suomalaiset sähkökitaristit" ("Finnish Electric Guitarists") from my local public library a couple of weeks ago. The book came out in 2022, but for some reason I had not picked it up before.

    The book has more than 560 pages, and consists of nearly 60 interviews with a very wide selection of prominent rock, pop, roots and jazz players. There are also remembrances of a few key people (Albert Järvinen, Petri Walli, Alexi Laiho) who were no longer available for interview. The oldest interviewee was the old-school session player Heikki Laurila (1934-2021), the most recorded guitarist in Finnish music, with more than 7000 tracks in his résumé. The youngest is the heavy metal guitarist Samy Elbanna (born in 1995).

    Some of the interviewees have learned to play on their own, but there are also many players, regardless of the genre, who have had formal musical training. The late 1960s British blues boom, Jimi Hendrix (who played a legendary concert in Helsinki in 1967) and especially Albert Järvinen's role in the Hurriganes (the seminal 1970s Finnish rock & roll band) come up as key influences in many of the interviews with the people who started out in the 1960s and 1970s.

    While many of the people obviously have their own individual voices, and there are wildly different personal histories, the interviews have been skillfully edited into a fairly compact format, and overall the book is an easy and entertaining read. I've never played guitar beyond of trying to pluck a few random notes, but reading the book, I got a lot of new insights into guitar playing, the role of practising, technical gear, touring, session work and the life of a musician in general.

    The book at the publisher web site:

    tammi.fi/kirjat/suomalaiset-sa

    #music #musamastodon #guitarists #rockmusic #finnishmusic #books #kirjamastodon #musicians #musicalhistory

  2. Good Morning #Canada
    ##HappyBirthday to Donald Charles Frederick Messer (May 9, 1909 – March 26, 1973) a Canadian musician and defining icon of folk music during the 1960s. His CBC Television series Don Messer’s Jubilee (1959–69) featured Messer's down-east fiddle style, and national viewers were second only to Hockey Night in Canada. He influenced a generation of Canadian musicians, particularly on the east coast.

    #CanadaIsAwesome #MusicalHistory #Fiddlers
    thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

  3. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
    AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

    loudersound.com/features/bon-s

    #BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist

  4. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
    AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

    loudersound.com/features/bon-s

    #BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist

  5. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
    AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

    loudersound.com/features/bon-s

    #BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist

  6. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
    AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

    loudersound.com/features/bon-s

    #BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist

  7. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
    AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

    loudersound.com/features/bon-s

    #BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist

  8. PianoTV is a video channel about piano music and the history of music, presented by an enthusiastic teacher. You can follow at:

    ➡️ @pianotv

    If the videos aren't visible from your instance yet, you can see them all at tilvids.com/accounts/pianotv/v

    #PianoTV #Piano #Music #PianoMusic #Classical #ClassicalMusic #History #MusicalHistory #HistoryOfMusic #Videos #PeerTube #PeerTubers #Education

  9. archive.org/details/jazz-funer

    A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by Harmony Holiday

    Topics #artwriting, #prose, #poetry, #jazzfuneral, #jazzfunerals, #jazz, #Blackhistory, #musicalhistory, #historyofmusic, #ritual, #visualculture, #antiblackness, #culturalanalysis

    Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom is exactly what it announces it is, a book as dynamic and eternal event wherein a feminine voice leads her band of improvisers in a procession of joyous interrogation and forgiveness. This ritural is simultaneously a purging of any cowardly impulses in the speaker and in the culture she addresses and speaks as, and a releasing or banishing of unfit archetypes, readying the landscape for fresh forces by torching the weakest links in the prevailing mythos.

  10. PianoTV is a PeerTube channel about music and its history (especially classical music), hosted by an enthusiastic piano teacher. You can follow at:

    ➡️ @pianotv

    You can see the full selection of videos at tilvids.com/accounts/pianotv/v

    #Music #ClassicalMusic #Classical #Piano #Pianist #History #MusicalHistory #HistoryOfMusic #Videos #PeerTube #PeerTubers #Education #Learning