Issue 22

Bill’s Twang cont. and maybe even knock a few walls down. If you are at one of our gigs, feel free to come up and have a downtuning rave. Lap Steel and Slide raves are encouraged. Happy Sliding..

..whilst trying not to be disturbed by the repetitious recounting of weekend exploits of the young, old and terminally stupid. Should I so choose I won’t be working again, as just before Christmas I was packaged out from my place of employment of the past 20 years, the result of one of its periodic and…

Let me say that it can rain in New Zealand. But, by prior arrangement with Elizabeth, not where we were. Whilst we were in Auckland in rained in the South Island – one place had Melbourne’s average annual rainfall in one day – and when were in the South Island it rained in Auckland. However…

Bill’s Twang cont. This one’s tuned to open E (e-b-e-g#-b-e). Anyway, I can hear the nurse calling me. It’s time for my medicine. Come along to a gig and talk down-tuning. If you need help or lessons, you can contact me through the website’s Contact Us link.

I’ve mentioned the ABC TV show Big Ideas before. I tend to record the various episodes on IQ and review them at my leisure. There’s no particular theme to Big Ideas and I can easily be put off viewing a particular episode just by scanning the synopsis, but sometimes the description is so inscrutable that…