Lockdown Lead Guitar’s most recent episode is, after a little surge of 90s nostalgia, coming up to date, with a 2015 track from an artist most famous for his work in the 1970s. David Gilmour’s Rattle That Lock came out in 2015 and was supported up with a tour and a number of TV appearances,…

The Lockdown Lead Guitar series on YouTube has been, so far, my interpretation of various riffs and solos hat I kinda like, last week I’ve turned inward and recreated the solo from a song I wrote back in the 90s. Demo’d on a 4 track at some point in 1997, and recorded in 1998 with…

After a couple of lazy weeks I recorded the next installment of Lockdown Lead Guitar today, once again featuring the awesome playing of Wet Wet Wet’s Graeme Duffin, I think this is the third entry in the series to feature my take on his playing. The song If I Never See You Again was the…

Since I’m coming up on my 21st (for the second time) I’ve set up a donate page on Facebook to raise some money for the charity Help Musicians. If you are able and have a Facebook account, I’d ask you click here and donate whatever you can. It’s thanks to this organisation that I’ve been…

I’ve been a little lazy with updating the blog since the new year, but I have continued to make videos for the Lockdown Lead Guitar series and they are live on YouTube. Last weeks entry in the series was Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ and used an Eggle Iommi artist model guitar from 1995. Today I decided…

2020 is over!!! That’s a good start to 2021 by it’s self, and I’ve added a new video to the Lockdown Lead Guitar collection, this time is a track from David Gilmour’s 2006 Album On An Island. This is based on the main solo towards the end of the song and is interesting in that…

With tier 4 covid restrictions being imposed on Scotland from December 26th, it would appear the Speedtrap reunion gig scheduled for that day won’t be happening. Hopefully we’ll be back on track for December 2021 where the guitar solos will have twice as many notes. With this in mind I’ve decided to pluck episode 31…

All the way back in March we thought the covid pandemic would be resolved within a few months and I thought my YouTube series of guitar solos would be lucky if it reached 10 episodes. Well… Episode 30 was uploaded last week and there has been some progress with a vaccine, fingers crossed 2021 will…

No bitching about the lack of live music today, instead I’m gonna pretend to be happy that we had some snow fall over night, since it’s December I’m only a Die Hard viewing away from agreeing it’s almost Christmas. Musically I’m keeping myself busy learning new songs that my students have asked about, this week…

Another week with no gig news to report, and with out local area moving into tier 4, we’re pretty much locked down again. Too keep myself sane, relatively speaking, I decided to tackle some Scottish pop from 2007 for this week’s Lockdown Lead Guitar; it’s my take on the solo from Wet Wet Wet’s ‘Too…