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Good Friday the 13th to you all,
Glad you could drop in. I see some parts of the country are having some not so nice weather. Please be careful as your driving in these conditions, Very slippery and there are many accidents out there. Here in Annapolis Royal, after a lot of snow yesterday evening, we're now experiencing a warm spell and the snow should be gone by tonight. It's +6 right now and going to 10 today.
Have you seen the video by Walk off the Earth and Sarah Blackwood, 5 people on one guitar doing a version of Somebody That I Used To Know. If you haven't you must check it out. Interesting and very good. You can find it on Utube and I hope you enjoy it.
Congrats are due for the George Harrison documentary - Living In The Material World. It won a Critic's choice award last night in L.A., Directed by Martin Scorsese, it is supposed to be an excellent film about the late Beatle. Have not had the opportunity to see it yet but can't wait.
So, here in the world of instrument strings, everything's chugging along. Your orders are being packed and shipped and we're happy to help you out with them. We're trying hard to keep prices and shipping low and the more you order the better we can make things for you.
I was just looking at the DR handmade coated coloured strings while I picked a customers order and thought I'd mention them to you. These are called EXTRA LIFE for electric guitar and they come in a multitude of colours. We carry the black and red but do have access to all the colours. They look pretty cool on a guitar and being from DR, they have an extremely long life. the interesting thing with their process is that they coat the wrap wire before it's wound on the string. The coating has a corrosion inhibiting lacquer for extra protection. I believe these strings are definitely worth a try as DR make an excellent string - coated or not. These are fun, they last and they sound fantastic. Treat yourself and please let me know what you think.
Well, that's all for today folks.
Make the best of this day and have a great weekend.
Happy Birthday Shouts for the Great Joe Pass, T Bone Burnett, Fred White and anyone else with a birthday today - All the Best. For a complete list of musician's birthdays just click on the history tab at globalstrings.com.
Augustine, D'Addario, D'Aquisto, Dean Markley, DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, GHS, Hannabach, John Pearse, Curt Mangan, Savarez, S.I.T., Thomastik-Infeld and a few more for your guitars, basses, mandolins, violins or whatever needs strings.
Today's Birthdays
1683 - Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer
1690 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer
1727 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer
1734 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer
1778 - Anton Fischer, composer
1788 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
1824 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
1850 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
1866 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
1870 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1893 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
1895 - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1900 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer
1904 - Richard Addinsell, London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
1905 - Percy Humphrey, musician
1906 - Maxime Jacob, composer
1909 - Danny Barker, jazz guitarist
1917 - Felix Guerro Diaz, composer
1918 - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer
1923 - Danil Shafran, cellist
1925 - Gwen Verdon, LA, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
1930 - Liz Anderson, rocker
1936 - Ami Maayani, composer
1938 - Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer
1943 - William Duckworth, composer
1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
1947 - John Lees, England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
1948 - T Bone' Burnett, rocker
1952 - Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
1955 - Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1955 - Trevor Rabin, rocker (Yes)
1955 - Paul Kelly, Australian singer
1956 - Malcolm Foster, rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
1957 - Don Snow, rocker (Squeeze)
1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
1961 - Graham "Suggs" McPherson, Sussex, rock vocalist (Madness-Our House)
1961 - Suggs, English singer
1963 - Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - George Paterson, Scottish singer/songwriter DMP
1968 - Chara, Japanese singer and actress
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician (Bullet for My Valentine)
1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer |
