Sabretooth
We caught up with this group of hooligans and find out what they are up to! Please tell us a bit about each members musical background, education and influences. Mauri – I started out playing in a band in High School at about age 16. We played just about anywhere we could. After school I...
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A member of the famous ’27 Club’, Jim Morrison departed this weird world on 3rd July 1971, which has deprived us all of decades more beautiful music and poetry. There are various accounts of how he died, one being that he died of heart failure in the bath of his Paris apartment. In...
read moreHoliday Murray
I got the chance to see you guys at the Botanical Gardens in support of Prime Circle, but could unfortunately not connect with you guys afterwards. The first big thing I noticed, whilst you guys where tuning up before the show, was all the instruments being tuned. Please give us a run down...
read moreGibson Les Paul Std(2008)
I stood in a queue in a hardware-store the other day, when suddenly, somebody outside grinded a Pontiac GTO, before dropping the clutch. There’s just nothing like the sound of a fine-tuned V-8 muscle engine. Within seconds, everyone in the store rushed outside and I was first in the queue…...
read moreMan As Machine
Each member of Man as Machine has a ‘deep well’ of experience, please give us some insight into each of your musical backgrounds. Xavier: I did not even know how a bass guitar sounded when I decided to join the only school band, and didn’t really like the way it sounded when I got...
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Tell us what it was like growing up with a composer for a father that exposed you to the 80’s babes with big hair and high leg bikinis, and more importantly to the bands that have shaped your musical character? Well, in those days my father, Adriaan Strydom used to compose the music for T.V....
read moreFirst Bass Pt 2
Warm Up Excercises Warm up exercises are essential for beginner and advanced bassists alike. They “warm up” or stretch the muscles in your fretting hand. They can also help develop dexterity in both hands to help you through long gigs and sessions. These exercises build on the concepts listed...
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Dead Legend – John Lennon “Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loud mouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not.” Only a few of the wise words Mr Lennon left for us before he was murdered by a society gone mad, for being just that . . . a...
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