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Aerosmith performed a gig in Israel today, over 50,000 people showed up… Israel needed some entertainment…

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There’s a lot of rock bands over the years who had mixed feelings about performing in Israel. As you know, many rock and metal bands are pretty liberal people as well so a lot of famous bands have boycotted playing in Israel since they have so much hatred for that country and sides more with Iran.

I don’t think you’ll ever see Roger Waters performing a concert in Israel at all ’cause he’s an Israel hater and he’s much of a supporter for Iran.

I’m sure other rock music legends have performed in Israel in the past but Aerosmith is more than willing to give Israel some entertainment which is what those people need. Israel is obviously under the threat of Iran so I thank Aerosmith for supporting Israel and putting smiles on their faces since that country is going through some hard times.

It’s a shame that some are against Israel. A lot of bands who turns against Israel and sides with Iran instead should feel ashamed of themselves.

Thanks Aerosmith, makes me a fan of that band even more!

Kev

Random/off topic posts, Uncategorized

Fundamental Changes has the best guitar instructional books… check them out…

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I do know that there are probably some other musicians that read my blog especially the musicians who play guitar who continues to follow me. If you’re looking to improve your guitar playing chops a company called Fundamental Changes has some great guitar instructional books and their books are pretty inexpensive too.

http://www.fundamental-changes.com/

I bought 4 of their books for my Ipad. From their collection of books, I own: “Melodic Rock Soloing For Guitar”, “Rock Rhythm Guitar Playing”, “Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar” and “Heavy Metal Lead Guitar”.

The one I’m working on now is “Melodic Rock Soloing for Guitar” and I’m on Chapter 2, learning their string bending techniques which is fun. I want to improve my soloing so these books could help me.

There are more books of theirs I want to get though… soon I would like to get “Progressive Metal Guitar”, and I want to get “Rhythm and Notation for Drums”. I don’t have a drum set but I do have virtual drums on Garageband and Mixcraft softwares. I want to make my own drum tracks behind my songs so I’m studying drums even though I don’t own a drum set so that’s another reason why I want to get really good at timing & rhythm.

I like learning from guitar instructional books when I can that company I spoke about above is really good. Check them out.

I was trying to find books that would help improve my rock and metal playing and these books would do it.

Kev

Politics/war, Uncategorized

Censorship and liberal bias on twitter a huge problem???

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I’ve been noticing a lot of Trump supporters and conservatives on twitter getting censored like crazy. Your twitter account would either get on lockdown or get suspended permanently. This have been going on since Milo has gotten permanently banned off twitter.

Here’s what a lockdown twitter account would look like. When your account is on lockdown, only your twitter followers can see your twitter. People outside won’t be able to see it for 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/Forever_Lucid/status/862670409744961538

This is what a permanent suspension would look like. Saltwater Patricia has been a popular Trump supporter on twitter and her account got suspended for no reason at all:

https://twitter.com/TrumpGirlStrong/status/862677460810444800

People may say that Trump supporters and conservatives get censored off twitter ’cause they break the TOS but they never do. We know the TOS and rules of twitter. We know how to follow them. We never really post anything offensive or abusive… it’s just that I think it’s obvious that twitter is scared of conservative opinion. Period?

Liberals post offensive & abusive shit all the time. Everyday but you try to report them, nothing ever happens to their account. Liberals don’t go to twitter jail but Trump supporters and conservatives do.

Thankfully, my twitter account hasn’t gotten censored yet but if it ever happened to me, I’ll probably be done with twitter for good and I’m serious about that. These things have been happening to a lot of Trump supporters on twitter.

Liberals leave conservatives death threats, gives us threats of violence and they say all sorts of offensive stuff to us all the time but they don’t go to twitter jail? Yet they censor conservatives for speaking out on politics?

Also, twitter continues to allow Muslims post photos of dead bodies and shit, nothing happens to them either.

Liberals want to view the world how they see it but they need to learn not everyone does so they need to get over themselves.

Kev

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New “IT” trailer is out and it’s looking awesome so far!!!

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This is one of the films that I can’t wait to see this year. I’ve just finished re-reading Stephen King’s “It” book yesterday. The book is over 1,000 pages long so I would think the movie would be split into 2 parts probably. It’s looking like part 1 will focus on the Losers Club being kids and part 2 will focus on the Losers Club being full grown adults.

I’m planning to re-watch the mini-series version too as I have the DVD somewhere.

Kev

Random/off topic posts, Uncategorized

Learning more about electric guitars and pickups…

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In a blog post when I was talking about my new Mitchell HD400 guitar, I made a mistake about the pickups. When I was talking about the pickups on my new HD400, I called them “Humbuckers” which they aren’t. Humbuckers are covered pickups, these metal objects that cover the coils. I have two humbuckers on my Ibanez Hollowbody electric and on my old Hondo II electric. On my Mitchell HD400, I have two double-coil pickups and a single coil that aren’t “covered”.

The Mitchell HD400 guitar is my first electric guitar that I’ve got with uncovered pickups. I am noticing the differences of sound between a humbucker pickup and uncovered pickups. It’s pretty interesting anyways.

During research, I’m reading that covered pickups will block the humming sounds and other unwanted noise but uncovered, you’ll get the humming sounds. Through uncovered pickups, the sound is a lot brighter than humbuckers, though.

A lot of metal guitarists prefers humbucker pickups more than the uncovered pickups. To be honest, I’m finding that uncovered pickups sound a lot better than the covered humbuckers. The Mitchell HD400 guitar is my first electric with uncovered coils and having a Floyd Rose bridge.

I love my Mitchell HD400. Made in China but fuck it, the guitar is badass and perfect for playing hard rock & metal.

When I start writing hard rock songs, what would they sound like? Like always, I won’t go super heavy but heavy enough. Probably write original songs inspired by the likes of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Megadeth, Metallica, etc. That type of sound.

Vocally, I have been trying to sing like a rock singer. My voice has gotten stronger with more range and more power. Trying to sing like a metal guy with more grit and more growls too.

When I start writing hard rock songs, people might be surprised by some of the stuff I’m planning on writing. I just want to write really tight rock n’ roll. Stuff that metal lovers would like. Plus, make music that I would want to hear for myself. There’s nothing wrong with liking your own music and enjoying your own music. I just want to write songs that I’m proud of, ya know? If my songs make other people proud then I would be flattered by that sure.

I’m definitely am going to focus on electric guitar more ’cause I feel it’s finally time for me to rock. Would I find a drummer and a bass player to jam with? Yeah, definitely. I’m gonna try. Would like to form a band of my own. Been dreaming of that for a long time.

Kev

movies, Uncategorized

“Blade Runner: 2049” trailer is finally here and it looks freakin’ awesome! Can’t wait!!!

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Well the new “Blade Runner: 2049” trailer is here and it looks freakin’ awesome. I’m a huge Blade Runner fan. Love the first film and can’t wait to see this one. This film here looks like it might be the best film of the year. This is one of those movies that I’m most excited for.

Yes, there are several other movies I’m looking forward to see like “Star Wars Episode 8”, “Justice League”, “Wonder Woman”, “Stephen King’s IT” and “The Dark Tower”. All of these movies look real good but I look most forward to “Blade Runner: 2049”.

Glad Harrison is back for this one and can’t wait to see it!

Kev

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I don’t get all the hate for Nirvana and Kurt’s guitar playing… why?

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Whenever Nirvana is mentioned anywhere on the internet, it doesn’t matter where, then chances are you’re going to see a mixed reaction. You’ll see all kinds of hate and love for the band. You’ll see a bunch of people criticizing the band quite a lot. Talking shit about Kurt’s singing and guitar playing.

I’ve been a loyal Nirvana fan for years and still am. My love for them hasn’t stopped. Sure Kurt’s guitar playing was kind of sloppy and mostly basic stuff but still, he was pretty amazing at what he did. He still wrote some pretty fucking tight songs. When you’re a musician, you don’t need to be a perfectionist to write killer rock songs.

In the video footage above which I’ve just seen for the first time, all that is proof that Kurt was very talented. You don’t need to be a technical guitar player to write killer rock songs. It’s about playing guitar with feeling and that’s what Kurt did.

Before Nirvana became famous, Nirvana were pretty much nothing when they first started out. They were just three young kids playing at Krist’s mothers house and as you can see in the videos above, their audience was just a couple of their drunk friends. This video footage proves that Nirvana came a long way. They went from playing in a small room in a house to playing huge arena shows.

It seems that Nirvana already had the songs “About a Girl” and “School” from the very beginning. Look at that video above. Even though they’re just playing in a small room at Krist’s Mom’s house, they still pretend they’re playing at Madison Square Garden or something. In that video you can tell they love doing it by the way they play. Playing with energy. That’s how a rock band should play.

I freakin’ love Nirvana and if I ever form a rock band of my own, we’re definitely gonna be covering some Nirvana songs just for fun.

Kev

Health and Fitness, Uncategorized

How am I doing in yoga so far???

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So I’ve been sticking with yoga for a few months or more and I’ve been feeling really good. I got into yoga and been wanting to get into it for a long time. Thank god for the public gym in my hometown. I remember the days in my hometown where there was no fitness gym and now there is one. Thankfully they have all kinds of classes at the gym which is called the Battenkill Branch (or the Y).

I’ve gotten into Yoga ’cause I needed the flexibility. Plus, it’s a good stress reliever is another reason I go. Yoga not only helps builds you more strength, more flexibility… it’s also meditation. I kind of always wanted to get into meditation too ’cause it really helps you think. Meditation really helps clears your head and gets your mind off all the negative bullshit and crazy stuff going on in your life. Definitely makes you feel happier and more confident ’cause each time I do a yoga session at the Y, I feel like that I love myself each time. It really does help make me feel happier and become a more confident and fearless person.

Other than that, I’m getting real good at yoga. Still can’t do a lot of poses since I’m not that flexible yet but each time I do a yoga session, I feel a little more flexibility each time. I’m definitely feeling it. I still can’t do leg splits yet but got a lot of work to do. I guess getting a flexible body is a slow process so I’m going to be patience and stay committed.

So far, I’ve been at Yoga every week, only had a few weeks off but I still practice yoga poses at home all the time. I’m getting better at the balancing, though. I guess that takes a lot of practice.

I can’t do tree poses yet either but working on that.

I’m not gonna take photos or videos of me doing yoga poses until I get real good at that stuff which would be a while.

Yoga is an amazing feeling, though. I can see why yoga is really popular and mainstream now. Yoga really does work. Yoga is not just for women, it can be for men too. There are men that go to my yoga class even though it’s mostly women that go to them.

I like yoga class ’cause it’s a good opportunity to meet new people and I have met new people through that class which feels good. Haven’t made any new friends from that class yet but I know some of their names and they know mine… we have small talk and stuff but that’s about it. Will I get myself a date with a woman from a yoga session? Who knows, there are some smoking looking women with hot bodies that go there. Sometimes I do say hello to some of the ladies in there and have small talk and that’s all.

I love yoga. Glad I finally got into it and I would recommend you give it a shot too.

Kev

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Is Led Zeppelin about to reunite once more? Probably not but it would be cool, though!

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Something strange is going on at Robert Plant’s official website, check it out:

http://www.robertplant.com/

Robert’s website has gone dark for whatever reason, on his website says, “Anytime now…” which means Robert is teasing something huge. What is it? Is Robert about to announce a new solo record with the Sensational Space Shifters? No, probably not ’cause if Robert was to announce a solo album, he wouldn’t tease something that big so it’s got to do with something about Led Zeppelin.

Rumor got out that Led Zeppelin may reunite once more for the Desert Trip 2017 concert this summer. If that’s the plan, I’m all for another Led Zeppelin reunion ’cause we definitely do deserve one more. The guys in Led Zeppelin has been trying to make it happen since their 02 December 10th reunion in 2007.

Ever since that show at the 02 arena in 2007, Robert Plant still sings Led Zep songs during his solo tours and he still sings Led Zep songs quite well. (See videos above)

If it’s not a Led Zeppelin reunion, then maybe a Robert Plant & Jimmy Page duo can make a comeback? Remember that? Page & Plant reunited to make the “Unledded: No Quarter” live album and they also made the studio album together, “Walking Into Clarksdale” which they went on tour with together. That happened during the 90’s. Since Jimmy Page isn’t doing anything musically at the moment, it would be cool if Page & Plant duo would comeback.

If a full Led Zep reunion is about to happen again then that would be cool too! There are so many great Led Zep songs that could be played live that they didn’t play at the 2007 concert songs like “Achilles Last Stand”, “In the Light”, “The Rain Song”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “Heartbreaker”, “Communication Breakdown”, “Thank You, “That’s the Way”, “Tangerine”, “Friends”, “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”, etc. All those songs were never played at the 2007 reunion show and they deserve to get played! The 2007 reunion setlist was good but we wanted to hear more! That’s why we kept begging them to do a tour or do one more reunion show.

Kev

Politics/war, Uncategorized

Last night’s Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania should prove that the Trump Train is still good!

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If you still believe that the Trump Train is getting smaller & smaller, don’t believe the hype. The Trump Train is still good, y’all. Trump is still extremely popular and the pic above is proof of that. No, Russia didn’t help Trump win the election. We, the American people voted him and helped him win. The pic above is something that the media will never show.

I watched Trump’s Harrisburg, P.A. speech live last night online and Trump still kills it. Trump never flipped on Obama ’cause last night Trump said, “The last administration gave us a lot of mess”… Trump was careful not to mention Obama’s name but we knew exactly who he was talking about.

I look at the crowd last night in Harrisburg and there are people of all different kinds. There were women in the audience, blacks, hispanics, asians, etc. Liberals want diversity? Well they got it!

When I watch Trump speech last night, the look on his face, man… he seems very happy and very excited. Smiling almost all the way through the speech. I can see why ’cause he did so much winning ever since he got elected. Don’t listen to the haters when they claim he hasn’t accomplished much, they’re just brainwashed people who probably believes what fake news media says. I think Trump did a great job in his first 100 days so I’ll give him an A+. While he did a good job, there is still more work to do, though. We’re just getting started.

The wall still needs go up, Obamacare still needs to go, we still got to get rid of Common Core too, taxes needs to go down, drain the swamp in Washington, destroy Isis for good, etc. I believe all that stuff will happen soon. The next 100 days will be even better.

It’s so refreshing to hear Trump talk about the American people instead of talking about himself. We had to deal with Obama talking about himself during his speeches for 8 years, when Trump does speeches he doesn’t refer to himself that much. The haters think Trump is a self-referential guy but I don’t think so at all. It’s Obama who is pretty self-referential but liberals applaud him for that.

Last night’s speech was great, loved how he gave the middle finger to Hollywood’s nerd prom at the White House and gave us a speech to celebrate 100 days instead.

All those so-called Trump supporters who bailed and now criticizing him are making a huge mistake. They’ll regret that later. I’m sure they already are regretting it.

I stand with President Trump. I don’t give a fuck what people says or thinks.

Kev