By Steve Newton Back in January of 2013 when I started planning the Ear of Newt website--which I launched on Halloween night that year--I knew I had to get my autographed plexiglass guitar into the picture. I'd been dragging it around to concerts to get it signed by my fave pickers--folks like Link Wray, Ronnie … Continue reading The incredible story behind the Ear of Newt autographed guitar
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Freaky ponytail action and ’60s rave-ups set the tone at Link Wray’s Vancouver riff-o-rama
Wray prowled the Starfish Room stage like an aged alley cat, coaxing raunchy wails from his “Screamin’ Red” Yamaha guitar.
Kim Mitchell, who once wrote “IS THIS MIDDLE ‘C’?” on my guitar, plays Vancouver tonight
Kim Mitchell, the party-rockin' pride of Sarnia, Ontario, plays the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver tonight. Should be a good 'un. I remember when I interviewed Mitchell and his songwriting partner Pye Dubois at a Vancouver restaurant back in the late '80s/early '90s I think it was, around the time of Rockland. I took my plexiglass … Continue reading Kim Mitchell, who once wrote “IS THIS MIDDLE ‘C’?” on my guitar, plays Vancouver tonight