Blogging Roller

Here's another link blog post. In this one I'll explain why my del.icio.us feed is full of guitar tabs. I've been spending some time Away From Keyboard and near to fretboard. Since my 11 year old son Alex is learning guitar I've been doing the same and making some good progress. I've noodled around on bass for years, but never spent much time with guitar. I've always known the basic chords, but that's about it. Now I've finally learned how to string and "sing" at the same time and so I've been looking for good, fun and easy songs to play. Here are the ones I've found so far, straight from my bookmarks feed:

• Animals – (House of the Rising Sun tab)
  
• Connells – 74-75 tab
  
• Connells – Fun & Games tab
  
• Costello, Elvis – (What's So Funny tab)
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – (Who'll Stop the Rain tab)
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – (Lodi tab)
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – (Have You Ever Seen the Rain tab)
  
• Cure – (Love Song tab)
  
• Diamond, Neil – (Solitary Man tab)
  
• <a href= "http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/grateful_dead/friend_of_the_devil_ver2_tab.htm"> Grateful Dead - (Friend Of The Devil tab)
  
• Grateful Dead - (Ripple tab)
  
• REM – (Driver 8 tab)
  

You can probably guess my age now

Here are a couple more kinda sorta related links from the feed.

• Interactive Guitar chord explorer
  Very nice Flash interface for viewing chords, playing them, etc.
• Live review: R.E.M. drives the past into the present
  REM "has come full circle, treating the old and new with the same vigor and precision"
• YouTube - Connells @ Borders: 74-75
  2000 or 2001, in Chapel Hill, NC

I bookmarked that REM review because we attended that show last week. We took a bunch of kids and had a blast. REM played a bunch of their very early songs like 7 Chinese Brothers and Pretty Persuasion. The kids (from 5 to 11 years old) danced like fools on pogo-sticks the whole time.

And finally, here's something here's something not in my bookmarks feed; the Epiphone G-310 I bought for about $230 last weekend.