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A guitarist guide to surviving the gig from Hell!

Joe the lead guitarist in a covers band remake. He is a good guitarist and cool under pressure. He plays in the band called the Psycho Nymphos. They are a five piece band’s two guitarists, keyboards, bass and drums. The other guitarist also doubles the singer. But Joe is a nightmare. As a guitarist, this scenario is to stimulate uncontrollable trembling of all body parts, and the soiling of underwear. This is the concert from hell.

I thought that he starts at 10:00, Joe appears on the site two hours after the backup. Well, it would be two hours to spare, but Joe got the wrong information given. The band is due to begin at 8:30, and Joe do not unpack the equipment, not to mention set up. Joe were trying to draw on his phone, but it was switched off. Joe, keeping cool, extracted from the car in a hurry, and somehow we all get up, only 10 minutes late. The crowd was growing restless and the bar manager is angry. Joe kept cool. Read the rest of this entry »

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Buying concert tickets on the secondary market

Buying concert tickets online is not scary. In fact, it is as easy as Google and invited to enter the event you are looking for and follow the ‘ticket’. However, some questions come to mind when browsing for sports and concert tickets.

1. Why is it so expensive tickets on the Internet? On Ticketmaster the tickets much cheaper. Why should I pay twice the ticket?

2. Does the ticket broker website visitor, I am really so many tickets in the inventory? Read the rest of this entry »

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The Orient: a Touch of the West and a Dash of the Divine

A new musical fusion was raised in New York, and this is not the sort to catch the ten dollars a club in West Village. The thousands of Chinese immigrants trying to stay afloat in a new world, and the Westerners, who have always wanted to understand the Chinese, but jumped away from lack of means – for anyone who did not know where to connect the two civilizations, the answer is no fall but the music.

Lisa Li of the pipe master (Chinese lute) and a graduate of the Chinese Conservatory of China. He composed and performed throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, and game was included in the Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor. Well, one of the leading composers of New Tang Dynasty Television Chinese New Year spectacular, large-scale performance of traditional Chinese singing and dancing, Lisa has created what he believes, that a new sound – based on ancient Chinese folk and church music, but it goes beyond any of them. Read the rest of this entry »

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Carrie Underwood Vs. Kellie Pickler

The fifth season American Idol is underway, and the media what the media is not the best to simplify everything, so it all stupid. Business as usual. So, one of this year’s outstanding performers in the lovely Kellie Pickler. Last year’s winner, of course, the very talented Carrie Underwood. Both young lady, blond, female Southerners adore the tone of a country, and throughout the Internet and the mainstream media can see the headlines that call over the similarity of the two very different singers.

In particular, that it is really a form of racism and stereotypes, although I have not seen anyone this argument. Can you imagine, though for a moment that the two women instead of African American heritage, and all comparisons can be made. I guarantee that there would be a lot of crying, a critical error: ‘You’re all a bunch of narrow minded racists! Just because they are all black women, you will be clones of each other? Read the rest of this entry »

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