Legendary Guitarist

I never liked lead guitarists in a band who played long boring solos concentrating on playing numerous notes in the shortest possible period. The race is always on and there are guitarists like Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert to name some. I always looked upon a lead guitarist who would focus more on melody rather than speed. The guitarists like Mark Tremonti, Mark Knoffler were and are my favorites. But my thoughts have changed a bit as for now.

After watching the live performance of Deep Purple with Steve Morse my concept has totally changed. I really got inspired by Steve Morse when he did some solos before strumming the A, C and D power riffs of the masterpiece, in the world of heavy metal “Smoke on the water”. I am not sure what I liked the most or which part really influenced me but all in all I loved his solos.

I had only read about Steve Morse and his guitar playing abilities but this is the first time that I saw and heard him playing. He is the purest of all the lead guitarists in the world. However, I can’t ignore Richhie Blackmore as one of the best lead guitarists because it was him who created the masterpiece. Still, Steve Morse is no lesser than Blackmore.

Cover Versions

I always love listening to cover songs performed by great bands and artistes. The latest that I happened to hear is the Jimmi Hendrix’s classic “Hey Joe” by Deep Purple. I am not sure if it was the original deep purple or not but I found it in a deep purple’s album.

Another cover song that I liked the most is the cover version of Beatles called “We can work it out” by Skidrow and they named this particular song as “We can’t work it out”. This is also a very well crafted cover song.

Sheryl Crow’s “sweet child of mine” is also a great cover done it in her own way with a bit of country style.

Apart from these three great cover songs there are others as well. Tribute to Metallica by several artistes including Korn, Limpbizkit and Avril Lavigne is great. The top tribute to a great band is none other than Tribute to Black Sabbath. This tribute includes a bunch of hard rockers like Megadeth, 1000 Homo DJs, Ugly Kid Joe and etc.

All in all listening to cover numbers is great and with such cover versions, the original performers get more respect. I felt the same when I heard Sheryl Crow singing “sweet child of mine”.

Wherever you will go

There’s a girl who is so fond of a boy named Jake. One day she decides to carve Jake’s name in her arms. While she is tattooing Jake’s name in her arms, a boy who adores her walks past the window. The boy glances at her with a pathetic way as he sees her moaning in agonizing pain when the needle is piercing her skin.

Upon finishing the tattooing, she goes to Jake’s place where she could show him what her love means and what she has done to prove her love. To a great surprise, she finds him with another girl in his bed. That stupid Jake had been double crossing her. She is really saddened with what she saw as she didn’t even get an opportunity to show the tattoo in her arms.

With shattered heart she returns back to her home, she cries, destroys all the pictures, bashes everything and throws away all Jake’s belongings out of her house. She will never ever look at Jake in the future even with her eyes shut She hates Jake more than any other thing in the world. She doesn’t want to recall Jake for the rest of her life.

Jake then one day who is the guilt waits outside her house in his car. Just then she shows up at the door with a changed tattoo in her arms. She got the tattoo improvised into a beautiful flower. Along with she, comes his new love who adores her and that boy is the same boy who had even seen her tattooing Jake’s name in a tattoo parlor.

A story of a video of the song “Wherever you will go” by “The Calling”. A very similar video to an all time Aerosmith’s classic called “Crying”.

Nightwish

I always love to buy albums which I have never heard before. This time around when I went to a music store, one particular album caught my attention. It was “Over the hills and far away” by “Nightwish”. I had only heard and read a little about night wish but I had never heard their songs before. So this was a perfect one for me.

After bringing it home, I was a little shocked to hear a female vocal. I love female artistes and I was more than happy with this album. I don’t know, to which genre does night wish belong, but as far as I am concerned, they can be categorized along with Dream Theatre. The music they play could be referred to as progressive rock, however I am not very sure about it. I have read about Dream Theatre and that is why I generalize night wish as a progressive rock band.

Listening to a single album is not sufficient to categorize a band. The particular album that I am listening to right now can be done with some experimentation, still I am not sure. After that I checked out their home page where I discovered that “over the hills and far away” is not the newest album by night wish. Soon after they released this album, the vocalist left and had to be replaced by another female vocalist. I still have to wait and hear night wish with a new vocalist.

The music they play and the vocal combines perfectly. Night wish is a European band is a group of five members. They have already released a couple of albums till date and might be working out on another one.

This European band with a lady vocal, rocks and they are a great band.

Car Rentals

Spending a holiday in Europe is the most exciting thing and it gets better when the whole or some parts of Europe is traveled in a car. There are many advantages of traveling in a car rather than taking other kinds of means of transportation.

Many people who have traveled to Europe have always suggested using car hire Europe services to make their trip a very wonderful one. And definitely a tour of Europe by car is the most fascinating thing as you get a lot of freedom to roam around and visit every possible corner of all the cities in Europe. There are many car hire services available in plenty but the main thing is to get the best of them with good deals and services. There are many frauds that just show different tariffs and don’t provide the claimed services.

So, basically while traveling renting a car would be the best option. The best thing about these car rental providers is that, after renting a car, they provide options of returning the car to the same venue of somewhere else in Europe. So this is simply great because, you can hire a car at Belgium and leave it in Italy, there are no any kinds of burdens to bring the car back to the place where you had hired.

The bottom line regarding travel to Europe has to be a car travel and there are enough car rentals available so as to add more joy and excitement to your holiday.

Chinese Democracy By Guns N Roses

The wait is finally over and here’s Guns N’ Roses with a very new album. The highly anticipated “Chinese Democracy” is out in the market.

The pure GNR essence is still there and even though they have come up with the studio album in a long gap, they have successfully placed themselves in the very position they used to be. The album is released under the label of Guns N’ Roses though most of the members are not currently with the band. Everyone besides Axl Rose, the rest of the members is new but they have adapted very well with the GNR norms and ethics. The true GNR tempo, style and attitude remain the same.

There are twelve songs in the album which includes the one called “O My God” which had been featured in the movie “End of Days” in the early 2000’s. The title track Chinese Democracy is a catchy one with powerful riffs in the intro. And “the Blues” being a bit mellower song do possesses the real Axl and Guns N’ Roses flavor.

But at times, Slash’s solos and guitar work could be missed at least in some songs. But the rest of the songs in the whole album is a typical GNR style.

The songs in the album are:

• Better
• Chinese Democracy
• I.R.S.
• Madagascar
• Raid N The Bedouins
• This is love
• If the world
• The blues
• There was a time
• Catcher n. The rye
• my god
• Silk Warms

All in all Chinese Democracy is a good album and worth listening to Axl after a long gap. They are back with true Guns N’ Roses essence. Axl’s vocal is still electrifying and hasn’t lost anything in such a long gap. Great album! It is worth an almost a decade wait.

Home Furnishing

When it comes to decorating a house, a lot of things need to be considered. From the floorings to ceiling, bedroom to bathrooms, furniture to lightings and etc. comes under consideration before a house is well decorated.

So where do these accessories come from? There are many internet protocols which claim that they provide the best and cheapest of accessories needed to decorate a house. The best place which provides the largest collection of home furnishings and decor is very hard to find. The number of such online stores just claims to have the largest possible collection of such decors but to no avail. Therefore at times decorating a house might turn out to be a very hectic task when you need to browse different websites or visit several stores just to find the perfect decors that you have been looking for.

In this regard, shopwiki has introduced a new line of online home furnishings and décor accessories which acts as a one stop solution. There are a number of such products at display and thus is the largest collection. The advantage of going through shopwiki is that, unlike other online stores which just display the products which are paid, they include all the products which have paid advertisements and which have not yet paid for advertisements. This mean the choice broadens with unlimited offers as well.

Therefore the one and only one stop solution for buying home furnishings and decors is at shopwiki.com.

Rockstar By Nickelback

I am not sure about the date of release of Nickelback’s video called “Rockstar”. So far it is one of the greatest music video as for me. The video is shot with a new concept as we can see different people singing the song. Apart from the concept, the video also features great people. I don’t know all of them but some of the most important personals featured in the video include Ted Nugent who is known as the loudest lead guitarist of all time.

Another important personal is Kid rock who can be seen singing, the Orange County Choppers family, Paul Jr. and Sr. and the last one that I happen to recognize is the UFC fighter who later became a coach. I am not sure about his name but if I am not mistaken, he must be Chuck Liddell. He was also seen on television reality sports show where new fighters were grouped and a tournament was held.

All in all this new video by Nickelback is a good one and the theme of the song has been beautifully portrayed in the video. Once in a blue moon, these bands work with the best directors and come up with a unique video. This video is totally out of the blue and loved it very much.

One More Friday

I did not want to start the New Year in this note. I am the only one left in my office. I am simply staring at my desk which is full of papers, important notes clipped in a clipboard, a book which I have just started, my bag, stationeries and etc. My mind’s totally occupied with thoughts, those thoughts which will appear lively in a few days to come.

I have been ignoring a meeting with a very new friend of mine and he too must be waiting for my call. There’s another one who might also be waiting for my call but my hands just don’t stretch towards the phone.

It’s completely silent in here. The only sound which I can hear is the ticking of a wall clock apart from irritating honking of vehicles from a fairly away distant.

I dislike Fridays though this day has something to cheer about as the next day usually is an off day. Many good friends have left me on Fridays and thus I am always haunted. This time around as well, I was already feeling guilty of not reaching for my friend who was already leaving. I couldn’t call him just because of the previous day’s commitment which I did not quite make, and all my excuses would be lame. I was quite aware of his reporting time at the airport but couldn’t act more rather than thinking of him entering the terminal.

Finally at around 4 p.m. I get a call from my friend. Had I been a child I would have wept. Nevertheless I was delighted to talk to him for a few minutes before the jet took off. It was one of the best talks of my life. I toughened my heart squeezing all the emotions aside and finally bid him farewell.

It was Friday and yet again Friday caused a severe pain in me.