I saw light
i saw open doors,
i saw satan.

there could've been
no light,
no open doors,
no satan.

lucifer and I
were meant to be

i saw what i was supposed to see.

I finally found Rolling Stone's list of the '100 greatest guitarists' of all time =D
There were a few surprises though, at number 12 is Mr. Kurt cobain, although he is one my favourite musicians but i think he was a better song-writer then guitarist. And... and i could'nt find Slash on the list, its either they totally forgot about him or i was too lazy too find him in the list =P.
David Gilmour was too far down the list for me , at no.85 !!

Many people criticized the list, saying that there were only two female guitarists on the list (Joan Jett and Joni Mitchell). For me the guitar is made for men, its a man's tool. I have actually never seen a decent female guitarist.

Here's the link

and here's are the top ten guitarists. [no surprises here]

1.Jimi Hendrix
2.Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3.B.B. King
4.Eric Clapton
5.Robert Johnson
6.Chuck Berry
7.Stevie Ray Vaughan
8.Ry Cooder
9.Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10.Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones

Has anyone heard about Robert Johnson?
no?
i hadn't either till yesterday , but it turns out he is the greatest Blues musician.

The amazing thing about him is that he only started recording three years before his death. He recorded 29 tracks in 2 session and all of them are considered as the benchmark for Blues music.

He would have been still unknown if it wasn't for various artists and bands who have covered his songs. Some of them are:
Eric Clapton ( who has a whole album of his songs Me and Mr Johnson) , The Rolling Stones , Bob Dylan , Fleetwood Mac , Peter Green Splinter Group , Red Hot Chili Peppers , The White Stripes and many many more.
Other bands who have claimed to big fans Of Robert Johnson are Led Zeppelin and Cream.

(Yeah, sing a song bro'...)
If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind
(Yeah)
If the mountains ah, fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me.
(Well, all right)

Got my own world to live through and uh, ha !
And I ain't gonna copy you.

Yeah (sing the song brother...)
Now if uh, six uh, huh, turned out to be nine
Oh I don't mind, I don't mind uh ( Well all right... )
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
Oh I don't care, oh I don't care.
Dig.

'Cause I've got my own world to live through and uh, huh
And I ain't gonna copy you.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street
Pointin' their plastic finger at me, ha !
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but uh
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high !
Oww !

Wave on, wave on...

Ah, ha, ha
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on mister business man, you can't dress like me
Yeah !

Don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to
Yeah, sing on brother, play on drummer

Concerts that changed the world.

Montery Pop Festival. 1967
This Three-day 1967 California-based event attended by over 200,000 people is pegged as being a catalyst for the so-called Summer of Love. A whole tour bus worth of now legendary acts made their biggest early public performances including Jimi Hendrix(he iconically set his guitar on fire), The Who, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding(who died less then a year after the historic gig). Montery set the template for music festivals to come.

Woodstock, 1969
1969 witnessed the largest rock concert of the decade as 400,000 people turned up at the village of Bethel in New York for a three-day festival of all things rock and roll. Fences and barriers soon came down as the crowds (twice the number originally expected) peacefully fought their way to catch a glimpse of the likes of Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix.Two deaths occured, one from a drug overdose and another as a teenager lay in a sleeping bag in the path of a tractor.

The Doors, 1969
Fuelled by drink and drugs, Jim Morrison's behaviour peaked the scale of outrageousness in 1969 when he was arrested for indecent exposure, lewd conduct and public intoxication following a gig in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. The Door's frontman took the stage in a drunken state, falling over his words and mumbling incoherently before shouting insults at the thousands of fans who had forced their way in. Before being drenched in Champagne he stripped, belted out Light My Fire and was thrown into the crowd . Now that's Rock 'n Roll.

Sex Pistols, 1977
In June of 1977, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious took to London's River Thames during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations in what is now remembred as one of the seminal events of the punk era.The live and chaotic set was interrupted and the boat raided by the police, with most of the band and their entourage being arrested and taken into custody.The antics sparked a wave of attacks on the band and supporters by pro-royalists, and the famous singles God Save The Queen was rumoured to have been kept from the number One Uk music chart position because of rigging.

David Gilmour has come up with his 3rd solo album, On An Island, this will be his first album after 22 years. There have been rumours that Pink Floyd might re-unite in the studio after performing at Live 8, lets keep our fingers crossed.

So i got my hand on Gilmour's album yesterday, though i have'nt heard the whole album but it sure has the vintage Pink Floyd sound to it. 'Take A Breath' one of the tracks on the album has been on player for 2 days.
Back to the Floyd re-union thing , it looks a possiblity to me because Floyd's former Pianist, Sax player and one or two other former guys are going to join Gilmour on his album tour.

Here's the album cover of 'On An Island'

Dream On...


Everytime that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dust to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

I know what nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life is in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for tofay
Mabye tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Dream On, Dream On
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream On, Dream On
Dream until your dream come true
Dream On, Dream On, Dream On...

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Mabye tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Dream On - Aerosmith

Hurt...



I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way