A Musician’s Journey through Songs, Stories & Life
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Featured Articles
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Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s Review: Worth it in 2026?
Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s Review. Is this the best affordable Les Paul you can buy? Before we get into it, let’s look at the Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s specs. The Les Paul™ Standard 60s models from Epiphone’s new Inspired by Gibson™ Collection recreate the sound of 1960s era Les Pauls. Featuring a classic…
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The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade: 1987
Welcome back to 1987, with this year’s long list of classic arcade games being impossible to detail in a single article. Here are some of my favourites. 1987 was a turning point for me and my fascination with the video game arcade. It had been a place of comfort for a good chunk of my…
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BOSS Katana 50 Guitar Amplifier Review
The BOSS Katana 50 Guitar Amplifier IS the best guitar-related purchase I’ve ever made. Why? Let me explain. Is the BOSS Katana 50 loud enough to gig with? The question that everyone’s asking. Simple answer… ABSOLUTELY!. That’s on the 50W mode, clean channel, gain just less than half, volume the same, and master maxed. In…
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Goa : A Lesson In Life – Second Edition. Out NOW!
A BIG day! Originally realised back in 2017. My debut book, Goa : A Lesson in Life receives a long-overdue edit, professional cover, long-lost images, and an extra chapter, bringing my story to a close and up to date. So, what’s it all about? Back in August 2006, I visited Goa, India. A trip that…
Latest Articles
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Last post of 2020!
After an awfully unique year, and just short of the 100 posts a year target, I reach my 99th and final post of 2020. I know we’re not there yet, but after the year we’ve all had, I thought it was time to shut up shop for the year, relax with family, and put the…
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What to Look for When Buying Music Memorabilia
Are you planning on buying some memorabilia from your favorite music artist? This is a great way for you to have a tangible item from your favorite musician that you can keep forever. There are some tips you should know before you get started collecting so you can avoid investing in a fake or spending…
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About The Blogging Musician
Introducing our brand new About page, as well as some other blog tweaks. I thought it was high time I put together a dedicated About page detailing the full story of how The Blogging Musician came to be, our journey so far right up to the present, and also, for newcomers, a handy reference to…
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Jetpack 9.2 Breaks WordPress 5.5.3
How the worlds most popular content management system was broken by an update to it’s most popular plugin. As of June 2019, WordPress is used by 60.8% of all websites (whose content management system is known). That’s 27.5% of the top 10 million websites. And Jetpack? That’s WordPress’ number one plugin, shipping as standard on…
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All my music, now on Soundcloud
Visit my SoundCloud profile for a complete library of all my own music, as well as tracks from Harson Robkus. It’s sometimes easy to forget my initial aim for The Blogging Musician, long before we had contributors or even a name! was to set up a single place to document and share my own music.…
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Line 6 Helix: Beyond Guitar
Line 6’s flagship beast, the Helix Floor/Rack, is undoubtedly their most powerful guitar effects processor to date. Helix has two powerful processing chips allowing for effects chains 4x that of its predecessor, the Pod HD500x. In its heyday, the HD500x was a powerhouse with the ability to put together great effects chains. Then came Helix,…
