Topic: Guitar
And not just because of a berth in this Sunday's Grey Cup Game...although there is that, too. In the course of working on this site, I often hear from other guitarists who have happened onto the site, then e-mailed me with comments about it. In some cases, those people will have online projects of their own, such as a guitar website, a MySpace band promo page, audio recordings, or videos.
One such guitarist -- from Saskatchewan -- goes by the screen name of "lickenitup" at YouTube, where he posts guitar demonstration videos, playing along to recordings of songs. Some of the bands he's covered include April Wine ("I Like To Rock", "Sign Of the Gypsy Queen"), Headpins ("People"), and Triumph ("Petite Etude", "Midsummer's Daydream"), as well as selections by Def Leppard, Van Halen, and Iron Maiden, among others.
If you look down the page listing of his videos, you'll notice how highly rated they are, fours and fives across the board...mostly fives (rated out of 5). He's a very talented guitarist, as you'll see if you look at some of his postings. These videos offer an excellent demonstration for anyone trying to learn how to play any of these songs, so I wanted to recommend them to site visitors here. And the Canadian content he covers made recommending them here a natural, since many people come to this site specifically for tabs of Canadian performers. His video of "Petite Etude" is a particular favourite for me.
His most recent posting (just a couple of days ago) is a cover of Saga's "On the Loose". I had a go at this song once myself, posting a tab of it at UltimateGuitar.com and here on this site. At UG, the tab garnered enough comments about all of the errors in it that I finally (recently) just added a note at the top of the tab (on both sites) advising people not to use it. Lickenitup's YouTube vid will show you how to play it right.
You can see the full selection of his guitar demo videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lickenitup&search_type=&aq=f
This is his video of April Wine's "Roller":
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