Category Archives: Music

I told you
That we could fly
‘Cause we all have wings
But some of us don’t know why

I’ve just added Royel Otis to my Spotify. Love their old school Indie-Pop sound.

It’s so sad (to me) what music has become now. We used to only hear one single song, and be so excited to go to the shop to buy the tape, or later, CD.

Was such a special thing to catch a bus into the city, buy some CD’s and be itching to get home to listen to the new music you bought.

I’d get home and blast it, and at the same time go through the CD sleeve which sometimes had lyrics, or photographs and art to gawk at.

Was such a beautiful ritual.

Now you just go to Spotify and have instant access to a list of their “best ofs” or you can just add their singles to your playlist without any respect for the artists entire album. Musicians spend days or more trying to figure out which songs make it to an album, then they labor over what order to put the songs in. All gone pretty much these days.

/rant.

Hairspray the musical.

Viv LOVES musicals, but musicals aren’t my thing. I’ve always found them trippy AF. One second you’re watching a normal movie, next second they break out into song!

Viv was determined to get me to see one with her though, so a little while back we watched Hairspray the movie, then yesterday we watched Hairspray the musical live. Still not really my kinda thing, but it was fun, the crowd (mostly older ladies) were super into it, the stage stuff was smart, performances were great and overall I appreciated that it was all live.

Suggesting that I might prefer something a bit darker, later that night she made me watch Phantom of the Opera (the movie). 2 musicals in one day?! WTF is going on lol!

Real words, one take.

Had a blast hanging out with Hoolio yesterday and recording this track. Family, drugs, homelessness. He’s a young man who’s overcoming problems no one this age should be going through.

Hard Work Pays – Lullabies Remix ft. HOOLIO.

Have a listen to the track on Soundcloud and please let us know what you think: https://soundcloud.com/zengarage/hoolio

No fucks given. NIRVANA painted on my guitar!

A photo I found of one for sale 5 years ago via google images.

This owner changed out the volume and tone knobs but that Steinberger tremolo is the same as pictured in my old photo above.

Ever since getting back into playing the guitar this year I’ve been trying to remember what my first guitar was. I remember the experience of my Mum taking me to a local guitar shop to buy it. I remember the best guitarist in my high school telling me it was a POS. I remember jamming and recording songs on it with my high school band. I remember graffitiing all over it, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember what brand and model it was… until last night!

I was just getting to bed and Hohner just popped into my head! I did a quick google search and found that Hohner is a German brand known mostly for harmonicas and that they had stopped making guitars for some time. I searched a little harder and found the exact model I had in the exact same colour and specs.

The guitar was a 1980s-1990s Hohner Professional ST Scorpion. It looks like the left and right handed versions came with different pickups and tremolos but the 2 lefty guitars I found via search have the exact same pickups and locking tremolo as my one did. The Steinberger locking tremolo bridge unit has a unique lever at the bottom (you can see it in my old photo too) which completely locks the tremolo turning it essentially into a hardtail (very cool!), it had EMG licensed stacked humbuckers, so they can be coil tapped via a push-pull pot. The guitar also had 3 individual on-off switches allowing you to have the bridge and neck pickups on at the same time, or all three and as humbuckers or single coils. Wild!

I wish I still owned it. It turns out it wasn’t such a bad guitar at all!