Category: Babbling

Up Close & Personal With Three Great Guitarists In “It Might Get Loud”

Dave

So, yesterday, I finally got around to watching “It Might Get Loud“, a documentary that might have been the best of 2009, if not for Anvil! (despite what the idiots at the Academy Awards think). This documentary brings together three rock guitarists – Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page – for a conversation about how…

What Is It With Short Guys & The Deaths Of Thousands?

Dave

Joseph Strauss was a short man, even for the standards of early 20th century America, standing just shy of five feet tall. Yet, he had big aspirations. Even as a young man, the first signs appearing as he graduated at the top of his class from the University of Cincinnati with degrees in both economics…