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Brantford Blast wins Allen Cup

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Just a little hats off to the boys from my home town of Brantford! They just won the Allen Cup!!! It is the 100th playing of the Cup!

And here is the latest news about the boys from Brantford!

I heard the other day from my dad, that the Bentley Generals were challenging the Brantford Blast to contest Allan Cup final, and that it was set be to begin and end at the Brantford Civic center, and I was just pumped! Just like every other Brantford citizen, I just couldn’t wait for the final outcome of the game. And boy we were not disappointed.

This game had everything that you wanted in a Allen cup Final. Brent Gretzky, the younger brother of Wayne, was more than likely playing his last professional game of his career. The captain of the Brantford Blast was in the same shoes. The end result was playing for bragging rights of winning the Allen cup.

Don Cherry of “CBC’s Coaches Corner, Hockey Night in Canada” had a lovely little ditty about the 2008 Allen Cup and it’s winner the Brantford Blast.

So let’s hear it for the boys from Brantford and the 2008 Allen cup championship winners!

Keep on Jammin’ Boys





Ladies and Gentlemen the band Three

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If I wanted to play a refreshing metal set live on stage, then some tunes from these guys would certainly be on it!

This band Three has it all from A – Z in my eyes.

Both guitarists compliment each others styles in ways that I have not heard of in a very long time. The chord progression’s crescendos, are so mind altering that it can lift you off your feet if you let it. The happened to me the first time I heard a few of them.

In this one video, in support of the bands latest album called “The End Is Begun”, they really shine. The tune itself is called “All that Remains”. Here the band shows off some Styx influenced harmonizing guitar solo’s! It’s at counter 02:16, so cue it up and you’ll see what I’m hearing.

The keyboardist is the unsung hero of the group. Just sitting in the background then he just adds a certain colour to climax a phrasing, beautiful!

I’m really drawn towards picking up this latest album just to cure my curiosity from a song they named “Dregs” (acoustic version). I bet it’s worth the price of the CD!

So tell me what you know of these guys class and get back to us all soon! Love ya Live!

Keep on Jammin’

Elizabeth Cotton and no comments

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Ok everyone, I realize that I have slowed down a lot on posting to this site but no one has commented on the grand old lady of finger picking? The women is a legend and no one seems interested in her?

I hoped that introducing you all to new genres of playing stirs up some thought provoking discussion. This almost forgotten way of playing is huge! She was the Van Halen of her day. Imagine all the trials and tribulation that she has gone through. She stopped playing guitar for many years and came back out of obscurity to the top of her game here kidz!

If you innocently missed this post I highly recommend that you go back and check it out with a fine tooth comb.

I’m not mad but a little bit confused … I feel like a mis-understood parent. Please help me out here kidz, love ya all live!

Keep on Jammin’

How to be a musician the hard way

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A doctor named Dr. Tony Cicoria, a non musician before this amazing event, was hit by lightning in 1994 and after recovering was transformed into a concert pianist.

drcioria.jpg I know this post came out of nowhere but I just had to share it with you all.

While watching a CBC show called “The Hour”, our boyfriend George Stroumboulpoulos aired this sci-fi like feature that really made me do a double take! That’s all I’m going to say so click away HERE and thank us later!

Now maybe if you want to play guitar like Eddie Van Halen, you should think about playing a round of golf in a thunderstorm … if you’ve got nothing else better to do?

Keep on Jammin’ there doc!

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