Nick is a singer/songwriter in the Boston area who has been playing music for audiences around the North Shore. With a heavily rooted background in music and he has accomplished the guitar, bass guitar, piano, and saxophone…..trying the ukulele!
His styles range from the blues to rock to pop. Nick has been the front man of a few bands including “The Blues Drivers,” a blues trio that paid homage to the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and more, and “The Nick Consone Band,” a smooth quartet playing his original music and crowd pleasing covers.
I’m really digging John’s new album. It’s a much different sound and feel from him I feel than what we’re used too. The album is strong all the way through. I wasn’t into Battle Studies at all and had no hopes for this, but he definitely made up for it. I recommend you give this a listen.
101.7 WFNX is being sold to ClearChannel. Goodbye cool music..hello inevitable overplayed pop songs.
Sometimes I get into a…um…well let’s call it a “pattern”. I don’t want to say “rut”.
I will pick up a guitar that has been hanging on the wall for a few weeks (or longer…) and I have not played in a while - and I totally fall in love with it all over again.
Usually this happens because I have more recently acquired 1 (or more…) new and exciting instruments. And so the “old” ones get quasi-neglected as I indulge in the enjoyment of playing something new and fresh.
Take this guitar for instance. It’s a Limited Edition Custom Shop Strat Relic built for the 2007 NAMM show. I bought it more than a year ago, used, at my buddy Brent’s store “The Guitar Shop” http://www.theguitarshop.ca/. It was touch more expensive than a “regular” Custom Shop instrument, but I didn’t mind because it is one of the lightest Strats I have ever seen…just 6.8 lbs! As my friends know, lightness is a elusive quality in an electric guitar, and I have a positive fetish for it! :D
Anyway: back to my “pattern”. When a guitar is “rediscovered” in the manner described above, and for a few days becomes my instrument of choice, the net result (usually) is that my ALL photos for the next little while tend to be of that instrument. To the exclusion of all others!
Apologies if it get’s a bit repetitive! :D
Toronto, Canada, May 12, 2012.
Thurs May 10th - Open Mic Night at Victorias Station Salem MA from 9pm-midnight. Come by and play, all are welcome at one of Salem’s best open mic experiences.
Fri May 12 Horizon & The Horns will be rocking Capone’s in Peabody. 8:45pm-12:30am You definitely want to be there. $5 at the door.
July 14th with Horizon & The Horns Polcaris 92 Broadway,
Saugus, MA 9pm-midnight