When we buy, learn, and play an instrument – we are artists – yes? So, it is our contention that we should gain a bit of the accolades of being one who creates ‘art’. Yay for all of us. The satisfaction of the craft is enough for most of us. There is a select group of ‘artists’, however, who have changed pop culture. Those who have trail-blazed styles and musical direction. … [Read more...]
The Power and Wonder of Footy Thingys…
We‘re just gonna have to put our foot down on this topic… Like, literally – on a stompbox – cuz we always have a perfect pile of powerful pedals. You want echo, you wanna repeat? Got ’em. Verbs and delays galore! You wanna swirly woosh or a swishy swirl? Got ‘em. Vibes and phasers abound! Maybe a duck quacky-attacky or a vowely woman tone? Got them too, auto-wahs and … [Read more...]
All About Dat Bass…
OK, yes – we are referring Miss Trainor – that embarrassingly catchy pop maven. No haters here… She’s had to have inspired some new low-end titans… There are so many amazing 4 string bass lines we can reference… The intro to Badge by the mighty Cream… That bass breakdown in Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain. The crazy earworm of Ric James’s Super Freak, later appropriated by Mr. … [Read more...]
Boom Boom! Whole Lotta Drums!
Boom Boom! Whole Lotta Drums! Are you a skin pounder, a snare master, a cymbal smasher or a groove engine? Or perhaps a tom-tom titan, a kick drum king, a rhythm wrangler or a hi-hat hero? We can do this all day... All you Percussion Poets need to know – Music Go Round St. Louis has a LARGE, and we mean LUH-ARGE selection of drums, drum kits, hardware, cymbals, snares, … [Read more...]
Volume!
Volume. There’s a lot of it here. Not like GC where you have 28 competing metal riffs wafting through the room at cringy levels. Not like that. Not even that kind of volume. I mean, we have plenty of toys that make big volume – and we love ‘em. You love ‘em. We mean numerical volume. ‘Lots of things’ volume. Glass ‘all the way full’ volume. Here at Music Go Round St. Louis … [Read more...]
