Category Archives: Music

Faith, Hope and “Your Love:” Lari Basilio’s latest album.

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Ron Giesecke

Somewhere along the line, the guitar instrumental album became a hackneyed effort—at least as far as the electric guitar was concerned. In the 1980’s, a plethoric cavalcade of them were presented, and it seemed that most of them were hastily … Continue reading →

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Federal Judge Orders Yngwie Malmsteen Forcibly Removed From Faux Leather Pants

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

Disciple of Hell no longer of use to nether-regions, consigned to playing Air Supply licks   Los Angeles–Acting on the legal request from Lucifer’s Son, a federal circuit court ordered the “immediate and forcible removal” of neoclassical rocker Yngwie Malmsteen … Continue reading →

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Ken Tamplin told me I’m going to jail if I don’t listen to Dino Jelusic

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

Far be it from me to demur from an incendiary headline, in which I accuse people of saying things they didn’t say. Although, I’m not a journalist, so: It doesn’t come natural to me I feel the odd twinge of … Continue reading →

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Jonny Lang’s “Signs” rolls out like thunder

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Ron Giesecke

I can’t exactly figure out why Jonny Lang is the recipient of complaints that he needs to “get back to the blues.”  He never left it. He did manage to leave the randier, entendre-ridden traditions of the blues with his … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding redux

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Ron Giesecke

A few weeks ago, I was standing outside, in  a break area at work, tossing in my harmonies to the rhetorical cantata that was going on at the moment.  My co-worker, Bill, mentioned that before he moved to my area, … Continue reading →

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And now–yet another project in the works

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Ron Giesecke

When i decided on the moniker for this blog, it wasn’t exactly a task rendered under flippant conditions. Even if the title, “Master of None” seems as if it comes out of the same comedic genepool of,”are you working hard, … Continue reading →

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I had a song come to me in my sleep, and Adele isn’t going to get away with stealing it

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  So it’s a well-known fact that the majority of my creative inertia comes during the night. I’ve had moments of epiphany that are unrivaled right after a good night’s rest. It is common knowledge that I wrote the song … Continue reading →

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At the Crossroads of common literary decency with Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

There is a common literary technique accompanied by a lesser-known phrase, known as the In medias res—a latin phrase for “in the middle of things.” The tactic is used to suck a reader in to the main vortex of a … Continue reading →

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Wow, am I easily derailed

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

It seems only like yesterday, I was pontificating, ruminating, cogitating, deliberating and prevaricating about wanting to write my book–complete with the breathless declaration that I had completed the first chapter. Then, I went to McCloud on a church.family camp thingamabob.  I … Continue reading →

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Oficina G3, Petra, and getting viewed 30,000 times

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

In case the backstory here is a bit muddy, let me give you a bit of my history. When I was a teenager, growing up in a church, and a Christian school, this was my favorite record: Not of This … Continue reading →

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