David Mead

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"I learned to play Blind Blake’s ‘Police Dog Blues’ and put it on YouTube. It got a lot more attention than we’d expected." Just 18, Muireann Bradley has become the leader of a country-blues guitar revival

2 weeks ago | guitarplayer.com | Mark McStea |David Mead

Muireann Bradley may be a 18-year-old acoustic guitarist from rural Ireland, but she plays note-perfect renditions of acoustic-guitar ragtime blues classics like a seasoned Mississippi pro. Not only does Bradley possess impeccable technique but she has a great voice as well, factors that helped her 2023 debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, break into the top 10 on the U.K. album charts. Credit her stay-at-home guitar-playing father for the influence.
“He says, ‘Isn’t this a great guitar? I bought it off some guy on the street for 350 bucks’”: How Lita Ford reacted when she came face-to-face with her stolen B.C. Rich Mockingbird - and the only amp she ever returned | Guitar World

3 weeks ago | guitarworld.com | David Mead |Henry Yates

This month on Bought & Sold, it is the turn of a bona-fide rock legend to share her story in gear, as Lita Ford checks in to talk all things guitars, from her first serious instrument to her go-to rig. If you find yourself nervous in the company of B.C. Rich’s weaponized metal guitars. Maybe sit this one out. Here Ford explains why the company’s Neal Moser is the best in the business, why she has no fretboard inlays, and why she doesn’t go shopping for guitars anymore.
“I was auditioning guitar players. One guy comes in with that turquoise guitar. I looked at it and I thought, ‘That’s my guitar’”: Lita Ford had her prized B.C. Rich Mockingbird stolen - but crossed paths with it in the most bizarre circumstances | Guitar

1 month ago | guitarworld.com | Janelle Borg |Henry Yates |David Mead

After lying about her age to get a job at a medical facility in Long Beach to save up some money, Lita Ford cemented her future when she bought her first serious electric guitar at the age of 14 – a chocolate-finished Gibson SG that accompanied her through the rollercoaster ride that was The Runaways.
“I suppose I felt that I deserved it for the amount of seriousness that I’d put into it. My head was huge!” “Clapton is God” graffiti made him a guitar legend when he was barely 20 - he says he was far from uncomfortable with the adulation at the time | G

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Jackson Maxwell |David Mead

“Clapton is God.” It's one of those essential pieces of guitar hero lore. Someone so moved by guitar prowess that they scrawled the name of the virtuoso in question on a wall – a figure in the town square telling passersby of messianic musical exploits that must be seen to be believed.
Gaza campus protests: two human rights law experts write new principles for universities

Jun 13, 2024 | theconversation.com | David Mead |Jeff King

University leaders have struggled with how to respond to campus protests.

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