Personality

Chris Woods
The Soundman is as Important as I am

For the first time I’ve met Chris on Musikmesse Frankfurt in 2012. In the next booth he was showing off stomp-box Logarhytm and amazed passers with his unprecedented guitar playing. Meanwhile he prepared a solo album and Hal Leonard Publishing published his textbook and DVD Percussive Acoustic Guitar. On the occasion of his upcoming tour of six Slovak towns (22 to 30 July 2014) Chris Woods answered a few questions for Novy Popular music magazine.Read more...

Eric Clapton
Dignified 50th birthday

Way back in the ‘60s, when a wave of promising rock bands was developing in Czechoslovakia, I got my hands on a gramophone record containing a single by a Slovak band The Soulmen. I liked the single a lot and learned from back of the record’s cover that all the band members listened to The Beatles and Cream...Read more...

Johnny Winter
I'm a bluesman and will play till I die

The interview from 2011, November 14thRead more...

Jerguš Oravec is working on two singles with Ivan Tásler

Jerguš Oravec is a young Slovakian musician, who has just lately won the jury and audience awards on Blues Aperitiv 2012, which is being held in Šumperk…Read more...

Paul McCartney
On the Run

Last June, when I was at Ringo Starr and his All Starr's Band concert in the Prague Congress Centre, I could hardly imagine that what would follow would be another Beatles show. Of course I mean the second living member of what is considered by many to be the best music band of all times.Read more...

Gary Moore

When I was travelling through Ireland a few years ago, I entered the main post office in Dublin and asked for a special stamp issued in a rare series. There was Rory Gallagher on it. The clerk referred me to an out-of-the-way sport shop with a tiny book section and I got to purchase the stamp there. I turned around to leave but the shopkeeper advised me that I should not forget Phil. I was not aware that a stamp with another Irish musical hero had been published. This hero was Phil Lynott, the leader of the well known band Thin Lizzy...Read more...

Rory Gallagher

„…the Irish guy playing, his speed and skills were frightening.“ Yes, this is how in an interview for the press media the black magician of the electric guitar Jimi Hendrix expressed himself on the dress of a lovely Irish lad who in no time had to be ranked into the gallery of the greatest.Read more...