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Sam, Senna and I went for a round of golf at 08.00 clock in the morning. There are 3 different golfcourses on the resort, we went to walk the "Legends Walk". A 9 hole course right between the

Last night we had a nice diner " at "Chicken Fil A", pronounced "Chicken Filla". A chicken restaurant with (turns out) very tasty chicken sandwiches. The had a great chouce in

Today we would take a drive across Orlando, but my sons preferred to have a swim. It was quiet hot, so we stayed at the resort. Later that day the weather turned, the wind was turning and it started to

Usually I am not that fond of solo's during a concert. I still arent actually. Once when we we're at a Toto gig we left to eat some pizza because all of the musicians took some space to give a 10 minute

Last night we had dinner at the resort, I heard about a “Sloppy Joe” but never really had one. A sandwich with actually a kind of meat sauce on it, normally not something I would quickly choose but it

Jumped into the bus again today to do the Brooklyn tour. On the way to the stop for the tour, fire trucks, ambulances and police cars passed by. Quiet difficult manouvring through busy traffic but they

Today we started with the Hop on Hop off bus, a double deck (open) bus where you can hop on and off everywhere. There is a red and blue route, red goes down-town, and the blue..indeed, uptown. We started

We are already on day three of our great trip to the states, we are still in New York. The plan was to first make a tour with the Hop on Hop off bus, unfortunately the weather wasn’t on our site. We decided

Funny, we woke up very early, all 4 of us. ... So we left to explore the city at half past seven in the morning. We took the city map to look where we wanted to go first.... Time Square it was .... It

At the age of 14 or so, me and my best friend Guido often went to a venue called “De Barrak”. During the day it was used as a rehearsal room for bands. Every Saturday “Metal Remorse” rehearsed there. It

One day I arrived at my friend Danny’s house to practice some bass. Danny wanted to show me some live footage of John Mayer. It was “Where the light is” live in L.A. It wasn’t John Mayer he ment (although

Coincheck, one of the largest Japanese currencies for cryptocurrencies, has lost 500 million NEM coins. According to the trading platform these have been sent "illegally" to another location.

A picture of The Empire State building in New York. I took this picture in august 2016 standing on the observation deck of the Top of Rock. The Empire State building is 381 meters in height. The beaconlight

This story is all about my great friend Danny Samar. Besides a remarkable person and friend he is also one of the most talented and devoted bass-players I have ever met. Although he operates mostly ‘low-level’

One of my all time favorites is undisputed Ozzy. The ‘enfant terrible’ from the hardrock :). Ozzy always had a special place in my musical heart, for his solo work. Of course I like Black Sabbath, but

I started my "Muscial career" playing the guitar. I still remember y first accoustical guitar. I bought a classical with nylon strings from the sister of a family friend. A nice guitar, nothing

The Veldman Brothers, the ultimate blues brotherhood. For more than ten years at the top of the Dutch blues scene. The brothers Gerrit (guitar, vocals) and Bennie (Hammond, mouth harp, vocals) Veldman

One of my all time guitar heroes is doubtless Joe Satriani. A master in inpredictable melodies. The first time I met his music en virtuosity was in my youth. I just started play the guitar myself and so

As you can see from my earlier posts in the "music is magic... Music is emotion", you can explain the subject in different ways. One of them is what music means to me and what it does to me,

My father was always a big fan of symphonic rock. In my youth he was 'amateur manager' of a sympho band in Utrecht, the Netherlands called Arkus. We often went with him to rehearsals of gig's in the