FOCUSRITE: PLEASE GET IT RIGHT!

I have tried to download software from Focusrite's site and have received the following message since Christmas night.  Enough already!

Greg Lake, "I Believe In Father Christmas"

A sad farewell was bid to Greg Lake, a talented and influential musician, who passed away this week.  Lake was a founding member of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  He also held a stint in Asia, as well.  Here is the popular Christmas tune he penned years ago.  I will miss Lake's distinctive vocal delivery, his impassioned playing and his memorable recorded work.  A true progressive rock luminary and a very iconic performer.

PLAY WHO POWERCHORDS ON AN ELECTRIC UKE!

This music store find was a little weird:  The Who songbook for ukulele.  But there the book was, shelved below the wall mounted ukes and, as if to save the day, there were a few electric ukuleles in stock.  I do know that Pete Townsend wrote a song which appears on the collection, "The Who By Numbers", which features a ukulele.  "Blue, Red and Grey" finds Pete strumming on an acoustic uke.  I saw Roger Daltrey in concert a few years back and he did his own rendition of the song along with accompanying himself on ukulele.  The Vox electric ukuleles pictured here could be amplified up to "11" to reproduce the 140db sound level The Who were known to bombard their audiences with in the mid to late 1970's.  Play it LOUD!!!