Clive Murray

YouTube video by clivemurray Van Halen "Panama" playthrough

New video - playthrough of “Panama” by Van Halen.

It’s up on YouTube and PeerTube, whichever you prefer.

YT: youtu.be/C6zxsDvtd2M
PT: makertube.net/w/19CbQ4dVbH...

Happy Friday!

#Guitar
#Guitarist
#Ibanez
#VanHalen
#Music
#Rock
#EddieVanHalen
#Panama

YouTube video by clivemurray "Kalahari" playthrough

Another play through video!

This time it’s a proper full length song, “Kalahari” off of my 2024 album Love and Painkillers.

There’s a bit of waffle about it after the song too.

Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsN...

#Music #Guitar #Video #Instrumental #Ibanez #IbanezJem

Tiny blog post: Resurrection playthrough.

blog.clivemurray.com/resurrection...

540PIII | P | ELECTRIC GUITARS | PRODUCTS | Ibanez guitars 540PIII at Ibanez. Ibanez offers electric guitars, bass guitars, acoustic guitars, effect and pedals, amps, plus guitar accessories like tuners, straps and picks.

Today is the day that Satan is skating to work.

Ibanez 540PIII reissue. MIJ, 24fr, H/S. Perfect except for one crucial detail…

43mm neck width at the nut. The original (I have one from 1989) was 45mm. The ultra wide neck was one of the USPs.

Still awesome though.

www.ibanez.com/eu/products/...

Oof.

New blog post: Clive’s Album of the Year, 2024.

blog.clivemurray.com/clives-album...

It’s very long. Sorry.

#AlbumOfTheYear
#AlbumOfTheYear2024
#Music
#AlienAntFarm
#TheCure
#BillieEilish
#Elbow
#GreenDay
#Gun
#LinkinPark
#LondonGrammar
#TheOffspring
#MaxRichter
#DevinTownsend
#Underworld

2026: Put the brakes on everything.

2028: Expand the Supreme Court, Medicare for All, regulate crypto up the wazoo, tax the bejeezus out the toolbags who made all this possible, electrify rail, nationalize SpaceX, abolish ICE, protect trans people, codify reproductive rights,

Completely forgot BlueSky existed.

Wow. A lot of interest in the whole pope-alooza going on. I kind of thought nobody gave a shit any more, like Eurovision or the Grand National.

Exactly how I always describe you.

🚨 New guitar challenge is live! 🚨

This time the Bros. tackle the solo section from Joe Satriani’s “Strange”.

fiasco.quest/challenges/2...

#Guitar
#GuitarChallenge
#GuitarSolo
#FiascoBrothers
#JoeSatriani

A little blog post about a thing I made recently.

blog.clivemurray.com/guitar-chall...

🚨 New thing alert! 🚨

Guitar Challenges by the Fiasco Bros.

In which a friend and I who have been playing guitar together for decades come up with guitar challenges for each other, video the evidence, and put it on the internet.

challenge.clivemurray.com

Enjoy!

#Guitar
#Guitarist
#RockGuitar

Friday is not only Bandcamp Friday, it is also Rik Mayall day.

#RikMayallDay
#TheRikMayall
#Woof

I’m streaming some Fallout 4 on Twitch.

twitch.tv/tommistarr

Jon Gomm - Supports Jon Gomm. Supports 2025 uk

CALL FOR VOTES!

Hi. I might have a chance to open for the wonderful @jongomm.bsky.social in May this year. I would be hugely grateful if you would do me the favour of going here www.jongomm.com/supports and voting for me, Clive Murray.

#LiveMusic
#JonGomm
#Guitarist
#RockGuitar

New web toy I've been mucking about with in my downtime.

flipper.clivemurray.com

Inspired by the Apple album art screensaver initially. I wondered if I could get the same 3D flipping effect in a browser, and the answer was of course yes. 😀

They said aside from dark arts like getting friendly with an editor, up to and possibly including knowing where they drink and ambushing them in a pub, one thing might be to "get a Substack".

I *think* Substack is bad mmkay because Nazis. Is that right? And if so, what is a good alternative?

Dear #Lazyweb

I sometimes write things. Sometimes they are long, sometimes people enjoy them. I would like to do this more, and perhaps submit things to an occasional publication or two. I wondered how to go about this, so I spoke to a journalist friend.

This is my favourite bit of the song: The major to minor key change, the cascading harmonics, it feels like making trails with sparklers in the dark

Check You're Still Breathing, recorded with the PowerTap Earth Pro from Fishman, no other mics or sources.

My rules:
* I can only capture the next number. I can't capture a higher number and save it for later
* the number must be isolated, not part of other text
* I can't just go up a street grabbing consecutive door numbers, it has to happen organically

If anyone was wondering, I have been capturing numbers (in order) sporadically for a while.

500px.com/p/axemonkey/...

Seventy-six.

500px.com/photo/110792...

#Consecutive
#Numbers
#SeventySix

Your mileage may of course vary, but we can't sing the praises of this stuff highly enough.

And when the vet said that the nurses could no longer prescribe flea meds without an examination by the vet, at ~£65 per cat per exam, the whole thing starts looking a bit bloody grabby.

Further to late night "not ok" post the other day...

Sorry. I'm trying not to be a drama llama. But it doesn't always work.

Sometimes I... don't feel "safe" in my own head. I know I should stay off the socials when that happens, but I am an idiot and I am weak.

Thanks for your patience. 🙏

Yep. We've sworn off vet-supplied flea treatment and gone all holistic. (I married a hippie.) We actually did it because our cats were reacting badly to the meds.

We've had zero fleas in over a year since we switched to Farewell Fleaz and our cats are no longer vomiting or getting skin burns.

I’m voting we call this The Clod War.

Am not ok. Dammit.

Absolute hotness. Congratulations, sir.

To add: The below turns off Copilot in Word. You may still need to turn it off piecemeal elsewhere. To turn it off EVERYWHERE in Windows 11, here's a good set of instructions: www.tomsguide.com/computing/so... - note the first part depends on your Windows version; the gpedit steps work regardless.