Gary Melvin


Singer : Guitarist : Songwriter — I aspire to inspire


Leaf Blowers Suck… I Mean Blow

I live in an apartment. My apartment building is small. My apartment building is also close to other residential buildings. The owners of these buildings employ gardeners to maintain the landscaping. These gardeners use leaf blowers. Leaf blowers are loud. Normally I might just whine a bit and then try to go back to sleep [...]

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

This album has been out for a while, and I bought it a long time ago too, but it wasn’t until recently that I started listening to it… and now I’m really into it. I came across the Yahoo! Nissan Live Sets footage of the Foo Fighters, and after watching all the videos decided I [...]

What a Weekend

This is where I spent my weekend: I can’t get over how incredible it was. It started as a trip down to the Lake Forest area to see my good friend Robin’s band (The Pleasant Return) play, which was followed by some friends going with me to Laguna Beach for a night, which turned into [...]

Wow, I didn’t realize Kanye West was so humble

Yahoo! posted a short little story this morning about an interview with Kanye West. Check it out and then come on back: http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/15348921 I was laughing my face off when I read it. Kanye has said and done some silly things before (his infamous outburst on live t.v. during hurricane Katrina; getting booed at Bonnaroo [...]

Rest in Peace, Mitch Mitchell

Today we lost the last living member of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. We lost Jimi in 1970, bassist Noel Redding in 2003, and now drummer Mother Goose, a.k.a. Mitch Mitchell. I have to say, as a guitarist who is massively inspired by Hendrix, almost as influential as Jimi himself are the incredible musicians who played [...]

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