It's not clear whether we are Parachute or Parachutes. Either way it's quite a rude term and I'm not telling you why. After four years of slog we've actually managed to get it together to have a gig. The band is made up of five people. It started with me and Piet and a totally […]
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It's just loud gangster rap. I don't think it's hate speech and I don't agree with music censorship at all (although I think we'd be doing the world a favour if we banned Steve Hofmeyer). I do love Richard Poplak's writing in general. He is particularly entertaining in this Daily Maverick post. It's not the
DOOKOOM – Jou Poes my Larney Read More »
I found this advertisement in Guitar Player magazine. It's from January 1988. I have my doubts whether this would have been on the shelves in South Africa at that time. The same magazine contained this advertisement.
Rabin and Santana – a musical post Read More »
I have mentioned that I will periodically talk about music and here I go again. Last year I played guitar (and sang a bit) in a band called the Black Daniels. My co-guitarist was a very talented bloke called Chris Lombard. The band didn’t break up or anything, it just stopped. We all found ourselves
Not the Allan Gray man Read More »
Whilst this blog is effectively about BEE and other related issues, the temptation sometimes becomes a little too great to write about other things. 90% of the time, those other things are normally music-related. And this post is about Rabbitt. Rabbitt was the first real South African supergroup. Four very talented musicians (in their late
If you’ve read my book "Broad-based BEE for small businesses" (you can get it here http://www.kalahari.net/bk/product.asp?toolbar=none&sku=29709174&format=detail) you may have noticed I refer to a company called Patto and Halsall. This company is a product of my mind and was named after two great musicians, Mike Patto and Ollie Halsall. They played in a few bands
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