rants and observations

Here's a few photo's from the gig's this weekend. Friday Rossi Tzonkov, Marlin Ramazzini and I performed at the Mosaic Festival then Ben Woods and I played for West Coast Guitar Night. […]

Join Rossi Tzonkov and John Gilliat behind the scenes at a gig for the Keg Restaurant playing a charity event at the Vancouver Shaughnessy Golf Club. […]

Recently I've had a few emails of loopers asking how to use the rc300 to create loops with different lengths. So here's a youtube video to help you work it out. […]

The band is in it's development stage so there will be a lot of tweaking with music, arrangements, instrumentation, etc... One thing for sure is that Rossi and I are having a great time working together in my own group, Ritmo Caliente, and Carumba. […]

Significant progress has been made in prosecuting human rights abusers, but accountability mechanisms vary greatly depending on the context. […]

Chavez was a man of controversy and contradiction. Worldpress.org takes a snapshot of world news coverage following his death. […]

In an effort to control interest rates, Fed policy in 1947 led to hyperinflation and high unemployment-something we could see repeated very soon. […]

The nomination of Chuck Hagel for the post of the U.S. defense secretary has garnered significant criticism from Israel and the powerful Jewish lobby. […]

With the Internet continuing to dismantle the business model of political journalism, what will the future look like for the fourth estate? […]

Worldpress.org offers a sampling of world news coverage related to the massacre last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. […]