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As I mentioned on my main Instagram, I’m ready to be part of the critical re-evaluation of Swervedriver’s 1998 one-time swan song 99th Dream, thanks to its new deluxe reissue which I happened to find at a very decent price and thought, “why not”. I bought the album on CD when it was first released […]
Swervedriver b-sides have long been things of beauty and held in high regard, and one particular fan-favourite is “Cars Converge On Paris”, originally released in 1993 as a b-side to Mezcal Head single, “Last Train To Satansville”. Never being ones to shy away from the deep cut, the band included the song in the encores […]
DVDs are hardly the most collectible things these days – I wager a lot of people don’t have the technology to even play one if they wanted to – but I’ve finally gotten my hands back on one of my most precious digital video discs after a couple years where I almost wrote it off […]
I’ve been trying to learn to play a few selections from Swervedriver’s back catalog lately and have really come to appreciate how unconventional Adam Franklin’s playing and writing style is. His musical brain is an interesting place to be, and I’ve been living in it and the Swervedriver oeuvre a fair bit of late. So […]
Sometimes I’ll write a lot about a song I post, sometimes I won’t. Guess which time this is? It’s Swervedriver, and “Duel” the lead single from sophomore record Mezcal Head. Speaks for itself. But I will mention that I’ve found another guitar tutorial site with excellent taste in lessons. Swervedriver guitar parts are not easy […]
Like many of their ’90s-era brethren, Swervedriver are a band who know their way around a b-side. Indeed, some of their most fan-favourite cuts don’t even appear on their studio albums, and are hard to lay ears on. And so it was a pretty big deal, if a quietly-announced one, that at the end of […]
I launched this blog with some Swervedriver content – a shot of Adam Franklin’s pedalboard from their October 2019 show at The Horseshoe – but haven’t actually talked about the band since then, so let’s rectify that, starting with some guitar-centric material since you can’t like Swervedriver and not care about guitars. I actually don’t […]
I can’t say I was too invested in the artistic success of Creation Stories, the film adaptation of Creation Records honcho Alan McGee’s 2013 memoir Creation Stories: Riots, Raves, and Running a Label, but was at least hoping it would be a decent ’90s companion piece of sorts to 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s […]
The URL for GuitarGeek.com may no longer exist was a meaningful internet entity – it now goes to the YouTube page for some guy who will teach you Led Zeppelin riffs – but in the early days of the web, it was a magical place for guit nerds like myself who were a) unhealthily obsessed […]
