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Krista

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About Me

..I have a degree in art; I paint big acrylic paintings.....I used to gallup racehorses but since I've stopped, I've had to find other ways to get a big rush. The best way for me to do that these days is to pick up the guitar....

My Interests

guitars, cadillacs, hillbilly music.....

I'd like to meet:

Okay the fantasy is this: I walk into a bar and the only people in there are Tom Waits, Keith Richards, John Lurie and Jim Jarmusch. After hours of drinking and smoking and playing cards, Keith, Tom and I go shopping for boots and return to the bar to watch John Hammond Jr. play and then I die happy and go to heaven and there I am greeted by Hunter S. Thompson, Jackson Pollock, and Bill Graham.....

Music:

Gram Parsons, Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, The Band (anything Robbie, Richard, Garth, Levon or Ricky did in or out of The Band, including 'All the Kings Men' because you CAN'T get cooler than Scooty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Keith Richards, Levon, Ricky and Garth on the same DAMN SONG!)Bob Dylan, J.J. Cale, Ry Cooder, Xpensive Winos, Rory Gallagher, Little Feat, Jerry Lee Lewis, Link Wray, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the SUN Records box set...Gene Vincent, Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Bill Black....any old blues tunes, love the doo wop......gospel, country/western....... Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, Steve Cropper, Jeff Beck, Dr. John, John Hammond Jr.,The Clash, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan, Bobby Keys, Nicky Hopkins, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Peter Tosh, Etta James, Joe Walsh, Paul Kossoff, Ian Hunter, Heartbreakers, Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, Replacements, The Meters, Prof. Longhair, Zepplin.......it never ends....

Movies:

Withnail and I, Cool Hand Luke, Down By Law, Hail Hail Rock and Roll, The Last Waltz, Manhattan, Last Picture Show, To Kill A Mockingbird, Stranger Than Paradise...all the hits, really....

Television:

baseball (METS!) NFL football (JETS!) and college basketball/football

Books:

Hemmingway, Kerouac, Hunter S.Thompson, Stanley Booth, Lester Bangs, Barney Hoskins, Robert Greenfield, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, The Bill Graham Story, Rhythm Oil, Last Picture Show....

Heroes:

Gary Robertson, Keith Richards, Cool Hand Luke, Bill Graham, Jackson Pollock, Jim Jarmusch, Leo Fender, Woody Allen, Stanley Booth, Willem De Kooning, Hunter Thompson, the makers of Rebel Yell, whoever invented the zippo, the string winder, the word $#%*, and vinyl records......and anyone with long enough fingers to play an A-shape barre chord whilst muting the low E string with their thumb?......you're my hero too....

My Blog

Check out this event: Toys From the Attic

Hosted By: krista macfarlaneWhen: Sunday Oct 14, 2007at 1:00 PMWhere: Guitar Girl Studio1402 Queen Street East, Suite DToronto, ON M4L1C9CanadaDescription:krista macfarlane Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Krista on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:07:00 PST

Ahmet Ertegun 1923-2006

When Ahmet Ertegun died last month I sent out a bulliten in honour of him. For those who responded to that bulliten with a "who?" I'm begging you to pick up a copy of this months' Rolling Stone (...
Posted by Krista on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:59:00 PST

stripped strap button....help?

The strap button on the Les Paul broke....well, it's stripped, really. I'm going to start with a new screw but if this doesn't help, I'm planning on jamming toothpicks dipped in wood glue into the hol...
Posted by Krista on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:49:00 PST

Ludwig Von Beethoven....

I found this quote in the "heavy rock bible" from about 1979.....quotes from Jimmy Page and Al DiMeola and.........Beethoven..... "When I open my eyes, I can only sigh, for what I see is contrary to m...
Posted by Krista on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:38:00 PST