An unnamed Scottish harp player (Ron McMillan) is currently on vacation in Pattaya Thailand and although our photographer Papa Razzi was unable to get a snap of the harper himself, he did get to meet the muso’s fan club who apparently follow the harmonica stud wherever he goes.

Your girlfriend is a happy computer user too but is pissed of with the English/Thai keyboard and is in danger of spending a lifetime hunting and pecking on the standard keyboard just to apply for that job or email Miguel!

Quote of the day…

Graham Nash revealed on CNN’s Larry King Live that his longtime bandmate Stephen Stills has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Nash, who appeared on the program via phone along with Joe Walsh, was on the show to pay tribute to singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, who died on Sunday December 16th following a three-year battle with prostate cancer.

Boffins, doffins and other apparently educated twats were completely baffled when they found a ‘big long heavy metal thingy’ on the beach on the west coast of Scotland at the weekend.

You may not be in the mood but if you are, there are quite a few places in Bangkok who have planned a big night out to say Farewell to the Old Year and In With The New

Bangkok Bar Girls

The elections are gone and so has most of 2007…what do the Thais think of the year gone by? Here’s one site where at least one of the respondents mirrored our own horror that Thaksin and his vile henchman Samak may well ride again

Ian Anderson, the flute player who fronts the rock band Jethro Tull, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, or MBE, and Trevor Romeo, alias Jazzie B of Soul II Soul, got an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place. Painch, tripe or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace As lang’s my arm.”

Here’s our very own end-of-the-year gift for you guitar players with time on your hands over the holidays and looking for new ideas in jazz. With it comes where to go next time and get free jazz stuff to help you outrun the plateau thing!

Your Editor plays guitar in the local blues jams here in Bangkok and at one I heard the Soi Dogs Blues band Jeff T say: “I’m chipping my nail varnish strumming my chords like this.”