Sneak Peek from “Number One with an AXE! Vol. 2”

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I’ve been busy listening to the Billboard #1 hits from 1960-64 for my upcoming ebook, “Number One with an AXE! Volume 2”. Hits of the early 60s weren’t exactly dripping with guitars, but there are still some six-string gems to be discovered (or rediscovered). Here are a couple of samples. Enjoy! -MR Soldier Boy, The Shirelles, 5/5/62, 3 weeks […]

New Ebook! Number One with an AXE!

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My latest ebook comes out July 9, 2016. It is called “Number One with an AXE! A Look at the Guitar’s Role in America’s #1 Hits.” The book’s premise is simple: I listened to (and watched videos of) all the Billboard #1 hit songs of the second half of the 1950s–starting with the first rock […]

The Crossroads of Music, Math & Poetry

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Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler) was a brilliant 18th-century Swiss mathematician. His was a life full of contributions to mathematics and the sciences. Among mathematicians he is admired for, among many other things, an equation called Euler’s identity:   This equation is famous for the elegant way it pulls together five mathematical constants (e, i, pi, 1 […]