I’ve know Rene for a long number of years, since the early 90’s.  I studied guitar under him for about a year when we both lived in Lincoln, Ne.   Haven’t talk to him in a while, but stumbled across his youtube video stuff, and wanted to share it with you.  Rene has such a unique style and perspective on life.  He has a lot more videos on his youtube site, so make sure and check out a couple of those too.  His website is http://www.renebenton.com but currently doesn’t seem to be working.  Hopefully I can get Rene on the Homegrown show here sometime!

Vicki Genfan to be on my show this weekend.  Sunday Feb. 22 at 11am.  93.5 FM on the ol’ FM dial.  As usual, following the House of Blues with Elwood Blues.  I am honored to have Vicki on as a guest.  It should be a really awesome show, so try and tune in.

I had featured her here on Baub.com a few weeks ago, and she emailed me to say thanks for the feature.  So I just asked her and asked if she wanted to be on the show and viola! You can visit her website at www.vickigenfan.com.

I stumbled across this amazing guitar player with a really awesome technique and outside of the box playing style hope you enjoy.  Her website is www.vickigenfan.com.

This just in…. Vicki Genfan has been crowned Guitar Player’s Guitar Superstar 2008 WINNER!!!!!!!

You’ve heard of Survivor Man and Man vs. Wild on Discovery.  Well this is the guitar equivalent.  Here is the scenario:  You end up at a gig, 3 hours from home and low and behold no guitar strap for your axe!  Damn!!! Now what?  Sit down all night? Nope!  Improvise!  All you need is some common house hold duct tape!  Now in my example I am using some rather colorful duct tape that Mr. KP Hauge, has in his arsonal for my demonstration.  KP’s partner Mike had just bought a new guitar but didn’t yet have a strap so I decided to pay McGuyver an alm and build one myself!

Reallly simple.  Just lay down one length of duct tape.  And then take another equal length piece and lay on top of the other.  Well, duh, I bet anyone could figure that part out.  The trick is to roll the ends over a couple of times and then cut an "X" pattern through all of the layers at the end for the guitar strap holders to go through.  Now here is the best secret ever!  Go buy yourself a 4 pack of Grolsch Beer.  Use the red rubber top as your strap lock to keep the strap on your guitar.  They actually work really well with a normal strap too.  I look at it like this  You can buy a red rubber top strap lock and get a free beer!

Bottle design

Beugel

A beugel type bottle of Grolsch

Grolsch uses, next to the ‘new’ bottle, a distinctive shape of bottle for some of its products, known as the beugel or "the gurdle".

Bottles of this type use a swing-top cap, eliminating the need for an opener. The brown domestic bottle contains 45cl, which is more than the average bottle in the Netherlands, while the green export bottle was slightly larger, at 467 ml. A slimmer design was introduced in 2008 that is a consistent 45cl for both domestic and export. They can simply be opened by hand using a lever at the side of the bottleneck. The label is applied over the lever in order to make any tampering evident. The top used to be made from porcelain, but is now made of plastic; the porcelain ones are still in circulation in the Netherlands.