If you like sports, whether it is baseball, football, or basketball, you know the experience of attending a live game beats the living room scene. The best part, aside from having your favorite sports team win over the hated rival, is the atmosphere created by the crowd.
A sure fire way to get the crowd and athletes pumped up is by playing some good music. It’s hard to describe why a certain song makes the list. Some songs like We Will Rock You by Queen are  obvious. While others like Rock …

How big is too big? The biggest concert by live attendance clocks in at a record 3.5 million people. This begs the question: Do bigger venues, stages, or concerts mean a better concert experience? Personally, the best concerts in terms of performance and sound were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas and The Warfield in San Francisco. Both venues can hold a decent crowd. Yet neither is known for breaking any world records. The Warfield holds approx 2,300 seats, while the Hard Rock Cafe approx 2,000.

If you want to learn to play the guitar it should not be that difficult. You can enroll at your local college, browse the classified ads and get a personal instructor, or pick up some video lessons. The difficulty presents itself when you want to learn to play the Banjo. No worries.  Banjo Virtuoso Tony Trischka opened his unique online banjo school today: the Tony Trischka School of Banjo!

Heavy Metal is characterized by massive sounds, strong vocals, amplified distortion, guitars, and overall loudness. Metallica certainly fits the description very well. However, loud in itself is the not the end-all-be-all or definition of good music. Hearing loss is also a negative side effect of hearing music too loud. Over the years, Metallica has brought us great music (personal favorite is the song One). More recently, Metallica, along with all others in the genre are more concerned over winning the Heavy-Metal battle of who can play the loudest music. That …