We
promise eclectic rants, uninformed reviews and all around
foolishness revolving around that awe inspiring instrument,
the guitar. We won't fill your screen with meaningless
schematics of obscure
amplifiers or trite reviews of "the latest gear", you
can get that everywhere else. What we do promise is tongue
in cheek humor, cool shit that you'll love to get your paws
on, as well as artist and gear reviews, industry drool and
our own thoughts on any and everything guitar and if you
have something to say or want to get off your chest for
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holiday
Blues Rock Guitar
Virtuoso Joe Bonamassa to Hold Clinic on Thursday, July 31
at Musicians Institute in
Hollywood.
Guitar
Students and Fans of Rock and Blues, Get Ready to Be
Inspired--Not to Mention Blown Away by One of Most Acclaimed
Blues/Rock Guitarists in the World!
So It's Link That
7/22/08
Guitarist of
megalomaniacal speed seeks audience who won't combust I'd
like to start this off by saying one thing: IF YOU DON'T
LIKE GUITAR, IF YOU HAVE A FAMILY HISTORY OF CARDIAC
INFIRMITY, OR IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY OF A WEAK DISPOSITION,
HIT THE BACK BUTTON RIGHT AWAY.
7/22/08
16 Hot Women of
Rockabilly. Take a musical journey and check out these sexy
players from yesterday and
today.
Stray Cat Link
7/22/08
Thanks to St Blues
Guitars of Memphis, Tennessee, MusicRadar has a fabulous
prize this month. We have two
models
to give away, the Blonde Bluesmaster II six-string and the
Blonde King Blues bass.
BlondieLink
7/21/08
NZ man meets his guitar
playing hero. A Hawke's Bay man on dialysis is full of life
after meeting his hero -
American
guitar
legend Joe Satriani. The people of Waikaremoana fundraised
so local man Ling Paku could go to Taranaki to see Satriani
in concert. And the meeting with Satriani, who has been
nominated for 15 Grammy awards, breathed new life into Paku.
"He's royalty in the guitar world - he's number one."
Awwwww
7/21/08
Blues for a Friday. Plenty of electric blues
players can bluster and roar through a performance, but a
slow tune―even over a set of straight 12-bar changes―is the
style's ultimate challenge. Tapping into the music's deepest
pools of expression, where delicately squeezed, shaken, and
slid notes become stand-ins for a range of human emotions,
it takes an outstanding guitarist to sculpt a soulful slow
blues. But
the best recorded slow blues of the past 25 years may be
Vaughan's 1984 rendition of 'Tin Pan Alley' on his second
album, Couldn't Stand the Weather.
Link Without You
7/19/08
Sonama Wire Works has
released RiffWorks T4, a free version of its RiffWorks
guitar
recording software. This
enables
you not only to record songs on your own, but also to
collaborate with other musicians from around the world. The
software's collaborative features sound promising, too. Up
to four musicians can work on a song simultaneously, while
any tracks you record are automatically streamed to your
co-creators and will play in sync with the drums. Songs can
be saved on RiffWorld.com and then opened at a later date.
RiffWorks T4 can be downloaded now from the
Sonama Wire Works website.
7/19/08
Redwood timbers that
once framed the backdrop to the West's last great train
robbery 85 years ago near
Ashland
are getting a second life that happily has given
Bruce Petros plenty to fret about.
One charred chunk of the large, old-growth redwood from
Siskiyou Pass historic Tunnel 13 is in Petros' Wisconsin
factory, where the veteran maker of acoustic guitars hopes
the fine wood and tunnel's infamy will help him sell the
high-end instruments.
Read More
7/19/08
Lazy
ass, plastic
guitar
strumming,
Guitar Hero
posers will soon
be able to play
two of the
guitar
genius's most
widely-loved
songs: "Purple
Haze" and "The
Wind Cries Mary"
using a Jimi
Hendrix
character.
Although the
Associated Press
reports that no
previous version
of
Guitar Hero
has incorporated
a likeness of
Hendrix, the
character Xavier
Stone's Guitar
Hero III persona
(pictured to the
right) appears
to have been
inspired by the
deceased legend
minus the Strat.
The end is near.
7/19/08
61-year-old Ronnie Wood
checked his old ass into the tank yesterday, weeks after he
ran away with some
20-year-old
Russian slut!
Ronnie's spokesbitch confirmed it, 'Following Ronnie's
continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of
rehab.' Ronnie was reportedly drinking up to 2 bottles of
vodka a day. Ronnie also wants to save his marriage of 23
years, but his wifey isn't having it. Jo Wood refuses to
visit him and will only talk to his crater face once he
sobers up.
7/18/08
"There's a basic rule which runs
through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I
don't know what it is. But I've got it." -Ron Wood / Rolling
Stones / Faces
For those of you who
haven't seen this video you may find it quite interesting ,
its a cool promo video
from
the Gibson guitar company themselves , it gives you a
little history and a little tour of the Gibson factory in
Tennessee. Took the tour myself last summer and was very
impressed.
Link Paul
7/18/08
While I'm sure the
acoustics on the field of Yankee Stadium would challenge
even the Steve Vais of our
world,
I have to wonder whose idea, exactly, it was to force Crow
to drag her six-string onto the field last night; the end
result wasn't so much "folk-rock patriot" than it was "is
this thing on? I still have to tune up." Check out the video
via idolator and redlazzo and God bless America. Oh yea and
Chevy too.
Linking Las Vegas
7/17/08
Fake Roth Allegedly Has
Charles Manson Traits. Pretending to be David Lee Roth is
child's play compared to David Kuntz's (the Canadian
imposter) frightening past. See the Mr. Peanut story below.
Kuntz was involved in a 1989 murder trial that painted him
as a manipulative master that talked one of his girlfriends
into killing the other. This story is nuttier than the last
one! 7/17/08
All right it should be
clear by now I'm no big fan of those fake plastic guitar
games but this new controller might make it easier to stand.
Thanks to Zivix Z1, you now can rock-and-roll with Guitar
Hero or RockBand on a REAL electric guitar. If you are
an amateur, Z1 will teach you to fret and pick on a real
guitar. After you master the basics, you can practice
your guitar
skills with your favorite songs.
Pick something besides your pimples.
7/17/08
The singer and
guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies has been arrested on
drug charges in upstate New
York.
Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree
criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in
the Syracuse area. They say they found Page and two women in
a nearby apartment, along with cocaine and marijuana.
7/17/08
AC/DC fans should have
the blueprint for the planned rollout of the new album
"Black Ice", the world tour and
some added surprises before next week is out. Fans are
hanging out for the release of "Black Ice". It is AC/DC's
first studio album in 8 years. "Black Ice" was recorded in
Canada at Bryan Adams' studio under the production guidance
of Brendan O'Brien. It will be the band's 15th studio album.7/16/08
Poverty. Soda. Girlfriends. The garbage man.
G. Love and Special Sauce have written songs about
almost everything, each one accompanied by their signature
funky backbeat. Their feel good, carefree, sloppy white boy
blues sound carved out a new, sophisticated genre of music
with which listeners easily connected.
Mom's A Linker7/16/08
Move over Guitar
Center, and look out Sam Ash. Best Buy is getting into the
music store business.
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is testing the
musical instrument waters at two Chicago-area stores
and
enlisting some big-name talent for the launch.
Blues legend and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee Buddy
Guy will perform at Best Buy's Downers Grove store at noon
Saturday, and Grammy winner Jim Peterik will perform at Best
Buy's Aurora store at 2 p.m. Sunday. And you thought those
dumb shit kids only didn't know about electronics.
7/16/08
A long lost album of
tracks Stephen Stills recorded with Jimi Hendrix over 30
years ago has surfaced, and is being
readied for release, according to a report from
MusicRadar.com that cited confirmation of the recordings'
existence and their imminent release from John McDermott, a
long-time Hendrix historian and archivist.
Electric Linky Land
7/15/08
The Who Deliver
Big at Rock Honors Tribute Featuring Pearl Jam, Foo
Fighters, Flaming Lips, Incubus,
Tenacious
D and the veteran band itself, delivering songs with all the
power and intelligence fans have come to know.
BaBa O'Linky
7/15/08
This portrait of Jimi
Hendrix is part of an exhibition of relief-block prints by
artist Stephen Alcorn entitled
Modern
Music Masters.
The series 'pays homage to the men and women who bridged the
gaps between tradition and innovation, craft and genius,
entertainment and art, music and poetry, composition and
improvisation, black and white.'
7/11/08
A story that circulated earlier this week --
fueled by actual interviews with two Canadian
police officers --
claimed
cops had to save David Lee Roth's life after he went into
anaphylactic shock from eating nuts. Diamond Dave says "I
was in Canada only from July first through the fourth for a
performance at the Quebec City Summer Festival. I had no
encounters or incidents with the police. The only thing I'm
allergic to is criticism." Go Dave!
7/11/08
93 year old David
"Honeyboy" Edwards received a gift at Blues Alley on
Wednesday night in recognition of
his
contributions to the recent Grammy-wining album "Last of the
Great Mississippi Bluesmen -- Live in Dallas." He took home
a new Gibson Les Paul guitar, courtesy of the
manufacturer. Edwards tends to stick to the basics, playing
12-bar progressions in standard tuning and often in the key
of E. (He even plays bottleneck guitar in standard
tuning.) But like many country bluesmen, he's developed a
distinctive sound over the years. Many, many years you lil'
whippersnapper.
Give a Listen.
7/11/08
Blues for a Friday. Keith shows us the style of Robert
Johnson.
7/11/08
"Just as Jesus created wine from
water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into
music..." Carlos Santana
Radiohead, never ones
to shy away from
trying new things, has shot its new video for "House
of Cards"
without
using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they've used two fancy new
technologies called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne
Lidar. To shoot it using lasers and stuff. The Geometric
Informatics scanning system employs structured light to
capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used
to render the performances of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the
female lead, and several partygoers. Hmmm Strange. We'll
post a copy as soon as it comes out.
7/11/08
Like a fine wine, blues
artist Taj Mahal keeps getting better with age. The
two-time Grammy Award winner is a mere 66 and brings his
blend of Afro-Caribbean, Hawaiian, Pacific and Latin
elements to the headlining slot on the opening night of
Bluesfest London 2008.
The ninth edition of the fest opens tomorrow night at a
temporary concert site at King and Clarence streets in
downtown London. 7/10/08
The Alliance for
Sustainability is pleased to announce that Christie's of
London is auctioning the guitar
Pete
Townshend used to compose Behind Blue Eyes, to benefit our
work to support projects that are ecologically sound,
economically viable, socially just and humane throughout the
U.S.
Link At Leeds
7/10/08
For years, British Columbia
rocker Randy Bachman
searched in vain for his
holy grail. It's
a late-1950s orange Gretsch
guitar, the Chet Atkins
model. It was stolen in 1976
from a Toronto hotel room.
Bachman did manage to amass
the world's largest and
finest collection of Gretsch
electric guitars. That
treasure trove of roughly
375 instruments has now been
purchased the Gretsch
company for its museum in
Savannah, Ga.
Linkin' Care Of Business
7/10/08
It's been a source of
much controversy among real musicians, but Activision's
Guitar
Hero game has
certainly
helped put the music of Aerosmith, Van Halen, Foo Fighters,
Muse and Smashing Pumpkins in front of a new generation of
gamers and wannabe rockers. And the bands are turning their
gaming cameos into hard cash. But according to Jimmy Page's
manager, the Led Zeppelin guitarist has repeatedly turned
down offers from both Activision and MTV for a Zep-styled
game and his stance is not going to change. Atta boy Jimmy!
Don't whore yourself out for a few duckets!
7/7/08
Meet Tal Wilkenfeld, Jeff Beck's Young Aussie
Bass Prodigy.
The questions really began soon after Eric
Clapton's
2007
Crossroads Festival aired on PBS. Emails
crisscrossed the world as music fans attempted to identify
the impossibly young-looking woman laying down the sinewy
bass lines for mercurial English guitar god Jeff Beck.
She even took a memorable solo turn on Beck's
Blow by Blow
classic, 'Cause We've Ended As Lovers!' Some speculated she
was Beck's daughter, while one writer insisted she couldn't
be more than 14―'Who's that
girl'' Click over to
Gibson.com to find out.
7/7/08
50 Bands, 50 States: The Boston Phoenix declares the
best all-time band, best all-time solo artist, and best new
band from each state.
What has the
town of Boston ever giving to rock and roll? Boston? The
Cars? Aerosmith. Wait... Never mind.
7/7/08
Blues for a Friday Thursday. A little
Texican acoustic. Enjoy your fourth!
7/3/08
A Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers show is a guitar lover's dream. If you've
ever see them in concert it
seemed
as if Petty and lead guitarist Mike Campbell strapped on a
different guitar for every song in their two-hour,
18-song set.
Your Going To Link It, Baby
7/3/08
First seen at the
Anaheim NAMM Winter 2008 show in the hands of George Benson
himself who gave a live performance at the Hoshino booth,
the Ibanez GB30TH gets its official send off at the
Nashville 2008
Summer
NAMM Show. Only 30 of these collectible small-bodied jazz
guitars will be available worldwide, with just 16 slated for
the U.S.A. For a fitting tribute to this historic
collaboration of an American jazz master with Japanese
craftsmanship, Ibanez chose a prestigious company in Kyoto
with a 400 year history in the traditional Japanese textured
silver leaf Garahaku art form to create and apply the finish
for this extraordinary and very limited edition instrument.
The list price is $13,333.32
Ouch!
7/3/08
Fender unveils a
smashing new addition to the artist signature line of
electric guitars this month with the
release
of the Billy Corgan Stratocaster guitar, an
extraordinarily versatile tone-machine, produced to Corgan's
exacting specifications. The new Billy Corgan Stratocaster
is an especially modern take on the iconic Fender Strat'
model, built especially for a high-gain sound and designed
to create Corgan's signature mid-'90s buzz saw tone.
7/3/08
The musicians' fight
for free, legal tablature (a form of text-based music
notation) has finally paid off. Today MXTabs.net officially
launched as the world's first free, legal tablature network,
providing guitarists, bassists and drummers with an online
community in which to freely create tablature and share
their knowledge of how to play tens of thousands of songs.
The month of July is MXTabs launch month, starting with the
premier of the official, and newly redesigned
MXTabs.net web site on July 1st. MXTabs has also
partnered with Taylor Guitars' to give away four guitars
from the legendary company throughout the month, including
two of their new electric guitars. Additional prizes,
including MXTabs t-shirts, messenger bags and other branded
merchandise will also be awarded.
7/2/08
Guitar
Center is pleased to announce the next installment of Guitar
Center Sessions: An evening of
dialogue
and insight with Dave Mustaine. This exclusive event is
powered by Marshall amps and will be taking place on July 10
at the Guitar Center in Hollywood, CA and is free and
open to the public. July 10, 2008 @ 6PM Guitar Center
Hollywood 7425 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA.
7/2/08
Enthusiastic rendition
of Woody Guthrie tune a world record-breaker 2,052
mixed-skill guitarists strum 'This Land is Your Land'
2,052 people filled Todos Santos Park in Concord on Tuesday
to set a world record for "guitar
ensemble" playing, led by 1960s singing icon Country Joe
McDonald.
Give Me A Link
7/2/08
Beck streams new
tracks online. Beck is currently streaming two new tracks
from his forthcoming Danger
Mouse-produced
album 'Modern Guilt' online.
In addition to 'Chemtrails', which was released previously,
'Gamma Ray' and 'Orphans' are streaming from Beck's new
site, MySpace page and iLike.
Beck has also launched a new website for the album, which is
due out in the US July 8. Odelink
7/1/08
Musicians and music
fans with a medical condition can now practice safety in
style.
Lauren's Hope For A Cure have debuted their new Guitar
Pick Medical ID Necklaces, a line of stainless steel guitar
picks that can be custom engraved with up to three lines of
your personal medical information. These necklaces are
available in sterling silver or black tube, and can
potentially be life-saving for anyone with a serious health
condition.
7/1/08
Chesapeake man tells
tales on his collection of 250 guitars and is life long
infatuation with Zepplin.
His wife is going to kill him!
6/30/08
Philadelphia Phillies
Greg Dobbs dashed to the guitar-shaped box resting in
his locker at Tropicana Field.
Eager
to strum the newly purchased Fender acoustic, his first such
musical instrument, he didn't notice the package had already
been emptied of its contents. In '05, rookie thought
reliever Eddie Guardado had smashed his new instrument.
Guardado, a notorious practical joker who never missed a
chance to make someone suffer for the amusement of others,
especially a rookie.
Ball 1
6/30/08
Gibson Guitar is
proudly supporting one of the summers most high profile
concerts, the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration.
Gibson Guitar has customised a one off Gibson Les Paul
Studio guitar with the official concert artwork of
a
hand and Nelson Mandela's prison number 46664 emblazoned
across the guitars body.
The guitar
will be signed by the performing artists and presented to
Nelson Mandela. The Nelson Mandela 46664 concert takes place
at London's Hyde Park on the evening of Friday June 27.
Artists performing at the concert will include Amy
Winehouse, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds,
Leona Lewis, Joan Baez, Sugababes, Dame Shirley Bassey,
Razorlight as well as a dozen African artists including
Johnny Clegg, Papa Wemba and the Soweto Gospel Choir. Will
Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker and
Lewis Hamilton will also be in attendance.
6/30/08
John Lee delivers your
blues for a Friday
6/27/08
"Just as a blues player can play
20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one
different, ... I always want to find different ways to do
something" - Joe Satriani
How a Scottish guitar
maker became Steven Seagal's hero. Sean
Kelly became the special guest on the set of a new movie
starring Steven Seagal - after he designed a special
acoustic guitar commissioned by the Hollywood action
star.
Linked For Death
6/27/08
The Melvins' King Buzzo
Lays Down the Rules on Guitar Playing, 'Hot Topic' Punk,
and What You Ought to Know
About Music.
Kings, by definition, are leaders. So it's no surprise when
King Buzzo, a.k.a. guitarist-singer Buzz Osborne of punk
rock legends the Melvins, says, 'I strive to make music that
inspires other people to make music.'
ElLinktroRetard
6/27/08
A
world-class guitarist is
on tap Friday night at
Arcadia Blues Club when
Gary Hoey and his band
perform.
Hoey
has 13 instrumental
albums under his belt
and is set to release a
disc in August
showcasing his vocal
talents
along with his amazing
guitar playing.
The Boston native got a
break some years back
when metal giant Ozzy
Osbourne traveled to
Bean Town looking for a
guitarist. After hearing
Hoey' s tape, Osbourne
flew him to LA for an
audition.
Since then, he' s toured
with Brian May (Queen),
Ted Nugent, Foreigner,
Joe Satriani, The Doobie
Bros., Kenny Wayne
Shepard, Eric Johnson,
Steve Vai and Peter
Frampton. Nice work if
you can get it!
Besides his hard-rocking
credentials, Hoey wrote
the sound track for the
surf movie 'Endless
Summer II,' receiving
high fives from
surf-guitar
king Dick Dale. This is
a guitarist' s
guitarist.
Music
starts at 8 p.m. Friday
at Arcadia Blues Club,
16 E. Huntington Drive,
Arcadia ,Ca. Call (626)
447-9349
6/26/08
It is
easy to see why Derek Trucks was sitting in
with the Allman Bros. at 12 and then joining
as a semi-regular
tour
member at age 14. I can definitely
understand why Eric Clapton took him on tour
in 2006 and 2007. He is, in one word, a
prodigy.
He makes playing guitar look so
easy...nonchalantly finger-picking his way
through purposeful slide guitar melodies
and solos like it was his...um...job.
His band, the
Derek Trucks Band, played a private
gig for Rolling Stone a couple weeks back at
the Hard Rock Cafe Times Square. Read all
about it and see the pics at the
Live Music Blog
6/26/08
Get ready America, for
the historic 6000th concert of TED NUGENT's career: a
massive Friday, July 4 blowout
at
the outdoor DTE Energy Amphitheater in his hometown of
Detroit, Michigan. It's a highlight of the Summer of Ted
that includes his new CD, DVD, book and film.
'It is guaranteed to be the most emotional, sensual, grind
fest of what you've witnessed on the 'Rolling Thunder Tour'
so far--the highest level of energy from anybody, anywhere,
anytime,' says rock's legendary guitar frontman and
virtuoso, currently on his 50th tour that will take him
through September 27.
6/25/08
Before now, you might have thought
groupies were only to be enjoyed by the
lucky few sons-of-bitches
that
become rock stars. But when those
groupies become wives and girlfriends
(probably because they're the hottest),
sometimes they get pregnant. And
sometimes those babies turn into
super-hot chicks that get their picture
taken. That's where we come in.
Check out 'COED Presents: Sexiest Rock
Star Spawn'!
6/24/08
Legendary guitarist Joe
Satriani has posted the eighth in a series of weekly video
podcasts from the road.
Check
it out at this location.
Linkin' With The Alien
Satriani released his 13th solo album "Professor
Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock" on April 1.
"Professor Satchafunkilus" was produced through the creative
envisioning of Satriani and John Cuniberti; guiding the
musical talents of longtime drummer/percussionist Jeff
Campitelli and renowned bassist Matt Bissonette. A special
addition to the album's artist list is Joe's own son, ZZ
Satriani, playing the tenor sax.
6/24/08
Ernie Ball introduces
Titanium-Coated Slinky Electric Strings At
the 2008 Winter NAMM show, Ernie Ball/ Music Man introduced
its titanium-coated acoustic strings, for the first time
offering plain strings the same protection as wound strings.
Now, at the 2008 Summer NAMM show, Ernie Ball is introducing
its patented coated Titanium RPS technology to electric
strings, providing the same cure for problematic weakness
and breakage and offering strings that resist buildup and
provide a clear, crisp tone gig after gig.
Super Linky
6/24/08
Fourteen-year-old Akash
Gupta on Tuesday set a new world record by playing his
guitar
for 45 hours, Guinness World Records judge Ralph Hana said.
Akash began playing the instrument at the 162-year-old St.
Peter's College Sunday and broke American Brian Engelhart's
2005 record of 44 hours at about 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
6/24/08
At first glance, KISS
is a sad-looking bunch... a cadre of pudgy sixty year olds
squeezed into leather body suits, wheezing and panting. One
has a star painted on his face, while another has made
himself up to
look
like a sad kitty cat. But any doubts that KISS stands for
Knights in Satan's Service immediately evaporates when
Gene Simmons opens his jaw and unfurls the slavering,
gelatinous musculature of his wildly flailing tongue. This
is the salivating organ of Baphomet, grafted into a human
mouth. This is Satanism. This... is... ROCK!
KISS fans can now own a decapitated
replica of Gene Simmons head, as well as
his purplish, pulsating tongue. The Gene
Simmons LED bust features an 8" long
fiber-optic glass tongue that will
hallucinogenically flash in time with
Detroit Rock City. Not only an
excellent piece of tasteful decor for
any post-modernist luxury apartment, but
an excellent way to practice your french
kissing. Just remember to tightly
constrict your esophagus.
Thanks
Boing Boing 6/24/08
Wow. What a week. From
outdoor concerts at The Greek, Hollywood Bowl and The Getty
to the first
Sunset Strip Music Festival, this week is chock full of
concerts to see. Get your ass to the city country boy!.
LAist Link
6/23/08
amplifiers or trite reviews of "the latest gear", you
can get that everywhere else. What we do promise is tongue
in cheek humor, cool shit that you'll love to get your paws
on, as well as artist and gear reviews, industry drool and
our own thoughts on any and everything guitar and if you
have something to say or want to get off your chest for
Christsake
Hollywood.
Guitar
Students and Fans of Rock and Blues, Get Ready to Be
Inspired--Not to Mention Blown Away by One of Most Acclaimed
Blues/Rock Guitarists in the World!
I'd
like to start this off by saying one thing: IF YOU DON'T
LIKE GUITAR, IF YOU HAVE A FAMILY HISTORY OF CARDIAC
INFIRMITY, OR IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY OF A WEAK DISPOSITION,
today.
models
to give away, the Blonde Bluesmaster II six-string and the
Blonde King Blues bass.
American
guitar
legend Joe Satriani. The people of Waikaremoana fundraised
so local man Ling Paku could go to Taranaki to see Satriani
in concert. And the meeting with Satriani, who has been
nominated for 15 Grammy awards, breathed new life into Paku.
"He's royalty in the guitar world - he's number one."
Awwwww
7/21/08
enables
you not only to record songs on your own, but also to
collaborate with other musicians from around the world. The
software's collaborative features sound promising, too. Up
to four musicians can work on a song simultaneously, while
any tracks you record are automatically streamed to your
co-creators and will play in sync with the drums. Songs can
be saved on RiffWorld.com and then opened at a later date.
RiffWorks T4 can be downloaded now from the
Ashland
are getting a second life that happily has given
Lazy
ass, plastic
guitar
strumming,
Guitar Hero
posers will soon
be able to play
two of the
guitar
genius's most
widely-loved
songs: "Purple
Haze" and "The
Wind Cries Mary"
using a Jimi
Hendrix
character. 
20-year-old
Russian slut!
from
the Gibson guitar company themselves , it gives you a
little history and a little tour of the Gibson factory in
Tennessee. Took the tour myself last summer and was very
impressed.
world,
I have to wonder whose idea, exactly, it was to force Crow
to drag her six-string onto the field last night; the end
result wasn't so much "folk-rock patriot" than it was "is
this thing on? I still have to tune up." Check out the video
via idolator and redlazzo and God bless America. Oh yea and
Chevy too.
York.
Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree
criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in
the Syracuse area. They say they found Page and two women in
a nearby apartment, along with cocaine and marijuana.
7/17/08
and
enlisting some big-name talent for the launch.
Tenacious
D and the veteran band itself, delivering songs with all the
power and intelligence fans have come to know.
Modern
Music Masters
claimed
cops had to save David Lee Roth's life after he went into
anaphylactic shock from eating nuts. Diamond Dave says "I
was in Canada only from July first through the fourth for a
performance at the Quebec City Summer Festival. I had no
encounters or incidents with the police. The only thing I'm
allergic to is criticism." Go Dave!
7/11/08
his
contributions to the recent Grammy-wining album "Last of the
Great Mississippi Bluesmen -- Live in Dallas." He took home
a new Gibson Les Paul guitar, courtesy of the
manufacturer. Edwards tends to stick to the basics, playing
12-bar progressions in standard tuning and often in the key
of E. (He even plays bottleneck guitar in standard
tuning.) But like many country bluesmen, he's developed a
distinctive sound over the years. Many, many years you lil'
whippersnapper.
without
using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they've used two fancy new
technologies called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne
Lidar. To shoot it using lasers and stuff. The Geometric
Informatics scanning system employs structured light to
capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used
to render the performances of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the
female lead, and several partygoers. Hmmm Strange. We'll
post a copy as soon as it comes out.
7/11/08
The
two-time Grammy Award winner is a mere 66 and brings his
blend of Afro-Caribbean, Hawaiian, Pacific and Latin
elements to the headlining slot on the opening night of
Bluesfest London 2008. 
It's
a late-1950s orange Gretsch
guitar, the Chet Atkins
model. It was stolen in 1976
from a Toronto hotel room.
Bachman did manage to amass
the world's largest and
finest collection of Gretsch
electric guitars. That
treasure trove of roughly
375 instruments has now been
purchased the Gretsch
company for its museum in
Savannah, Ga.
Eager
to strum the newly purchased Fender acoustic, his first such
musical instrument, he didn't notice the package had already
been emptied of its contents. In '05, rookie thought
reliever Eddie Guardado had smashed his new instrument.
Guardado, a notorious practical joker who never missed a
chance to make someone suffer for the amusement of others,
especially a rookie.
a
hand and Nelson Mandela's prison number 46664 emblazoned
across the guitars body. 
Sean
Kelly became the special guest on the set of a new movie
starring Steven Seagal - after he designed a special
acoustic guitar commissioned by the Hollywood action
star.
Hoey
has 13 instrumental
albums under his belt
and is set to release a
disc in August
showcasing his vocal
talents
along with his amazing
guitar playing.
tour
member at age 14. I can definitely
understand why Eric Clapton took him on tour
in 2006 and 2007. He is, in one word, a
prodigy.
He makes playing guitar look so
easy...nonchalantly finger-picking his way
through purposeful slide guitar melodies
and solos like it was his...um...job.
at
the outdoor DTE Energy Amphitheater in his hometown of
Detroit, Michigan. It's a highlight of the Summer of Ted
that includes his new CD, DVD, book and film. 
that
become rock stars. But when those
groupies become wives and girlfriends
(probably because they're the hottest),
sometimes they get pregnant. And
sometimes those babies turn into
super-hot chicks that get their picture
taken. That's where we come in.
Check
it out at this location.
At
the 2008 Winter NAMM show, Ernie Ball/ Music Man introduced
its titanium-coated acoustic strings, for the first time
offering plain strings the same protection as wound strings.
Now, at the 2008 Summer NAMM show, Ernie Ball is introducing
its patented coated Titanium RPS technology to electric
strings, providing the same cure for problematic weakness
and breakage and offering strings that resist buildup and
provide a clear, crisp tone gig after gig.
