GI at Steve Vai’s “Where the Wild Things Are” Premiere and Charity Event
Guitar International was invited to the premiere showing of Steve Vai’s new DVD release, Where the Wild Things Are and charity event.
Guitar International was invited to the premiere showing of Steve Vai’s new DVD release, Where the Wild Things Are and charity event.
As classical guitarists and guitar pedagogues, we have become used to lugging around a mountain of books with us everywhere we go. There is a book for scales, a book for arpeggios, a book for right hand technique and a book for the left.
One of the newest luthiers on the block is Mollenhauer Guitars based out of California’s high desert. With a focus on producing high-quality, low cost guitars, the guys at Mollenhauer are quickly making a name for themselves among players and collectors alike.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is special. That’s what I found out when I went to my first one in 1985. So special to me that I’ve been back every year since (okay, I missed one). It’s an immersion, an immersion in all things New Orleans and Louisiana; music, food, culture and fun.
From the early days in 1969, Ian Grandy worked with the band Rush and did what needed to be done to help keep things running smooth, until his departure in 1983. As the road crew grew, he settled into his role as front-of-house sound engineer, finally transitioning to the role of security chief shortly before leaving the organization.
As I walked out of the festival grounds the thought struck me that I’d just seen something special. I missed Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughn, the two blues musicians I would most like to have seen live, but I had now seen Kenny Wayne Shepherd in his prime. And it was a show I would remember.
I’d heard Kenny in 1996 at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium when he was 19 years old and remember thinking he was pretty good for a kid. But, this time he had matured as a guitar player and showman and I found him mesmerizing. Part of it was his appearance – in command of the stage and somewhat surly. Yet when he talked to the crowd he sounded polite and appreciative. With a white scarf wrapped around his neck he reminded me of a 1970’s guitar god. Kenny played four different Stratocasters, swapping them out every few songs. Maybe because he’s so partial to Strats, Fender named an Artist Series signature model after him!
Musician, entrepreneur, videographer, actor, biker, shooter and shark bait all define Billy Morrison who lives life at maximum velocity.
On the occasion of Klaus Voorman’s 70th birthday, C. F. Martin’s distributor of guitars in Germany (AMI), collaborated directly with the legendary bassist and graphic artist to create a Signature Edition of 14 special B-28KV acoustic basses. Loosely based upon the original B-40 Martin acoustic bass, the headstock of each instrument bears an individual and unique circular graphic , personally drawn by Klaus, and bound inside a glass-encased amulet.
Jimmy Herring, lead guitarist for Widespread Panic and The Jimmy Herring Band, considers himself fortunate to have worked alongside many of the musicians he’s respected and adored for years, and that includes situations in which he had to assume the duties of a few of the more esteemed guitarists in history.
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