Posted November 30, 2011 at 1:15 pm | No comments
I love testing distortion pedals just as a wine aficionado loves collecting and tasting wines. I feel that there is a place and song for every distortion pedal. I enjoy the simplicity of a good stomp box in a world of digital rack mounted clutter and complication. I don’t have the time nor want to read a one hundred page manual to figure out how to program a unit. I want to plug my guitar into a box, step on it, and be blown away. That is exactly what happened when I hit the gas on The PolySaturator by Pigtronix.
Posted in: Gear Reviews, Guitar News, Reviews
Posted November 30, 2011 at 12:21 pm | One comment
In this guest lesson by master guitarist Morten Faerestrand, you will be checking out a sweep lick from Steve Vai’s classic song “For the Love of God.” Not only does Morten teach you how to play the lick across the neck of the guitar, but he also shows you how to take this idea and run it through your guitar solos in an improvisational manner
Posted in: Guitar Lessons, Rock Guitar Lessons
Posted November 28, 2011 at 1:47 pm | No comments
With a career that spans five decades and multiple genres, it’s no surprise that guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is respected by players and music fans the world over. His unique finger style technique of playing with all ten fingers has dazzled and amazed even legends, so much so that Emmanuel was presented with the “Certified Guitar Player Award” by the great Chet Atkins, an honor earned by only four other guitarists before Atkins’ death in 2001.
Posted in: Interviews, Jazz Interviews
Posted November 27, 2011 at 2:48 pm | One comment
Boston jazz artist Gerry Beaudoin has distinguished himself in many ways the past several decades. He has been a mainstay in jazz clubs of Boston and New York City. Beaudoin is also well respected as a teacher, which is one of the most admirable parts of his career. He is making sure that a new generation of jazz guitarists understands the roots of where we are today. Explaining and demonstrating the form and complexity of playing through advanced chord changes is a true gift, and one that needs to be shared freely.
Posted in: Guitar News, Jazz Reviews, Reviews
Posted November 26, 2011 at 5:46 pm | 2 comments
The “For Dummies” series has been around for as long as I can remember, and while I know a few people who got a lot out of their books in the information technology field, I never had any personal experience with them before I picked up guitar playing. Like a lot of people, I was slightly put off by the title, and even more so by the idea of toting the book around with the only-too-recognizable “For Dummies” on the cover, but out of curiosity and my liking for simplicity, I invested in Rock Guitar for Dummies.
Posted in: Book Reviews, Guitar News, Reviews
Posted November 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm | One comment
From the stage of the sold out Izod Center in New Jersey, Rob Halford told the crowd that Judas Priest were playing tonight in front of 7,000 Metal Maniacs! No truer words could have been spoken.
Posted in: Concert Reviews, Guitar News, Metal News, Metal Reviews, Reviews
Posted November 22, 2011 at 1:39 pm | No comments
Check out this video of Vince Neil and Bruce Kulick performing Brownsville Station’s “Smokin’ in the Boys Room,” The Doors’ “Hello, I Love You,” and Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” at the New York Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp!
Posted in: Guitar Events, Guitar News
Posted November 22, 2011 at 12:39 pm | No comments
According to Mark Pucci Meida, hot off the signing of seminal American roots music bands, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and The Nighthawks, Severn Records has announced the signing of Larry “Mud” Morganfield, son of the legendary Muddy Waters, and will release his label debut CD, Son of the Seventh Son, in early 2012.
Posted in: Blues News, Guitar News
Posted November 21, 2011 at 11:20 am | 2 comments
Legendary bass player Jack Casady has fired up his bass guitar on stages with the likes of Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Jimi Hendrix, Warren Zevon, John Lee Hooker, Rusted Root, John Lee Hooker, members of The Grateful Dead, Gov’t Mule and Crosby, Stills, Nash& Young. Working with Jorma Kaukonen, Grace Slick and the rest of the crew of Jefferson Airplane, Casady laid down bass lines for such monumental songs as “White Rabbit”, “Volunteers” and “Somebody to Love.”
Posted in: Interviews, Jam Band Interviews
Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:48 am | No comments
Real Gone Music, the new indie label headed by reissue gurus Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana will roll out a never-before-released Glen Campbell live album, Bill Medley’s post-Righteous Brothers solo albums for MGM, a 1975 album by Maggie & Terre Roche of the Roches, a retrospective of country singer Jody Miller’s Epic Records years and two new Dick’s Picks volumes from the Grateful Dead for their January 2012 lineup of reissues. According to a press release, the January releases will also feature, as part of the label’s ongoing partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., The Tymes’ So Much in Love and the complete Cameo recordings of stratospheric jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson.
Posted in: Country News, Guitar News, Jazz News, Rock News
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