Rock Interviews

The Masterful Guitarist and Entrepreneur Brian Tarquin Talks About His Music, Gear and Warriors

The Masterful Guitarist and Entrepreneur Brian Tarquin Talks About His Music, Gear and Warriors

Posted March 18, 2024 at 12:11 pm | No comments

And what’s even more impressive is Brian Tarquin’s altruism, given his support and contributions to veterans’ and other causes, and the music projects he’s driven to completion with his fellow collaborators, who include some of the world’s first flight musicians: Jean Luc Ponty, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford (Miles Davis), Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Dean Brown (David Sanborn), Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth), John Tropea (Billy Cobham), Steve Kindler (Jeff Beck), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) and Larry McCray (John Mayall), the late Phil Naro, and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.

Posted in: Blues Interviews, Industry Interviews, Industry Interviews, Instrumental Interviews, Interviews, Jazz Interviews, Legends Interviews, Metal Interviews, Recording Interviews, Rock, Rock Interviews, Uncategorized, World Music

Navarone Garibaldi Talks About Them Guns, Snakes and a Plane

Navarone Garibaldi Talks About Them Guns, Snakes and a Plane

Posted July 3, 2023 at 8:26 am | No comments

Guitar International caught up with Them Guns’ front man, Navarone Garibaldi, to talk about the group’s music, guitars, snakes and a plane. Although, brought up with the aura of celebrity, “Nav” has paid his dues playing dives, sitting alone grinding through the challenges of crafting melodies and lyrics that grip and crank up an audience’s need to rock and roll.

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Nashville Rocker Stacy Hogan Releases His New Single “Congratulations, You’re in a Cult”

Nashville Rocker Stacy Hogan Releases His New Single “Congratulations, You’re in a Cult”

Posted May 8, 2023 at 12:48 pm | No comments

Rocker – producer – award winning songwriter, Stacy Hogan, has been in the music entertainment business since he was a kid, at 12 banging away on the eighty-eights and getting out and about on tour with an adult country band. His new single, “Congratulations, You’re In A Cult” is a frenetic, blistering assault on demagogues and cults.

Posted in: Indie Rock Interviews, Industry Interviews, Interviews, Rock Interviews, Uncategorized

Clay Melton Talks About His Upcoming Single “Alive on a Wire,” And His Rockin’ Tour

Clay Melton Talks About His Upcoming Single “Alive on a Wire,” And His Rockin’ Tour

Posted April 3, 2023 at 5:14 am | No comments

Guitarist Clay Melton’s roots lie in the worked lands of Louisiana and Texas where traditional and rock blues grew with the making of the old Chitlin’ Circuit with the likes of BB King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, as well as newcomers, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Posted in: Blues Interviews, Indie Rock Interviews, Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized

Eric Johnson Interview: Austin, Strats and Standel Amps

Eric Johnson Interview: Austin, Strats and Standel Amps

Posted February 10, 2023 at 8:36 am | 6 comments

A stampede of both music legends and one hit wonders have risen from Austin’s music clubs and corner bars to reach national fame and stardom. This long list of pickers, singers and others includes Janis Joplin, the 13th Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Fred and His Playboy Band, as well as Texas blues brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, just to name a few.

Posted in: Blues, Blues Interviews, Guitar Hero Interviews, Instrumental Interviews, Interviews, Legends Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews

Debra Devi Kickin’ It Out With Jamification Station Volume 1

Debra Devi Kickin’ It Out With Jamification Station Volume 1

Posted October 7, 2022 at 11:10 am | No comments

Rocker, singer-songwriter, award winning author, music workshop leader and more, Debra Devi, hits all cylinders with her hi-test drive that’s made her talents highly sought after for on-stage performances and presentations. And her ASCAP award winning book, The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (foreword by Dr. John) is an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award winner, that has grabbed the attention and accolades of some of the best blues masters of our day.

Posted in: Blues Interviews, Indie Rock Interviews, Industry Interviews, Interviews, Prog-Rock Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized

Steve Earle – On The Road Talking Songwriting, Guitars and Gaelic Traditions

Steve Earle – On The Road Talking Songwriting, Guitars and Gaelic Traditions

Posted August 14, 2022 at 4:28 pm | No comments

Today, Steve Earle has earned his own icon status, not only by writing his own songs and performing to thousands, but by deep digging into the entangled roots of more contemporary music, studying the wherefore and why of musical traditions of songs and styles beyond American shores. Like the generation before him, his own journey is part of both a land mass of musical traditions, and a migration of his own songs for future generations.

Posted in: '80s Rock, Blues Interviews, Country, Country Interviews, Guitar Hero Interviews, Interviews, Legends Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized

Steve Vai Interview: Launching VaiTunes

Steve Vai Interview: Launching VaiTunes

Posted May 27, 2022 at 7:45 am | 4 comments

Steve Vai is a creative and innovative composer, guitarist and musician. Okay, that’s an obvious statement if I’ve ever written one. He’s changed the way people write within the instrumental guitar genre, his use of rhythm, effects and melodic development have helped to shape the modern guitar vocabulary and his Jem guitar series and Carvin amps have reshaped the custom gear market for the past 25 years. one

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Dick Wagner – Not Only Woman Bleed Interview

Dick Wagner – Not Only Woman Bleed Interview

Posted May 27, 2022 at 5:24 am | One comment

Dick Wagner’s songs and lead guitar have been featured on more than 200 renowned albums, garnering more than 35 Platinum and Gold records, BMI songwriter awards, Emmys, and numerous prestigious international awards.

Posted in: Classic Rock, Interviews, Legends Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized

Tom Guerra Talks About His New Album Sentimental Junk, and Getting It All Together

Tom Guerra Talks About His New Album Sentimental Junk, and Getting It All Together

Posted March 30, 2022 at 6:30 am | No comments

We caught up with Tom Guerra recently to talk about Sentimental Junk, the work involved and the creative juice needed to not only craft great songs, but to properly dress them with the right instrumentation, vocals that suit them and a collaboration between musicians, who are also friends, who help supercharge his songs into fun romps that hit on all cylinders, that offer up thoughtful meaningful lyrics, impressing them with his  own personal stamp.

Posted in: '80s Rock, Blues, Classic Rock, Indie Rock Interviews, Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized