Guitar International hit the Internet September 2009, with a rich array of news and information licensed from Modern Guitars Magazine, LLC, a company established in the Commonwealth of Virginia by Rick Landers as a sole proprietorship over four years ago and structured as a Limited Liability Company in 2009. Guitar International is a subsidiary of Modern Guitars Magazine, LLC.
Guitar International is pleased to continue relationships with our columnists and contributors and looks forward to soon be adding several more professionals, who we will soon announce as new Guitar International associates and advisors.
Guitar International currently includes the following Sections:
- Features – provides highlighted news and information
- Publisher’s Notes – Rants, raves, ruminations and some background on what’s happening at GI from our Publisher.
- Interviews – offers celebrity and music industry interviews
- News – presents updated news of interest to guitar and music enthusiasts
- Press Releases – the latest information from the Music Industry
- Reviews – helps introduce new CDs, DVDs, books and other new media to our readers
- Contests – CDs, DVDs, posters, guitars and other contests or giveaways to Guitar International readers
- Columns – offers an array of information from news and information written by our top-notch columnists from the music industry
- The Good Life – a life style arena for guitar and music enthusiasts
- Archives – All past articles, interviews and other news and information
- MORE ON THE WAY – Our GI team is working on several new features that we will soon add to Guitar International.
Rick Landers, publisher, Guitar International
The gateway to Guitar International will be our “Splash Track” page with music by some great musicians, including ”Bloom” by our first “Splash Track” artist, the phenomenal tone-master himself, Eric Johnson. The tracks will change periodically and we’ll also use our text stream to keep you updated on the highlights at Guitar International. We don’t particularly like entry splash pages after the first viewing, so we decided we wanted ours to entertain and inform…so, there you go. Please LINK to our Splash Track page or our Home Page….C’mon back and give us a listen and a read!
Guitar International will share a portion of its revenue with Musequality, a U.K. based charity formed in 2007 by violinist David Juritz. David is the leader of the London Mozart Players and was the lead violinist on the soundtrack of the film The Last King of Scotland. With a successful career and internationally acclaimed, he had an “I must do something more” mid-life crisis moment as he approached his 50th birthday. He decided to fulfill his ambition to busk round the world … for charity.
Searching for charities to support, he felt very strongly that none was quite right. As he wanted specifically to help teachers set up music projects for the poorest children in the developing world, he decided to establish Musequality in 2007.
We strongly encourage our readers to visit the Musequality website and contribute to this very noteworthy cause.
Guitar International is hosted by a “green” host server company that is supported by wind power generation out of Texas. We are continuing to seek ways where GI can reduce its carbon footprint and will benchmark for “best in class” websites that promote the use of low impact technologies and environmentally responsible actions.
Publisher – Rick Landers
Location: Reston, Virginia, USA
Tele: 703-860-2442
E-mail: rlandersmg@gmail.com
Board of Advisors
Web Design: YourTechie, LLC
Advertising Manager: Rick Baamonde
Contributing Editors:
- Skip Daly
- Brian D. Holland (Columnist)
- Lynn Margolis
- Billy Morrison (Columnist)
- Rob Marlin
- Jesse Stern
- Dr. Matt Warnock (Columnist)
Columnists:
- Matt Baamonde – Bazaar
- Tish Ciravolo – Women Rock!
- Frank De Fina – Signature Riffs
- Steve Herberman – Jazz Scope
- Brian D. Holland – Reviews
- Vince Lewis – Jazz Reviews
- Matthew Mills – Guitar Shredding
- Billy Morrison -Sunset & Vine
- Ronny North – PSYKO Guitar
- Nick Sterling – On Axis
- Dr. Matt Warnock – Modern Guitarist
- Peter Wolf – Industry Views
Contributors:
- Richard Aaron (Photography)
- Mike Davis (Mike Davis Photography)
- Jorg Kliewe (Photojournalist)
- Robert Knight (Robert Knight Photography)
- Joe Matera (Journalist)
- Rick Messock (Journalist)
- Brent Peters (Brent Peters Photography)
- Joseph A. Rosen (J.A. Rosen Photography)
- Steven Rosen (Journalist)
- Mike Shea (Crosscut Saw Photography)
- Michael G. Stewart (MGS Imaging Solutions)
- W.A. Williams (The Reverend Billy Rose!!!)
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