Posted February 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm | One comment
When we think of super-groups there is one name that rises to the top, Cream. Featuring the powerhouse trio of Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Slowhand himself, Eric Clapton, the band would dominate the hard-rock genre during the late ‘60s. While they have left an everlasting impression on future generations of fans and musicians, the band was to have only one Gold selling single in the U.S., the powerhouse hit, “Sunshine of Your Love.”
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Posted February 14, 2011 at 9:00 am | No comments
Nova Scotia experienced a bitter cold winter’s night on February 3, 2010, when Ann and Nancy Wilson showed up packing heat at the Metro Centre with the rest of their legendary rock band Heart. It was the group’s first landing in Halifax and the crowd was ready to rock.
Posted in: Classic Rock, Concert Reviews, Reviews
Posted February 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Released in 2005 on the album of the same name, “Are You Dead Yet” featured several firsts for Finnish Metal band Children of Bodom. The album was the first to feature guitarist Roope Latvala, who took over guitar duties from the departing Alexander Kuoppala. As well, it was the first album to feature Drop C tuning, whereas the band had used the more common Drop D tuning on previous releases.
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Posted February 13, 2011 at 10:00 am | No comments
In this lesson, I’m going to talk about triad arpeggios and show you a few practical uses that will help you incorporate them into your solos in an easy and efficient way. First, let’s define a triad arpeggio.
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Posted February 12, 2011 at 11:00 am | 2 comments
When recording his 1983 smash-hit record Reckless, Canadian singer and guitarist Bryan Adams and producer Jimmy Iovine almost cut one of the album’s most successful songs, “Heaven.” Adams felt that the song was too light for the record, which was more down home rock n roll, a thought that Iovine seconded before the two reconsidered, much to the delight of millions of fans, to include the song on the record.
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Posted February 12, 2011 at 9:00 am | One comment
Fender’s promotional efforts with respect to the limited-edition Crossroads Stratocaster (also known as the Antigua Strat or Sun Strat) and amp have been both generous and tasteful. In fact, the efforts have been tasteful to the extent that Fender’s said relatively little as to exactly what guitar a buyer is getting for the $30,000 Platinum Package, which includes Strat, amp, case and a variety of interesting collateral items, or the $20,000 Gold Package that includes the guitar and a similar array of value-added materials, preferring to place the emphasis on the underlying cause for which the gear is being offered – the Crossroads Centre.
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Posted February 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Taking influence from Bob Seger’s classic road song “Turn the Page,” Jon Bon Jovi set out to write a song that delved into the lives of both rock stars, and heroes from the Old West, who Jovi greatly admired, the singer sat down one morning and wrote one of the band’s most memorable songs, “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Released on the band’s 1986 smash hit record “Slippery When Wet,”
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Posted February 10, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
As the folk music scene grew out of Greenwich Village in New York and began to spread across the country, a single figure rose about the crowd to become the flag bearer of the movement, Bob Dylan. Well before he shocked people by “going electric,” Dylan won his fans over with softer songs, such as the iconic “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
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Posted February 10, 2011 at 10:00 am | 8 comments
While classical, jazz and now even rock music have all been “institutionalized” over the past century, working their way into university and college curriculum across the globe, there is as least one form of highly-improvised guitar playing that has, for the most part, shied away from these institutions, Flamenco. Possessing a raw energy and folk-like quality that has inspired some of the best guitarists in the world to immerse themselves in the genre, including Paco de Lucia and Adam del Monte, Flamenco has long been an art form that is handed down aurally from generation to generation, and at least up until now has remained that way, which most Flamenco players seem to prefer.
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
It’s telling that Blind Melon’s 1992 hit “No Rain” made both VH1’s “100 Greatest Videos of All Time” and the “100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders” lists. The song was a huge success for the band, launching them to international stardom, while at the same time identifying the band almost exclusively with the single and accompanying video,
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