Join legendary guitarist Nuno Bettencourt and DragonForce’s Herman Li as they talk music, guitars, touring with Rihanna and Steve Vai, and the new Extreme album. Nuno and Herman will also take viewer questions and jam together on guitar. As always with Herman Li’s livestreams, all tips and donations for this stream will go to Jason Becker to provide for his medical expenses.
Rock guitarist, Chris Waldrop, hails from the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area where he helps draw a crowd to hear the driving rhythms and guitar riffs of U2TOPIA, a band that pays tribute to one of most well-known bands on the planet, U2.
In 2020, Fiely was honored when two of his songs were recognized by the Songwriters’ Association of Washington (SAW) with two songwriting awards, a Finalist (“Kaweloaloha”) and an honorable mention (“No Greater Love”). Quite a feat, given there were over one-thousand entries into SAW’s annual songwriting competition.
“I want a sound that has never been heard before,” Les Paul famously remarked, and during his life he really delivered–as a creative guitarist who came up with fresh licks, chord sequences and fretting techniques that blew away his peers, and as the pioneering developer of the solid-body electric guitar and many recording innovations, including multi-tracking, tape delay, phasing and reverb.
November 24, 2021- U2’s The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin, Co-Founders of Music Rising, (musicrising.com) have announced Guitar Icons: A Musical Instrument Auction to Benefit Music Rising to take place December 11th, 2021, starting at 10:00 a.m. PST. Hosted by Van Eaton Galleries (vegalleries.com) in Los Angeles, the live and online auction will offer a significant collection of guitars and other music memorabilia
Born in Buenos Aires, Pablo began his guitar studies when he was 14 years old, focusing on hard rock and neoclassical metal styles. Later, he entered at The Academia E.F.I.M.U.S. (School of the Comprehensive Training of Musicians)…
Vanilla Fudge still rocks. Three of the four original members sound as good as they did back in the late ’60s. And not because I saw some Youtube video of them back in the day. I was up against the old Grande Ballroom stage in Detroit when I was a teen watching them and The Cream when they shared top billing.
With 34 previous releases, 13 Canadian JUNO wins, two Hall of Fame inductions, countless honorary Doctorates, Officer of The Order of Canada — and new inductee into Canada’s Walk of Fame this year — all spanning a 50+ year career
Legendary rock drummer, Carmine Appice, has joined forces with multi-instrumentalist and rising guitar star Fernando Perdomo to form The Appice Perdomo Project (aka APP), whose debut album ENERGY OVERLOAD was released September 24, 2021 on Cleopatra Records.
Restaurants, house concerts, outdoor events and other places where musicians are expected to perform are called “music venues,” or simply venues. Musicians are hired for pay or may be asked to play for free to support special needs, such as charity interests or to promote certain social projects.
