Jeff Beck, gifted the crowd at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia with a full spectrum performance, weaving together a fine blend of classic rock, funk, opera, and a stirring show tune, all wrapped in soulful and superbly nuanced expression.
All 2,362 seats at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium were sold out in minutes after tickets had gone on sale for Music Saves Mountains.
Having a working knowledge and understanding of the guitar fretboard is absolutely essential if you want to be able to solo, improvise, or compose on the guitar. Learning riffs and licks to your favorite pop songs can only take you so far. You might know how to play these from tab or even by ear, but do you really know what you are playing and how it all connects together?
by Saiichi I have always been a Gibson electric man since 1974 except for a few years in the early ’90s when I got into Clapton model Strats. My first electric was a 1961 Junior and my trusty Les Paul has been my main guitar for a dozen years. I don’t go shopping for guitars […]
Guitarist Bill Frisell and his trio were framed in red curtains and white spotlights on stage at the Barns, the winter haven for artists who perform at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia.
Composer, guitarist and record label owner, Steve Vai will soon celebrate his birthday on June 6 and he’ll have more than a birthday cake to light up the festivities.
This is the 3rd opportunity that I have had to review Stryker and Slagle. I always look forward to hearing them and am never disappointed. This is a band that has much to offer.
Ralf Krebs is based in Berlin, Germany. He began his musical career by studying Latin percussion and drumming.
This is my first exposure to guitarist Alex Machacek. He was born in 1972 and raised in Vienna, Austria.
Solidbodies: The 50 Year Guitar War is an entertaining and enlightening new DVD by Lightning Lab Productions that offers a captivating look into the history of the two most significant solidbody guitars in history: the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. For over fifty years, Fender and Gibson guitars have dominated the electric guitar market. Despite the hundreds of other guitar builders trying to better the mousetrap, the Stratocaster and Les Paul have continued to dominate the global marketplace.
