Next up at the Les Paul 100th Birthday celebration was Little Kids Rock, a student band from a music education program sponsored by the Les Paul Foundation. During the changeover, video interviews with Sammy Hagar, BB King and other artists were screened, attesting to Paul’s incredibly wide-ranging influence.
“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.
After an incredible run through the 1970s on A&M Records, Peter Frampton reemerged in 1986 on a new label, with a new album and single that found him back on the Billboard charts and radios across the world.
On the second leg of Billy Idol’s North American Tour for his latest CD release – Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy and his band blazed into Morristown New Jersey, on Friday 6/5 giving a passionate performance dripping with sweaty sexual energy.
With attendance hitting 10,000 at GearFest 2015, there was a long line of folks trying to get in to see Jeff “Skunk” Baxter present his seminar on music and to hear the Doobie brother play.
Walking about the grounds at the Sweetwater event called GearFest 2015 you hear music rolling out of the tents where exhibitors have hundreds of guitars staged for playing.
Today’s the BIG day at Sweetwater where GearFest 2015 crowds are expected to swamp the place, all checking out the music gear of nearly 400 vendors, meet some of their favorite recording artists, learn about audio techniques from world experts and just to be part of the largest private music gear show on the planet – that said, let me assure you that Sweetwater opens the event to the public.
Rain hit hard today at Sweetwater’s GearFest 2015 and umbrellas became the gear of the moment, until the bad weather passed and the crowds found their way back to the big white tents filled with musical instruments; audio equipment and a spot set-aside for vintage and “open box” stuff.
Morning broke early at Sweetwater where the gear company’s GearFest 2015 kicked off with a long line at the main door. Hundreds of visitors will enjoy new and innovative music equipment for about 400 vendors.
As the sun began to set, we walked through the back lot of Sweetwater to get a glimpse of what’s on-hand for tomorrow’s GearFest 2015, where thousands of musicians and music enthusiasts will converge to indulge themselves with a look at some of the world’s finest guitars, amplifiers, recording gear, drums, audio electronics, keyboards, special effects pedals, educational seminars, as they tour the Sweetwater campus.
