Following last year’s stunning New Blood Live in London DVD, Blu-Ray and 3D Disc & New Blood studio album comes LIVE BLOOD, via Eagle Rock Entertainment, a newly remixed and re-mastered live 2-CD set recorded at London’s iconic Hammersmith Apollo on March 23rd last year. [Pre-book order date March 30 – MSRP $17.98]
Canadian guitarist and composer Alex Goodman has released three CDs as a leader. He completed his Bachelor of Jazz Performance degree at the University of Toronto, where he was honored as the first jazz musician to receive the William and Phyllis Waters graduating Award. The award goes to the student deemed to have the greatest potential to make an important contribution to the field of music.
Peavey’s Amp division is introducing the new Peavey® Triple X® II all-tube guitar amp head, is packed with lots of gain, power and exclusive tone-shapers designed to take guitar players from crystal clean tones to a satisfying crunch and everything in between. The Triple X II (sometimes written as Triple XXX II) amplifier specializes in versatility and modern high gain with three channels that put tonal flexibility at players’ fingertips.
The 84th Academy Awards® were held last night with the night being a sparkling celebration of Oscar® honoring and paying homage to the origins of cinema. The Artist, the French silent film honoring and paying tribute to the art, history, and craft of filmmaking, which depicts the early days of cinema in the late 1920’s on the advent of talking pictures replacing silent film, took home five golden statuettes among its staggering ten nominations, winning for Best Picture Thomas Langmann Producer, Best Director Michel Hazanavicius, Best Actor Jean Dujardin, and Best Costume Design Mark Bridges.
The Women And Cancer Fund was established in the memory of Linda McCartney and in the last four months it has had two varied, yet distinctive fundraising events: (1) Let Us In Nashville – the CD and live concert at the Ryman Auditorium – November 7, 2011 and (2) Guitar Master Class featuring Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora, guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel and former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber.
To say thanks to all his followers on Facebook, for supporting his online written and video lessons, this weekend Matt Warnock will be giving away 1 free sixty-minute one-on-one Skype lesson to a lucky follower of his Facebook teaching page. The lesson can be taken any time that fits their schedules, and can be split up into two 30-minute lessons if preferred.
REO Speedwagon, STYX and Ted Nugent will join forces for “The Midwest Rock ‘n Roll Express” 30-date U.S. tour. Rolling out May 1 in Hidalgo, TX, tickets for various cities will go on sale starting February 22.
PRS Guitars’ new Collection Series instruments, introduced in the fall of 2011, are built in small batches by the company’s Private Stock department. Each Collection Series consists of one electric and one acoustic guitar made with the most exacting methods and the most prized components in the company’s possession, including pernambuco necks and fingerboards (which are exclusive to the Collection program). For the second installment in PRS Guitars’ exclusive Collection Series, Paul Reed Smith and the Private Stock team worked with David Grissom, Tony McManus, and Martin Simpson to design two exceptional instruments.
Legacy Learning Systems, one of the world’s premier multimedia instructional course and technology companies, announced the Learn & Master Guitar Live artist in residence for March 13 2012 (7pm CST) as blues great Johnny Hiland.
Sirius XM will air a special world premiere of the new Guy Davis CD, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues, to be played in its entirety, with multiple airings on February 15,18 and 19 as part of a show that includes an exclusive interview with the acclaimed blues singer/songwriter.
