Posted December 8, 2020 at 5:00 am | No comments
Guitarist Kevin M. Buck is back at it with a new album coming out, and a full transcription book, of classical music for rock guitarists. The album-book Classical Music for the Electric Guitar will be released February 11th, 2021.
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Posted December 1, 2020 at 10:55 am | No comments
Andy Timmons has staged 65 Livestream performance via StageIt since the global pandemic began earlier this year. This coming Saturday on December 5, he looks back on his 2011 album release Andy Timmons Band Plays Sgt. Pepper, revisiting the repertoire and presenting the programming with Side 1 airing at Noon Pacific, followed by Side 2 at 6:00 P.M. Pacific.
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Posted October 22, 2020 at 1:29 pm | No comments
PRS Guitars – Paul’s 85 are a special run of Private Stock guitars, personally spec’d by Paul Reed Smith and meticulously crafted by the Private Stock team. The instruments started with a special selection of wide-curl maple tops that Paul set aside. He also selected all of the other woods, assisted on the neck shapes of every guitar, spec’d the pickups
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Posted October 21, 2020 at 11:50 am | No comments
Mark Reis, a veteran of the music industry who has spent most of his career working for The Eagles and Joe Walsh, among other chart-topping artists is adding a new title to his long list of achievements – songwriter.
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Posted October 14, 2020 at 9:24 am | No comments
Yesterday marked the beginning of the world wide roll out of Jimmy Page: The Anthology, starting in UK bookstores. Next week, The Open Edition will be available in bookstores in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific, and in New Zealand in mid-November.
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Posted August 27, 2020 at 1:47 pm | No comments
Hot on the heels of the superb joint effort from William Shatner and Canned Heat comes a brand-new alliance that is sure to have music fans cheering. Former Rainbow and Deep Purple axeman, Ritchie Blackmore.
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Posted August 26, 2020 at 12:07 pm | No comments
Ricky Byrd chose the Sobering Times release date of September 25 as it’s also the 33rd anniversary of the day he started his sober journey. Having lived through the disease of addiction himself, Byrd has made it his mission to help others as a recovery coach and drug/alcohol counselor, who visits schools, rehab facilities, detention and detox centers to perform, talk, and lead recovery music groups. In fact, he gave away almost 2500 copies of Clean Getaway at these facilities, so clients could take the message of recovery home with them.
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Posted August 20, 2020 at 2:18 pm | No comments
Paul Reed Smith Guitars is a leading manufacturer of high-quality instruments in Stevensville, Maryland and has provided some of the world’s most renowned musicians with instruments since 1985. The PRS team of highly skilled craftspeople design and build a wide variety of musical instruments and gear
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Posted August 18, 2020 at 5:17 pm | No comments
The 35th Anniversary PRS SE Custom 24 was introduced back in October 2019. Only 3,500 of this limited edition guitar, offered in Black Gold Wrap Burst, were made. Now, PRS has a second color offering – Faded Blue Burst
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Posted July 31, 2020 at 2:24 pm | No comments
“I would hate to come out with something that’s not startling” Mick Jagger stated about the launch of the 1989/90 Steel Wheels Tour. The Rolling Stones delivered on that promise in this Atlantic City Convention Center tour stop in December ‘89.
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