Stevie Ray Vaughan: Exclusive Live Photos
Collection of never before seen pictures of Stevie Ray Vaughan performing live in New York 1983.
Collection of never before seen pictures of Stevie Ray Vaughan performing live in New York 1983.
Review of Badi Assad and Paulinho Garcia’s performance at the 2010 Chicago Guitar Festival.
This morning, hundreds of Paul Reed Smith Guitars enthusiasts checked in to the Experience PRS 2010 trade show before lining up to grab a hot breakfast, some OJ and a cup of Joe, before finding seats in the Main Event tent housing the stage with it’s PRS backdrop, and master of ceremonies Paul Reed Smith who welcomed the PRS distributors, dealers, guitar enthusiasts and music media folks.
Today, Matt Warnock, Editor, Guitar International and I focused most of our time on the operations and production side of the PRS guitar equation.
Almost by pure coincidence I found myself in Belo Horizonte, Brazil during the first week of August, 2010, just as the city’s annual Savassi Jazz Festival was fully under way.
During my week long course on jazz-guitar improvisation, I meet with the students for four hours each afternoon on the University’s newly built campus extension which houses the music department. The students came from a wide variety of backgrounds, and were at various levels in their musical development, but one thing that they all shared was an eagerness to learn and an enjoyment of all things guitar.
A seemingly insignificant event happened last weekend: two touring bands from the Bay Area played in the basement of the Double Door in Chicago to a measly crowd of about twenty people. To anyone not in the “Dirtroom,” this paltry concert might as well have not happened at all, and this truth is incredibly unfortunate.
On a cool, rainy fall evening in downtown Chicago, the kind of day that painfully reminds the city’s residents that the long, cold winter is fast approaching, the Paulinho Garcia Quartet featuring Art Davis took the stage at the Auditorium Theater and warmed the crowd with two breathtaking sets of Brazilian standards and arrangements of American jazz classics.
What do you get when you combine some of the top metal bands, booze, stage diving and partying outside on a broiling hot New Jersey summer day? Hell, it must be the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival. This festival, like the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, has two stages of live music and plenty of the same drunken craziness.
You are a guitarist in a successful rock band. You are planning to tour in support of your most recent record, which has sold more than a million copies. The tour will take you throughout most of the world. The following test will help you to spend on tour. Remember, your band is a platinum-selling act, and one of the most popular hard-rock bands around.
