While playing at a gig at the State Cinema in London, England, the legendary jazz guitarist, Django Rheinhardt (1910-1953), took the time to befriend an 18-year-old British lad just before the teenager joined the Army in 1940. Albert Offenbach served throughout the war as a radar man, keeping his Gibson guitar at his side until WW II ended.
Derek Sherinian is a keyboardist from the USA who was a member of Dream Theater from 1994 to 1999, is the founder of Planet X (with Virgil Donati on drums), and also one of the founders of Black Country Communion (with Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, and Jason Bonham) and the super band Sons of Apollo (Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Jeff Scott Soto, and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal).
Bass players might like this for a fuzz bass option. It does have the overall distortion character and flavour of the RAT pedal, but the lack of adjustability feels somewhat limiting.
Gaslighter is the latest album and first release under the group’s new name, The Chicks. At first listen, this album gave me a sense of nostalgia for the music I heard growing up in the rural American Midwest. The tracks that make up this album have a diverse range of energy, so no matter what mood you’re in, you can likely find something to bop to.
During the past decade, thousands of musicians have sold their instruments on eBay and have had to figure out the best way to ship the instrument to the buyer.
Leave it to author and guitar aficianado, Tony Bacon, to come up with a very cool book on vintage guitars with a 3D-ish orange and turquoise cover textured with a guitar sound hole and six string that readers can strum. One nice add would have been to embed some electronics so they were also a tuner, but then anyone who wants more from Tony’s tome might be considered greedy.
Released on the 26th of May 1967, The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was perhaps one of the most interesting pop/rock albums of the 21st century, due to its innovative approach. The album quickly became a hit, having topped the charts for 27 weeks in the U.K and 14 weeks in the U.S..
Released on December 8, 1976. Hotel California is one of the best rock and roll albums to date, becoming an instant hit on release day. With over 16 million copies sold in the US alone, Hotel California topped the billboard charts for eight weeks and hit no.2 in the U.K.. Songs such as “Hotel California”, “New Kid in Town”, “Life in The Fast Lane”, made the album a massive hit and made it stand out from their previous work.
When it was announced that the legendary Gregg Allman, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and guitarist of one of music’s most influential bands, the equally legendary, landmark, Allman Brothers Band, was penning his personal memoirs, I very much looked forward to reading the autobiography of one of music’s most gifted and iconic artists.
By: William Clark John Kay & Steppenwolf remain among the elite enduring forces in rock and roll. The iconic acid rock group broke out with their first two studio albums in 1968 – the self-titled ‘Steppenwolf,’ which spawned the psychedelic rock single “A Girl I Knew” and the mega hit cover of Mars Bonfire’s “Born […]
