Posted in Fun Stuff, News on Nov 15th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s time for Guitar World Readers Poll 2009. Among the categories to vote on are Best New Talent, Comeback of the Year, MVP of 2008, Best Riff, Best Rock Guitarist, Best Metal Guitarist, Best Shredder and who will be inducted into the Guitar World Hall of Fame.
Last year, voters selected Dimebag Darrell to join Kirk [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff on Nov 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s time to participate in the voting process. Total Guitar, Europe’s Best-Selling Guitar Magazine is putting together their 2008 Readers Poll, which will appear in issue 183, due out on December 3. You can participate by casting your vote for the greatest solos of all time. Just list 5 of your favorite guitar solos, along [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Updates on Oct 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Guns N’ Roses has just released the title track off of their long awaited “Chinese Democracy” album, which has been in the making for over 10 years and has cost over 13 million dollars to make.
Here’s the new single:
You may recall from a previous post that soft drink maker Dr. Pepper offered a free [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News on Oct 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
Australian singer-songwriting musician Josh Pyke recently filmed a video in which he rides in a boat shaped like a guitar. The boat was custom built to the exact specifications of the Maton acoustic guitar that Josh performs with. I know of a house he may be interested in.
The video is for the song “Make [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players on Sep 22nd, 2008 6 Comments »
The Gibson Lifestyle site loves to make lists, and they have posted a recent list on the 8 fastest shredders in the world. Here is the list they came up with. The link goes to a video of each guitarist performing:
1. Yngwie Malmsteen
2. Michael Angelo Batio
3. Paul Gilbert
4. Buckethead
5. Herman Li and Sam Totman
6. [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Songs on Aug 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Gibson Lifestyle site recently put together a list of 10 TV theme songs that had guitars as their central instrument.
Here’s the list they came up with. Links go to a YouTube video of the song, and are followed by links to the tablature for the song.
Peter Gunn | Tab
Bonanza | Tab
That ’70s [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Uncategorized, Videos on Aug 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Air Guitar World Championships 2008 was held this past Friday in Oulu, Finland, and a new champion was crowned. The winner was Hot Lixx Hulahan (Craig Billmeier), winner of the 2008 US Finals. He takes the title of Air Guitar World Champion from reigning champion Ochi ‘Dainoji’ Yosuke of Japan.
Hot Lixx was seemed quite [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Videos on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I saw these videos on the Gibson web site recently, and thought I would share them here. They are two clips from the popular PBS show, Antiques Roadshow. If you’re not familiar with the program, people bring in their antiques to have them appraised by an expert. In these two videos, you can see two [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff on Jul 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
The popularity of Guitar Hero has brought a renaissance to the guitar solos of the 70’s. In response to this resurgence, the editors of Style.com have come up with a list of the 70’s Best Guitar Solos.
Here’s the list the came up with in no particular order. Links go to the editors comments, which contains [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Games, News, Software on Jul 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Gibson Guitars has joined the virtual world, creating a presence on Second Life. If you’re not familiar with Second Life, it is an Internet-based 3D virtual world and social networking site.
The Gibson virtual presence is called “Gibson Island” and it’s a virtual island that is shaped like a guitar, with humbucker mountains. There are [...]