Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, Videos on Mar 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
I don’t know why anyone would want to do this, but it’s an interesting idea. It’s a video on how to play Guitar Hero using an acoustic guitar.
Posted in Fun Stuff on Mar 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I was browsing through the iGoogle themes the other day, trying to find a new theme to use, and found this one. It’s a guitar related theme called ‘Indie Rock, volume 1′, developed by Chadwick Ridings. The theme has four cool guitar scenes which change throughout the day. It’s a very clean design. You can [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Videos on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This video was brought to my attention by a Guitar MX reader. It shows a hand operated guitar string winding machine. The manual string winder in this video is one of nine built and used by Professor String, an engineer and musician who “leads a development group that specializes in guitar and bass string research [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Updates on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
A Minneapolis artist created this composite art piece using photos of three legendary guitars, taken this past weekend at the Guitar Centers’ Legends Collection display near St. Paul, Minnesota. The event was a rare public display of four of the most legendary electric guitars. The photo is a composite of Eric Clapton’s famous ‘335’ and [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players on Feb 21st, 2008 9 Comments »
Gigwise.com recently polled their staff and had them come up with a list of the top 50 Guitarists Guitarists…Ever! These kinds of list are simply opinions and are fun to read, but I don’t recall seeing a list that needed more rearranging and had so many glaring omissions. Here’s the list they came up with, [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Updates, Videos on Feb 9th, 2008 No Comments »
There has been an update to the story of the ‘Shred’ videos being removed from YouTube recently. According to Wired, the videos were indeed removed due to copyright complaints; three of them in fact. As mentioned here earlier this week, these are parody videos, and are therefore not bound by US copyright law. But that [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Gear, Videos on Jan 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
HotPicksUSA, makers of those cool skull and zombie shaped guitar picks, will be releasing a new guitar called the Alchemy Gothic Omega Skull Guitar. Like their guitar picks, the body of the guitar is shaped like a skull. The guitar premiered at the Winter NAMM 200 Show this past weekend. Here’s a video of the [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Updates, Videos on Jan 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
The results of the Guitar World Readers Poll 2008 are in, and are published in the March edition of Guitar World, which is available now. Dimebag Darrel was easily voted into the Guitar World Hall of Fame, and is featured in this special edition of Guitar World. Here is a list of some of the [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Gear, Guitar Hero, News, Software, Videos on Jan 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) finished this past Friday in Las Vegas. CES is an annual trade show, not open to the public, which showcases new consumer electronic products. This years CES featured some cool and fun products for guitar players. Here’s some of the highlights: eJamming is recording software that uses peer-to-peer technology [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, Videos on Jan 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s an amusing video from Bill Gates’ final speech at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas this past weekend. In the second half of the video, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach challenges Gates to a Guitar Hero III duel. Needing help against the competitive Gates, Bach calls on Guitar Heroine [...]