Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Aug 13th, 2009 1 Comment »
Les Paul died today; he was 94 years old. Les was much more than a guitar player. He was a tinkerer, inventor, innovator, visionary and legend. He is best known for inventing the solid body guitar that bears his name. But that’s not all, he also invented. multi-track recording and pioneered many recording innovations, such [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Jul 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
The World Series of Poker draws many celebrities, and this year, one of them was Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian. Scott competed in the World Series of Poker Main Event, taking place now in Las Vegas. Out of over 6,000 entrants, Scott finished in 637th place. Not bad! He will take home a prize of $21,365. [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Jun 21st, 2009 8 Comments »
The now sober Eddie Van Halen told told Spinner.com that sobriety has made it more difficult to play the guitar. It takes me a good hour to loosen up my fingers… after two and a half, three hours, you kind of get into a zone that I’m kind of relearning because I’m not drinking anymore. [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Updates, Videos on May 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
A while back, Guitar MX brought you the story of Yuto Miyazaw, an 8 year-old guitar prodigy from Japan. Yuto, now 9, recently made an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show and playe Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne. Here’s a video of his performance. The guitarist even got to meet Ozzy, his idol, on the [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Apr 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I stumbled upon this video today. It’s not new, but I thought it was a great idea. It’s a collaboration video by online guitarists from all over the world, shredding together. Some really great guitar players in this video!
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s a recently posted tribute video to Buckethead, created by JamPlay.com instructor Dennis Hodges playing Hog Stomp Bitch. You can find Dennis over at JamPlay.com.
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Mar 1st, 2009 3 Comments »
An Australian guitarist named Ian Haug, of the band Powderfinger, is currently suing a Brisbane casino for an alleged assault, which injured his wrist. The guitarist claims that the injury has affected his guitar playing, and he has to now re-learn the instrument. In response to this story, MusicRadar.com took a look at some injured [...]
Posted in Gear, Guitar Players, News, Videos on Feb 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
After 35 years of tinkering with guitars, and creating his famous “Frankenstein” guitar (Which let’s face it, is a piece of crap), Eddie Van Halen has designed an indestructible guitar called the EVH Wolfgang guitar. The guitar has the highest quality features, including stainless steel frets, double-potted custom-wound pickups, five-piece binding on the matching body [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Jan 30th, 2009 3 Comments »
Guitar World put together a list of the 50 Greatest Guitar Solos. Jim Hendrix made the list 4 times, so you know it’s not a bad list. Here they are, ranked from bottom to top. Links go to videos of each song. 50: “Shock Me” (Ace Frehley) 49: “Europa” (Carlos Santana) 48: “Sympathy for the [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Guitarist Ron Asheton of the Stooges was discovered dead today in his Detroit home. It’s believed that he died of a heart attack a few days ago. He was 60 years old. Ron wasn’t a technical guitarist and didn’t have much commercial success, but was very influential in punk and hard rock music. He was [...]