Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players on Dec 16th, 2008 8 Comments »
Tired of kissing up to rock’s best guitar players, Guitar World decided to come up with a list of the 100 Worst Guitar Solos. The list is made up of some great guitar players, caught at their worst moments on tape. Links go to videos of the songs. POISON: “Guitar Solo” GUITARIST: C.C. DeVille BLUE [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Nov 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Guitar World has recently published their list of the 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time. This list first appeared in the July 2008 print edition of Guitar World Magazine. The list covers a wide range of genres, from metal to rockabilly. Someone put these together in a series of videos. Here’s part 1. Here’s the [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Nov 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Queen guitarist Brian May had laid down some tracks back in 1999 for “Catcher N’ the Rye”, a song off of Guns N’ Roses new album “Chinese Democracy”. However, May is not credited in the liner notes of the album. It seems Axl Rose scrapped May’s tracks and had another guitarist rerecord it. This was [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Oct 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
Steve Vai is currently auctioning off a personal one-on-one guitar lesson on eBay. Yes, you can take a 1-hour guitar lesson from Steve Vai….for the right price. Here’s what one lucky winner will get: One lucky winner will receive a one hour private guitar lesson with Steve Vai at a date, time, and location to [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
“It Might Get Loud” is a new documentary film which tells the stories of three guitar virtuosos from three generations. The guitarists are Led Zeppelins’ Jimmy Page, U2s’ The Edge and Jack White of the White Stripes. Each guitarist talks about their beginnings, why they picked up the guitar, their influences and how they developed [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Aug 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
It’s always inspiring to learn about young musical talent. Here’s a 14 year old guitarist who plays bass, piano, drums and also sings. In this recently posted video, this one-kid-band performs an amazing remake of Love Potion No. 9. If you like this video, check out the videos of him performing the vocal track, drum [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Aug 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
In a recently posted Fly on the Wall video posted at the MissionMetallica site, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett says that his solos off of their new album sound like those of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young. The guitar sound is a little bit more aggro. It’s less creamy and my playing is way different from previous [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Aug 12th, 2008 4 Comments »
Tallan “T-Man” Latz is blues guitarist who has something to be blue about. T-Man is just 8-years-old and a prodigious blues guitarist. He has performed at the House of Blues in Chicago and live with Jackson Brown. But some recent complaints to Wisconsin state officials, perhaps from older jealous musicians, have ended his days of [...]
Posted in Guitar Players on Jul 21st, 2008 6 Comments »
I saw this video over at Guitar Flame. It’s a video of a Brazilian guitarist named Tiago Della Vega playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” progressively faster, all the way up to 320 bpm. Taigo is being called the Fastest Guitar Player in the World. Is it even possible to play faster than this? You can [...]