Posted in Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players on Jun 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Joe Satriani needs no introduction to guitar players. He’s one of the best instrumental rock guitarists on the planet, and has been a guitar instructor to many prominent guitar players, most notably Steve Vai and Kirk Hammet. Now you can add your name to this list, as Satch is now giving online guitar lessons at [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Rolling Stone magazine has complied a list of the stage faces made by famous guitar players which they call “The Field Guide to Guitar Jam Faces“. The have given each facial expression a name. For example, the expression by C.C. Deville on the right is my favorite, it’s called “The Falling Scaffold”.
Here’s the list [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Jun 5th, 2008 5 Comments »
This young guitarist is named Yuto Miyazawa. He is an 8 year old guitar player from Japan, and destined to be a guitar phenom.
It’s amusing watching him play a guitar that is bigger than he is.
Related Post: Complaints Get 8-Year-Old Guitarist Banned From Performing in Taverns
Posted in Guitar Hero, Guitar Players on May 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Ted Nugent confirmed in a recent interview on a Detroit radio station that he is currently involved in the making of a future Guitar Hero game. It sounds like he could be one of the game bosses for the next Guitar Hero game, like Slash is in Guitar Hero III.
Here’s what he had to [...]
Posted in Guitar Players on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
There is a recent interview with producer Rick Rubin on Johnny Cash at the Gibson Lifestyle site. Rubin has produced many hit rap and metal albums, but took a chance in the early 90’s by signing and producing for Johnny Cash. These albums with Johnny Cash are known as the American Recordings. The songs on [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Apr 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Guitar instructor Filippo Olivieri, aka SoloDallas, was featured here last month. He has a lot of instructional videos on YouTube on how to play various AC/DC songs.
He posted this new video of himself playing ‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)’ by the Foo Fighters. His playing style and energy is fun to [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Apr 19th, 2008 No Comments »
A movie called Shine a Light was released earlier this month. It’s a Rolling Stone’s concert movie, directed by Martin Scorsese. The movie has received some great reviews, and captures some amazing performances by the Stones during two shows in their 2006 tour. Some other performers make appearances in the movie, including White Stripes guitarist [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Mar 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
There have been rumors circulating, but now it’s being reported that Eddie Van Halen has checked himself back into rehab. If you saw this video of his horrible solo at the MGM Arena this past December, then you probably had your suspicions that Ed, a recovering alcoholic, was drinking again. Apparently, Ed checked himself into [...]
Posted in Guitar Players on Feb 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Andy McKee is an acoustic guitar player who’s videos are very popular on YouTube. Andy recently made an appearance on WMFO 91.5 FM radio in Boston. Here are some of the highlights from the interview:
On his early influences:
I started out with the electric guitar primarily and was into Metallica and Pantera and Dream Theater [...]
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, the [...]