Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Feb 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
Matt “Mojo” Tedder is an up and coming blues player, who’s a natural on the guitar and on stage. His influences include Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King. He is also just 12 years old. Mojo first discovered the guitar, literally, under a bed during a game of hide and seek when he was 8 [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Jan 24th, 2008 10 Comments »
This is a video of Eddie Van Halen performing a guitar solo at the MGM Arena in Las Vegas on December 30, 2007, posted today at Blabbermouth. At first, I honestly thought this was another StSanders parody video. How could this be Eddie Van Halen? He sounds horrible. These Van Halen tickets aren’t cheap. The [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Jan 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
This video is currently among the most watched today on YouTube. It’s a video that John Mayer posted on his YouTube channel of him playing the interlude of a Justin Timberlake song called ‘Lovestoned/I Think She Knows’. Mayer wrote “Heard this in the car today, wanted to try it out”. I had a greater appreciation [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players, News, Rock House on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Marc Rizzo, guitarist for Soulfy, solo artist and Rock House instructor, will be offering private guitar lessons from his hometown in New Jersey later this month. I’m accepting all levels of ability, from beginner to advanced. If you want to learn how to shred, flamenco finger picking or just your basic scales, contact me if [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
The most recent issue of Classic Rock magazine has an article called ‘Rock’s Sonic Architect’ that features comments from other artists giving honors to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. In this article, KISS guitarist Paul Stanley provided some very interesting comments on Page, including this eloquent statement: The great thing about somebody like Jimmy Page [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this video while looking for videos to use in the Dimebag Darrel Killed Three Years Ago Today post. His name is Marlon Pearson, but I couldn’t catch the name of the band he plays lead guitar in. He shows what he can do on a Dean ML with a Floyd Rose, the [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Dec 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
Legendary guitar player Tommy Emmanuel canceled the Australian leg of his tour after becoming seriously ill while performing in the Netherlands. He was to tour in his native Australia for nearly the entire month of January. Tommy released this statement on his web site: Dear Friends, I’m taking some time to get my body and [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Dec 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
It was three years ago today on December 8, 2004, that ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbot, lead guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan, was shot and killed while performing with Damageplan at a club in Columbus, Ohio. He was killed by a deranged fan, who took three other lives that night, before he was killed by a police [...]
Posted in Guitar Hero, Guitar Players on Dec 5th, 2007 3 Comments »
Slash took time out of his busy schedule to sit down for an interview with Switched.com. In the interview, Slash talks about his new book entitled ‘Slash‘, which discusses his years as guitar player for Guns ‘n’ Roses. He also talked about his appearance in the Guitar Hero III game, and about his use of [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players, Songs, Videos on Dec 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Goh Nakamura is a very talented song writer and guitar player from the San Francisco Bay Area. You may have seen the video to his song Embarcadero Blues on YouTube, where it’s been very popular. He describes the song as “a love song for San Francisco and anyone who works in the service industry”. Goh [...]