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 Guitar Hero, News, Updates, Videos on Jan 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Activision has just announced that their much anticipated Guitar Hero Metallica video game will be released on March 29, 2009 for Xbox and PS3. Metallica is the second band to have their own Guitar Hero game; Aerosmith being the first. The game will include the following tracks, provided by FEARNet. All Nightmare Long Battery Creeping [...]
Posted in News on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The supergroup Chickenfoot, made up of Sammy Hagar, Joe Stariani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith , now has their own web site, located at www.chickenfoot.us. Right now, it’s just a single page with the option to subscribe to a mailing list. But it also has an audio clip of the band, who are now in [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News on Jan 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
On February 10, Magna Carta Records will release a compilation CD called “Guitars That Ate My Brain”, as reported on Blabbermouth. The album includes 12 instrumentals by some great metal shredders, including guitar players from Megadeth, Strapping Young Lad, Korn, Guns N’ Roses and Testament. The CD is described as…. A dozen mind-altering instrumentals from [...]
Posted in News, Videos on Dec 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
It’s official, the long awaited Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” is a flop. The album debuted at #3, selling only 261,000 copies in the US during its first week. There are various reasons the album has flopped and Axl Roses has gone AWOL, doing absolutely no promotion for the album he has worked on [...]
Posted in News, Videos on Dec 7th, 2008 6 Comments »
Legendary soloist and Chickenfoot guitarist Joe Satriani recently commented on his copyright lawsuit with Coldplay. From the papers filed on December 4, 2008, Satriani claims that the Grammy nominated Coldplay song “Viva La Vida” uses “substantial original portions” of his song “If I Could Fly” and is seeking any and all profits from the song. [...]
Posted in Guitar Hero, News on Nov 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yngwie Malmsteen recently gave his blessing to the Guitar Hero game. He attributes the game for creating a new interest in his music among young kids, who have been showing up to his shows, something that wasnt happening happening a few years ago. Here’s what he recently told the Artisan News Service: I was sitting [...]
Posted in Guitar Hero, News, Videos on Nov 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
A robot has recently proven that you don’t need soul to play Guitar Hero. A robot called “Cythbot”, developed by Cyth Systems, can play through Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” at Expert level with up to 98% accuracy. Here’s a video of the feat. Cythbot works a lot like Guitar Heronoid, a Guitar Hero playing [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News on Nov 15th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s time for Guitar World Readers Poll 2009. Among the categories to vote on are Best New Talent, Comeback of the Year, MVP of 2008, Best Riff, Best Rock Guitarist, Best Metal Guitarist, Best Shredder and who will be inducted into the Guitar World Hall of Fame. Last year, voters selected Dimebag Darrell to join [...]