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The Cult of Tone
Premier Guitar Current Issue &bull Yesterday
My father, a devout Catholic, is privately an apostle of baseball. He and I have taken several pilgrimages to the holy land-Yankee Stadium-to partake in the communion of beer and hot dogs. There are disciples of Star Trek, upholders of the Jedi way, those committed to Amway or Mary Kay, and… Full Story »
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The Back of the Room
Premier Guitar Current Issue &bull Yesterday
The phone rings. You answer without looking at your caller ID. You know who it is within the first word spoken. Or, you call a friend. Someone else answers their phone. You're immediately confused, knowing that something sounds different. Sometimes, the recognition comes from the things that are said, their verbal licks, if you will. Most of the time, it's simply the sound of the familiar voice. There have been a handful of guitarists across the musical spectrum possessing a similar unmistakable identity in their playing: Jimi Hendrix,… Full Story »
Daisy Rock Guitar Strap, Pink Skulls
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Studio Preparation: What You Should Know Before You Go
Premier Guitar Current Issue &bull Yesterday
The tracking room at Michael Wagener's WireWorld Studio. What makes a hit record? It is a perennial question, but it has also become one that must be asked on a playing field now leveled by downloads, ringtones and social networking. But before you invest in studio time and a producer, you need… Full Story »
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Recording at Home
Premier Guitar Current Issue &bull Yesterday
When you record, do you find yourself asking time and again, "Why does my tone sound so thin on playback when it sounded perfectly good out of the amp?" It's an ongoing challenge for guitarists to try and track their tone. A few months back, I talked a little about some of the techniques I used to mic and record my guitars on my Cottage City Firehouse CD. This month we'll reach deeper into the fire as I share some bits that… Full Story »
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Bob Moog Foundation to raffle one of Lou Reed's Moog Guitars
GuitarSite.com &bull Mar 9, 2010
The Bob Moog Foundation announces an once in a lifetime raffle opportunity to begin Tuesday March 9, 2010 at 12pm (EST). The Foundation will be selling $5 raffle tickets for a chance to win one of Lou Reed's Moog Guitars.… Full Story »
Daisy Rock Pixie Acoustic Guitar Starter Pack
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Peter Frampton and YES Tour this Summer
News From Vintage Guitar &bull Mar 6, 2010Two of the most influential and ground-breaking artists of the 1970s-YES and Peter Frampton-are reuniting for a twenty-five city national co-headline summer tour, which kicks-off in early June and runs through the middle of July. The two performed stadium shows together in 1976,… Full Story »
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Music Arcades: Leo Kottke: Greenhouse
Music Arcades &bull Feb 20, 2010This is another of the records I got from Record Collector in 2007 (mentioned previously). This was an act of faux nostalgia, for, 20 years earlier when I first shopped at Record Collector, I didn't want records, I wanted CDs… Full Story »
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Tau's Avenged Sevenfold. Or the abbreviation A7X. Well I'm posting ...
-=THE NEWS=- &bull Feb 20, 2010Tau's Avenged Sevenfold.Or the abbreviation A7X.Well I'm posting this time will discuss the A7X.Avenged Sevenfold is a band flow consisting of heavy metal hottie guy.Kata temen gue, Arvan, a name taken from Avenged Sevenfold Zacky story, the guitarist whose parents were killed by… Full Story »
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23rd Banbury Blues & Guitar Festival the Mill Arts Centre ...
CHC in Brief &bull Feb 20, 2010The 23rd Banbury Blues and Guitar Festival will take place March 6th at the Mill Arts Center, Banbury, England. Featuring top UK based solo performers Jim Crawford, Tony Doughty, Roger Hubbard, Robin Chandler and The Howling Tom Cats, Sam Kelly?s Primo Blues and The Hamilton Loomis Band (USA). The Miller?s Bar performances include Jack Blackman, Paul Conley and Tony Stokes, Bex Marshall and Mellow Peaches. The Long Room offer a wide range of acoustic music including Roland Chadwick, Nik Linnik, Paul McKee, Sophie Henderson, Chris Brown and Darcy O?Mara. Tom has established himself as… Full Story »
Daisy Rock 20ft Guitar Cable
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Queensryche Biography
Rock Music &bull Feb 20, 2010Although they were initially grouped with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s, Queensrche were one of the most distinctive bands of the era. Where their contemporaries built on the legacy of Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Kiss, Queensrche constructed a progressive form of heavy metal that drew equally from the guitar pyrotechnics of post-Van Halen metal and '70s art rock, most notably Pink Floyd and Queen. After releasing a handful of ignored albums, the band began to break… Full Story »
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Our Time in Eden
Link Exchange Link &bull Feb 20, 2010Amazon.com essential recordingThe last album the band recorded before lead singer Natalie Merchant departed for a solo career, Our Time in Eden is the actualization of an unassuming college folk-rock band turned adult-contemporary group in the best possible way. Merchants lullaby voice is more pure and confident than ever before. And although the music is still dominated by chiming rhythm guitar, the band incorporates an emphatic horn section on several tracks (most notably on CandyMore >> 10,000 Maniacs (with Natalie Merchant) made some of the most unique music of their time, that never achieved a great deal of commercial successnot… Full Story »
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(faved) Kostas Grigoreas Plays Kyriakos Tzortzinakis
PayPlay.FM — Customer Favorites &bull Feb 20, 2010In a brief lifetime (Athens, 16 June 1950?Athens 22 October 1989), our friend Kyriakos Tzortzinakis made a significant contribution to the guitar and to contemporary Greek music in general. The present selection of his music for the guitar, compiled by his friend, fellow-musician and collaborator Kostas Grigoreas, besides being a welcome tribute, is also original in its conception and execution: the first recording (1985) of the composer-guitarist?s works, Works of Greek Composers for Guitar: Kyriakos Tzortzinakis (MOTIVO NM1023), forms the core of this new release. All the works were performed by Kostas Grigoreas, with one exception, the piece entitled Without… Full Story »
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Great Guitar Solo
Blonde Network &bull Feb 20, 2010www.ultimateguitarschool.com FREE Guitar Lessons! Discover how to play 4 Non Blondes Linda Perrys Fill Me Up Guitar Solo and other amazing guitar solos for FREE at Ultimate Guitar School. Access the 4 Non Blondes Linda Perrys video lessons and tricks… Full Story »
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The Damned, The Alarm, Henry Cluney review
Band Weblogs &bull Feb 20, 2010We arrive at the Oxford Academy and aim for the box office, but as we are fumbling around for money I spot this grey haired Irish chap offering us two tickets he had bought from the internet. So we buy them off him for much cheaper than the venue's price, and proceed into the building.… Full Story »
Daisy Rock Guitar Case
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The Bluegrass Blog Instrumental Artwork: News at the speed of ...
The Bluegrass Blog &bull Feb 20, 2010Larry Robinson is one of the finest artists in the music business. And by artist I mean he decorates guitars and banjos, among other things, with intricate and beautiful inlays. Robinson has been in the business since the early 1970s… Full Story »
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bluegrass education
BLUEGRASS BOOGIE &bull Feb 20, 2010A CD set is a precious collection of music, videos or films that are one of its kind. When you lay your hands on the popular CD set, what you have with you is collection which you would compromise for no other thing. CD sets are available in a wide assortment and are very much popular compared to the conventional LP players, which seem to be obsolete, and Medias like cassettes. The quality of a CD, its cost and storage capacity are the attributes that have made it incredibly popular. Of the wide assortments of titles,… Full Story »
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'Free Forever' DVD Due March 23, 2010
We Will Rock You &bull Feb 20, 2010New York, NY (February 16, 2010)?Bringing forth a mighty brand of blues-rock in the early 1970s, Free was a critical piece of foundation in hard rock?s roots. Featuring the powerhouse combination of a young Paul Rodgers? gravelly vocals, Simon Kirke?s… Full Story »
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Bad Company: Hard Rock Live (2010)
Rock The Day! &bull Feb 20, 2010A great-looking, great-sounding document of what was to be thought, at the time, as Bad Companys one-time reunion with all three surviving members, Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke. Rodgers, as seen and heard on his solo Live in… Full Story »
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Hearts & Minds BookNotes: new Bruce Cockburn-Speechless
Hearts & Minds BookNotes &bull Feb 20, 2010My lovely wife Beth and I own and operate--proprietors makes us sound more classy than we really are--a cluttered, diverse and independent bookstore in Central Pennsylvania. I do a monthly book review column over at our website; we hope that these new blogged bits will afford friends and customers the chance to see other books I happen to be reading, wishing to read, pretending that I read or at least believe that others should, if not read, know about. We have three children, attend a Presbyterian church in York, PA and have no hobbies. Aw right, I've been wanting… Full Story »
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Time Will Show the Wiser
Portland Mercury &bull Feb 20, 2010LAST YEAR, A FOUR-DISC collection of Richard Thompson's music was released. Walking on a Wire (1968-2009) commences with Thompson's first recordings with legendary English folk-rock band Fairport Convention, moves through the records he made with wife Linda Thompson in the '70s and early '80s, and concludes with a generous helping of selections from his solo albums in the… Full Story »
