May 16, 2012 Slash Prefers To Noodle In Private
Slash has joked he''s a "very private noodler" when it comes to experimenting with his guitar. The former lead guitarist of Guns N'' Roses is famed for his impressive instrumental abilities. However, Slash isn''t satisfied with his skills and regularly uses his down time to improve.
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May 15, 2012 Next Chapter For "United Breaks Guitar"
It's been three years since Dave Carroll had his guitar smashed by United Airlines. Now, the much-told story has a new chapter.
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May 15, 2012 A Guitar Solo Record?
Austin guitarist David Didonato is livestreaming his attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records streak for the longest guitar solo of all time.
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May 10, 2012 The Cigar Box Guitar Maker
For the past several years, Jagitsch has been making cigar box guitars in his laundry room. He explains, "I had no woodworking experience whatsoever so I didn't have a clue what tools I would need, I just thought 'there's a box, there's a neck, I can put the two together and maybe sound decent.'"
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May 10, 2012 Grrls Made Guitars
What most people don’t know — and Gibson apparently hid from the public — is that rather than halt production of guitars during the war years, it quietly recruited women to continue building them, and that almost all of the Banner Gibsons were made, apparently secretly, by women.
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May 9, 2012 Toward A Greener Tour...And Guitar
On Tuesday, a House Natural Resources subcommittee held a hearing on two bills that would repeal portions of the Lacey Act. While the law is a century old, the bills mainly challenge amendments passed in 2008 that made it illegal to import wood into the United States that was unlawfully exported under another country’s laws.
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May 8, 2012 How Sears Helped Birth The Blues
Delta blues is as much legend as it is music. In the popular telling, blues articulated the hopelessness and poverty of an isolated, oppressed people through music that was disconnected from popular trends and technological advances. Delta blues giants like Robert Johnson were victims, buffeted by the winds of racism, singing out mostly for personal solace.MORE
May 7, 2012 Guitars In The Classroom
Dr. Joan Maute said she knows the power of music in education. "When I was a kid, that was the way I remembered stuff," the Hilton Head Island singer/songwriter said. "I put it to music." So when she became a middle school teacher in 1970, Maute made sure to use music as a tool in her classroom.
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May 5, 2012 Father And Son Build Guitar of their Dreams
Watertown, N.Y. - Any serious musician would jump at the chance to build his own instrument. Just ask William J. Kelly, an entertainer from Heuvelton who has spent the past 40 years playing guitar for local bands like Pure Country and Boot Hill. He recently did just that with the help of master guitar builder Tracy J. Cox of Inlay Design Studio, 81 Woodruff Road, Colton. MORE
May 5, 2012 Giving Voice To The Acoustic Guitar
When Mountain View guitarist Doug Young unplugged, listeners heard him loud and clear. After years of playing in rock bands, he began playing solo acoustic. His lush, lovely, melodic style has won him devotees, near and far. The switch came after Young moved from Ohio to the Bay Area, separated from his former bandmates. MORE
May 4, 2012 Steve Hackett: How I Invented Guitar Tapping
Think Eddie Van Halen invented finger tapping on the guitar? Think again. Seven years before Eruption created a new school of shredders, Steve Hackett, then guitarist for prop-rock godfathers Genesis, set aside his pick and applied his index finger to the fretboard of his Les Paul - and he's not afraid to lay claim to conceiving of the technique.MORE
May 4, 2012 Guitar hero Duane Eddy Just Keeps Rocking
He’s the original rock’n’roll guitar hero whose instrumentals such as Rebel Rouser and Ramrod inspired generations of guitarists. Stacia Briggs spoke to Duane Eddy about his visit to Great Yarmouth.MORE
May 3, 2012 - Student Reunites With His Old Guitar
A PLYMOUTH student spotted his beloved guitar in a city shop ten years after he sold it in Cheshire. Timothy Horth who came from Cheshire to study music at the University of Plymouth three years ago, sold his instrument when he was just 12 years old so he could afford to buy an electric guitar. MORE
May 2, 2012 - 'Shaft' Guitarist Dies
US soul and blues guitarist Charles 'Skip' Pitts has died in a Memphis hospital at the age of 65. The musician was best known for his distinctive "wah-wah" guitar pedal sound, memorably featured on Issac Hayes' theme for the 1971 film Shaft. MORE
April 30, 2012 - Museum Raffling Two Les Paul Guitars
The Mahwah Museum announces a raffle of two guitars autographed by Les Paul, the legendary guitarist and inventor. The winning tickets will be drawn at 9:30 p.m. on June 9, 2012 at the Trustees Pavilion at Ramapo College at a gala celebration of what would have been Les Paul’s 97th birthday. MORE
April 30, 2012 - A to Z of African Guitar
During the course of the past 50 years, guitar music from Africa has gifted the world a vast array of incredible records, musicians, songs and musical styles. TG gives you a definitive guide. MORE
April 26, 2012 - Vince Gill Still Slinging Guitar
These days, it's easy for a guy like Vince Gill to get lost. He's one of the best all-arounders in country music: a soulful singer, a dexterous songwriter, a renowned guitar player. But he's defiantly unflashy in a genre that has increasingly come to prize overstatement. MORE
April 25, 2012 - Who Needs Furniture When You Have Guitars?
WHO? Matt Obrigewitsch and his wife Michelle. WHAT? The music room in their 1974 bungalow.WHERE? Argyle Park in northwest Regina.WHEN? They bought the home almost three years ago.WHY? As first-time homebuyers, “We looked at well over 100 houses online and on MLS,” said Obrigewitsch. Coming from a one-bedroom, 500-square-foot apartment, this three-bedroom home with a finished basement meant there was finally room to expand on his guitar collection.
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April 25, 2012 - Kiefer Plays Guitar for his Singing Dog
The Touch star posted a video of his talented pooch on Twitter over the weekend, showing off the dog's made-for-Internet musical gifts. "Even the dog can sing better than me," he wrote. MORE
NEW LONDON, CT, April 25, 2012 For Serious Acoustic Guitar Geeks
Serious acoustic guitar players know all about Martin, the company from Nazareth, PA that put the steel string guitar on the map. Martin has continuously put out top-shelf instruments since 1833. The second episode of Acoustic Addicts is all about comparing Martin dreadnought-style guitars. MORE
April 24, 2012 20 Best Electric Guitars under £1000/$1500
What is the best mid-price electric guitar? £1000 buys you a whole lotta axe. For a grand (or roughly $1500 US) you can buy a brand new instrument built for life on the road that will see you through hundreds of gigs and recording sessions.MORE
April 24, 2012 Original Version of George Harrison's My Sweet Lord
My Sweet Lord was originally a shuffle. That's just one of the revelations in the fascinating, richly rewarding 10-song set Early Takes: Volume 1, a collection of raw, mostly acoustic demos documenting the start of George Harrison's solo career. The album, due out 1 May, It will be sold as a stand-alone CD, but it will also be bundled with deluxe editions of the DVD and Blu-ray release of Martin Scorsese's 2011 Harrison documentary, Living In The Material World (also out 1 May). MORE
