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Mar 09, 2010
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Virtuoso drummer Marco Minnemann recorded a 51-minute drum solo called Normalizer 2 and asked several composers to write music to accompany it, including Trey Gunn, Mario Brinkmann, Alex Machacek, John Czajkowski, Phi Yaan-Zek,
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Mar 04, 2010
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Cream is just that—three jazz veterans skimmed off the top of British rock. Since their U.S. arrival a year ago, they have continued to groove growing audiences with one of the best avant-garde sounds in the electric scene. Their
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Mar 01, 2010
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IF ANYONE CAN DISPROVE THE OLD SAYING “Jack of all
trades, master of none,” it’s session ace Carl Verheyen.
For three decades now, he’s been a first-call player in
Hollywood—playing everything from gigs supporting
Miley
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Mar 01, 2010
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“NO ONE EVER WANTS TO TALK TO ME—EVEN
back in the group’s glory days,” shrugs Echo
and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant as we walk
to the band’s tour bus to, well, talk. The 51-
year-old guitarist had just finished a soundcheck
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Mar 01, 2010
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WANT TO SCORE A QUICK FIVE-SPOT? SIMPLY WAGER A FELLOW
muso to name the last double-disc rock opera that cracked the
top five of Billboard’s album charts, then after dismissing
guesses of the Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia or
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Feb 27, 2010
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We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track,
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Feb 16, 2010
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When I interviewed South African acoustic guitar virtuoso Guy Buttery, he provided more material than I could fit into the print magazine, so some outtakes are posted below. Read the print Artists feature in the May 2010 issue of
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Feb 11, 2010
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JERRYGARCIA AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD have become cultural institutions, though they never planned it that way. Other bands have achieved a similar status, but for different reasons; unlike the major rock attractions who are idolized
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Feb 02, 2010
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Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery specializes in crafting lush sonic atmospheres with layered guitars and effects processing, as exemplified on Ostara [Eagle], the latest release from his other band, the Wishing Tree. His primary
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Feb 01, 2010
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Angus Clark—best known for his emotive Gilmour-esque guitar work with Kitaro—plays alongside Al Pitrelli in TSO’s West Coast touring ensemble. Clark also provides half of the twin-guitar assault along with Aurelien Budynek on the
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Feb 01, 2010
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TEXAS HAS A KNACK FOR CRANKING OUT
bodacious guitarists. From T-Bone Walker to
Dimebag Darrell, Freddie King and Billy Gibbons
to the venerable Vaughan brothers, the Who’s
Who is as long and winding as the Rio Grande.
One
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Feb 01, 2010
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WHILE PREPPING FOR MY SIT-DOWN WITH THE
Killers’ Dave Keuning by perusing previous
exposés on the Las Vegas-based pop quartet, I
began to notice a remarkable trend. It seems
most every music journalist who interviews a
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Feb 01, 2010
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ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH HEAVY MUSIC OVER
the past two decades knows the main reason there
hasn’t been an Alice in Chains record for a while.
After the death of vocalist Layne Staley in 2002,
it seemed there wasn’t much the band
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Feb 01, 2010
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THE GUYS IN THE DEAR HUNTER, GUITARIST MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST CASEY CRESCENZO AND GUITARISTS
Erick Serna and Andy Wildrick, are great at blending different musical eras on their current release, Act III: Life and
Death, somehow
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Jan 19, 2010
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Allan Holdsworth, Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin, and Pat Mastelotto (HoBoLeMa) played six entirely improvised gigs at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, CA from January 8-10, 2010, as part of HoBoLeMa's U.S. tour. Thanks to Allan's manager
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