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Uncut.co.uk | Wild Mercury Sound - Post details: Fleet Foxes and Al Jardine
John Mulvey on Uncut documents a meeting between current Epiphone Casino player, Skye Skjelset’s band, Fleet Foxes, and one time Casino player, Al Jardine.
Fleet Foxes singer, Robin Pecknold, described the meeting to Mulvey: “We played him a couple of songs off the EP in the studio ‘cos he wanted to test out these new monitors [...]
Paul McCartney Wants to Release “Lost” 14 Minute Beatles Track
Rolling Stone reports that McCartney told BBC Radio 4 in an interview over the weekend that the time is right to release the 14-minute psychedelic improv, Carnival of Light.
‘I like it because it’s like the Beatles free,’ said McCartney. The track was left off 1995’s Anthology because it was ‘too adventurous’ according to Sir [...]
RIP Mitch Mitchell
Guitar Player Zen has a post on the sad death of Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer, Mitch Mitchell.
As well as being drummer on JHE albums, Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, and Axis: Bold as Love, Mitchell played with the Pretty Things and Georgie Fame and the blue Flames. He was also drummer in The Dirty [...]
The History of the Guitar
Steve has posted an excellent and comprehensive history of the guitar in two parts over at Guitar 24/7. If you’re at all interested in the beginnings of the guitar and in particular how the first electric guitar was developed, it’s well worth checking out.
Steve does a great job of detailing the work done by George [...]
Know Your Tube Amp
I love my Marshall JCM 900. It may be a nightmare to carry from van to stage and back again, but nothing beats the velvety warm tone from its valve and speaker combo. But when it’s in need of some care and attention, I admit, I’m at a loss. It means a trip to the [...]
Guitar practice exercises: alternate picking chromatic scale
I’ve been catching up on RSS feeds and guitar blogs today and found this great post from Lori Linstruth. It puts a more melodic spin on chromatic warm-up exercises, and there’s a downloadable PDF too.
Guitar practice exercises: alternate picking chromatic scale
(Via Play Like a Girl.)
B.B. King Museum
I’ve mentioned once or twice before that I’m a big BB King fan, so I read this with great interest and thought it would be worth sharing with you.
B.B. King Museum:
“Nashville-based writer and media producer Craig Havighurst (of String Theory Media) has recently written an article for the Washington Post about the opening of the [...]
Maybe You Should Know Jeff Healey
Danny has a great post on Jeff Healey, one of my favourite players. He says:
‘Jeff Healey was truly one of the gifted guitarists of our time. His talent was not about playing well in spite of an impairment, but rather playing so well that it was possible to miss that he was impaired in any [...]
Slash Interview
Excellent interview with Slash in Modern Guitar magazine in which he talks about working with Gibson on the Gibson and Epiphone signature Les Pauls.
‘Basically the Goldtop is a reissue of the 1991 Goldtop I got from them back then. And I used it for the whole two and a half year Guns N Roses “Use [...]
Epiphone Les Paul Studio Review
A review of the Epiphone Les Paul Studio from an About.com reader. The verdict? ‘Sounds wicked, feels wicked, looks wicked, easy on the wallet, what else do you want? Obviously I wouldnt say this is the BEST guitar out there but it certainly beats most others I’ve played and I’ve played a good range, from [...]
