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Nov 05, 2009
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JIMMY LESLIE CAPTURED this snippet of Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche of
Wilco improvising live at the Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on February
26, 2007.
Trouble viewing? Click here.
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Nov 01, 2009
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GREEN DAY’S ASCENDENCY FROM THE PUNK SCENE
at Berkeley, California’s, small but notorious 924 Gilman
Street Project to becoming the mega-selling rock act they
are today, somehow implies that the three members—
drummer Tré
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Nov 01, 2009
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THE GUYS IN BLACK WATER RISING KNOW HOW
to party. As the recipients of a 2009 High Times
Doobie Award for Best Rock Alternative Artist,
they’re one of the most promising exponents
in the current killer crop of heavy bands.
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Nov 01, 2009
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WHEN LIVING COLOUR’S DEBUT ALBUM, VIVID, HIT IN 1988, THE NEW YORK CITY-based
hard rock quartet shattered the genre’s glass ceiling by proving an African-
American band could go multi-platinum and reach audiences of every
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Oct 28, 2009
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“I’M THE POSTER BOY FOR A.D.D.,” jokes German-born,
Seattle-based Ed DeGenaro. “When I’m recording an album, I work on one
song at a time, and when I’m finished I ask myself what I’m going to do
next. Then I do whatever pops
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Oct 27, 2009
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THE ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO rocked Slim's in San Francisco on October 18, 2009. The Twang Bar King—backed by drummer Eric Slick and bassist Julie Slick—played most of their new album e, along with old favorites such as "Young
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Oct 01, 2009
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ANTHONY “TOP” TOPHAM WAS A VERY REAL—
if overlooked—character in the development of one of
the most inventive British Invasion bands of all time. As
the original guitarist for the Yardbirds, he preceded the
6-string troika
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Oct 01, 2009
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WHEN THE “AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL” HAIR first appeared on Broadway in 1968,
it resounded with guitar tones decidedly more ’50s than ’60s—consisting largely of
clean rhythm “chucks.” For the recent revival, director
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Oct 01, 2009
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Steve Vai just released a live DVD and his Naked Tracks series of play-along CDs. He's doing his Alien Guitar Secrets seminars all over the world. He’s also working on his next opus, and he still practices every day. Is there
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Oct 01, 2009
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MIKE STERN MOSTLY PLAYED ROCK, BLUES, AND funk before studying jazz guitar with
Pat Metheny at Berklee when he was 23. Metheny helped him land a gig with Blood,
Sweat and Tears, and from there Stern went on to work with an
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Sep 22, 2009
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TOM MORELLO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. We couldn’t fit all of his words of wisdom in the Dec. issue of GP, so here are some outtakes from that interview, which, like all Morello interviews, was a lively and spirited discussion.Why
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Sep 01, 2009
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GUITARISTS WHO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN
country music often do so because they write
great songs or can sing, or both. Either way,
playing guitar often becomes secondary to their
careers—at least in the eyes of their record
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Sep 01, 2009
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CHICKENFOOT MAY BE ONE HELLUVA SILLY NAME FOR A BAND, But Joe
Satriani and Sammy Hagar Are Dead Serious About Their Flock's Riffin'
& Rockin' Debut Album
“WHAT’S THAT? ARE THOSE YOUR NOTES , JOE?”
Sammy Hagar has just
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Aug 01, 2009
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ST. VINCENT (NÉE ANNIE CLARK) BECAME OBSESSED WITH GUITAR
early on—a proclivity nourished by Tuck Andress, her virtuoso fingerstylist
uncle. “Uncle Tuck took me on tours starting when I was about 15, and I got
to be his roadie
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Aug 01, 2009
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“AS A SOLO PERFORMER, THE GUITAR FOR ME IS A
band in a box,” says Irish-Canadian singersongwriter
and fingerstylist Stephen Fearing.
“I’m trying to get as many textures as I can out
of it, so things remain interesting from
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