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Dec 03, 2009
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“I ALWAYS USE A LOT OF CHROMATICISM,” says Mother Truckers
guitarist Josh Zee. “My theory is if you start on a good note and you
end on a good note, you can hit anything in between.”That only describes part of Zee’s maniacal
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Dec 01, 2009
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ALTHOUGH HE’S PLAYED WITH LOTS OF
great guitarists, bassist Rudy Sarzo still gets the most questions
about what it was like to play with the late Randy
Rhoads. “That’s why I wrote the book,” says Sarzo,
referring to Off the
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Dec 01, 2009
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Photos courtesy of Tracy Hart The Heights Gallery.THE MEMBERS OF ARC ANGELS HAVE UNFINISHED
business. They may not have chosen it, but for
myriad reasons they became the great hope for
Texas blues when Stevie Ray Vaughan’s
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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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