The Guitar Channel

The Transperformance self-tuning guitar

Saw this on Engadget. Gizmag.com has posted an article on the Transperformance self-tuning guitar. Looks pretty wild.

Interview with OHM at Abstract Logix

There's a cool interview with guitarist Chris Poland and his fusion trio OHM over at Abstract Logix.

Check it out.

The stream is up and running

The Guitar Channel stream is back up.

I'm being flooded by a Canadian IP address

The Guitar Channel stream is currently down. My internet connection is being flooded today by an IP address from Ottawa Canada. The traffic is coming from 192.234.223.100. I kicked this IP off the Guitar Channel stream around 1:30pm central time today when I saw it had been connected for close to 8 hours straight. I just can't afford to have people connected for that long when I only have 3 slots available. When I do this, I usually unban the IP in a day or so. Anyway, now I can't start the stream up without being flooded with requests from this IP. Granted,  an initial request technically counts as download (inbound) traffic for me, whereas an IP that's actually connected to the stream is using my upload (outbound) bandwidth. Regardless, if I run the SHOUTcast server now, my overall internet connection slows down because this person finds it even if I change IP's (yes I tried that). They find it because no-ip.com redirects traffic to me regardless of my IP address (this allows people to find my stream at all times even though I don't have a static IP). The stream will be down indefinitely while I work on this and other maintenance.

Rich

Greg Howe to tour with Stu Hamm and Dennis Chambers?

According to the December Audiophile Imports newsletter, Greg Howe will be touring in February with Stu Hamm and Dennis Chambers. The dates are mostly on the east coast, but there are dates listed for Chicago and Milwaukee as well. The venues are not finalized. Looks like this is very preliminary. Here is a link I found to the booking agency showing availablilities:

http://www.backstreetbooking.com/backstreet/greghoweavails.html

If I learn more, I'll post an update...

12/13/05 UPDATE: There is a posting on Greg Howe's forums stating this tour will not come to pass due to scheduling conflicts. Booo!

Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video

iPlayMusic today announced that it will make a series of 35 beginner guitar video lessons available free to iTunes users. All 35 lessons can be downloaded and played in iTunes and on video iPods.

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RIAA Sues Woman Who Has No Computer For Sharing Music

LOL! This is getting out of hand.

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