Liquid Tension Experiment - Chicago, IL 6/25/08
Gustavo Assis-Brasil - Hybrid Picking Exercises - Single Note Permutations (Book)
Return to Forever - Chicago, IL 6/20/08
John McLaughlin - Floating Point
Paul Giibert - Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar
Allan Holdsworth - Live at The Baked Potato 1/18/08
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Chris Poland (Ohm) will be releasing "Return To Metalopolis - Live" on Lion Music in 2007. The album was recorded live in Phoenix in 1991. You can hear a teaser from the album on Poland's MySpace page.
I don't post much tech news anymore, but I thought this was worthy. Microsoft has officially announced the release date and pricing for the Zune mp3/video player. It will cost $249 and be released November 14th. The specs and price-point make this a very compelling alternative to the iPod, in my opinion.
After 2 years, I've finally gotten around to registering a new domian name for The Guitar Channel. The new url is:
The site has not moved (the old url will still work). The new domain name just forwards to the Typepad site. I still have a few links to update, but it should be good to go.
Also, I've made some changes to the title information that gets displayed when you play the Guitar Channel stream. I'm still working on it. It should just have the url, with the song artist and title afterwards. Depending on the player you are using, the SHOUTcast description may appear in the scroll as well. I'd rather not have that, but it's a work in progress. The stream may stop and start sometimes over the next couple of days while I tweak it.
Rich
The incredible Alex Machacek playing "Donna Lee - The Easy Viennese Teenage Version" at the Offbeat record store in Durham, NC recently.
This was originally posted on Machacek's official website.
Found some more info on the forthcoming Santana guitar tribute. The album, entitled "Viva Carlos!" (not Se A Cabo as previously reported), will be released on the Tone Center label Oct. 24th.
Tracklist:
1. SE A CABO Featuring Vinnie Moore
2. EUROPA Featuring Jeff Richman
3. OYE COMO VA Featuring Mike Stern
4. JINGO Featuring Eric Gales
5. MOONFLOWER Featuring Pat Martino
6. AQUA MARINE Featuring Eric Johnson
7. SAMBA DE SAUSALITO Featuring Frank Gambale
8. BLUES FOR SALVADOR Featuring Robben Ford
9. SAMBA PA TI Featuring Albert Lee
10. JUNGLE STRUT Featuring Coco Montoya
Blasting-Zone.com has a great interview with Paul Gilbert. He discusses his new album "Get Out Of My Yard", his time with Mr. Big, his influences, and lots more.
Modern Guitars Magazine columnist Brian D. Holland has posted a review of the Sept 15th Jeff Beck show in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Several photos taken by Nancy Holland are included in the piece as well. Sounds like it was a great show.
the last miles: The Music Of Miles Davis 1980-1991 is a book by George Cole focusing exclusively on the last ten years of Miles Davis' life and music. Cole interviewed Steve Lukather for the book and it's a great read. Luke talks about the song he wrote with David Paich entitled "Don't Stop Me Know" which Miles recorded live. He also talks about how Mile's asked him to join his band (!).
Saw this on The Digital Music Weblog. Napster has hired investment banking firm UBS to "assist in evaluation of strategic alternatives". Looking for a way out perhaps? Hmm...
Michael Landau is releasing a new live album Oct 10th on the Tone Center label. Michael Landau Group - Live is a 2 CD set featuring Scott Kinsey on keys, Jimmy Johnson on bass, and Toss Panos on drums. Landau appears on Kinsey's upcoming Kinesthetics album as well.
"Partnering up with musical instrument craftsman, Luis Alberto Paredes, Cesar Lopez has been creating the instruments ever since. Initially made out of Winchester rifles, they are now made mostly from everyone's favorite Cold War assault rifle, the AK47."
read more | digg story
Steve Morse has posted a new Notes From The Road message on his website (dated Sept 16th). He talks about having dinner with John McLaughlin in Monoco, the possibility of a Dregs/SMB tour in January, and other interesting stuff.
I've settled on SpryCast as my Shoutcast host for The Guitar Channel stream. I've been using them for about a week now, and it's been pretty solid.
For those of you who may be unaware, The Guitar Channel is a Shoutcast radio stream featuring instrumental guitar music. The music you'll hear falls into a variety of categories: fusion, jazz rock, instrumental rock, progressive rock, heavy fusion, etc. The stream can now support up to 15 concurrent connections. The bitrate is 96kbps. You can tune in here, or from the radio section in the upper left-hand corner of the site.
Please only connect to 1 listener slot at a time. 15 is still a small number. Even if there are several open slots available, I still don't want people connecting to 2 slots at once. And do NOT use stream ripper apps either.
Thanks,
Rich
UPDATE 9/3/07: I've shut down the stream. Click here for details.
PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- September 12, 2006 -- Legendary guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai announce plans for a benefit concert for music industry veteran and friend, Cliff Cultreri. "The Cliff Show" will take place on Saturday, September 30th at the House Of Blues, Hollywood, and will feature performances by both Satriani and Vai, as well as special guests to be announced.
Cliff Cultreri is the A&R executive who "discovered" both Satriani and Vai as well as many other popular recording artists, while working at Relativity Records. Cultreri is currently suffering from a host of Auto-Immune and Connective-Tissue disorders that are attacking his immune system, a one in 100 million occurrence that causes severe pain and physical problems. Satriani and Vai hope to raise funds to help Cultreri and his family's financial needs.
Cultreri is currently VP of A&R at KOCH Records where he has worked with such artists as RZA, B.G., Turk, Ying Yang Twins, Kurupt, Death Row, Big Gipp & Goodie Mob, Master P, and many others. During his years in the industry, Cultreri has served as A&R for a number of top names, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Billy Sheehan & Talas, Peter Frampton, Megadeth, Corrosion Of Conformity, Exodus, Anthrax, Death, Venom, Slash's Snakepit, Cradle Of Filth, Godflesh, Our Lady Peace, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Modern English, Gene Loves Jezebel, Fat Joe, Common, Bone Thugs 'N Harmony, 3-6 Mafia, KRS 1, Beatnuts, C Murder, Soulja Slim, and many others in all genres of music. In addition, he has received 18 Grammy nominations, 13 Gold and 14 Platinum and Multi-Platinum awards for albums on which he was the executive producer, co-producer or A&R. He won Grammys for "Song of the Year" and "Album of the Year" with Bone Thugs 'N Harmony for which he served as A&R.
"Cliff has been a musical force and guiding light in my career and my life for 2 decades. He introduced and championed my music to the music business. He is a dear friend and musical ally and quite the guitar player himself," said Satriani. "Steve and I wanted to help Cliff and the idea of a show in LA with other members of the guitar community seemed to be the obvious way to celebrate and help him."
Buy Tickets @ Ticketmaster.com
AUG 9 PRESALE PASSWORDS: "cliff" (Artist) & "satch" (HOB)
Tickets prices will be set at $100 and are set to go on sale August 12th. Limited number of $75 tickets will be available August 9th through www.satriani.com and www.vai.com
A special note from Cliff (9/6/06):
If you are unable to attend the show but would still like to help Cliff and his family, donations may be made by check (NO CHECK IS TOO SMALL OR TOO LARGE) and can be sent to the following address:
KOCH Entertainment
22 Harbor Park Drive
Port Washington, New York 11050
Attn: Nancy Young
Please make all checks payable to: Patricia Cultreri
All of us at KOCH Entertainment express our gratitude to all of you who can find it in your heart to support this worthy cause.
About KOCH Records
KOCH Records is a division of KOCH Entertainment, the fastest-growing music company and the market leader among independents in North America. The KOCH Entertainment corporate umbrella encompasses the KOCH Records label, KOCH Vision home video, KOCH Music Publishing and KOCH Entertainment Distribution with operations in both the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Records proudly claims the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents for each of the last five years (2001-2005). For additional info on the KOCH Records label and its roster of artists, please visit www.kochrecords.com
9/14/06 UPDATE: According to Blabbermouth.net - Paul Gilbert, Scott Henderson, and Steve Lukather will be among the special guests!
Al DiMeola will be releasing a new album Sept 26th. "Consequense Of Chaos" will be a major return to solid-body electric guitar work for DiMeola. Chick Corea, Steve Gadd, John Pattitucci, Barry Miles, appear on the disc, as well as members of DiMeola's own band. A tour is scheduled for the US and Germany to support the album as well.
There are some west coast gigs coming up for the Allan Holdsworth/Alan Pasqua Group. According to Alan Pasqua's site, the show's at Yoshi's in Oakland from Sept 28-Oct 1 will also be used for a "Live DVD Shoot".
PRESS RELEASE
Tickets are now on sale for this year's NYC FretLess Guitar Festival being held on Friday, September 29th and Saturday (ALL DAY), September 30th 2006 at the Knitting Factory in New York www.KnittingFactory.com
This year's FretLess Fest will once again define the FretLess Guitar as the next option in sound for guitarists of all styles. Some of the Artists performing this year are Dave FUZE Fiuczynski, Ned Evett, Franck Vigroux, Scott McGill, Jon Catler, Ed DeGenaro, Ratko Zjaca, Michael ATONAL Vick and more. www.FretLessGuitarFestival.com
We
will also have a FretLess Guitar WorkShop on Saturday, September 30th
starting at 1pm at the Knitting Factory in the Tap Bar where many of
the performing Artists will demonstrate their particular Unfretted
techniques. We will also have copies of the definitive Fretless Guitar
CD Compilation "Village Of The Unfretted" for sale.
www.Unfretted.com
Another special bonus of this year's FretLess Fest is that our Sponsors : Fernandes Guitars, Vigier Guitars and Godin Guitars will be giving away FretLess Guitars in a raffle!!!!
Please don't miss out on this
year's NYC FretLess Guitar Festival because here one will "Hear" the
future of guitar, and "The Future of Guitar is missing something,
Frets."
www.FretLessGuitarFestival.com
The online music vendor Abstract Logix has launched a digital music download site. The pricing varies by the artist. Some songs are under .99 cents, some are over a dollar. The nice thing is, the files are MP3's (no DRM!). So far, there isn't much to choose from, but Allan Holdsworth and Alex Machacek are among the artists currently offered. This could end up being the only place on the web where this type of fusion music is available for download. They plan to offer live concerts and lessons for download in the future as well.
Shrapnel Records will be releasing a Greg Howe Collection album on Oct 10th. In addition to a compilation of Greg Howe's best tunes, the CD will also include the following extras:
- Video lesson with PDF tablature
- Video for "High Gear"
- Tablature for "Jump Start"
- Ringtones and MP3's
The CD is now available for pre-order through Greg's Merchandise page.
I'm trying out a new relay server for the Guitar Channel radio stream. The links at the left have been updated to point to the new server. Check it out. If anyone has any problems with the audio, let me know. It may be up and down a bit tonight while I tweak a few things.
Rich
Jimmy Herring: Lifeboat
Herring's first solo album is one of the best jazz releases of the year.
McCoy Tyner: Guitars
Latest album from the legendary jazz pianist, featuring John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Derek Trucks, and Bela Fleck. Also includes a making-of DVD.
Tadashi Goto: Innervisions
Heavy prog rock with guests Chris Poland, Brett Garsed, Ty Tabor, Tony Levin, and many others.
OHM: Circus of Sound
Great new album from Chris Poland's fusion power trio.
Cosmosquad: Acid Test
I've been revisiting this one since their DVD came out. Cool stuff.
Return to Forever: The Anthology
Great two-disc "best of" collection from this classic fusion band.
Greg Howe: Sound Proof
Howe's latest is fantastic. Great grooves and awesome jazzy shredding.
Alex Machacek, Jeff Sipe, Matthew Garrison: Improvision
Incredible writing and playing. A remarkable album.
