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Chris Poland talks technique in new videos

Musicplayer.com has posted some great Chris Poland videos on their "Live From..." site. Poland discusses many aspects of his style including vibrato and double-stops. Here are the links to each vid:

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=D231D3B7EF86CA9E

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=CFA3B9131C434978

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=7C962397A6050BD3

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=5780600FCE7C1234

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=192FBEDB86D1B078

http://livefrom.musicplayer.com/clip.aspx?key=91448527E857A857

These videos are embeddable, but I didn't want to stack that many players in one post. Enjoy!

Chris Poland practice studio interview

Chris Poland gives InnerViewWorld a tour of his practice studio. Also includes some great footage of Poland's band OHM tearing it up at The Baked Potato.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Another Dimension 6/23/08

I'll be seeing Liquid Tension Experiment (John Petrucci - guitar, Mike Portnoy - drums, Jordan Rudess - keys, Tony Levin - Chapman Stick) tonight when their 10 year reunion tour comes through Chicago. A few videos from their first couple of reunion shows have popped up on the interwebs. This one is "Another Dimension" from their 6/23/08 show at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in New York. I wish the audio was better, but it's a cool vid nonetheless. Check out Levin playing the Stick... awesome stuff. I don't even know if he's playing any regular bass on this tour. Guess I'll find out tonight. Also, Levin and Rudess have started tour diaries on their sites. Check them out.

Greg Howe video interview

Guitarist-TV has just released this new video interview with Greg Howe. Howe's new album Sound Proof was officially released today.

Prashant Aswani - "Rugburn" live in Melbourne

Laurie beat me to it - Here's a video of Prashant Aswani live in Melbourne Australia playing "Rugburn." Aswani's new album Grey Matter (original working title was Time) will be released in September.

Jeff Kollman - FPE-TV interview part 2

This is part 2 of a Jeff Kollman interview for FPE-TV. Part 1 can be seen here. Kollman's heavy-fusion band Cosmosquad will be playing at The Baked Potato on June 14th.

Mike Stern video interview - Part 2

I know - lots of video interviews lately. This is Part 2 of the Mike Stern interview. Part 1 is here.

OHM video interview

This is a Monsoon Radio video interview with the Chris Poland's heavy-fusion trio OHM (Robertino Pagliari - bass, newest member Frank Briggs - drums, and Chris Poland - guitar). The audio and video quality is a bit sketchy here, but I figured it was worth a post.

Greg Howe - Hammer Ons From Nowhere video

Greg Howe demonstrates his hammer-ons-from-nowhere technique in this video from his GH Workshops online instructional project.

Mike Stern video interview

This interview with Mike Stern just popped up on YouTube. Stern talks about his style and plays some great lines.

Chris Poland video interview

Here's InnerViewWorld.com's great two-part interview with guitarist Chris Poland from the heavy fusion band OHM.

Part 2

Early OHM video - "Machine Gun"

This little gem just popped up on YouTube. This is Chris Poland's band OHM playing the Hendrix classic "Machine Gun" at one of their early shows in the Tone Merchants Tone Mecca room. OHM has a new album in the works. I'll post more details when they become available.

Virgil Donati video with Alex Machacek

Here is some official video of the Virgil Donati Band at the Baked Potato last Saturday with Alex Machacek on guitar. This video mainly focuses on Donati's drumming, but there's some great Machacek stuff in here as well. Mitch Forman is on keys, and Rufus Philpot is on bass. Here are Donati's comments on the gig from his website:

It was a great feeling to be back on stage with my band after such a long time. This music takes exceptionally talented players to pull off, and I extend gratitude to my collegues who joined me on stage last night. The video highlights include parts of Thinking Stone, and Iceland. When I find some more time, I will upload further highlights, (sometime between now and the next gig). Here is a set list of the music we played:

Set 1
Desert Girl
Mind Over
The Thinking Of Stones
Iceland
Actual Proof
Donna Lee
Kymera

Set 2
The User
Nothing Personal
Kingdom Of Dreams
Alien Hip Hop
Proto Cosmos

Allan Holdsworth - Carvin DVD clip

Allan Holdsworth talks about his Carvin HF2 Fatboy guitar. This clip is taken from the free Carvin DVD available at http://www.carvin.com/dvd.

Greg Howe announces GH Workshops

Kudos to Laurie at Truth In Shredding for spotting this one: This summer, Greg Howe will launch a new instructional site called GH Workshops. The site is not live yet, but the URL will be http://www.ghworkshops.com/. Check out the trailer above for more info.

Teaser video for upcoming Greg Howe album!

A teaser for the new Greg Howe album Sound Proof, coming June 24th.