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Guitar Nation Festival 2010 Announced
Being held at London Earls Court Olympia May 8th and 9th, Guitar Nation is a two day music festival of performances, demonstrations, seminars and cutting edge debates for guitarists and musicians serious about music. It brings together the people who make the industry happen; world class musicians, band managers, top producers, media professionals, music industry guru’s and many more. A broad variety of master classes, tutorials, seminars, performances and forums are planned, covering a wide range of hard hitting topics in a fun, innovative and creative environment.
Master classes and seminars already confirmed are:
- • Guitar Hero Steve Vai’s Only UK appearance in 2010: Making it in the Music Industry
- • Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain: Touring the world with Iron Maiden
- • Toto’s Steve Lukather: masterclass with Grammy award winning guitarist
- • Bernie Marsden: ex-Whitesnake guitarists killer blues workshop
- • Phil Hilborne: How to become a session musician
- • Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd) and guests : My bass and other animals
- • Ace (Skunk Anansie): The ultimate guide to guitar effects
- • Ruta Sepetys (manager Steve Vai, Desmond Childs): The new most important power in music: what to expect from your manager, advice and discussion panel.
- • Meet Jon Morter (Founder of Rage Against the Machine to number 1 campaign): What's next in social networking media
- • John Webster (CEO, Music Managers Forum; founder, Mercury Music Prize) presents Meet the bookers: an insight into the inside of the live music industry.
- • Total Production magazine Editor Mark Cunningham present series of hard hitting debates with top MI professionals
- • Meet the Men Behind the Glass’ / Youth - uber-producer (U2/ The Verve), composer and bassist with seminal post-punk rockers Killing Joke: See how he makes music and talks about the role of the producer in the creative process.
- • Earn a living without record company support with Barry Martin (The Hamsters)
The festivals mission is to empower musicians, help them make a living from music and improve their playing. Issues covered include making money as a songwriter, planning your first tour, how publishing works as well as innovations in music technology; the depth and breadth of what you can learn will be truly invaluable. Guitar Nation is a consumer conference giving the public seamless access to musicians and experts in a way they could only ever dream about.
U2 Does Another Rooftop Gig
Following in the footsteps of the Beatles, U2 gave another surprise rooftop gig (this was not their first) Friday, February 27. However, the secret got out and around 5000 fans showed up to see them play a 20 minutes set of new songs from the top of the BBC Broadcasting House in London.
Read all about it at the U2 website.
Led Zeppelin Launches YouTube Channel
In a rare change of policy, the once video shy Led Zeppelin has launched their own YouTube video channel features scores of authorized and bootleg videos from their years of concerts.
You can find more videos here.
Get Free Guitar Recording & Online Collaboration Software: RiffWorks T4
Sonoma Wire Works announces the launch of RiffWorks T4, a free edition of RiffWorks (v2.1.1) guitar recording and online collaboration software. With RiffWorks T4, musicians can record ideas at the moment of inspiration, quickly create complete songs with drums and effects, easily collaborate online with musicians around the world for free, and cast tunes to RiffWorld.
RiffWorks T4 includes: Automatic track creation and loop recording with 4 layers plus drum loops • 7 effects (Wah, Multi-band Compression & Distortion, Modulation, Delay, Reverb, Compression, and British Style EQ) • InstantDrummer with adjustable intensity and variation • Online music collaboration - record songs with people around the world for free • RiffWorld.com song posting and collaboration community • "Quick Start" tutorial in 14 languages • IK Multimedia's AmpliTube(R) Duo LE guitar amp and effects plug-in • Gallo Engineering's Studio Devil BVC amp model plug-in
Get A Free British Valve Custom VST Amp Plugin
If you are guitar player who does any recording on your computer, you will want to check out the British Amp Custom amp simulator plugin being offered for free by Studio Devil. The emulation is based on a Marshall stack. If you want more amps models, a fuller feature Virtual Guitar Amp is available for purchase at $79.00.
Imagine: The Beatles Play Led Zeppelin
Check out this very entertaining video. An Australian Beatles tribute band plays Starway To Heaven in an early Beatles style. Classic!
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Recent Releases
- Phantasmagorical: Master and Musician, Vol. 2
- Phil Keaggy
- Upon the tail end of Phil Keaggy's most ambitious concert tour of his long and illustrious career — in which he has brought to life on stage his 1978 instrumental recording The Master & The Musician — Keaggy now releases his 2008 encore entitled Phantasmagorical: Master & Musician 2. Like the first, this album has musical scope and dimension that demonstrates Keaggy's mastery of melody within the ever-inventive musical signature guitars with a cornucopia of other instruments.
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- Mudcrutch
- Mudcrutch
- Before there was Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, there was Mudcrutch. In summer 2007, Tom Petty reunited Mudcrutch, consisting of himself, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, original bandmember Tom Leadon, and Randall Marsh, who joined when Mudcrutch first went to Los Angeles in search of a record deal in the early 70s. Now, more than 30 years later, Mudcrutch finally has its debut album. With new Petty songs and a handful of covers, the self-titled disc is both classic rock and a rock classic.
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- Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
- Joe Satriani
- On this studio album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, Joe not only delivers one of the most anthemic songs of his career, 'I Just Wanna Rock', but also for the first time ever on a Satch album he plays acoustic guitar: 'Andalucia'. As always, Joe continues to blaze new trails with his guitar and leave the others in the dust.
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- The Spice of Life
- Earl Klugh
- Grammy Award-winning innovator and master of the acoustic guitar, Earl Klugh has released a long-anticipated ensemble recording, THE SPICE OF LIFE. The album is Klugh's first full-production release in nine years, and is the follow-up to his 2005 solo masterpiece, Naked Guitar, which drew Klugh's eleventh career Grammy nomination.
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- Close As You Get
- Gary Moore
- Gary Moore is acknowledged as one of the finest musicians that the British Isles has ever produced. In a career that dates back to the 1960s he has graced the line-ups of several notable rock bands, Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II and Skid Row to name but three. With his latest studio album he mixes original tunes with some interesting blues covers that he has rediscovered. Close As You Get showcases Moore's exceptional talent as a guitarist and is destined to be one of the finest blues and guitar albums released this year.
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- Live At Massey Hall
- Neil Young
- One of the greatest singer-songwriters of the rock era. Solo. Acoustic. January 19, 1971. Live At Massey Hall, the legendary concert from Neil Young, is finally officially released, and in high-resolution stereo, in this CD+DVD package (also as a solo CD). The acclaimed Toronto performance features classics "Old Man" and, in a suite, "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" (before they were recorded for Harvest) along with some of his most popular songs. Live At Massey Hall is a newly mined rock gem.
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- Weary And Wired
- Marc Ford
- Ex-Black Crowes guitar-slinger Marc Ford's second solo album literally sounds like a classic. With its conflagrant riffing, big six-string tones, and blues bedrock. His unpredictable guitar heroics are as likely to explode into clouds of whinnying feedback as to sprint into marathons of bent, ringing sustained notes and pentatonic scales.
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- Grand Central
- Jeff Golub
- Golub has a natural flare for delivering raw and honest recordings. Grand Central was primarily recorded with a live band in a New York studio by musicians Golub jams and improvises with at small, informal club gigs around the city that they do for the love of playing when they’re off the road. Golub deftly deployed a clean blues sound to his guitar that took on more of a lyrical, vocal-like quality on the new record.
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- Quartet
- Peter Rowan, Tony Rice
- Acoustic music legends Peter Rowan and Tony Rice continue their fruitful collaboration with Quartet, which finds the pair joined by bassist/vocalist Bryn Davies and mandolinist/vocalist Sharon Gilchrist. Recorded after extensive touring, Quartet introduces a dynamic and cohesive band grounded in traditional bluegrass, yet capable of spinning out extended improvisational journeys.
