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Mar 09, 2010
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Virtuoso drummer Marco Minnemann recorded a 51-minute drum solo called Normalizer 2 and asked several composers to write music to accompany it, including Trey Gunn, Mario Brinkmann, Alex Machacek, John Czajkowski, Phi Yaan-Zek,
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Mar 01, 2010
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IT’S TOUGH TO PIGEONHOLE JIM CAMPILONGO. He plays a Tele, attacking
pedal-steel and behind-the-nut bends with
psychedelic fervor. He’ll pay homage to
Roy Buchanan with tone-pot swells, and
then dive into a Travis-picking
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Feb 27, 2010
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We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track,
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Feb 02, 2010
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Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery specializes in crafting lush sonic atmospheres with layered guitars and effects processing, as exemplified on Ostara [Eagle], the latest release from his other band, the Wishing Tree. His primary
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Jan 19, 2010
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Allan Holdsworth, Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin, and Pat Mastelotto (HoBoLeMa) played six entirely improvised gigs at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, CA from January 8-10, 2010, as part of HoBoLeMa's U.S. tour. Thanks to Allan's manager
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Jan 01, 2010
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IF YOU AREN’T CAREFUL, THE NEW
Porcupine Tree album might blow your
speakers or earbuds apart within seconds
of hitting the play button. The British progrock
outfit’s tenth studio release, The
Incident [Roadrunner], kicks
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Dec 17, 2009
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“PROGRESSIVE ROCK IS A BIG PART OF PORCUPINE TREE,” says the British
group’s guitarist and vocalist Steven Wilson. “And I think that bands
such as the Mars Volta, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and Tool have made it
okay to use the
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Dec 09, 2009
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TURKISH GUITARIST and electro-acoustic composer Erdem Helvacıoğlu’s latest CD, Altered Realities
[New Albion], presents the listener with a complex universe of
beautifully layered and dynamically shifting sounds and textures
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Nov 20, 2009
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“IT’S A CLICHÉ BUT IT’S TRUE,” SAYS OHM guitarist Chris Poland.
“If you keep doing what you love, eventually people will notice.” But
it’s not as if no one ever noticed before. Scores of metalheads
thrilled to Poland’s
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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 23, 2009
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OHM guitarist Chris Poland demos his gear, details his monster rack, and shows how he uses double-stops and vibrato. Trouble viewing? Click HERE.
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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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Aug 04, 2009
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Photo: Tuomo ManninenTrey Gunn is involved in a plethora of projects. In these very lightly edited interview outtakes he talks about his work with Alex Machacek in UKZ, a band that also includes violinist keyboardist Eddir
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Jul 23, 2009
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Trey Gunn is involved in a plethora of projects. In these very lightly edited interview outtakes he talks about his work with KTU (pronounced K2), a trio that also comprises Finnish accordionist and vocalist Kimmo Pohjonen and
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Jan 01, 2009
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MICHAEL BEARPARK’S MISSION IS TO MAKE
loop-based guitar music that offers a twist on
a genre largely defined by serene soundscapes.
Both of his recent recordings on the Burning Shed
label—Some of These Numbers Mean Something
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