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Nov 01, 2009
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WHAT DO EDWARD VAN HALEN, STEVE LUKATHER, Scott Henderson, jazz bassist Christian McBride, Paul McCartney guitarslinger Rusty Anderson, and late, great trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard all have in common? Each one of these iconic
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Oct 01, 2009
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“THERE’S NO DISPUTING THAT WHEN
you hear this,” says Dale Turner, playing Ex. 1,
“it’s kicking off something.”
No doubt. Play through the familiar intro
once yourself, and it’s hard not to expect
juggling clowns,
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Sep 01, 2009
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IN THE ’60S HE WAS THE NEW KID, IN THE ’70S AND ’80s he was the king.Now that the millennium has come and gone, he’s still doin’ his thing. This all-in-good-fun paraphrasing of the late, great Tommy Tedesco’s “Requiem for a
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Aug 01, 2009
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ALONG ONE WALL OF SID JACOBS ’
Hollywood teaching studio resides a stable
of beautiful hollowbodies—everything from
a custom 7-string Benedetto featuring a
high-A to a ’71 Gibson Johnny Smith that
Jacobs bought new as a
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Oct 29, 2007
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Albums by Frank Zappa [1940-1993] have always been found in the rock bins in record stores, but pigeonholing Zappa as a rock artist is a bit like labeling Johann Sebastian Bach a church organist—it only tells a small part of the
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Aug 01, 2007
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IF YOU COULD PINPOINT A BIG BANG IN THE GUITAR UNIVERSE, IT WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE EMANATED FROM THE STRINGS AND SOUNDBOARD OF JEAN “DJANGO” REINHARDT’S STEEL-STRING ACOUSTIC ON DECEMBER 27, 1934, IN MONTPARNASSE,
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