May 10, 2008 | Guitar videos, Jimi Hendrix
Here’s a young guy from France that’s just tearing up his own Hendrix medly on YouTube – on a Tele no less! You can tell he’s playing through a POD or something, ’cause he’s got the perfect Hendrix sound for sure! This medly is very...
May 1, 2008 | Guitar child prodigy, Guitar videos
This 12 year old guitar player plays “Eruption” and his original song “Break Out”. I don’t know if this is some kind of talent show or what, but it looks like he has a little cheering section to be sure. It’s not perfect, but the...
Apr 29, 2008 | Guitar songs, Guitar videos
One of my favorite songs is Deep Purple’s “Burn”. It’s a song that hasn’t been performed live since 1992, you don’t hear on the radio a lot. Now, for all you young guitar slingers – here’s a little history lesson. You...
Apr 28, 2008 | Guitar accessories, Guitar Reviews
If you are a working guitarist you have a need for a harmonizer pedal – you just don’t know it yet. Usually you have one singer in the band and one backup person if you’re lucky. I know a lot of guitarists that from time to time they do a “one...
Apr 16, 2008 | Guitar videos, Van Halen
Here’s a great YouTube video I came across on Create Digital Music where the stage tech’s (or board op) really, REALLY screwed up! The song was Van Halen’s famed “jump”, and the keyboard intro was to be played as a backing track on tape...
Apr 14, 2008 | Guitar videos, Van Halen
For all of you young bucks that never saw this – here is Eddie Van Halen playing at a “Les Paul and Friends” show in 1988 (now some 20 years ago). This would have been about in the prime of Van Halen only 4 years after their 1984 album, that is...
Apr 13, 2008 | Guitar accessories, Guitar player gift ideas
A pack of adapters for your powerstrip so bulky power cords don’t rob half your outlets. Every now and then I see a gadget that I think would be perfect for musicians or guitar players. Today I saw this pack of “powerstrip liberator” plugs that are...
Apr 10, 2008 | Guitar videos, Van Halen
Fender released the Van Halen Frankenstein replica in 2007 and this video is from the NAMM show where Eddie Van Halen talked about it and then performed. This was such a crazy video for me to watch, the quality is good because it was posted on YouTube by Fender...
Apr 7, 2008 | Guitar videos
This is an incredible performance you may not have seen yet, it’s Billy Gibbons of “that little ‘ol band from Texas” – ZZ Top! He’s playing at the Fender gala at NAMM – and he belts out his rendition of “Texas...
Apr 7, 2008 | Guitar child prodigy, Guitar videos
So when you were 12 years old playing in your school talent show – could you do this? This 12 year old GIRL guitar shredder tears it up! She may not be that accurate, but she gets a 10 for stage presence and sheer balls! In addition – she was only 12 here,...
