I'm always looking for new music to listen to. Occasionally, I'll stumble across a new artist's site or a friend will mention a new artist, but if the artist does not have any music on their Web site or are fairly obscure, then I still won't be able to actually hear the music. Thanks to my friend David, I signed up for Yahoo's Music service, which provides over a million songs … [Read more...]
Do you have GAS?
I recently started reading the book Clapton's Guitar by Allen St. John, which is about guitarmaker Wayne Henderson and the story behind Eric Clapton ordering a guitar made by Wayne. Early in the book, St. John says that most guitar players he knows have GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome). I found this quote quite funny and, in point of fact, quite true as well! Most guitar … [Read more...]
Cream To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Eric Clapton and his bandmates in Cream, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce are some of the recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards given out by The Recording Academy for their work in Cream. Eric Clapton has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards, one in the category of Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and one in the category of Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. … [Read more...]
Self-Tuning Guitar
TransPerformance has created a computerized system called The Performer for tuning a guitar. The Performer installs into the guitar and provides one-touch tuning through a new bridge and tailpiece assembly that includes motors attached to each string. At the touch of a button or a footswitch, the strings are adjusted to the appropriate pitch. A photo of the rear of a guitar … [Read more...]
Derek Trucks New Album in February 2006
The Derek Trucks Band have announced that they will be releasing a new album on February 21, 2006, named Songlines. If you don't know who Derek Trucks is, he's related to Butch Trucks, who is the drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, and he's currently playing guitar in the Allman Brothers, in addition to fronting his own band. He's also married to Susan Tedeschi, and played … [Read more...]