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Category Archives: Artist Interview
An Interview with Vasely Sapunov of Christian Heavy Metal band Saving Grace
Although musically, the majority of our influences are from secular hardcore and metal bands that we grew up listening to, we are stoked to break barriers and stereotypes and to be able to play bone-crushingly heavy music, that people would not normally associate with a Christian band. Continue reading
Clinic and master guitarist makes Noise on his new CD
“Knowing what to say and what to play is the easy part; the part you have to work on is your people skills. You’re going to be dealing with lots of different personalities in many different parts of the world so knowing how to get along with the rep you’re traveling with, the dealer you’re doing the clinic for (along with their employees) is sometimes the most challenging part of the clinic.”
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Joel Hoekstra – The Busiest Guitarist You’ve Never Heard Of
Joel Hoekstra is quite possibly the busiest guitar player you’ve never heard of….yet. Joel has been touring the world alongside Brad Gillis, Jack Blades and Kelly Keagy in Night Ranger for the last 4 years. When at home, he is … Continue reading
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Tagged Joel Hoekstra, Night Ranger, Rock Of Ages, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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Neil “Spyder” Giraldo Talks Tone With Seymour Duncan
Neil “Spyder” Giraldo has a reputation as a great guitar player for Pat Benatar, coming up with riffs and solos for “Love Is a Battlefield”, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”, and “We Belong” among many others. In this interview Seymour gets down to Neil’s gear, string gauge, amps and his wild on-stage antics (including biting his guitars).
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Posted in Artist Interview, Seymour Duncan Artists, Video
Tagged jeff beck, sh-16, strat, tele
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The Guitar Wizzard That is Oz Noy
Oz Noy begin his proffesional career at the age of 13 and within years was playing with some of the top acts in Israel. By the age of 24 he had become a highly sought after studio musician. In 1996 … Continue reading
Victor & Penny Put the Pop Back Into Antique Music
Victor & Penny hail from Kansas City and have combined the tone of the 1920′s with their own modern take to form what they call “Antique Pop”. Featuring the musically trained Jeff Freling playing an old Kay Archtop and Erin McGrane, the talented singer … Continue reading
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Tagged '20s, '30s, antique, custom shop, de armond, pickups, rewind, Vintage
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Voices of Metal – Carnifex
When looking up Carnifex in the dictonairy, you will get some variation of the following definition: Car´ni`fex n. 1. (Antiq.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman. Some might say … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 string, ahb-1, bass, carnifex, metal, soapbar
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Voices of Metal – Simon Johansson of BibleBlack
In this week’s edition of Voices of Metal we turn to Simon Johannson who plays alongside Mike Wead in the Swedish band BibleBlack. You have a pretty long history in the Swedish death metal scene, including playing in Abstrakt Algebra … Continue reading
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Tagged 59, ahb-1, bibleblack, Blackouts, Jarrel, jzs-1, mike wead, Sh-1, tb-5
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Voices of Metal – Alex Skolnick
Several weeks ago we asked you who you wanted to see on Vocies of Metal and we got several responses asking for us to talk with Alex Skolnick. We tracked him down among his busy schedule of touring, recording and writing to talk metal, tone, jazz and Testament. You can listen to the full interview below. Continue reading
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Tagged 59, Alex Skolnick, alex skolnick trio, h575, Heritage, Jazz, Sh-1, Sh-4, Testament
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Voices of Metal – Dave Reffett
During NAMM, we had another oppurtunity to meet an incredible musician named Dave Reffett. Dave recently produced, was the lead guitarist and singer on the album The Call of the Flames which featured performances by George Lynch, Michael Angelo Batio, Chris Poland, Glen … Continue reading
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Tagged ahb-1, Blackouts, dave reffett, metal, the call of the flames
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