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The John Butler Trio (“JBT”) are one of the most respected and successful bands on the world music scene. Over the years, JBT have been fortunate enough to open shows for several international artists at the incredible Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. In June, 2010, John and his band mates Nicky Bomba and Byron…

Seymour Duncan Artist and Their Pickups Lukas Previn – Thursday Lukas Previn is one hard working musician. As the touring bassist for Thursday to touring and recording with The United Nations and Acid Tiger, and soon embarking on La Dispute’s October/November tour, Lukas needs versatility in his tone and chooses the Seymour Duncan SH-4 in…

After a long hiatus, the unique stylings of Primus has returned with the release of “Green Naugahyde”. In support of the album, Primus will go back on tour starting September 23rd, in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has announced that they will be playing two sets during their tour and the US portion will conclude with an all…

Face it: at the outer edges of high performance, we’ve come to expect specialists. We don’t expect the hoops star who can slam dunk from the free-throw line to be able to return a 120 mile per hour tennis serve. We don’t expect the racecar that does zero-to-sixty under four seconds to get 40 miles…

Taka Hirose began playing bass at the age of 14 and played in several jazz and metal bands during his school years. Taka moved to Tokyo and worked for guitar manufacturing specialists ESP and played music at night. After performing for Tokyo Yakuza bosses, Taka moved to London where he joined a new band, which…

When we made the decision to create a new blog that would cover a host of tone oriented topics, we knew that it would all come down to finding the right individual to take on the task. We found that in Joe Gore, an individual who has played for Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, Les Claypool,…

Embracing a lot of the players that he has listened to such as Al DiMeola and Vinnie Moore, Glen Drover worked hard to hone his guitar playing and his craft. Glen Drover began playing guitar as a child, and was joined at age 10 by his brother Shawn on drums. Influenced by Tony MacAlpine, Al…

Dan Weller is a multi-faceted guitarist-vocalist based in Nashville.  Over the years, he’s toured with several independent and major label artists in front of audiences as large as 500,000. Dan Weller began playing guitar at age 8. He kept disappearing with his dad’s classical trying to figure out how to play, so his folks decided…

Hailing from Dallas Texas, Cat comes from a family strongly rooted in the arts. His mother, a singer, was a huge influence on his development as a guitarist-singer-songwriter. Following in her footsteps, Cat soon took up singing and playing guitar in many bands throughout California. In 2009, Cat joined Drist, the SF-based band that was…

Metal Mike Chlasciak is the guitarist who helped Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford reclaim his status as the true Metal God. With over one million units sold, Mike appears on all now-classic Halford albums, videosand DVDs. Mike has also spend time playing guitar with Bay Area Thrash masters Testament, his own band PainmuseuM and Sebastian…