Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Carlos Santana
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- Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Carlos Santana
- Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
- My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Jimmy Page
- Newport Folk Festival expands well beyond folk this year
- Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Eddie Van Halen
Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Carlos Santana
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
We are going to visit those guys. But we are stillgoing to sound like Santana. What I do with the guitar when I movearound in the music is make sure that the bass drums andkeyboards are on the one [makes a heartbeat-rhythm sound]. That creates the trance the spell. And it makes women goabsolutely wild. It’s the same thing Miles had with his group. Youplay two or three notes and let people know “It’s fun exploringbut now we gotta get back to this.
Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
Where is the connection between the extreme progmetal you write and play on guitar for the Mars Volta and the salsaand traditional Hispanic music you heard as a boy?A lot of what I play is in minor keys so it has the feel of ourfolk songs. Chords that sound good to me always take me back to mychildhood. “Asilos Magdalena” on [2006's] Amputechture started asan exercise. My dad played guitar with the thumb and first fingeron his picking hand. I wanted to play like that and turned it intoa song.
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
They’ve covered “ICould Never Take the Place of Your Man” live employed Prince-lynomenclature (see 2005’s “It Beats 4 U”) and happily mixed drum machinesand lengthy guitar jams (see 2002’s space-funk-folk-rock epic “Cobra”). But nothing in their discography could anticipate a song like “HighlySuspicious” Evil Urges’ biggest WTF moment. (And dude I don’t even want to know whata “peanut-butter-pudding surprise” is. ) It’s both hilarious and badass. MMJ also embrace prog rock — a direction that initially seems atodds with their populist jam-band vibe. But James is determined to haveit both ways… Evil Urges refutes the idea thatindie rock these days is too white. It’s a beautifully miscegenatedmess: “Thank You Too” conjures the Stylistics “Aluminum Park” conjuresthe Replacements and it’s all good. That shape-shifting is fitting fora band whose leader recently appeared in whiteface in Todd Haynes’surreal Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There which dealt with an icon whosemusic could never be reduced to mere tradition. James seems well awarethat any definition of “classic rock” that doesn’t include PrinceRadiohead and Wilco is pretty bereft. Now with Evil Urges he can addMy Morning Jacket to that list.
Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Jimmy Page
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
The important thing is to commit to playing. Youhave to put a lot in to get a lot out. The great thing about the guitar when I was 12 years old wasthat it was portable. It made the music accessible to me all thetime. I could get together with my mates and before you knew ityou had the serious spirit of music there — even kids justplaying a few chords. You can do it with computers and keypads now. But I’m interested in how you get that spirit on the guitar.
Newport Folk Festival expands well beyond folk this year
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 12, 2008
This year’s lineup gives a more expansive take of who and what can constitute folk music which some fans and folk scholars say has always been loosely defined. “The audience changes and time changes” said Paul Dube a Rhode Island musician who books acts for a folk coffeehouse. “We can’t just think of folk music as a songwriter sitting behind a guitar or piano singing original songs all night. David Hajdu a Columbia University professor and writer who has attended about a half-dozen Newport festivals said the question of who should properly be classified as folk is as old as the genre itself. He said the festival has always been more a tourist attraction designed for mass appeal than a pristine showcase of traditional folk. “It’s not a scholarly academic festival. It’s not like a university-funded and organized anthropological festival of folk music in the purist sense.
Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Eddie Van Halen
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
The tapping had been partof my playing since about ‘72. Early on my brother told me to turnaround onstage so no one could see what I was doing until we had arecord out. Did people think that you were a guitar player from Marsor something?I remember a long time ago we were playing and someone told us”A&M Records is here to see you guys. ” And it was Herb Alpert. I met him years ago later and he came up to me. He goes “One ofthe biggest mistakes I ever made was passing on you guys. ” I’mgoing “I remember exactly what you said too… ‘Cause soloing is almost like pissin’ up arope showing off — unless you’re truly improvising off themelody of a song. But I’m actually a very rhythmic player ’causeI’m the only guitarist in the band so I’ve gotta cover both. I’ve always been a true believer that music should hold upwithout singing on it. You know listen to Beethoven you know. There’s no singing on it. Has anyone taken the electric guitar further than youdid with Van Halen?That’s hard to say. Especially nowadays with all the effects andPro Tools and all this and that.
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