Guitar heroes in tune for “Loud” music documentary
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- Guitar heroes in tune for “Loud” music documentary
- Frank Vignola In Concert With Special Guest Bucky Pizzarelli
- MUSIC IS A FUNNY GAME ; Guitar God Jack White Reveals His Heroes …
- MASS MoCA Music Festival featuring Josh Ritter 8/15/09
- Songs Without Borders
- A plucky traveller
- Rock opera brewed for many years
Guitar heroes in tune for “Loud” music documentary
Reuters
“That’s the disease you have to fight in any creative field: Ease of use. Cut to the Edge almost lost in an electronic jungle of amplifiers pedals and wires. “I’m very interested in what hardware can do to an electric guitar sound” he says. “I love effects units. They’ve always pushed music forward. It seems a smackdown is in the works as Page sagely notes on his way to the jam session. “It’s going to be very interesting.
Frank Vignola In Concert With Special Guest Bucky Pizzarelli
Hamptons.com
Beginning his career in 1943 at the age of 17 Bucky Pizzarelli had gone on to become a staff musician at NBC where he played in the Doc Severinson Band on the “Tonight Show. ” He toured with Benny Goodman through the 1980s. A rhythm player and dedicated preservationist of the old guitar music and early styles Pizzarelli plays a seven-string electric guitar. While this guitar is used more commonly today for many years he was the only musician along with George Van Eps to play this instrument exclusively. The second in a series of three events sponsored by the Riverhead Business Improvement District. the concert will take place at the air-conditioned Vail-Leavitt Music Hall 18 Peconic Avenue Riverhead. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door and can be purchased at 631-727-5782 or online at www.
MUSIC IS A FUNNY GAME ; Guitar God Jack White Reveals His Heroes …
California Chronicle
Together they formed indie supergroup The Dead Weather. The band play their first Scots gig at the Edinburgh HMV Picture House on ctober 22. Jack who plays drums in the band as well as singing and playing guitar admitted The Dead Weather was an accident. He said: “We just stumbled into my studio (at his Nashville- based label Third Man) and started recording a couple of songs and it turned into an album and a band. “It wasn’t something we planned or called each other and said ‘Do you have time to start a band?’ We didn’t do anything like that. “It was the last day of The Raconteurs’ tour. ” For the next two-and-a-half weeks they wrote and recorded their debut album Horehound which was released last month and went to No6 in America and No14 in the UK.
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MASS MoCA Music Festival featuring Josh Ritter 8/15/09
Albany Times Union
It would have been hard to ask for more. ” Guitar wizard Kaki King was a sheer marvel opening with a two-handed tapping guitar instrumental. She sang “Life Being What It Is” served up a captivating instrumental in which she tapped on a pick-up looped it and then added electric guitar parts. She wrapped it all up with “Lolita for Animals” and an absolute hell-fire rock ‘n’ roll insturmental on lap steel. Ben Kweller – the former wunderkind of the band Radish – was the most conventional act of the day churning through a solid country-rock set that seemed balanced between equal parts of the Flying Burritto Brothers – thanks to pedal steel guitarist Rich Hinman – and Steve Forbert.
Songs Without Borders
New York Times
With those books as guides I set out in May to find Chalino’s legacy — to dive into the world of Mexican regional music a hugely varied landscape of which narcocorridos are the most notorious part. For company I sought out two friends in Los Angeles who are also musicians Pablo Alvarado (bass guitar and vocals) and mar León (accordion and vocals). I knew them from their day jobs as immigrant organizers but I also knew that like Latinos all over they are steeped in corridos and could answer my questions about songs by singing every word. For a week Pablo mar and I went to bars clubs and music shops. We visited musicians backstage and in their homes. We went to swap meets a key distribution point for new music.
A plucky traveller
The Age
LizaPower reports. TW weeks ago Lulo Reinhardt played a gig in Germany toan audience that bobbed to each tune from the shallows of anopen-air swimming pool. While their bathing caps shone in themoonlight and the water rippled not far from his feet Reinhardtplucked away at his guitar wondering as one or another gig-goertook the occasional duck-dive what his signature brand of Gypsyjazz might sound like from the depths. If there was a certain irony to playing a sound pioneered in thesmoky backstreet jazz bars of 1930s Paris by his legendarygreat-uncle Django Reinhardt to a crowd of affluent bikini-cladGerman holidaymakers Reinhardt is reluctant to acknowledge it. Heis not choosy about where he plays he says ”just so long aspeople like my music”. Australian audiences certainly seem to. ver the coming weeksReinhardt will play about 30 gigs across Australia on his sixthvisit here since 2003.
Rock opera brewed for many years
Baltimore Sun
It all takes place in “the mythical land of Brotopia. ” Decent folk are oppressed by the Dark King Lothario who is guarded by minotaurs and partakes of “some really oddball S&M. There’s also a ravenous monster known as Gründle who plays a mean guitar called the Gründlehämmer. His playing disarms his victims. The downtrodden Brojans embrace a young lad Benedon who gains sufficient guitar wisdom to stand up against the enemies of the people using the force of “old time rock and roll. ” By the final curtain there is a significant body count. Bass player Tyler Merchant sees the action as “a modern interpretation of a fairy tale.
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