Guthrie Govan Jamming with Jose De Castro
March 31, 2009
Spotted on truthinshredding, great to finally see videos of Guthrie Govan jamming with Jose De Castro from their recent gig in Spain. Jamming over ‘Little Wing’ and ‘Chameleon’ no less!!:
Guthrie Govan: more live footage from Spain
March 31, 2009
Some more footage ( quality not as great this time ) from GG’s gig in Spain this time playing one of my faves, ‘Sevens’:
Guthrie Govan: Spain live March 28th 2009 Video
March 30, 2009
Cool videos posted up on youtube of the bearded wonder’s recent gig in Spain:
Richard Hallebeek interviews Joe Satriani
March 29, 2009
Spotted this over on truthinshredding, Richard Hallebeek ( a great guitarist in his own right ) interviewed Satch last year on his European tour:
: Do you record direct with a Palmer of do you have an iso-cab with a mike?
‘Either the Palmer, the Marshall SE-100 (that’s an attenuator and speaker emulator-Rich)or The Transducer made by a company called SPL. I think they’re a German company, SPL. And.. I didn’t use it that much, that came later in the project. I think and old Marshall SE-100 that I found on Ebay was the one that got most usage. And you know, they’re all kind of funky. And some of them like Marshall amps and some of them like Fender amps, you know (laughs). So every once in while you come up with a sound on your amp that you like, but the Palmer doesn’t like it so I switch over to the Marshall or…I don’t know which was which but I know we used both of them during the course of the album.. all three of them. You know what I use, I have an… HD-2 Pro Tools system running a Mac.. and I bypass patch bay, I go directly into my amp, into the speaker simulator directly into Pro Tools. And I’ve got great outboard gear, but I’m generally very conservative when I record at home. So that when I go into a big studio, the sound is flat you know, as we call it. There is an unusual equalization bump because I was in a little room in my house, so.. And then, some songs..around 85% of the guitars, all of the keyboards, are all done at my home. And then, some songs like ‘Andalusia’ I did the guitars again. The electric guitar. But we kept all the pianos, the bass was done at home.’
:: What made you decide to do some parts at home or some parts at a bigger studio?
‘I think some of it is because having the privacy to reflect… is important sometimes. You know, when you’re in the studio, there is a time… problem. It costs thousands of dollars a day and people there.. people only show up if they’re being paid. And then you.. it starts to worry you. And when you have a studio at home you can record at any time, right? Right after you wake up in the morning, before you go to sleep, in the middle of the night, you know. And that means you can really forget about your career of music and so and you can concentrate solely on the music.’
Free Transcription of Greg Howe’s jam on ‘Sunny’
March 28, 2009
Recall when greg Howe posted up his very cool improv over ‘Sunny’?
Well the fantabulous Adrian Clark has posted his transcription of Greg’s solo for FREE!!
Bless his outboard ‘brane’.
Ninja2009.com Exclusive Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction and Street Sweeper EP
March 21, 2009
In support of the upcoming Nine Inch Nails, Janes Addiction and Street Sweeper tour in the US ninja2009.com is offering an exclusive downloadable EP of tracks from all three bands!
The Endless Quest For Distortion!
March 21, 2009
Nice short article from Premier Guitar looking at ‘The Endless Quest for Distortion’.
… there are many ways to get to that nirvana of singing leads, crunchy riffs and swirling jangle. I find it interesting that we’ve had the tools to create killer distorted guitar tones since the fifties, yet it wasn’t until a bit later that a few brave souls really began pushing the limits of amplifiers and defining the sounds that we still use today. When guitar amplifiers were first created the idea of “distortion” was considered a bad thing.
Very handy for the ‘teenage’ years of buzzy ‘wasp in a jam jar’ tone. I know I was that teenager many many years ago with a RAK Distortion Pedal plugged into a Solid State Marshall reverb 12 
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All praise the Valve.
