VIDEO: Richie Kotzen ’24 Hours’ Live

I’ve been enjoying Richie Kotzen‘s new album ‘24 hours‘ so great to see some live video pop up on the ‘tube.

Here’s a hirsute Richie playing the title track from the album at Paladino’s on November 23rd:

Buy ’24 hours’ direct from Richie Kotzen.

NEWS: Tom Quayle and Martin Miller join the jamtrackcentral roster!

Awesome news from the guys at jamtrackcentral:

We have a busy December coming up, that’s for sure. Not only do we have brand new packages coming from existing JTC artists Denny Ilett, Jonas Tamas, Vinai Trinateepakdee and Hedras Ramos but we have some amazing new artists putting together packages too. We are extremely proud to have Tom Quayle, Martin Miller and Chris Eaton joining the JTC roster and they are busy creating amazing new jam tracks as you read this.

Both Tom and Martin have a huge fan base already and are both exciting and extremely talented composers and players. We have heard sneak previews of their tracks and they are going to be amazing! Chris is a phenomenal slide guitarist and will be venturing into brand new territory with JTC’s first ever Slide Guitar Jam Package.

We are sure these guys will get a fantastic reception from the JTC community. Let’s just hope Adrian can get through all of the transcribing!

Here’s a taster of what the amazing Tom and Martin will offer:

INTERVIEW: Andy McLaughlin interviews Brett Garsed

More from the blog backlog, check out this fab interview with Brett Garsed by Andy McLaughlin:

VIDEO: Lyle Watt ‘California Girls’ (Katy Perry)

Been meaning to blog about this for a while, new baby == HUGE backlog .

Anyway, I was lucky enough to hear and see Lyle perform this superb cover at Monkeyfest 2011, and it blew me away. I’m glad to see Lyle has nipped into the studio to record a great quality version:

Check out Lyle’s debut CD, Homegrown, on CD Baby

GIG: Lick Library Live – Jamie Humphries, Stuart Bull, Danny Gill, Mike Casswell, Andy James, Tom Quayle, Rick Graham and Guitar Idol Final!

The Lick Library team are hosting one of the guitar events of the year on Saturday December 4th at The Garage in London:

Not only will you get to see some of the UK’s top players but you get to see the next generation of idols perform at the Guitar Idol Final.

A Guitaraoke competition will also be running for those brave enough to get up on stage and jam with members of the Lick Library team with the best jam of the day winning a fantastic prize!

Some tickets are still available here.

VIDEO: Zappa Plays Zappa Manchester featuring guest Guthrie Govan

Punters at the Manchester Zappa Plays Zappa gig were treated to a guest appearance of Guthrie Govan, as Dweezil himself blogged:

Tonight in Manchester my friend Guthrie Govan played with us. He’s a very fine guitarist with superhuman precision. I enjoyed having him onstage. I kept suggesting different musical styles for him to play over and he nailed all of them. Country, Lounge Jazz, super wristy funk and a Classical Etude. Then he let loose on a crazy yet musical solo before we played a few notes together.

…and luckily enough someone caught some footage of it

All hail The Govanator.

CHECK IT OUT: My Guest post on deftdigits.com about Guthrie Govan

Joe, over at the fantastic deftdigits.com site, very kindly asked if I would like to post about a favourite player of mine for his great ‘Discover a Guitarist‘ series.

I decided to write up a post about Guthrie Govan, seeing as he is finally now being recognised the World over for his supreme musical talent.

So head on over and read about how I became aware Guthrie Govan and his music with some great old video footage.

Not only that, but you also get to see some early pics of Guthrie without a beard!

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