NEWS: Help Guthrie Govan, Seth Govan and Dave Kilminster find their stolen gear

Spotted this on the Guthrie forum last night, Dave Kilminster had posted the following on his Facebook page:

please keep a look out for two Brunetti heads (serial numbers 105 and 106) and two Brunetti cabinets that someone may be trying to sale on cheaply… possibly in Brunetti flight cases… Our van was broken into in Rome yesterday afternoon, and roughly £20,000 of amps, leads, guitar pedals and drum parts were stolen… including Seth’s favourite bass, that he’s had for twenty years!!! Fortunately ‘Rose’ was with me, and Guthrie still has his signature Suhr guitar..

Further to this Guthrie Govan has posted the following detailed info on the equipment stolen:

Guthrie Govan’s stolen gear list

Dave and Guthrie’s guitar gear

2x Brunetti Mercury heads, serial numbers ME10550 and ME10650 (in flight cases)
2x Brunetti 4×12 cabinets (in flight cases)

Dave’s pedals:

Boss Chorus Ensemble
Boss TU-2 tuner
Boss digital reverb
Xotic Effects “EP” Booster
Suhr Riot distortion
Dunlop Van Halen Signature Cry Baby wah
Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal

Guthrie’s pedals:


(mounted in a distinctively crappy-looking “tea tray” pedalboard):

Xotic Effects “EP” Booster
RetroSonic “Vintage Vibes” chorus
TC Electronics Flashback delay
TC Electronics Polytune tuner
Guyatone WR-3 envelope filter
Dunlop Jerry Cantrell Signature Cry Baby wah
Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal

Seth’s bass gear

Seth and his 1989 Warwick Streamer

1989 Warwick Streamer bass, natural finish.

(Distinguishing features: smaller replacement Schaller tuners; screw for lower strap button replaced with a Philips style screw; thumb-sized indentation above the “P-Bass” pickup; long dark stripe/imperfection in the wood on the back of the bass, above the through-neck; small knot in the wood near the top of the inside upper horn…)

SWR SM900 head, serial # 4400106010
SWR Goliath 4×10 speaker cabinet (4 Ohm) serial # 4410500410
Boss OC-2 octave pedal, Boss TU-2 tuner, Boss power supply, various cables

Pete’s drum gear

1x left-handed Drum Workshop DW 5000 double kick drum pedal.

Other

1x unique bag with the emblem “Roger Waters – The Wall”
Various camcorder tapes containing yet-to-be-edited footage from a professionally filmed 3-camera shoot – for what was intended to be a live DVD of a gig we played at Lapsus, Torino

Well… profuse thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help us out with any of this!

Cheers,
GG (and the band)

Other musicians out there will know the bond we have with our instruments and equipment so if you spot anything on eBay, in shops et.c anywhere in the world then let your local authorities know and also contact Guthrie via his myspace page.

REVIEW: Jonas Tamas ‘Timeless Hour’ with guests Brett Garsed, Mattias Eklundh, Andy James and many more!

Hungarian guitar maestro Jonas Tamas has just released his second album Timeless Hour through Steve Vai’s Favoured Nations label.

A culmination of two years work Timeless Hour follows on from Jonas’ successful debut album Sharp Guitars From A Flat Planet and features guest appearances from some of the world’s top players, including the likes of Brett Garsed, Andy James, Mattias Eklundh and the legendary Troy Stetina.

The album’s opening track Rule Of Thumb, quickly sets the scene and vibe for the album with its progtastic sequenced arpeggiated keyboard intro theme, heavy riffs and melodic guitar.

The pace and sonic palette is varied though with the fantastically exotic sounding The Unbreakable, the lovely laid back piano intro and uplifting harmony guitar parts of Chance and acoustic piece Space Walk.

There is obviously some outstanding guitar technical playing on display here which helps build the intensity and excitement of the music but Jonas has a great melodic sense and touch in his playing too, as can be heard on an another album favourite of mine, Farewell, which as an added bonus also features a sublime guest solo from the mighty Brett Garsed!

In fact the quality of guests Jonas has invited to play on this album speaks volumes. Their contributions fit and compliment each song very well. Especially the combination of the phenomenal Andy James and keyboardist Sergey Boykov on Borderline.

Not only did Jonas mix and produce the album but, excluding the guest solos, the entire album, guitars, keyboards, bass and drums were all played and programmed by Jonas, which is an impressive feat in itself! My only personal gripe is with the sound of the programmed drums, which for me sit a little too far back in the mix. A little big bigger and splashier and the album would sound even more epic.

An eclectic mix of stunning modern guitar work that fuses elements of Rock, Fusion, Prog and Metal Timeless Hour will appeal to lovers of intense modern instrumental guitar music.

Check out Jonas’ Facebook page for audio previews and much more.

The album is available now worldwide from CD Baby and iTunes.

Album Tracklisting

1. Rules Of Thumb (featuring Marcel Coenen)
2. Debate (featuring Mattias IA Eklundh)
3. All Night Pass
4. The Unbreakable (featuring Mischa Mang, Troy Stetina and Thorsten Koehne)
5. Chance
6. Platinum
7. Farewell (featuring Brett Garsed)
8. Borderline (featuring Andy James and Mats Haugen)
9. Spacewalk
10. My Mind Is Up

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For Fans Of: Dream Theater, Marco Sfogli, Andy James

Standout tracks: The Unbreakable, Farewell

UK Release Date: Available NOW
 
 

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Jonas has recently been added to the impressive roster at jamtrackcentral.com, check out this video of him playing Zenith from his first album Sharp Guitars From A Flat Planet:

VIDEO: Guthrie Govan shows you how to play chords and tapping from ‘Bad Asteroid’

In the latest ‘Professor Shred‘ Master Govan shows us the chords and tapping section from ‘Bad Asteroid’:

ALBUM: Mark McGuigan “Merry Axemas”

Hey y’all,

For the festive period and for a bit of fun I have re-mixed and released a collection of Christmas songs I’ve recorded over the years. Be sure to check out the band camp page for more details on each recording:

About six years ago I started a little tradition of recording a festive song every Christmas for a bit of fun.

This year I thought it would be nice to collate all of those pieces into a single EP that you see here, cunningly entitled ‘Merry Axemas’

The songs vary from solo acoustic to solo jazz arrangements with a little dash of instrumental rock thrown in for good measure. They were all recorded in a slap dash manner (I’d always run out of time to record near the Christmas deadline) so don’t expect any pro mixed high class recordings here.

Please do check out each song’s info for further details on the recording of each track.

Thank you for taking the time to listen and I hope you have as much festive fun listening as I did recording

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

VIDEO: The Aristocrats live in Montreal Oct 3rd 2011

Some great official footage of The Aristocrats playing in Montreal:

VIDEO: Steve Vai working on new song “Weeping China Doll”

This is sounding awesome.

Master Vai working on a new song called “Weeping China Doll” for his next album.

Really looking forward to the new album

MasterThatRiff! 75 – Guns ‘n’ Roses “My Michelle”

TAB available here.