INTERVIEW: Gibson.com Slash interview

Great video interview with Slash from Gibson.com talking about his upcoming self titled solo album and the gorgeous Slash Appetite For Destruction Les Paul:

INTERVIEW: Paul Gilbert Guitar Edge Magazine

Check out this interview with Paul Gilbert in the latest Guitar Edge Magazine:

From that and your huge body of work, it’s obvious that you’re very motivated. Where does your drive come from?

My motivation varies radically, depending on my environment and mindset. I have to thank my parents for always having good music playing on the stereo when I was a kid, and for creating an atmosphere that encouraged creativity in general. I saw some great concerts when I was a kid, too: Van Halen, Ozzy with Randy Rhoads, Pat Travers, UFO, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Saxon, and others. These all inspired me enormously. And now I have live shows and recording deadlines to inspire me. Plus, watching this one video of Gary Moore on YouTube—search for “Gary Moore Lesson,” it will blow your mind. The tour I did with G3 was very motivating, as well. Overall, though, as much as I fancy myself a staunch individualist, my strongest motivation comes from knowing I’ll be having some kind of interaction with other human beings. It can be teaching one student, playing for an audience of 10,000, or anything in between. Book a gig, and you will be motivated!

INTERVIEW: Guthrie Govan Premier Guitar Magazine

Thanks to Jon over at guitarnoize for the heads up, great interview with Guthrie Govan in latest Premier Guitar Magazine.

You want to do it all in one big shot.

Yeah. I’ve tried one way of doing an album, which is using some tunes that I wrote nearly twenty years ago, some tunes I wrote ten years ago, and a couple that I wrote fairly recently. It’s this big sprawling conglomera- tion of things that I’ve done over the years.

I know what it’s like to make an album that sounds like that. I want to explore doing it the opposite way so I can learn something about the whole working process. It’s more about continuity and just being able to come up with everything in one period of time. I find that if you can lock yourself away from the rest of the world just for a few days, gradually you start to go mad in all the right ways. You start to feel more creative and then you’re surprised at what comes out. So, rather than planning what kind of album it’s going to be, the plan is to lock myself away, go slightly mad and see what comes out.

INTERVIEW: Guthrie Govan Lick Library

Spotted over on the GG forum fabulous lengthy interview with Guthrie Govan by Michael Casswell featuring plenty of the bearded master’s playing as well!

INTERVIEW: dirtbox.net Interview with… me! :)

Another missed bit of bloggage.

About a month ago I was honoured to be asked to be interviewed for www.dirtbox.net’s ‘Tone Of The Stars’

Who are dirtbox.net I hear you ask? Well in their own words:

Dirt Box is designed to gather all of that information for you and put it all in one place. We give our honest opinions of the pedals on show in our review sections and in the information area we try to give you an opinion based on what we know about the pedal, the company who designed it, the components inside of it, etc…etc…

There are literally thousands of Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz and Boost pedals out there and Dirt Box aims to track as many down as we can and provide as much information as possible on the pedals. We don’t just cover the ’boutique’ pedals either! At Dirt Box you will find information on EVERY pedal we find from copanies such as Boss, Modtone, and Behringer right up to the high-end custom made pedals by BK Butler, Analogman, and more!

Piece by piece, pedal by pedal we are building an exhaustive database of Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz, and Boost pedals of all kinds. Enjoy!

You can check the interview out here!

INTERVIEW: iheartguitar Steve Vai

Great interview with Mr Vai from iheartguitar:

I Heart Guitar: So where to from here for the ‘ol girl?


Vai: There’s always little innovations. We’re working on a new material pattern – remember the floral pattern? Oh my gosh, we’re doing something like that again but ah, the pattern is so gorgeous. When you see it you’re going to die. And also there’s one innovation, I can’t really tell you what it is, but it’s revolutionary. It’s one of those very simple, practical things that no-one ever did, and it’s just like, ‘Well duh!’

I Heart Guitar: Is this going to be at NAMM in January?

Vai: Yeah, we’re going to have a couple of things there. NAMM show’s amazing. Just tonnes and tonnes of cool stuff!

I Heart Guitar: I notice you’ve been pictured a lot with the ‘For The Love Of God’ Universe lately. Are you using that much?

Vai: Yeah! I’m thinking of using it for my next record.

I Heart Guitar: Cool! What are the plans for the next one? How far off?

Vai: I’ve got a couple of projects I’m working on. One of them, I have to finish up this DVD (Where the Wild Things Are) which at this point means press. Then I’ve got the 25th anniversary of Flex-Able I need to complete. Then I’m getting together a big handful of songs that I’m going to be spoonfeeding digitally once a month. Because I’ve got a vault just filled with stuff in various forms of completion that never quite fit for a particular project, but now if I release them all as singles it doesn’t matter. Then I’m hoping to go into the studio and create a studio record, and I’d like to use the band that I had on the DVD.

7 Questions with Steve Vai!

Another 7 questions from Jason Shadrick, this time with Mr Steven Siro Vai.

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