A thankless task for Laurie and Milan, but they somehow managed to pick an awesome top three from the hundreds of great entries in the “T-Rex Monster Pedal Competition“:

In descending order the winners are:

1) Emiliano Zapata

Congratulations to the guys, great solos and many thanks to Laurie and Milan for the hard work and time in putting on another cool competition!

The *amazing* Marco Sfogli has teamed up with truthinshredding for ‘Shred This Too!’:

HOW TO ENTER: Truth In Shredding and Marco Sfogli wants you to shred this too!!

Marco Sfogli wants you to play… so Truth In Shredding has lined up this awesome judging firepower:

Marco Sfogli: http://www.marcosfogli.com
Rick Graham: http://youtube.com/starlinginspector
Tom Quayle: http://youtube.com/tq105
Magnus Olsson: http://www.magnusolsson.com
Chris Brooks: http://www.chrisbrooks.net

The Prizes:
1 Tom Quayle: Toadworks John Bull Mark III
2 Magnus Olsson: Ibanez SM7 Smash Box
3 Marshall Harrsion: signed guitar transcription volume 1
4 Richie Kotzen: signed Peace Sign
5 Lori Linstruth, Arjen Lucassen: signed Guilt machine

How you enter

1 Download the backing track http://tiny.cc/sfoglibt
2 video your response solo
3 Complete the entry form http://tiny.cc/sfogliform
4 and then post your video in response to this video: http://www.youtube.com/video_response_upload?v=Q9QH-2U9W2M
5 promote your video
6 Win!

What we are looking for: Great improvisation or composition. great tone, note selection A one take solo, no harmonies, no double tracking, one guy, one guitar, just you against the backing track.

Good Luck

Catching up on some missed bloggage thought I’d kick things off with the Evening News review of Return Of The Forbidden Planet -

The show experience was amazing, had an awesome time!

…and back!

Been a hectic couple of months but hopefully now will have more time to get back to some bloggin, riffin’ and playin’!

Speaking of which was glad to see I hadn’t missed the deadline on a very cool competition being hosted by the mighty Milan Polak:

Your chance to win a FREE T-Rex ToneBug Overdrive, ToneBug Reverb or copy of “Murphy’s Law” (Lion Music)! Follow the instructions in the video:
1) All entries MUST subscribe to Milan Polak’s YouTube channel first!
2) Download the “Torn” playback track: http://bit.ly/trex-bt
3) Record your own solo on video
4) MUST post as video response to THIS video!

All entries must be submitted BEFORE 7th of December 2009!!
Winners will be announced 14th of December 2009!!!

I’m always up for competitions like this so here’s my entry!