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REVIEW: Extreme – Saudades de Rock
Extreme may always be best known to the world at large for the acoustic hit ‘More Than Words,’ but rock fans know the band’s real bread and butter was a funky, harmony-driven rock sound which was equal...
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INTERVIEW: Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is heading out on tour in the US and Canada to support his latest CD, Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, a psychedelic mish-mash of funky grooves, wild improvisations,...
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NEWS: I Heart Guitar mentioned on Melodicrock.com
Pretty exciting day here in I Heart Guitar land, as my blog is mentioned in today’s news update on melodicrock.com. I first heard of this site many many years ago in an edition of Guitar For The...
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NEWS: First Chickenfoot music!
QUICK! Head over to this site right now (okay, finish reading this story first, then head over) to hear the first music from Chickenfoot, the supergroup featuring Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Chad Smith...
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WILTOTWTWT – Van Halen Live: Right Here, Right Now
Here’s another in my awkwardly-titled occasional series WILTOTWTWT, or “What I listened to on the way to work today.” At the moment I’m preparing my articles for the next edition of Mixdown Magazine....
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NEW GEAR DAY: E-Bow
I’ve read about E-Bows for years – stretching back to when Eddie Van Halen used one for the intro to ‘Spanked’ on Van Halen’s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge – and when the Australian government decided...
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INTERVIEW: Joe Satriani
You have to have been living in some kind of coop to not have heard about Chickenfoot, the new supergroup featuring Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Mike Anthony and Chad Smith. Far from just being a mixture...
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NEWS: Guitar Hero: Van Halen song list
Now, I’ve never played Guitar Hero. While I’m glad it exists and I’ve seen the benefits first hand in terms of getting kids interested in playing real guitar, well, I have real guitars. But the kids of...
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NAMM: Peavey Michael Anthony VB-MA Amp
Would Van Halen I be as iconic if it didn’t kick off with Michael Anthony’s couldn’t-be-more-simple-or-more-cool intro to ‘Runnin’ With The Devil’? …Look, I’m gonna say no. Mike was a huge part of Van...
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BVB Hits Back At ‘Fake Cab’ Haters
The other day a photo surfaced on the internets of Black Veil Brides performing with some dummy speaker cabs – empty cabinets placed on stage for visual effect. And I guess BVB are a band who attract a...
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My Favourite Guitar And Bass Intros
Is there anything better than a good song intro? Well, yeah. I can think of a few things, and some of them even have something to do with music. But still, there’s just something magical about a great...
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INTERVIEW: Dave Leslie of The Baby Animals
Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End (and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut), iconic Aussie rockers The Baby Animals are hitting the road for the...
View ArticleTeaser: Van Halen ‘I’m The One” Live, 1978
The really very excellent Van Halen News Desk has just posted links to a bunch of videos of Van Halen performing in Fresno in 1978 and 1979. You should head over there to see all of ‘em, but here’s an...
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Incoming New Guitar Day: Squier Bass VI
Sometimes it’s nice to treat yerself (even if it means living on ramen noodles for a few weeks), so to celebrate two years of my super-awesome job I’m treating myself to a Squier Vintage Modified Bass...
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Introducing Black Lightning Gallery
Are you a fan of great guitar music? Of course you are. Do you need some inspiration for the wall of your music space? Maybe a shrine to your favourite artists? Or just something cool to hang above...
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EVH 5150III 1×12 50-watt combo amp
Gooood… goooooooood. Eddie Van Halen’s EVH has announced the release of the long-awaited 5150III 50-watt combo amp with a single 12″ speaker and power scaling. Note that it’s a pretty damn big amp –...
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New Van Halen Live Album Details
Okay, so you’ve surely heard by now that Van Halen will release their first ever live album to feature David Lee Roth. There was, of course, Live: Right Here, Right Now back in the 90s, and I wore that...
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Van Halen fans (in the USA), rejoice! The band is hitting the road for a greatest hits tour this year, and they’ll kick off preparations with a performance for Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 30. They’ll...
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Cool Gear Alert: MXR EVH5150 Chorus
Some of my favourite recorded chorus sounds are courtesy of one Mr. Eddie Van Halen. Whether using an actual chorus pedal or setting his Eventide harmonizers to a slight pitch-shift, Eddie’s given us a...
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