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Wednesday 25th August 2010

Guitar Noize contest — Blue Noize — Maxime COTTIN entry Satriani Vox Ice 9 Distortion Pedal Loaded with personality, the Ice 9 overdrive pedal is fourth in a series of effect pedals created in collaboration between world-renowned guitarist Joe Satriani and VOX. With two distinct overdrive modes, versatile tone-shaping, and… Continue »

Andy James – Metal Rhythm Guitar in 6 weeks

Press Release – July 2010 Lick Library Launches Andy James’ Metal Rhythm Guitar in 6 Weeks Continuing in their quest to give guitarist the widest possible resources, Lick Library release the definitive Andy James’ Metal Rhythm Guitar in Six Weeks to follow on from the huge success of Andy James’… Continue »
By Dave | 07 July 2010 | Uncategorized | , | 3 Comments   

Lessons and Resources/Downloads updated!

Downloads and Resources Lessons While there are a few new reviews in the pipeline I thought it would be an idea to update some of the other pages on this site as they have been woefully underdeveloped compared to the mighty reviews database! To that end I have written a… Continue »
By Dave | 07 January 2010 | Uncategorized | | 0 Comments   

stOrk – Myspace now up/Album out Jan 2010

SO very excited to see a new album out in 2010 – I think Shane’s an awesome player who should start to recieve a lot more press atention after this release! Check out his instructional DVD review here I don’t know a great deal about Eloy (sorry dude!!) but Thomas… Continue »
By Dave | 26 December 2009 | Uncategorized | , | 1 Comment   

Rage Against the Machine – Christmas number one in the UK

Merry Christmas Simon Cowell! A triumph for those who can actually play their chosen instruments against the corporate marketing machine as personified by you. Please do us all a favour — cuddle up to the millions you earned by exploiting the dreams of others and put a match to them…. Continue »

Merry Christmas!!

This site is one of the things that has helped retain my sanity this year, and the positive reponse I’ve recieved from people has helped me get through some difficult times. Hopefully in 2010 I can go from strength to strength and try to reciprocate some of that love and… Continue »
By Dave | 20 December 2009 | Uncategorized | | 0 Comments   

IMPORTANT – Recategorisation

Hi Folks! In order to streamline the site and optimise it for search engines I’ve removed a lot of the unneccesary categories that reviews were listed under and instead opted to place each under it’s most relevant Genre – be that Rock, Metal, Country, Blues, Jazz or Fusion. Now, at… Continue »
By Dave | 18 December 2009 | Uncategorized | | 0 Comments   

Expanding our reviews base – with your help

Even while the site has only been in existence a short period of time it has come to my attention that in order to reflect the current trends in high-tech guitar playing I need to find more material to review which reflects contemporary techniques, tones, styles and theoretical bases. No… Continue »
By Dave | 17 September 2009 | Uncategorized | | 0 Comments   

Keith Wyatt – Electric Slide Guitar

In this CD+book package Keith takes the prospective Blues man through a comprehensive examination of Blues slide guitar as well as a nod of the head towards it’s most famous exponents. Starting from the very basics with how to find a slide of the correct dimensions he then goes on… Continue »
By Dave | 17 September 2009 | Uncategorized | , | 0 Comments   

Johnathan Strange – Riff Training

Johnathan Strange – RIff Training One of the most unique books in the list – Mr Strange leaves a lot of the atypical shred excercises to other players in order to concentrate on more musically relevant topics such as knowledge of Rhythm in the form of note subdivisions, combination of… Continue »
By Dave | 16 September 2009 | Metal,Uncategorized | | 0 Comments