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Merry Christmas Everybody 12/25/07

Woozyfly.com the online music media company devoted to independent artists, is celebrating the memory of legendary Blues and Rock guitarist Rory Gallagher, with an Exclusive World Premiere Tribute Concert Presentation, "The Spirit of Rory Gallagher" on Friday, December 21st.

Shot at New York City's Murray Street Grill, the concert features covers of Rory Gallagher's best work by some the rock and blues community most established performers. Jeff Simon (drummer for George Thorogood), Innes Sibun (guitarist for Robert Plant), Roger Earl (drummer for Foghat), Pete Brown (lyricist for Cream and vocalist for Jack Bruce), Kerry Kearney (guitarist for the Kerry Kearney Band), Nathaniel Peterson (bassist and vocalist for Savoy Brown), and Vince Converse (guitarist for Sunset Heights) performed such classics as "Lonesome Highway," which Gallagher never performed live in concert, "Bullfrog Blues," "Messin' With The Kid," and "Going To My Home Town." Woozyfly.com 12/20/07

That's just gay. Real guitars are for old people. 12/19/07

Tyler Dow Bryant is one hot Texas teen. He has worked with the likes of Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Chris

Duarte, Brent Rowan, Albert Lee, Steve Lukather, Don and Donnie Nelson, Sean Neff, Wes Jeans, Alan Haynes, Dickey Betts, and many more. At the age of 15, Tyler got his first endorsement with Ernie Ball/Music Man. On May 5, 2007, Steven and Michael Johnson presented Tyler with the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation's New Generation Award, naming him the most promising blues artist of 2007. Tyler, who is influenced by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Alan Haynes, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, B. B. King and other blues legends, has made quite a name for himself. Check it out for yourself at his website. 12/19/07

Memories of guitar making
About 70 former employees of the Gibson guitar factory that was once in downtown Kalamazoo met in September at the VFW Hall in Otsego for their annual reunion. As they slowly die off their beautiful creations last on into history to be enjoyed for future generations. c/o Kalamazoo Gazette 12/19/07

HONEYDRIPPER hits the sweet spot with deep blues. 'Honeydripper,- the acclaimed new film written,

directed and edited by John Sayles, revisits the genesis of rock 'n' roll - namely '50s rural blues from the Deep South. The story depicts a second chance for an aging bluesman, the kickoff to a young guitar turk's career and the rise of rock 'n' roll itself. Opening in New York and Los Angeles December 28 and nationally in January and February, the soundtrack to this blues music-themed period film includes new songs by Keb' Mo', Mable John and guitar phenom Gary Clark, Jr., who appears in the film as well. The album also contains a new song by the incomparable Ruth Brown, the last recorded before her death in 2006. Rhino Records will release the soundtrack February 5, which will be available in stores and online at www.rhino.com 12/18/07

SOMA fm Looking for a eclectic, irreverent holiday broadcast? Well one of my favorite online stations is warmed up for the holidays. They also have some tasty groove and beat stations that I like to use as background sounds to practice to. Xmas is Frisco may not be suitable for all ages so fuck off kids. 12/17/07

John C. Reilly, who in the past 20 years has become one of America's hardest working and most reliable

character actors, is touring as his Walk Hard cinematic alter-ego Dewey Cox. RetroCRUSH was lucky enough to watch his show from the front row as he entertained a packed crowd at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on December 10th. Read More at RetroCRUSH 12-17-07

Dean Guitars has announced the release of the Dime ML War Camo, an American-made production

piece of an ML that late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott modded out prior to his death. Most recognizable is the famous Dime 333 symbol. Long Live Dimebag 12/13/07

The "Guitar Hero" series might be all the rage for amateur axers, but if your done playing around and

really want to learn something try the Fretlight FG-431 Vintage Electric Guitar ($549.95, Optek Music Systems) is a serious teaching tool masquerading as a classic Fender Telecaster that uses LED light to teach chords and runs. AP story here. 12/12/07

LONDON - DECEMBER 10: *** EXCLUSIVE ACCESS *** (PREMIUM PRICING APPLIES) Robert Plant, Jimmy

Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham of Led Zeppelin perform on stage during the Led Zeppelin Tribute To Ahmet Ertegun concert, held at the O2 Arena on December 10, 2007 in London, England. (Photo by Ross Halfin/Exclusive by Getty Images) 12/10/07

Meet Teenar, Girl Guitar. That's Lou Reimuller (the creator), playing Teenar back in 1986. It's an old

mannequin that he transformed into a guitar. Ok, that's just weird. What's next, pedophile steel guitar? Linkage here 12/10/07 thanks J-Walk Blog

Ugliest Rock Star

The Anniston Star named Shane MacGowan as the ugliest rock star. He's a singer and guitar player in The Pogues. According to Wikipedia...
Shane Patrick MacGowan (born December 25, 1957 in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom) is best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues, and is considered one of the most important and poetic Irish songwriters of the last thirty years, often echoing his influences such as Irish playwright Brendan Behan and songwriter Dominic Behan in his writing style...12/10/07

So yesterday we had the 28 most recognized guitars and police today unearthed the bodies of fifty

guitars buried under a vacant flat in East London. Sources close to police suggest the guitars were victims of homemade relic jobs gone bad, but an official statement from authorities is yet to be made. Today the 50 Ugliest Guitars of 2007. c/o GuitarSite.com 12/7/07

The 28 Most Recognizable Guitars. We salute rock & roll's most iconic tool of the trade since stuffed

spandex — the multi-necked, fur-lined, flame-throwing masterpieces that remain as influential as the shredders who strapped them on. c/o Blender 12/6/07

A bumbling private eye was caught with his pants down - literally - when he broke into Soundgarden

frontman Chris Cornell's Beverly Hills pad and used his bathroom. The gumshoe had been hired by Cornell's bitter ex-wife, Susan Silver, to serve the rocker with papers stating that she was suing her ex over the ownership of 15 guitars. But when P.I. Matthew Turner showed up at the house, Cornell wasn't home and he let himself in. Too bad it was all caught on camera. In 2004 Cornell "shocked" Silver with divorce papers and now the bitch won't give him his guitars back. c/o NYPost.com 12/6/07

I remember waking one morning in the early 90's and my favorite metal station had turned to Mexican

music. Resurrected as an internet only radio station it still plays some of my favorite songs of all time. While the radio station is not really new I wanted to pass the link along to any heavy metal fans who may not be aware that the "pure rock" of KNAC still exists. Ahh... L.A. in the late 80's and early 90's. Big hair, tight jeans and that's just what the guys were wearing. knac.com 12/6/07

Frank Zappa dead of prostate cancer on this day in 1993, Los Angeles at age 52. 12/4/07

Photoshopped Guitars At Freaking News: Guitars pictures. Photoshop any guitars any way you wish.

Some examples are: designing new guitars, changing their shape or size, merging guitars with other objects or animals, adding guitars to the old paintings, etc. Some cool stuff. 12/4/07

Mr. Blackbird Rider. The guitar is made of carbon fiber, which is generally used as the structural skin of the

most advanced planes, bikes, race cars and even spaceships. They say they chose it because it sounds great, is bomb-proof and allows them to break out of the two-dimensional constraints of designing out of wood. Bomb proof? Just in case a bunch of fuckin' crazy terrorists want to blow my axe to bits? Kind of funky lookin'. I prefer this one instead. compositeacoustics.com 12/03/07

Experiencing The Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Project 11/30/07

Feel good story of the day as Ohio rocker is reunited with his 2 bass guitars. Gerard Dominick is hard to miss — a barrel-chested 6-foot-4, 285-pounder with a brooding gaze and a Fu Manchu beard. He looks like a professional wrestler, and he has an oversize, outgoing personality to match. When he met the guy who stole his guitars, he said. ''I really wanted to play Mr. Potato Head with him for a few minutes,'' he admitted, ''removing body parts and replacing them in hilarious locations.'' Police took over and a public outpouring of support including more than 60 e-mails from musicians he knows and musicians he's never met, a community of people who were willing to help with loaned gear, calls to music stores — whatever he needed. Read the whole story here. Remember kids DO NOT leave shit in your van overnight! 11/30/07

iCoustic Guitar Enables One Man Jam Band. This is a cool accessory for your acoustic guitar. The iCoustic

guitars are created using the smaller travel models from various big name guitar manufacturers like Taylor, Martin, and Yamaha. The built-in self-amplification switch amps up the guitar's resonance, so it sounds like a full-sized model. What really makes the axe Gearlog-worthy, however, is the "MP3 Mode," which let's users dock their DAPs on the iCoustic, which serves as speaker, making for on-the-fly multi-tracking, so you can bust out wicked solos on every song from the Supertramp back catalog that you have stored in your iPod. You can also input various effects and recording devices directly into the iCoustic.
The current selection of guitars runs from $499 to $749, depending on the manufacturer of the base guitar. All models are powered by a single nine-volt. Check it out here. 11/29/07

Welcome to his (drug-free) jungle. He says he's no guitar hero but we know better. Slash tells Brad Wheeler about life with

Guns N' Roses, and how he almost died of rock-star excess. Saw him this past summer with Velvet Revolver and they he completely kicked everyone's asses. More here. 11/29/07

Happy Birthday Jimi. Check out one of my Hendrix paintings by clicking here. 11/27/07

This has got to be one of my favorite casemods in a while. Guitar geek Ben Lewry had an old laptop

lying around and decided to see if he could cram it inside of the body of an electric guitar. The end result is a slick, interactive music device called the LCDetar. Lewry configured a music visualizer on the screen of the computer which displays a kaleidoscope of patterns as he rocks out on the guitar. More here www.technabob.com 11/26/07

A Glasgow resident recently paid the equivalent of $170,000 for a pair of tickets—face value $510—to Led Zeppelin’s December 10 London reunion show, but another U.K. rock fan got a considerably better bargain.
While John Lydon was recently grousing, “Do you know how broke the Pistols were? Until that ’96 reunion tour, we never got a pay-off at all. We never saw a penny.”
British music sources reported two admissions to this week’s Sex Pistols’ show in Glasgow sold via eBay for precisely that amount: one pence each. —Jerry McCulley c/o www.Gibson.com 11/26/07

Now! you find the source for fine selections of quality Japanese guitars and related goods. Ahhh your quest is complete round eye. www.guitarjapan.com 11/26/07

The Wylde man of rock has done it again (with a little help from Gibson) a unique and rare Gibson

Custom Shop Zakk Wylde Flying V Bullseye guitar. Only 100 of these beauties are being made at the Gibson Custom Shop. Designed after Zakk's own Flying V Custom. Comes with a signed certificate from Zakk himself. Grab this bitch while it lasts. Street price is said to be running around $4500, so bring your checkbook. What gets me is it looks like a regular V nothing like the photo at left that looks to be some kind of SG + V highbred. I like the Floyd Rose cause nothing is more fun than jerkin' on your whammy. Not up on the Gibson site yet so stay tuned. www.zakkwylde.com 11/21/07

Former lead singer of CREED, Scott Stapp, loves Gibson guitars and is running his own promotion to give away one of his Les Pauls. Visit his MySpace for more information. Judas Priest on a cross, what the fuck, is this guy for real? First he gets popped after popping his wife in the mouth, now he makes some last ditch effort to keep his fugly face in the spotlight. Pray for this guy...wait that won't help... even God hates Creed. 11/21/07

Oh Johnny Winter what has become of you? Saw him at a show in Arroyo Grande a couple months ago

and what a disappointment. Gone was most of the blistering fretwork from days long ago he almost seemed to be playing rhythm all night long. They drag his ragged carcass out to the edge of the stage and plop his wrinkly, old, white body into a fuckin' lawn chair. He pulls out some deformed headless flying V type of axe that's buzzing like a hive of killer bees and he stares at his fingers all night long. Nothing like the mad man of Winterland I remember from my youth. The crowd was so quiet I thought I was at the opera. I actually got chastised by some mother fucker for making too much noise. TO MUCH NOISE? It's a concert asshole. Not to bust the balls of a Texas legend. But his day, sadly, has passed and I'll cherish my "Second Winter" album and dream of days gone by. 11/21/07

Bitch, you got that living room cleaned up yet? 11/21/07

Curt Mangan Strings may not be for everyone, but they are perfect for those tired of mass-marketed products

and manufacturing mediocrity. Tone is a guitar player's passion and Curt knows all about it. He worked for Ernie Ball before starting his own company and he doesn't scrimp on materials or take shortcuts. My personal experience is with him is I loved the extra, extra heavy bottom on the sets of Boomers I played (.010 .013 .017 .036 .052 .060) but the quality was shit and they didn't last for 2 weeks. I talked to Curt and he made the same set for me but the quality was above and beyond anything I expected. Try a set you won't be disappointed. www.curtmangan.com/site/index.php 11/21/07

Priceless 11/21/07

Visit Mr. Fastfingers www.guitarshredshow.com 11/21/07

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