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Glenn Hughes interview about Black Country Communion album Afterglow
Friday, 15 February 2013
Here's a legendary bass player in that episode #185 with Glenn Hughes (aka @glenn_hughes on Twitter) who is currently playing with Black Country Communion with Joe Bonnamassa.
He is not only a great bass player but also a very unique singer with a voice you recognize at the first word of a lyric.
Extracts from "Afterglow" played before the interview :
+ Cry Freedom
+ Afterglow
+ Common Man
+ Crawl
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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Hello,
First update after the launch of Project Frankenstrat with the first pictures of body manufactured by EG Solidbody.
There is a lot of information on the Internet about the wood used on the Frankenstrat. The problem is that all this information does not agree!
However there seem to be a general agreement toward Ash.
As a big fan of Eddie Van Halen, I long caressed the dream to add to my harem of girlfriends (aka my guitars) a Frankenstrat.
I've always been fascinated by electric guitars with a single pickup (Les Paul Jr, SG Jr, Esquire, etc.) and the Frankenstrat is a very good specimen of that category.
So the Frankenstrat Project is born!
Objective of the project: build a replica as faithful as possible of the famous Frankenstrat guitar in its version called VH1 (Van Halen 1) in a reasonable budget (see below).
As I say often, there will never be too many blogs and podcasts about guitar, that's why I am very happy to present you with an interview of Jonathan Bloomer who manages the excellent Guitarnoize I am a big fan of.
Yes, we both talk about guitars. No, we are not competitors.
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Steve Lukather interview about Transition, a great solo album
Friday, 18 January 2013
For the release of his solo album Transition I had the pleasure to meet Steve Lukather for a video interview. I have fond memories of playing over and over a VHS tape (yes, I am that old) where Steve explained his licks so you can imagine I was quite thrilled to meet the man himself.
Subjects discussed during the interview
+ His new guitar, the Luke III from Ernie Ball Music Man
+ The recording of his latest solo album Transition (which I think is great)
+ His guitar playing over the years
+ His current projects
+ And many more
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Dear artists, give me the means to listen to your music properly. Let me download it!
Even now, some artists with whom I come into contact suggest I listen to their music online either through Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube or other similar services.
These tools are very good to discover the music of a musician but not really suitable for quality listening in my opinion.
I prepare my interviews by listening to an album many times on my stereo at home or on my iPhone with a good pair of headphones.
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We all have in mind the slightly annoying synth riff of "The Final Countdown" when it comes to Europe.
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It seems that the countries from northern Europe have something special to have so many incredible guitar players, Mika Tyyskä from Finland and also known as Mr Fastfinger is one of them.
"In Motion" is a great music album full of superb guitar playing. Yes you will hear some heavy shredding in there but this is NOT your typical shredder's album, it's way more than that.
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For the first time ever in the show I present you with an interview of an american musician whose main instrument is NOT the guitar but her great voice.
Beth Hart has played with so many guitar players (from Jeff Beck to Joe Bonnamassa) I thought it was interesting to interview her.
Her last album Bang Bang Boom Boom is full of great songs and cool guitar tones by Randy Flowers.
I can also highly recommend the album she has recorded with Joe Bonnamassa "Don't
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It's a very special interview I propose you in this show because you might not know that but I am a big fan of Rory Gallagher who died in 1995 so I jumped on the occasion to interview Rory's brother, Donal, who followed him a lot on the road and who his taking care of Rory's legacy now.
In this interview Donal tells the whole story about how Rory almost joined the Rolling Stones after Mick Taylor quit in 1974.
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Marty Friedman is one of those guitar super stars who seems to be going from one project to another non-stop.
I had the pleasure to catch him on Skype for the interview you will hear in this episode.
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I was very happy to interview Simon McBride (aka @smcbridemusic) via Skype as his music kept on showing up when I did some listening in shuffle mode to go through all the music I receive.
And each time it happened I said to myself "I really MUST have this guy in the show!".
That's the method I use: I hit play and if the music I hear interests me I take a note.
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For this episode I am very happy to present you with an interview from guitar super star Richie Kotzen (aka @Richie_Kotzen) himself! He was in Paris a couple of weeks ago for a concert and I had the opportunity to meet him right before the gig.
I cannot recommend enough his latest CD "24 Hours" which is shock full of good songs, excellent singing and awesome guitar parts.
Extracts from his album "24 hours" played before the interview:
+ Get It On
+ 24 Hours
+ I Don't Know Why
+ Help Me
Richie's guitar pics right before the show (notice the
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I am very happy to present you with the second interview on the Channel of a women guitar player with Clare Free (aka @ClareFree1).
As a reminder the first women interviewed was Heike Matthiesen whom I interviewed in french in episode #103 at last year MusikMesse.
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Another guitar super star on this episode with none other than Lee Ritenour. I had the opportunity to call him on his cell during a 15 minute break he was taking during a recording session of his next album.
The Six String Theory website: sixstringtheory.com
Extracts played before the Lee Ritenour interview
In the episode you will get to hear three extracts from the "Six String Theory" album published in 2010:
Lay It Down (feat. Lee Ritenour & John Scofield)
68 (feat. Neal Schon, Slash & Steve Lukather)
Why I Sing the Blues (feat. Keb' Mo', B.B.
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Hello,
Last week in episode #145 I published the interview with Eric Bibb, now is the time to enjoy a song performed by him and beautifuly filmed as always by my usual partner in crime for video, Nicolas Esposito (aka @nesposit) from Rendez-Vous Création.
The link to Nicolas's blog post on his own website is here.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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It's a great pleasure for me to present you with a second interview with the great blues man Eric Bibb (aka @ericbibb). The first one is in episode #68.
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Last week I published the Bryan Beller interview in this episode, this week none other than Guthrie Govan himself.
As you can guess I was thrilled to speak to Guthrie who is one of the srongest rising star of guitar playing.
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The Aristocrats is what you can call a super group with Guthrie Govan on the guitar, Bryan Beller on bass on Marco Minnemann on drums. I had the great opportunity to talk to 2 out of the 3 members of the band.
Here is part 1 of 2 with the interview of Bryan Beller who also played with none other than Steve Vai among many others.
I tremendously enjoyed the Aristocrats debut album.
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I am happy to present you with an interview of Tony Macalpine, one of the not-so-numerous survivor of the 80s shredder era.
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Philip Sayce (aka @philipsayce on Twitter) is a very prolific and talented singer and guitar player, here he is with another very powerful album called Steamroller (Release date: February 27th 2012).
To speak about it we did a Skype interview just last week so, hot from the press if I can say, here is the second interview of Philip on The Guitar Channel (the first one is in this episode).
Steamroller extracts played before the interview
Steamroller
Black Train
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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For the second time I had the pleasure to meet and interview Bjorn Berge the great norwegian guitar player. The first time was last year in this episode. The guy can be pretty intimidating but he is very cool and extremely nice.
I was at his New Morning show the night before we did the interview, he gave a superb show. The place was packed and the crowd very responsive to Bjorn.
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I met Eric McFadden when he was in Paris for a couple of shows as well as promoting his latest album "Bluebird On Fire".
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After the interview published in episode #124, here is the video of "Pound Of Flesh" song from the lasted Popa Chubby album "Back To New-York City".
Once more, Nicolas Esposito de Rendez-Vous Création has done a great job to capture on video this moment.
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For the 2nd time (see this episode for the 1st interview), I had the pleasure to interview Popa Chubby as he was in paris to promote his latest album Back To New York City. After the interview we did a video recording of the song Pound Of Flesh you will see in next week episode.
Meeting and interviewing Popa is always some kind of adventure, this time we were supposed to to the interview in a radio studio but during the show he broke two strings so we had to go back to the hotel to get some new strings.
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Do you have any idea how it feels to get to interview such a guitar legend a Mr Leslie West??
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Hello,
Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music of the Popa Chubby interview I did back in episode #81.
Link to the PDF transcription
Good reading,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music of the Bjorn Berge interview I did back in episode #78.
Link to the PDF transcription
Good reading,
Pierre.
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Hedras Ramos interview - For the first time ever, a guitar player from Central America on show, please meet Hedras Ramos from Guatemala! This musician is only 19 but is showing a musical maturity way beyond his age. His latest album (no, it is not his first CD, it's the third one!) "Atoms And Space" is a great CD I took a lot of pleasure to discover.
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Guitar video soundseeing: Rittenhouse Telecaster (@AbeRittenhouse)
Saturday, 02 July 2011
Here is a video soundseeing of my beautiful Rittenhouse Telecaster (www.rittenhouseguitars.com).
Direct link to the m4v file: LCG-111-20110702.m4v
The whole Rittenhouse Telecaster Story of this guitar is there in 5 parts:
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
If you want sone more there is another video in french here and also an audio only episode with a soundseeing of the same guitar here.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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