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All the video interviews done during the first day of the Holy Grail Guitar show are now available exclusively for the Backstage Pass owners.
List of the interviewees
Kaz Goto from Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars - Japan
Michido Matsuda - Japan
Juha Ruokangas - Finland
Sylvan de Relish Guitars - Switzerland
Jens Ritter - Germany
Harry Häussel - Germany
Christophe Leduc - France
Philippe Clain - France
Sophie Dockx from Dorian Guitars
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All the videos from Day 1 of the Holy Grail Guitar show
Friday, 21 November 2014
Jens Ritter is one of the guitar designer you know even though you don't know his name for sure. That's usually how popular his designs are.
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Interview of Silvan from Relish Guitars at the Holy Grail Guitar Show
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Relish Guitars are made out of aluminium. I had already heard about their product and thought it was interesting to learn some more about their technology.
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I discovered the work from Harry Häussel when I did a video review the Spartan model from luthier Mikaël Springer. So when I met in Berlin during the Holy Grail Guitar Show when he was visiting the salon I proposed him to do an interview that you see below.
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Juha Ruokangas interview – Builder of the Captain Nemo guitar
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Juha Ruokangas was one of the guitar builder I really wanted to meet during the Holy Grail Guitar Show, that's why I was thrilled to do a 45min video interview with him. Juha has established a brand so highly regarded in the guitar world that I had a tons of questions to ask him.
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Back in May 2014, Robert Cray was in Paris to promote his latest album "In My Soul".
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Michihiro Matsuda interview – A living legend of guitar building
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
There were so many great guitar builders in Berlin for the Holy Grail Guitar Show that it was a tough job to do a selection. Here's a Michihiro Matsuda interview.
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Jersey Girl Homemade guitars: interview with luthier Kaz Goto
Monday, 17 November 2014
During the first Holy Grail Guitar Show I had the great pleasure to meet the luthiers from Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars from Japan Miss Akiko Oda and Mr Kaz Goto.
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Here's the interview with Matt Schofield recorded in Paris on December 13th 2013 while he was doing some promotion for his "Far As I Can See" album.
Until the next interview, keep on playing the guitar!
Pierre.
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The ukulele is an instrument we see more and more these days. And that's a very good thing. This summer during a guitar festival called Graines de Guitare I had the pleasure to meet Taimane Gardner, one of the big star of this instrument.
She gave a great performance during the festival.
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Stephan Forte interview: Enigma Opera Black, his latest album
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Stéphan Forté is one of those French musician who is more famous in the rest of the world than in his home country.
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First Skype guitar lesson with @brunopelbac: I loved it!
Sunday, 05 October 2014
We see more and more offers of guitar lessons via Skype, I admit I was one of the skeptics until I tried it with Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert. Bruno is a pro Jazz guitar player based in San Francisco. He is French but is fully bilingual. In fact he teaches in a music university.
My goal for this Skype guitar lesson
My personal taste is definitely Rock so my goal in taking a lesson with Bruno was not to make me a Jazz musician but to expand my musical vocabulary through Jazz.
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Doug Redler is one of the top guitar tech, he has toured behind countless musicians. From Brian Ferry to K.D. Lang to the Black Crowes. He is currently working with Rich Robinson from the Crowes.
He wrote a great book to share his experience on the road.
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The video above is an extract of an interview of John Cruz, Fender Master Builder, done in Paris on September 29th 2014.
The full interview is available with the Backstage Pass.
Subjects discussed
His first guitar
How he became a master builder
How he deals with his orders
Why an old guitar is usually good
The relations with tthe other master builders from Fender
The impact of the master builder work on the production line
What he would say to Leo Fender
And more !
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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On the interview above Judge Fredd presents the Money For Nothing pedal he has developed with JMB Experience to obtain the famous Mark Knopfler sound on the Dire Straits song Money For Nothing and more.
Last year Fredd introduced also with JMB a great overdrive pedal called the Riff Shooter, the Money For Nothing has some great potential to produce not only the trademark tone but also plenty of other cool tones.
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The next 12 months will be very busy on The Guitar Channel, as were the last 12. More than ever I am determined to produce the best possible content to amplify our shared passion for the guitar.
This means in particular to be present in as many major guitar events as possible.
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Grover Jackson interview – A legendary guitar builder for GJ2 Guitars
Friday, 19 September 2014
At one point or another we all have fantasized on the Jackson guitars during the 90s. The brands Jackson and Charvel were synonymous for high performance guitars.
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Here's a YouTube Playlist with all the gear reviews produced for the show.
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Pierre.
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Thursday, 11 September 2014
You can now show your support for The Guitar Channel for less than the price of a coffee per month.
How? Via my Patreon page.
What is Patreon
The principle is simple: after you have registered on the website, you choose your pledge level, starting at $ 1 per issue published. As I publish 2 audio shows per month in English, this represents a contribution of $2 per month.
Note that all audio shows of The Guitar Channel continue to be published for free via podcast as is the case since 2009 (over 240 shows online). With Patreon, if you
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400, the figure seems huge and yet here we are: I activated yesterday the 400th Backstage Pass since the launch of the formula last year.
Thank you very much to everyone for supporting the project.
The road is still long to achieve economic viability since I work 100% on The Guitar Channel and only a quarter of the activated passes are active and paying users.
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Riccardo Gioggi contacted me in February 2013, and each time the shuffle mode on my iPhone offered me a song from his album Theory of Dynamics, I took my phone from my pocket to check-out who it was: a very good sign! I had to do an interview with this great musician from Rome, Italy.
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The Sardine Can compressor from Celmo is a high quality pedal built in France. It sounds very musical whatever the settings you use on the pedal (watch the demo video to judge by yourself). On top of the standard compressor settings which are the compression rate and volume you can change the tone of the compressor with a three position input filter (again, watch the video to hear the different tones).
It also has a Rectifier mode which adds a touch of drive to your sound if you desire so.
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Mark Tremonti interview from Alter Bridge during the 2014 Hellfest
Thursday, 04 September 2014
Here's the interview with Mark Tremonti at the 2014 Hellfest right before he went onstage with Alter Bridge.
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Pedal review of the Tanabe TV Dumkudo overdrive used by Robben Ford
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Toshihiko Tanabe from tanabe.tv builds boutique pedal for famous musicians like Robben Ford or Larry Carlton. You can read an interview with him in this article. In this Dumkudo review in video it's one of his overdrive pedal.
Here's the 20min interview with John Petrucci done in Paris right before the Dream Theater concert at the Olympia on July 7th 2014.
Subjects discussed in the interview
His first guitar, his training, his influences
The recording of the last Dream Theater album
How it was composed and recorded
The details of the gear used on the record
His approach to a concert with G3 compared to with Dream Theater
His word of wisdom to progress
Pierre.
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Do I need to write an introduction for Warren Haynes? He was in Paris for a concert with Govt Mule so I jumped on the opportunity to interview him guitar in hand to talk about Shout!, the latest Mule release, about his career so far, about his approach to guitar and many more.
Extracts from Shout!
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Tanabe TV, pedal builder for Robben Ford, Larry Carlton and more
Sunday, 17 August 2014
In July 2014 Premier Guitar released a cool Rig Rundown of Larry Carlton gear shot in his studio. The video is cool despite the fact that we don't get to hear Larry play except at the very beginning. Anyway, it's in this video (see below) that I first heard about the Zenkudo overdive pedal from tanabe.tv.
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Here's Greg Howe interview. Greg is no newbie, he has been around for a while in the guitar world. I was thrilled to see him involved in a vocal project with the band Maragold with the lead singer Meghan Krauss. Their debut album is super cool. I highly recommend it.
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The admission of failure
It had been years since I played badly intro of this fabulous piece from Creed.
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Hey Pete Thorn titled his solo album Guitar Nerd so I guess it gives me the right call him that right? If you are a gear addicts (as we all are at one level) you must have viewed one of the numerous videos Pete has on his YouTube channel.
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