Frank Deimel Interview at the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar show
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Frank Deimel Interview at the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show

Frank Deimel is based in Berlin and is also part of the European Guitar Builders association team who organized the Holy Grail Guitar Show so it was not a surprise to see him during the week-end.

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2015 WInter NAMM show, here I come!

The plane ticket to for Los Angeles is booked. I just need to find me accommodation at a reasonable price for 5 nights from 21 to 26 January. If you have family or friends in L.A., please let me know!!

I'm super excited to finally go to the NAMM show.

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Here's a special post to mention all the guitar builders who support what I do on The Guitar Channel by subscribing to an annual Backstage Pass. You have no idea what it means to me when a guitar builder shows his appreciation for my work.

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Jens Ritter interview at the Holy Grail Guitar show
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Jens Ritter instruments – 2014 Holy Grail Guitar show

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. I was very happy to meet him and do an interview during the show (see an extract below).
Photo album
One of the innovation brought by Jens for the Holy Grail Guitar Show was this incredible guitar based on his famous Princess Isabella model covered by real Converse fabric logo.

Interview of Silvan from Relish Guitars at the Holy Grail Guitar Show

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.

2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show photo album - Day 1
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2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show photos – Day 1

Below are a small selections of the 200+ photos I took during the Holy Grail Guitar Show.

2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show photo album - Day 1
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Photo album – 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show

Below are a small selections of the 200+ photos I took during the Holy Grail Guitar Show.

The 2014 Holy Grail Guitar show: the best luthier show in the world

Let me say it upfront the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show was a great success. It is without doubt the best luthiers salon I've ever been to.

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Gilad Hekselman, a rising star among the jazzmen

Following the advice from Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert I added a couple of jazzmen to my radar in order to have more Jazz guitar players featured on the show. Gilad Hekselman was in Paris in July for one night at the Duc des Lombards, I took this opportunity to interview him before the concert.

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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

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All the videos from Day 1 of the Holy Grail Guitar show
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Taimane Gardner interview: a virtuoso on ukulele

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.

Skype guitar lesson with Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert
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First Skype guitar lesson with @brunopelbac: I loved it!

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 interview: guitar tech of the stars

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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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 2014/2015 projects of The Guitar Channel

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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Watch all the gear reviews

Here's a YouTube Playlist with all the gear reviews produced for the show.

Enjoy,

Pierre.
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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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400th Backstage Pass activated: thanks!

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, an italian shredder from Italy

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.

Here's the interview with Mark Tremonti at the 2014 Hellfest right before he went onstage with Alter Bridge.

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!

Greg Howe interview: a great guitar player with Maragold

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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How to play “One Last Breath” from @Creed

The admission of failure
It had been years since I played badly intro of this fabulous piece from Creed.

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Top videos of the show

Here's a YouTube Playlist with all the most popular videos of the show with gems such as :
+ A private session with Popa Chubby
+ An interview with Steve Lukather
+ A Tommy Emmanuel soundcheck
+ A full Zane Carney Skype interview

And many more !

Enjoy,

Pierre.

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Nils Lofgren has released a retrospective of his music in the form of a box set of 9 discs! Given his career, especially playing with the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, in recent years, an interview was required.

I admit to not being an expert of his music, so I dove with curiosity in this huge mass of music that reveals very different facets of the musician.

Andy McKee interview, one of the hottest fingerpicker (@TheRealMcKee)
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Andy McKee interview, one of the hottest fingerpicker (@TheRealMcKee)

Andy McKee has been on my radar for a while as he is one of the hottest fingerpicker at the moment.

Steve Stevens is one of those guitarists who have many strings to their bow. Indeed, not only is he an outstanding soloist but also a composer who has signed several tubes Billy Idol among other things, not to mention movie soundtracks, his solo projects, etc..

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Watch Zane Carney masterclass in Paris

None other than Zane Carney to host the first masterclass organized by The Guitar Channel. Zane is a guitarist who has been with John Mayer for a while and also pursuing his own solo career. With a huge background in Jazz, his knowledge of music is enormous.

Spartan guitar from Springer Guitars: an awesome Junior!

I love P90 pickups, that's a fact. When Mikaël Springer posted some pics of his Spartan guitar, his Les Paul Junior inspired beauty, on his personal Facebook profile, I immediately said I would love to review it. A couple of weeks later I received the guitar at home to spend some quality time with this awesome instrument.
Spartan guitar in video

Specifications
We are in the specifications realm of the Les Paul Junior, a mahogany body, a P90, a volume and tone.

I believe I first heard about Chris Sherland on the Six String Bliss guitar podcast. I read his book, Lead Guitar From The Inside Out and spent quite a lot of time with my iPad to get the most out of it. Here's an interview I did with Chris.

I really enjoyed reading this e-book with my guitar in hands.

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