Here's a Skype video interview recorded in February with Zane Carney, the awesome John Mayer guitar player. Zane has been playing with John on stage and in the studio for some time now. He also has a busy solo career with 2 very cool albums we talked about in the interview.
Note: sorry for the audio levels on the video recording.
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William Grit Laskin interview at the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar Show
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Here's a William Grit Laskin interview done at the 2014 Holy Grail Guitar show. Grit was one of the special guest for this very first edition of the show.
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The band Yes was in Paris for one night to play 3 legendary albums in full at the Grand Rex, I took the opportunity to do an exclusive video interview with Chris Squire right before the show.
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In June 2013 I had the pleasure of meeting Jonny Lang for the release of his album "Fight For My Soul."
Subject discussed in the interview
+ His first guitar
+ His influences
+ The relationship between singing and guitar playing
+ The genesis of Fight For My Soul
+ The equipment used for recording
+ His wisdom advice for musicians
+ Upcoming projects
+ And many other things
Transcription
Thanks to Lisa Ortola and Romain Marengo from the great Jonny Lang fan website jonnylang.fr, here's a full written transcription of the interview.
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Review of the Patrick Rondat distortion pedal from LNA Guitar Effects
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Here's a review of a great distortion pedal built by LNA Effects in France for the great French guitar player Patrick Rondat.
The pedalboard used for the review
The LNA pedal was inserted on my regular pedalboard for the review.
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Become an active player of The Guitar Channel
An active player of The Guitar Channel not only helps finance it but he/she is way more than that: as in a music band, he/she is taking part in the discussion to make the band even better.
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Nik Huber has a well deserved reputation amongst guitar builders. I had a blast talking to him and getting to know his work better.
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2013 December chronicle : Pierre Bensusan and plenty of pedals
Saturday, 28 December 2013
In this December video chronicle I present you with plenty of cool boutique pedals and with the short version of the interview I did recently of Pierre Bensusan, acoustic fingerpicker extraordinaire who has just released a triple live album to cover 40 years of concerts!
Summary
+ Review of future pedals to be tested
+ Short version of the interview with Pierre Bensusan (the long version will be published soon)
+ Some news about the show and future giveaways
The full interview of Pierre Bensusan will be available for the Backstage pass subscribers in a protected article.
Pedals presented in
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The Al Di Meola interview with footage from the soundcheck at Issoudun
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Done just before the soundcheck of the concert that evening as headlining of the 2013 Issoudun Guitar Festival, here is the interview with one and only Al Di Meola.
The video above is an extract of the interview
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With the permission of the management I was able to attend the soundcheck of the duo and shoot some images. It's a rare moment where we you get the impression that the artists play only for you.
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In order to wait until the full soundseeing, here's a video teaser of the Riff Shooter pedal that Judge Fredd conceived in collaboration with JMB Experience. I only had the time to play with it for a short while but I can assure you it sounds awesome. I can't wait to get a unit to review it.
As the name Riff Shooter kind of implies, this pedal is an overdrive. The possibility to voice the sounds is pretty big yet it remains very easy to operate. The "Shoot" switch allows to turn on and off the pedal.
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Pedaltrain Mini powered by the Volto: lose the power cable – Review
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Pedaltrain makes some excellent pedalboards (see my review of the PT-2 here), they sent me a Mini model and a Volto battery pack to review. The Volto can power up to 9 pedals and is charged either straight from a wall wart plug or from a USB connector.
As you can see it allows you to have a pedalboard without any wire attached to an outside power source which can be very useful.
Review of the Pedaltrain Volto
What I liked about
The compact format
The ability to power a full pedalboard
The integration with the Pedaltrain products
What I did
Here's a 3 minute Backstage Pass video with all you want to know about it and why you should get one to amplify your passion for the guitar.
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Heike Matthiesen interview (@gitarra): high class classical guitar playing
Saturday, 01 June 2013
For the second time I had the pleasure of interviewing Heike Matthiesen.
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Anders Thidell interview, inventor of the True Temperament fretting system
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
One of the new guitar technology I really want to check out at the MusikMesse 2013 is the True Temperament fret system invented by Anders Thidell and played by guitar greats like Alan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Mattias Eklundh and many more.
I had the great pleasure to chat with Anders for 15 minutes, here's the interview :
Mattias IA Eklundh Caparison Apple Horn with the True Temperament frerboard :
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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Mika Tyyskä (alias Mr Fastfinger) interview at the 2013 MusikMesse
Saturday, 04 May 2013
When I stumbled onto Mika Tyyskä (aka Mr Fastfinger) in Hall 4.0 of the MusiMesse, I immediately asked him to do a video interview and he accepted at once.
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Here's an interview I did at the MusikMesse 2013 with Mattias IA Eklundh. I met him for the first time in 2009 for an audio interview you can find in episode #38.
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During the MusikMesse 2013 I had the opportunity to meet Ola Strandberg who is the master mind and luthier behind .strandberg* guitars.
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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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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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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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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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Video Paul Reed Smith interview and extracts from mini-concerts PRS Guitars
Monday, 11 April 2011
Here's a mini-interview with Paul Reed Smith done at the 2011 MusikMesse 2011 on Friday April 8th. Paul is the mastermind behind PRS guitars, it was a blast to be able to talk to him.
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Here is a small part of the Tommy Emmanuel soundcheck I shot with my iPhone 3G at the New Morning in Paris on 04/05/09.
Direct link to the file: LCG-011-20090526.m4v
Until the next interview, keep on playing the guitar!
Pierre.
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