Following on the promotion of his upcoming DVD, Where The Wild Things Are, Steve Vai has posted 2 new videos recently where you can see him play Dancing In The Abyss and Taurus Bulba. Check it out:
Archive for August, 2009
Steve Vai posts 2 new teaser videos
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Paul Gilbert Bach Prelude on Guitar
Saturday, August 29th, 2009Here’s a really cool article from Music Radar: A free lesson by Paul Gilbert on how to play Bach’s prelude in D Major on the electric guitar. You may think it’s a bit outlandish to play classical music on the electric guitar but bear in mind that both Paul Gilbert and Yngiwe Malmsteen regularly cite classical composers among their greatest influences. People such as Bach, Paganini or Mozart (Bethoveen’s kinda cool on the guitar too 
).
Check it out here, looking at the tab and all those even 16th notes, my brain isn’t sure if it can instruct my fingers to do that ever
Greg Craven Talks About His Book On Kboo.fm
Friday, August 28th, 2009Remember Greg Craven? I did a post about him some weeks ago, you should be able to find it with the related links below. Well I just wanted to plug an audio streaming of an interview he gave local Oregon radio station kboo fm where he talks about Climate Change and takes questions from locals along with Dr Christina Hulbe, a Professor of Geology.
It’s about 56min long and it’s a very nice listen. Check it out!
Can Artificial Trees Help Fight Global Climate Change?
Thursday, August 27th, 2009The is a story currently running about some scientists having come up with some way of capturing CO2 out of the atmosphere and engineers building devices with that technology integrated in them with the prospect of storing that carbon back in disused coal and oil wells deep under the ground.
For some reason, geoengineering is becoming a rather popular topic of discussion in the fight against climate change. But can it really help?
Elle Magazine Presents Top 12 Female Electric Guitar Players
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Spotted via Truth in Shredding, it seems high profile magazines are chipping in these days to present their idea of who is the best in the world of guitar. This time it’s Elle, usually more concerned about catwalks than stadium stages, who’ve come up with their own list of the 12 greatest female electric guitar players. So here it is:
- Joan Jett
- Lita Ford
- Nancy Wilson
- Jennifer Batten
- Donita Sparks (L7)
- Kelley Deal (The Breeders … remember “Canonball”?)
- Carrie Brownstein
- Poison Ivy (The Cramps… not the Batman villain
) - Ruyter Suys
- The Great Kat
- Marnie Stern
- Orianthi (Santana’s protégée and would have played with MJ on his This Is It tour)
So I have to admit, of these 12 I only know 4 by name and add an extra 2 for those whose band I’d heard about. The rest of them are pretty obscure to me, but you know what? I can’t think of anyone else they might have left out.
To me it says there’s a serious lack of truly kick ass female shredders. You don’t need large amounts of testosterone to be a good player so I think it would be awesome if more girls made it out there on stage. Michael Jackson was quite good at giving them a chance (Jennifer Batten and Orianthi), I think there’s definitely room for improvement on the guitar scene!
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