Well, no I’m not going to tell you straight away who the new drummer is, you’ll have to either check after the jump or watch the video. Given the choice I’d pick the video, it’s a really nice climax. That said I’ll give my own thoughts on who they picked as well if you’re interested.
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Dream Theater reveals new drummer
Friday, April 29th, 2011Beyond Mike Portnoy – Dream Theater seek their new drummer
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
It seems I’ve gone into hibernation lately. I’ve actually been busy with quite a few different things, which have for some very bizzare reason pushed a lot of guitar stuff in the background. Life has a knack of doing this. One day you think you’ve nailed the most important thing in your life and the next something else comes along. It’s a bit like juggling with live chainsaws, it’s exhilerating but you really have to focus…. Wait no that was a stupid analogy, forget that.
Anyway, enough of my life, there’s an interesting multi-part documentary which is very interesting to follow. Last October, drummer Mike Portnoy announced that he would be leaving Dream Theater after 25 years with them. Now, I’m not necessarily a huge fan of Dream Theater, though I love Petrucci’s stuff but after spending most of the day listening to their music, I’ve gained a new appreciation on just how awesome they are. Seriously you can’t listen to 15min long tracks and appreciate the amount of effort put into making that kind of music. Theirs is truly epic in its own way.
So if you like DT, you’ll probably appreciate The Spirit Carries On where they audition the 7 best drummers they could invite to be the next Dream Theater lead pounder, check it out:
Episode 2 is out. The choices are getting tough, who do you think will make it?
Guitar Practice Log – Hair Jamming
Friday, March 18th, 2011It’s been a while since my last log. The main reason is I kinda took a little break from regular practice to focus on other things. Even now I’ve not quite resumed my daily exercises. I was going to do that on Monday but busy evenings led to having to postpone it. I will go back to it next week, hopefully.
So meanwhile I’ve been mostly noodling over backing tracks as this is something I really enjoy doing and allows me to check where I’m at. And tonight I was finally able to record one of those sessions (not on video sorry). So have a listen below and please if you have any feedback let me know.
(If you’re having problems with the embedded movie, just visit this link to play it)
Marty Friedman to auction his Megadeth-era guitars to aid Japan relief
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Marty Friedman, who recently joined Facebook (yay!), may be best know in the West as a former member of Big-4 member Megadeth but in Japan he is much more famous than that. He had his own TV Show for a while and regularly appears as a guest on Japanese television and has frequent columns in Japanese guitar magazine Young Guitar.
So it’s understandable that the recent tragedy in Japan would be close to his heart. And so he recently announced the following:
I am going to LA right NOW to the climate controlled lockup where all the guitars have been in their cases since January 2000. All guitars I used on all the Megadeth recordings, tours, videos, everything WILL be auctioned off. When I get to the lockup I will do my best to sort out which was used for what ( I suck at that…I`m sure many of you guys know better than I do) and notate as many details as possible.
Pictures, descriptions and how to bid will all be up on my US website as well as my Japanese website within 2-3 days. I have NEVER sold ANY of my guitars before, this is the only way these guitars will leave my possession. I urge you to please spread the word and most of all BID HIGH. You will be putting a huge deposit in the `karma bank` as and have some pretty cool guitars to show for it. DO IT!
Now that the guitars have been inventoried, we are putting together the auction itself. This will take a few days to put up, as we are going to every length to do this properly with emphasis on authenticity, efficiency and most of all, making sure that 100% of the proceeds go directly to earthquake relief. So in the meantime, I`ll put up a pic or two a day of some of the guitars that will be auctioned
There will be more details on his official website within the next few days so if you fancy grabbing yourself a piece of heavy metal history, now is your chance and you will contribute to helping out thousands of people who have been affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Me? Well unfortunately there’s no way I can afford a new guitar, even from one of my top idols like Marty but I’m sure many people will find much to their liking, so please bid as much as you can, remember it’s for a good cause!!
Joe Satriani – Deep Guitar Lesson with Guitar World
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Very interesting set of videos from Guitar World who’ve been speaking with Joe Satriani about various technical aspects of his Black Swans and Wormwhole Wizards album and the result is a collection of rather insightful videos. Now, don’t be fooled by those entitled “How to play” because apart from a quick demo, it’s not the Young Guitar way of showing you how to play something. What’s interesting is the theory behind those songs (some of which can be pretty hardcore if you’re just beginning).
No embed I’m afraid but you can catch them all on the Guitar World Website (and thanks to Guitar Noize for the tip)
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