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Design a JEM contest rules available

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Direct from Steve Vai himself, the rules for the Design a JEM contest have now been published by Ibanez. They’re pretty straightforward, though I recommend you read them first before going toooo crazy on submitting a design, there are certain restrictions. Other than that as long as you’re over 18 and not an employee of Ibanez, you’re free to enter. Here’s the details in Steve’s words:

To celebrate the sale of the 77,777th Ibanez Jem guitar, Steve Vai and Ibanez are holding a very special contest that gives you the opportunity to design the Ibanez Jem of your dreams! The winner of the contest will have the guitar made for them to their specifications by Ibanez. Only two guitars will be produced – one for the winner and one for Steve, making this one of the rarest Jems ever produced! The contest is on now! Visit http://www.ibanez.co.jp/JEMUV/contest.html for official rules, details and your Jem template. Three entries per person are permitted, so go crazy! Contest ends on June 6th 2010.

In addition to the design software from Jemsite I posted last time, there’s also a template available for the the Ibanez website to use as a base. So get designing, you can submit up to 3 designs so don’t worry about not getting it quite right the first time. :)

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Design the Ibanez JEM of your dreams

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Aah, the JEM, such an iconic guitar for the fanboys like myself who relish in simple, yet elegant designs in a guitar which can be customised again and again but still retain its essence. Unfortunately, the JEM is a high level guitar and therefore one I’ve never been able to afford. But there might be hope.

Steve Vai and Ibanez have announced an upcoming contest for you (and me, umm, hopefully) to design the next JEM. This is to celebrate the 77,777 JEM to be sold (I did say they are expensive) and there will be only 2 manufactured: One for the winner and one for Steve. Check the video below:

Now if you don’t know how to design a guitar, that’s ok, neither do I, but there’s a great resource on line to come up with ideas, it’s called the VRG-Builder. It won’t allow you to do fancier designs than plain colour but it can give you a template to begin with.

If  residents outside the US can enter, I might give it a shot, as I would love to own a custom-made JEM. More on the Ibanez website, contest details have not yet been announced.

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Saturday Sounds presents Orianthi – Highly Strung

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Okay here’s a new feature I’m trying out. Some folks do “Music Monday”, I’ve decided to do Saturday Sounds, a semi-regular feature to post sounds and songs that rock my world. Don’t expect it to be every Saturday, I know it won’t happen every week but I’ll try to do it as much as possible.

So let’s kick start with a collaboration between Steve Vai and Carlos Santana’s protégée, whose career was to reach a summit in the Michael Jackson comeback tour which never happened This is It, I, of course, mean Orianthi. The song is called Highly Strung and as Steve Vai puts it, it’s ferocious, check it out:

Edit from 15/01/2010: Steve Vai just posted the official music video for Highly Strung so I’ve replaced the video accordingly.

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7 questions to Paul Gilbert & Steve Vai

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Spotted via Mark’s website, a guy called Jason Shadrick has kick started a series of interviews made up of 7 questions. So far he’s done it with Paul Gilbert (excerpt below):

What has been your most significant musical experience?

I auditioned for a band when I was 12 years old. The other guys in the band were 16-18 years old and played really well. It felt so good to jam with them and to make a sound that “sounded like a record”. They never actually told me that I didn’t get the gig, they just gave me a long list of difficult songs to learn to try to discourage me from calling back. The songs were beyond my ability at the time, but I tried hard to learn them, and I called them up daily to see if I could try out again. They stopped answering their phone, but I ended up learning a lot of good songs.

and Steve Vai:

Describe your first experience playing music.

I walked up to a little spinet organ and played the theme song for the horror flick with Bette Davis called “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte”. The movie sacred me to death and the melody haunted me until I plucked it out and then I thought…”Hmmm, that’s not so scary”. I think I was 4 years old.

So there, good advice for you kids ;)

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Steve Vai: Something Freaky

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Following the promotional campaign for his upcoming DVD “Where The Wild Things Are”, Mr Vai has posted yet another teaser video, this time of the truly sensational piece called “Freak Show Excess”. Check it out:

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