Honestly. Does any band rock harder than early AC/DC?

And then there’s the Keith Jarrett Trio. Yes. Just… Yes.

Here’s a good review for Gene Bertoncini’s and Roni Ben-Hur’s new CD. I’m a big Gene Bertoncini fan, so you know I’ll be picking this up.

Great news! According to this Antimusic article:
On Thursday, December 4th D&E Entertainment will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of a newly-restored concert film from Cheap Trick that previously has only aired once on Japanese television in 1978. With a running time of just over 60 minutes, Live at Budokan captures the concert that catapulted Cheap Trick to [...]

This Zoybar thing looks pretty cool, even if I’m not sure I understand fully what their goal is. At the very least, it looks fun. Sort of like Lego Mindstorm for guitarists?
Here’s a description from the about page at Zoybar.net:
Zoybar is a unique platform for developing innovative music instruments and effects.
The Zoybar components provide [...]

Maybe I don’t get out enough, but I never heard of the Gibson Guitar Bus until today. I searched a little bit on the tubes, but I couldn’t find out much about it. I just found some sort of Gibson corporate blog that mentions it. Anyone know more about it?
Anyway, Here’s a link to a [...]

So, your kid is begging you for a guitar for Christmas, and you don’t know where to start. Or, maybe you’re looking to take it up yourself. No problem. Keep reading, and I’ll hopefully steer you in the right direction.
Guitars come in 2 basic flavors, acoustic and electric. Acoustic guitars, in the simplest sense, don’t [...]

Today, I stumbled across this lengthy article on Yngwie Malmsteen and his new CD, Perpetual Flame. There’s a link to the video at the end: http://www.fender.com/yngwie/english/ about how the Fender Custom Shop built a replica of Yngwie’s Strat. Coolio.
Speaking of famous Stratocaster players, did I ever mention that Yngwie and his band used to do [...]

Looks like Al Di Meola is going on tour early next year. I hadn’t thought about Al in a while, so I tracked him down on YouTube. This was always one of my favorite tunes of his:

Some of those runs are just sick!

Harmony Central reports that Ribbecke Guitars is building this sweet-looking limited-edition jazz guitar. From the Harmony Central article:
…True crossover instruments, they combine the sensitivity of steel string guitars, with their flatter soundboard on the bass side, and the articulate sound of true jazz guitars. These instruments have far superior separation as well as outstanding multi-dimensional [...]

<rant>You know who you are. You work in our offices and make odd jokes we normal people can’t understand. You laugh at yourself like you’re the funniest person alive while we stare at you blankly. Some of you chew potato chips loudly. Others fart when you think no one is listening (we are, think you’re [...]

Steve Howe (of Yes fame) has just released 2 CDs:
Motif: A collection of solo acoustic pieces somewhat reminiscent of the Yes guitar interludes.
The Haunted Melody: Straight-ahead jazz with the Steve Howe Trio (Ross Stanley on organ, and Dylan Howe on drums). I had to check this out because he covers Kenny’s Sound, a Kenny Burrell [...]

Reader Francesco P noticed that I, um, have something of an aversion to Guitar Hero and wrote to point me (and you) to this clever website sponsored by Guitar Center. At ARealGuitar.com, you can customize and send e-cards to your friends and family to let them now that you want to crossover from pretend guitar [...]

According to this Hollywood Reporter story on Yahoo, Sony Pictures is coming out with a guitar documentary called “It Might Get Loud.” From the article:
Sony Pictures Classics will present the respective guitar heroes from U2, Led Zeppelin and the White Stripes cranking their instruments up to 11 in “It Might Get Loud.”
The rockumentary from Oscar-winning [...]

Blackbird Guitars has a new product that I think is a good idea: a virtually indestructible carbon-fiber nylon-string travel guitar.
It’s a little pricey at $1899, but I could see spending the money considering that you may have paid $10K+ for your real classical, and you know this thing could survive getting run over by a [...]

Just in case you believed that Peter Frampton was the first to use a talk box:

Foreverrrrrrrrrr. Wow. Nice jacket, announcer dude.
Anyway, the band looks like a bunch of people I’d like to party with. What is with those creepy black-shirt-wearing background singers? They’re incredibly lifelike but not quite there. Wouldn’t you agree?