Great! Here’s a 31-video playlist:

Imagine yourself in New York City, hitting the hottest clubs. Suddenly, out of the mist, comes Sebastian Bach, and he’s looking for a guitar player for his new band! It’s your frickin’ lucky day! World tours! Parties! And holy crap: groupies! But he needs a demo. Like right now. So what do you do? Not [...]

Looking for something to do this weekend? How about building a Telecaster out of an Ikea butcher block? That’s what Zachary Custom Guitars decided to do: After buying it at Ikea, this butcher block just sat there for 2 years and I wasn’t quite sure when I would use it. I needed an impetus. Then [...]

Michael Manring is an incredibly talented bass player who has been recording for almost 30 years. Democratherald.com posted an interview with Michael yesterday: You’re known for the innovative things you do with guitars, such as de-tuning strings while playing. When did you decide to start messing with the bass? MM: Well, the cool thing about [...]

The Boston Globe has posted a not bad/not great review of Chickenfoot’s May 26 sold out show in Cambridge, MA: With his more virtuosic background, Satriani seemed like the odd man out on Chickenfoot’s occasionally paint-by-numbers ’80s-metal material. “Avenida Revolution” and “Turnin’ Left” were tuneless grinds, and the riffs of “Sexy Little Thing” and “My [...]

What to buy for the guitarist that has everything? Another amp? Another guitar? Some strings? Pfffft. How about a $400 Pratesi backpack? It’s got a little speaker built into the sound hole and also comes in black. I don’t know, I kind of like it. (via coolest-gadgets.com)

Bobbi Fleckman and I were fortunate enough to snag tickets for the sold-out Unwigged and Unplugged show at the Beacon Theater in NYC last night (no, the picture to the left is not from the show last night, it’s a tribute to a picture I would have gotten had pictures been allowed), featuring the comedic [...]

Great story in the LA Times today about Jimi Hendrix impersonator Anthony Aquarius, complete with a soundtracked video slideshow of him busking in Hollywood: Sometimes a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard is a step back in time. To 1969, to be exact. It’s that way when Anthony Aquarius plugs in his battery-powered amplifiers, straps his electric [...]

Speaking of Manowar and concept albums, Manowar are currently collaborating with Wolfgang Hohlbein, a German writer, on a concept album called The Asgard Saga. The album’s concept will center on Hohlbein’s tales of Thor, the Norweigian God of Thunder. Manowar are due to play material from the new album at the Magic Circle Festival III [...]

The New York Times reports that we’ll soon be seeing a new guitar magazine on the shelves of our favorite newsstands. The mag is called “Guitar Aficionado,” and targets older and presumably more moneyed guitarists with a taste not only for expensive guitars but also for “Aston Martin automobiles and the West Hollywood hotel Sunset [...]

Here’s an interesting story on money.cnn.com about entrepreneur Jimmy Brown, owner of the Guitar Emporium in Louisville, Kentucky. Still a teen, [Jimmy Brown] had a pretty savvy business plan: After he acquired a few quality guitars that could fetch several thousand dollars, his mother would drive him to concert halls during sound check. He’d knock [...]

On May 23, 1969, The Who released their ground-breaking double album, Tommy, and introduced the world to the concept of the “rock opera” (and also gave guitarists that damn cool Pinball Wizard lick). The genius of Tommy is, in part, due to it’s simplicity. Most of the double-album centers around Pete Townhsend’s incredible acoustic guitar [...]

No one is more rock and roll then Lemmy, bass player and singer for one of metal’s greatest bands, Motörhead (although really, Lemmy is Motörhead). And, at 63, he’s still doing his thing. IrishTimes.com posted a longish article about the man today: Lemmy the Legend. One of the most surprising things in the article (to [...]

Jonathan Coulton is one of my favorite singer/songwriters because his music is awesomely hilarious. Here he is singing a song that might hit some of us a little too close to home: Jonathan Coulton on Amazon

Here’s a little bit of EVH goodness for you, a rare recording of EVH with brother Alex playing an elongated version of the keyboard solo 1984 (the intro before Jump):