Now, I must admit that I’m not that familiar with the band Muse or its guitarist, Matt Bellamy. But, as they say in the mob, “I hear good tings. Good tings.” Matt is a widely recognized guitarist, having been recognized for various things by Total Guitar, Kerang!, NME magazine, Planet Rock, and even, ahem, Cosmopolitan. [...]

Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a documentary I’ve posted about before and finally got a chance to see this weekend in New York. The documentary follows Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, founders of the heavy-metal band Anvil, as they try to achieve rockstardom with a European tour and release of their 13th album. [...]

UFO guitarist and long-time shredder Vinnie Moore has a new solo CD, To the Core, coming out this May 26. “The only plan I had when making this record was to do some things I have never done before,” explains Moore. “I am into many types of music and wanted to make a record where [...]

Here’s a nice little piece of rock-and-roll history. Check out this video of Jimmy Page playing bass at a France Yardbirds show. The tune is Train Kept a Rollin’.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Chewbacca Chord:

Wow, great fun over at the 2008 Dean Shredder Search Winners page. Watching these videos makes you realize how far developing technique has come since Eddie Van Halen invented the concept on rock guitar. The bar is set so incredibly high right now that you have to resort to costumes  to distinguish yourself. Here’s a [...]

Finally, we get to hear a couple full-length Chickenfoot tunes. Satriani’s got a pretty heavy-duty guitar sound that I dig. And now, without further ado, I give you…Chickenfoot: Soap on a Rope Down the Drain

Regular readers of Guitarbalooga know that I’m a huge fan of Jeff Beck. Late last year, he released a live CD, Performing This Week…Live At Ronnie Scotts. Now comes the DVD. From Amazon: Jeff Beck is a true rock legend. From his time with the Yardbirds in the sixties, through the Jeff Beck Group and [...]

Cesare Bonizzi is a Capuchin Monk who is also a rockin’ metal singer. Why not? He fell in love with metal after a Metallica concert. Forget everything else, this guy has a killer beard:

I love guitars with a history… Here’s an interesting History Detectives PBS piece on a mysterious, one-of-a-kind Guild guitar thought to be owned by blues/folk singer Josh White, a popular and controversial (to some people, anyway) entertainer in the 30′s and 40′s, who was blacklisted as a communist in the 50′s. He was a truly [...]

BoingBoing Video today has a feature about Long Island City, New York’s Electro-Harmonix, legendary guitar effects and vacuum-tube manufacturers. What I want to know is, do you think being an Electro-Harmonix guitar pedal tester would get tedious or would it always be fun? Not sure whether the video gets cut off at the end or [...]

In 1980, something terrible happened to jazz-guitar great Pat Martino. He nearly died of a brain aneurysm, and after surgery, he had no memory of how to play guitar. Martino Unstrung, A Brain Mystery is a new documentary that tells his incredible story. From audaud.com: Martino’s neuropsycologist and friends such as Joe Pesci and Red [...]