Something that often gets said – generally by other guitarists, in my experience – on hearing a technically excellent guitarist blazing away is some variation on: “all flash, no substance”. I’d just like to say: “bollocks to that”. :-p Flash *is* (or can be) substance, just as much as slower playing – which is always...
This is an old song of mine that I’ve just re-recorded – and videoed some of said re-recording. Many years ago it was driven by a clean sort-of-comped guitar riff. Recently I transcribed it to an electric piano part – and it suddenly started to sound a bit Steely Dan. Consequently I went very “Dan”...
Oziel Zinho – Cross: What do they put in the water in South America? O_o There are a hell of a lot of uber-scary guitarists from over there. Oziel is one of them. This is nothing new, but I think it’s a fantastic bit of music – and guitar-playing, obviously – and worth posting. Cos...
This I reproduce with a tip of the headstock to Laurie Monk: Alex Hutchings: custom fusion series 2 coming soon I have a few backing tracks I bought from bluesjamtracks and they really are good. I still haven’t got around to working through the accompanying transcriptions of Guthrie Govan’s solos though O_o Laurie reports that bluesjamtracks...
