London based power metal band Dragonforce have been called everything from Nintendo metal and speed metal to power metal or just mad shredders. They’re not overly fussed with genre labels. The guitar playing is meticulously fast with showmanship and mesmerising speed yet still with melodically structured compositions. Amusingly, their live shows have also included keytar
AG (Australian Guitar: Paul Southwell): How did playing with Alice Cooper come about? OP: I played ‘School’s Out’ with Alice on American Idol. Then Damon Johnson, Alice’s lead player, left to join Thin Lizzy. So Bob Ezrin and Alice were thinking about guitar players and they thought of me. They asked if I’d be up
The State Theatre SydneyFriday 13th April, 2012. English progressive band Yes were last in Australia in 2003. Since then the line up has changed again. New vocalist, Jon Davidson, from Los Angeles has replaced Jon Anderson and keyboardist Geoff Downes has replaced the legendary Rick Wakeman. Geoff was also in a band called Asia with
Interview: Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth has toured Australia a couple of times before yet fairly recently within the context of their international profile which has steadily been on the rise. They will be back here in support of their most recent album, Surtur Rising, sounding their horns and
Guitarists around the country will be eager to learn that the G3 tour will be here as G3 2012 for both an individual concert tour and as part of the Bluesfest lineup. The G3 idea was created by guitar luminary Joe Satriani [Satch] as a touring trio of talented guitar players that take the instrument
AG (Australian Guitar: Paul Southwell): The latest Sixx.A.M.album has some great production on it and obviously James Michael has done a lot of it, so how did you liase with each other? NS: We worked very closely together. James lives in Nashville and I live in LA.. DJ Ashba lives in LA as well but
Orianthi Panagaris, whose star is clearly on the rise, started out in cover bands reworking material to include her own slant on pop by infusing it with guitar arrangements. Most people know her as the stunningly beautiful lead guitarist for the ill fated Michael Jackson farewell tour. Yet, she was always a dedicated and driven
Zakk Wylde Book of Shadows II Label: Entertainment One/ Caroline Records Release Date: 8 April 2016 American guitarist Zakk Wylde, best known for his workhorse tenure in Ozzy Osbourne’s band, may have a partially self-inflicted image of plundering rock guitar hero to many but his various ballads and solo albums provide well rounded depth of
To dismiss such a superb player as America’s Al Di Meola as being purely muso friendly would be an injustice. As both an arguably driving force behind the now legendary fusion group ‘Return to Forever’ and having being a part of Chick Corea’s band should be cred enough. But Al has also worked diligently on
Zakk Wylde (ZW): It’s a sad day in rock [opening a non alcoholic beer]. AG: Do you think that was something that was inevitable? ZW: Well, eventually you’re going to have to stop fucking drinking. I mean, it was fucking that with even Dimebag, you know what I mean, we would have had to slowed