Ask anyone to name a guitarist they admire or at least know of and chances are one of the names you’ll hear mentioned is Joe Satriani. When his career literally took off and brought instrumental guitar into the limelight over twenty years ago with ‘Surfing with the Alien’, the success was well deserved for all
The LA metal scene of the eighties was to many image over substance in the grand scheme of things. That is unless you dug a bit deeper and checked out some of the phenomenal guitarists dedicated to their craft from the West Coast area of the States. Ratt guitarist Warren Demartini is constantly mentioned alongside
Dave Mustaine is a one of the metal world’s leading songwriters and a highly regarded guitarist. Having achieved around 20 million album sales worldwide with his band Megadeth, his latest recorded return to thrashing form reflects the quality heard live in his disciplined touring of the now annual Gigantour multiple band concert show. Now endorsed
Unique, gifted, esoteric, outspoken, bizarre, prolific and excessively productive are some of the words that could used to describe the late, great and universally respected musician the world knows as Frank Zappa. His passing in late 1993 left behind a lot of musical innovation, proving how far he sometimes pushed the envelope without being pretentious.
Power metal as a sub genre of metal often evokes images of sword waving ‘dungeons & dragons’ era coupled with falsetto warblers in ill fitting spandex romanticising a long gone scene. Existing surviving purveyors have evolved and honed their craft to avoid the ‘clapped out’ circuit. So, the massive international success of the new guard
Middle of the Road Provogue / Mascot Label Group Blues guitarist Eric Gales is celebrated by many other international guitarists as being one of the best guitar players alive today. They’re not wrong and whilst he is surely flattered by the praise, he avoids self-indulgence on this latest album by judicious use of guitar virtuosity,
American blues rock guitarist Eric Gales has paid his dues in overcoming his demons. Now mature and driven, as his latest album Middle of the Road demonstrates, Paul Southwell spoke with Eric to discuss his highly anticipated appearance at the upcoming Bluesfest, his unique playing style and how he gets his guitar sound. You’re coming
Metal has remained a formidable genre for decades that continues to evolve and change without much concern for the mainstream music scene. The loyal fan base of aggressive music has generally stayed intact for most bands that produce quality music of a technical calibre that is usually far higher than the general populace perceives as
One of the most well known and long term endorsees of ESP guitars is the ubiquitous Arizona residing hard rock guitarist George Lynch. His fluid technique and solid songwriting ultimately assisted in catapulting the legendarily dysfunctional Dokken into the stratosphere commercially back in the eighties. Branching out into solo excursions for close to twenty years
Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick is no stranger to Australian shores. Having toured here with Kiss as well as with Union, the Eric Singer Project [ESP] and three times on the strength of his solo albums courtesy of a strong Kiss fan base, he came back again as a member of ESP. He is also