Archive for October, 2009

Expert Says: Don’t Toss Marginal Tubes

Expert Says: Don’t Toss Marginal Tubes

Tubes = wood. Some brands of tubes may give you more wood than others. All tubes are not alike. That’s why when buying tubes, you should know what you’re doing – or talk to/buy from someone who does.

October 30, 2009 | 0 Comments More
New Gov’t Mule! BFG on ‘Broke Down…’

New Gov’t Mule! BFG on ‘Broke Down…’

Yeah! Gov’t Mule’s first studio release in 3 years is out now, called By a Thread. I’m stoked. I mean, not only is it Warren and Mule, Les Pauls and big amps, it’s new music – and, if that wasn’t enough, the first tune has Billy Gibbons on it. The only way this could be [...]

October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment More
Semi-Lost Interview: Rhoads on His Gear

Semi-Lost Interview: Rhoads on His Gear

I’ve been a Randy Rhoads fan ever since I heard the Blizzard of Ozz album. Many people can say the same thing. I’ve read all the guitar magazine interviews (Guitar Player only?) with Randy, and while I can’t quote from them verbatim, I know the gist of his gear details. It also seems to me [...]

October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments More
Just Stupidly Great Guitar-Playing

Just Stupidly Great Guitar-Playing

Vai and Crimson I think that headline is self-explanatory. So here you go: first Steve Vai playing Zappa, then King Crimson playing ‘Elephant Talk.’ Re: Elephant Talk, I’d never heard that song before – or anything remotely like that song – which several of my buds could not believe. Maybe you’re in the same boat!

October 26, 2009 | 0 Comments More
A Couple Tunes You May Not Have Heard

A Couple Tunes You May Not Have Heard

From Gary Cherone and George Lynch For the weekend, here are a couple of songs you may not have heard before – that, while not strictly woody, are pretty cool. I dig ‘em, anyway.

October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment More
Review: KISS’s Sonic Boom Good, Single Great

Review: KISS’s Sonic Boom Good, Single Great

Full Track by Track Review After numerous listens to the Sonic Boom CD, that’s where I come out: good album, great single – and bear in mind that I’m a huge, long-time KISS fan. Don’t misread that. This is the best KISS record since 1979′s Dynasty (obviously I’m not a fan of the ’80s KISS [...]

October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments More
32 Years Today: Steve Gaines Remembered

32 Years Today: Steve Gaines Remembered

How To Play ‘I Know a Little;’ Played on a Les Paul? Thirty-two years ago today, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane went down and we lost one of the greatest guitar players ever to walk out on a stage: 28-year-old Steve Gaines. Steve was an absolute monster. Couple quotes to that effect (if you read nothing else, [...]

October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment More
Credit Paul and Tommy for KISS’s Sonic Boom

Credit Paul and Tommy for KISS’s Sonic Boom

I’ve found myself digging certain parts of KISS’s new Sonic Boom CD, and realizing (or re-realizing) a few things, which are:

October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment More
Blackmore’s Dad: Learn Guitar Or I’ll Beat You!

Blackmore’s Dad: Learn Guitar Or I’ll Beat You!

Wanted a Trumpet, Drums; Settled for Guitar Fender.com recently published a short-ish interview with Ritchie Blackmore that had a couple of interesting tidbits in it, below. For the full interview, which discusses his current work with Blackmore’s Night, click here. Fender: Is it true that when your father bought you your first guitar at age [...]

October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment More
Hells Bells! A New Angus Pickup…Sort Of

Hells Bells! A New Angus Pickup…Sort Of

If you follow all things Seymour Duncan, you will have seen a couple weeks ago that the company announced that Seymour himself has been working on Angus Young’s guitars. Here’s what was said: “We’ve been working behind the scenes with Angus Young for the past year. His tech, Takumi Suetsugu, contacted Seymour Duncan about dialing [...]

October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments More
1979 Interview: EVH on Van Halen II

1979 Interview: EVH on Van Halen II

For tone-heads, cheap video and the Internet came a few decades too late. So instead of having loads of video on pioneering rock bands who had real talent and real tone, we have only a few interviews, some of which might be gone and forgotten. Luckily someone at the MetroAmp forum (I think…might have been [...]

October 8, 2009 | 0 Comments More
The Last Word on Billy Gibbons’ Live Rig?

The Last Word on Billy Gibbons’ Live Rig?

ZZen and the Kung Fu Masters of Rock Dang! I was lucky enough to catch that little ol’ band from Texas at New York City’s Beacon Theatre a couple weeks ago, and wow, what a show. The guys were just…cool, and the sound – I hope the sound guy got a case of beer that [...]

October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments More
The Best Stompbox I’ve Ever Owned (Part 2)

The Best Stompbox I’ve Ever Owned (Part 2)

Sound Clip Below! Here’s the rest of the interview with Gaspedals owner Jayson Lane, followed by a sound clip and some notable info. WoodyTone: I read on your website that you’re a tone-chaser, obviously a guitar-player.  What sound were you trying to find or achieve when you got on to the Carb and do you [...]

October 2, 2009 | 0 Comments More