Archive for July, 2007

New Children of Bodom Song

Children of Bodom has the new song they wrote for Viva La Bands Vol. 2 up on their MySpace page. It’s called Tie My Rope.
The album is slated for release on September 4th and includes songs from 19 other bands and has 7 exclusive songs.
Head over and check it out.
 

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 Live NOW!

Eric Clapton’s 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival started at roughly 11:45 today in Chicago. If you were not lucky enough to get tickets in the 10 minutes between the time they went on sale and were sold out you can watch it live for free on MSN. Click the image above to go to the stream [...]

Crate Profiler Model 5 Amp with USB Port

Crate has just released the first Amp with a USB port and it’s looking pretty enticing. This thing is seriously packed with a lot of crap (good crap I mean). First off it is a stereo mini five-watt amp. Thats right, I said stereo. This eight-inch tall, six-pound bad boy comes packed with two four-inch [...]

Seymour Duncan AHB-1 Blackouts Active Pickups

It looks like Seymour Duncan is looking to move in to steal some of EMG’s active pickup market with their new Blackout pickups. I only say that because they are active pickups and they look exactly like EMGs, complete with the metallic logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Blackouts are a new set of 9-volt [...]

Calgary Bluesfest 2007 – August 23rd to 28th

Here is some news for the locals. The Calgary International Blues Festival is happening here in town from the 23rd to the 28th of August. There will be quite a few big names at the show including Edgar Winter Band, Rick Derringer Band, Kinsey Report, Alberg Cummings, and Jimmy Bowskill to name a few.
Tickets are [...]

Awesome Dimebag Darrell Harmonics and Squealing Video Lesson

This is a pretty amazing video I just found. I believe this was for Young Guitar Magazine. Usually when the guitar masters show us their signature techniques they don’t really go into much detail. In this video Dimebag goes into perfect detail how he plays harmonics and how he does those crazy squealing dive bombs [...]

Dean Guitars Dime from Hell Review

I’m having a bit of a dry day today. I don’t really feel like writing or reading too much. I am trying to research a few things I have wanted to write about but somehow I just keep ending up back on YouTube.
Although I don’t really want a Dime signature, I am pretty sure [...]