Here is some behind the scenes footage of Joe Bonamassa and Leslie West trading licks in the studio as they work on Leslie’s album, Unusual Suspects.
My favorite quotes:
“You played so f***ing fast but you didn’t miss a note”
…Leslie West“It’s Leslie West, you gotta bring your game!”
…Joe Bonamassa
The track is titled “Third Degree”.
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So… what is “THE SECRET ROOM?
Seymour Duncan's Secret Room
The Secret Room is a website where players will have access to a vast repository of tips, tricks, and techniques — the kind of “secrets” that some musicians jealously protect. But before being admitted to this password-protected site, visitors must contribute one of their own tone secrets — the kind of hard-won musical wisdom that is almost too good to share.
Once players submit a secret, they get access to all the other exclusive secrets. They can also comment on the secrets and rate them.
Click the link below to submit your tone secret and to discover a world of the best kept secrets:
From Dunlop: The Dunlop JBF3 Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face, a handwired Germanium version of this classic pedal, tweaked for Joe’s thick humbucker sounds and housed in a stunning copper enclosure.
The JBF3 is made with top-shelf components, including Cliff jacks and Omeg pots, and its distinctive finish will develop a unique patina over the years. Two NOS Russian military transistors provide loads of classic, creamy fuzz tones, really coming alive when the Fuzz Face is running full tilt into a cranked tube amp.
The Dunlop Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face is an amazing tone tool, and due to limited production, is certain to become a collector’s item as well
Fender Guitars
Fender Musical Instruments Corp., the maker of legendary guitars strummed by the likes of Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, filed papers Thursday for a $200 million initial public offering.
Founded in 1946 by Leo Fender, the company created the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars in the 1950s.
The “Strat,” a favorite of Hendrix and scores of others, went on sale in 1954. It had a sturdy, all-wood body that could stand up to repeated abuse, making it popular in the rock and roll world.
“The Fender brand in particular is closely associated with the birth of rock `n roll and has a strong legacy in music and in popular culture,” the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In its filing with the SEC, Fender said it’s the country’s biggest seller of electric, acoustic and bass guitars. It also makes amplifiers and other instruments including banjos, ukuleles and mandolins, and sells instruments under other brands such as Squier, Jackson, Guild, Ovation and Latin Percussion.
The classic Strat and Telecaster models are still made today, with prices ranging from a couple hundred dollars for a basic model to several thousand dollars for high-end and custom versions.
Fender went through several owners before making its push to the public markets. In 1965, Leo Fender sold the company to broadcaster CBS Inc., which sold it to an investor group 20 years later.
Private equity firm Weston Presidio now owns 43 percent of Fender. Fender’s distributor in Japan, Yamano Music, holds the No. 2 stake with 14 percent of the company.
Launching the IPO will help Fender pay down its debt load of $246.2 million. Fender said it plans to use about $100 million of the IPO’s proceeds to repay debt, with money left over for working capital.
With sales in 85 countries, Fender said revenue could get a boost from growing interest in guitar-based music from emerging markets like China, India and Indonesia. But it warned that increasing popularity of other types of music, such as rap or house, could hurt demand for its guitars.
Guitars and amps make up nearly three-quarters of its sales.
In recent years, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company’s guitars have been used by musicians from Bruno Mars to Shakira.
The company plans to trade the shares under the “FNDR” symbol on the Nasdaq, but didn’t say when. It did not lay out how many shares the company and its shareholders intend to sell or set a price target on its stock. The final offering may differ from the $200 million in Thursday’s filing as the IPO’s bankers gauge investor demand for Fender shares.
With the overall stock market now trending up, the conditions for an IPO are improving and investors are looking upon the offerings more favorably. In recent weeks, several companies, mostly in the technology and Internet sector, have made splashes in their Wall Street debuts.
Fender said it posted net income attributable to common stockholders of $3.2 million in 2011, from a net loss of $17.3 million the year before. Revenue grew 13 percent to $700.6 million from $617.8 million.
J.P. Morgan and William Blair are managing the IPO.
Eric Johnson UK Tour July 2012
Eric Johnson, the celebrated American electric guitarist, hailed by Joe Bonamassa as “one of the greatest guitar players of all time,” will embark on his first UK tour at the ‘Holmfirth Picturedrome’ on Friday 5th July.
The 5-date mini tour will showcase material from his current album “Up Close”, as well as from his rich back catalogue.
Walter Trout
The New Jersey-born blues-rocker spent decades as an ace sideman, playing guitar behind the likes of John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and Joe Tex.
In 1981, he was also tapped to replace the late Bob Hite in Canned Heat, remaining with the venerable group through the middle of the decade. While filling in one night for an ailing John Mayall, Trout (also a Bluesbreaker for some five years) was spotted by a Danish concert promoter who agreed to finance a solo tour.
Assembling his own backing band, in 1990 he released his debut LP, Life in the Jungle, trailed a year later by Prisoner of a Dream. The rest is history – as Walter Trout has gone on to carve out his place in the Blues-Rock world.
Happy Birthday Walter Trout!
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Guitar Face: The act of making an unusual face while playing the guitar. The look typically resembles a look of pain, intense ecstasy, or sometimes even plain old gas.
Guitar face is a horribly disfiguring condition effecting tens of thousands of guitar players around the world.
Blues players (particularly electric blues players) seem to suffer the most horrendous effects.
Carlos Santana give us a classic here…
Carlos Santana - Guitar Face
Carlos Santa Print
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David Schiller has written a book that should be in the library of every guitar player.
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There are over 500 guitar photographs included in amazing detail. The book includes guitars that made history, changed the course of music and inspired new generations of players.
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