Bill Hall: flight of the caged bird



News:
01-12-2007:
More proof that the guitar just goes on and on. I still have lots of players to post and the ones already featured continue to release quality live music. Bill Hall is no exception. Here with a slew of videos capturing the player in full flow. Bill Hall-Guitar, John "Breeze" Ladson-drums, James Walker-Bass. Live at the Iris in Canton, Ohio. The song is "Remember JP" by James Walker.

live Remember JP


live Chop Suey


live Caged Bird


Bill also updated his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/billhallguitar and put some songs from his CD on it as well as some new photos.

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27-05-2007:
Bill Hall item first published and video sighted on YouTube. Also check out his MySpace for some excellent demo samples: http://www.myspace.com/billhallguitar. Bill says look out for some more sophisticated video soon.

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Background:
Bill Hall started playing guitar at the age of 10 and really became serious after hearing Eddie Van Halen. He is still one of his favorite players today. later Yngwie Malmsteen and Allan Holdsworth were huge influences. Since then he has been influenced by Greg Howe, George Lynch, Paul Gilbert, Mike Stern, Shawn Lane, Scott Henderson, Jeff Beck, early Eric Clapton, Vinnie Moore and Tony Macalpine, as well a lot of jazz and classical music. Bill also loves Miles, Parker and Coltrane and he listens to a lot of Classical music.

He plays Kramer guitars as well as his Frankenstraat guitar built by Dr Frankenstraat.

Bill was also featured in Guitar World's Hometown Heroes and is currently teaching guitar in Canton, Ohio. He is currently in the process of recording a new CD of instrumental guitar music. The CD will cover both rock and fusion styles. Check out his MySpace for great sizzling demos, http://www.myspace.com/billhallguitar


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