Emir Hot: tour dates

News:
06-07-2008:
Emir Hot has announced his first tour dates in 2008 to support the release of “Sevdah Metal” which is currently picking up tremendous praise worldwide. This is only a short summer tour on both sides of beautiful Adriatic Sea with a big European tour to follow a couple months after this "warm-up". The following dates are confirmed:



Wed 23th July: Split – Croatia (Special guest MARKONEE – Italy)
Fri 25th July: Rimini - Italy
Sat 26th July: Verona – Italy

The line up will be:
Emir Hot – Guitars / backing vocal
John West – Vocal
John Macaluso – Drums
Ivan Cvitkovic – Bass
Muhamed Sehic – Keyboards/Accordion
Lonnie Park - Backing Vocals

Emir adds,

“As you can see Mike Terrana is not playing with us on this one due to his every day music obligations. But could we have got a better replacement than John Macaluso? Probably not! We welcome one of the greatest drummers in the metal world ever. Check out www.johnmacaluso.com. In between our tour dates there will be some acoustic shows with John West and Lonnie Park. That will make this little tour even more interesting. As soon as these dates are confirmed we will let you all know. We hope to see some of you there and get ready to rock!!!".

If you haven’t heard “Sevdah Metal” check out this free album sampler mp3 (9.32mb)

News: jem fest 2008

News:
06-07-2008:
Jemfest 2008 Artist Lineup and Schedule!

FRIDAY, JULY 11
- 7:30PM - Tony Smotherman
- 9:00PM - C.J. Tywoniak
- 10:30PM - Jemfest Jam

SATURDAY, JULY 12
- 7:00PM - Chris Peters
- 8:00PM - "Featured On Fridays" (Brev Sullivan and Crystal Fawn)
- 9:00PM - Fernando Pareta
- 10:30PM - Jemfest Jam

Doors will open at Noon each day. There are raffle items that you can purchase tickets for.
German Schauss (Jemfest veteran) has graciously donated (2) "The Lightspeeder" albums. Jon Finn said that German is the best sweeper he's ever seen.

Admission is FREE!
But they respectfully ask for donations at the door. Jemfest 2008 T-shirts *will* be available at the event.

Tom Quayle: identity crisis

News:
06-07-2008:
Tom Quayle posted the music from his guitar idol 2008 appearance, entitled "Identity Crisis", one suspects this will be appearing on an up and coming CD release... and hopefully DVD too... I added the last bit myself as wishful thinking on my part ;o)

Reece Fullwood: new dimension

News:
06-07-2008:
It's not exactly clear if there was anything wrong with the old dimension... but Reece Fullwood thought there was, so he created "New Dimension": http://www.myspace.com/newdimensionuk. The band is looking for additional members.
Reece Fullwood - Lead Guitar
Martin Fullwood - Drums
??? - Vocals
??? - Bass Guitar
??? - Keyboard

Could one of the other band members be you? If your interested, contact Reece via the MySpace!

Stelios Arnaoutoglou: george marios wam jam, thank you mam

News:
06-07-2008:
Stelios Arnaoutoglou and George Marios come together in these cool jam sessions. Each track is inspiring, well thought out, intelligent and emotional. Check them out.

80's without the looks


George - Steve jam (song in progress)


House full of bullets and jammers


Final video is Stelios Arnaoutoglou, creating a loop on a boss dd-6 and then playing some melodies over it

A loop, my foot, and the floor

Richie Kotzen: early shredding

News:
06-07-2008:
An oldie but goodie, Richie Kotzen from his instructional video. Look at the quality or the sweeping and tapped arpeggios... plus the guy can sing like a king!

Ritchie Kotzen - Guitar Solo

Michael Romeo: new symphony x dates

News:
06-07-2008:
Michael Romeo and Symphony XC have confirmed a November 21st live date at the Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ. The band's itinerary in support of their new album, Paradise Lost, is as follows:



October
23 - Salvador, Brazil - venue tba
24 - Recife, Brazil - Clube Portugues do Recife
25 - São Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
28 - Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caupolican
29 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Teatro Flores

November
21 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom

News: europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers

News:
06-07-2008:

As posted on the register:

France has suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package, which would bar broadband access to anyone who persists in illegally downloading music or films.

Last month, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on a similar "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme for France. Under a cross-industry agreement, ISPs would have to cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders. Sarko believes "there is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone".

News: dean guitars $10,000 competition update I

News:
06-07-2008:

Ok the competition has been open just 6 days, and the video count is a staggering 8 x 20 videos... the good news for two players is most of the ones I checked out are pretty dross... so there's still a chance to blow away the competition...



Join the fun here: http://www.deanguitars.com/shredder/

Annoying bits so far... no vote count or score... no rss feeds for new entrants... no forum to discuss... you thought they would have learned from guitar idol... Oh well.

Greg Dunning: lims 2008

News:
06-07-2008:

Ha...yes... just found my bit of paper with this guys name on it. Apologies for the delay in posting. This was one of those guys whose busy plugging product... people tell him to turn it off, but he keeps on playing... Thanks Greg!

Greg Dunning: lims 2008 part 1


Greg Dunning: lims 2008 part 2

Scott Henderson: tribal tech jakarta

News:
06-07-2008:
Scott Henderson with Tribal Tech, live in Live in Baltimore

Scott Henderson - guitar
Gary Willis - bass
Kirk Covington - drums
Scott Kinsey - Keyboard

Tribal Tech - Jakarta

Shane Gibson: rock am ring with jonathan davis

News:
06-07-2008:
A couple of videos from the recent Rock am Ring shows in Germany.

Jonathan, and the SFA playing "Not Meant for Me" at Rock am Ring in Germany.


Jonathan Davis and the SFA playing "Slept So Long" at "Rock am Ring" in Germany.

Rusty Cooley: ultimate edition firing up

News:
06-07-2008:
Rusty Cooley gets a re-release of his first solo CD in September 2008, but with a real difference. The new package is all remastered sound, all new art work, bonus DVD featuring lessons and tab for "Under the Influence", making this the ultimate edition of a guitar instrumental classic.

Charly Sahona: venturia hybrid locked and loaded

News:
06-07-2008:
Charly Sahona posted the promo trailer for the upcoming CD from Venturia and Lion Music records.



"Hybrid" takes off from where the bands critically praised debut "The New Kingdom" left off yet shows impressive growth from the band incorporating new influences and a killer production.

Venturia Hybrid Trailer

Mattias IA Eklundh: new concert and cd

News:
06-07-2008:
A blog post and photos from the Freak Kitchen camp prior to the Freak Guitar Camp frenzy. Mattias says:

Hope to see you at the Hellborg-Selvaganesh concerts in Gothenburg and Stockholm as well as the Metal Rock Festival with the band in Norway the 16th of August.

In between this I am working on a track for Magna Carta project called Guitarnation, produced by my friend Bumblefoot. More about this later on.

Simone Sitti: notes by the killowatt hour

News:
06-07-2008:
Simone Sitti has posted a number of videos over the last few months, here's a selection in order of preference.

Rock fusion


Jump start improvisation


KIKO LOUREIRO by SIMONE SITTI

News: ptp 74% of all internet traffic

News:
06-07-2008:
Kudos to mashable for post this item about the frightening usage of internet protocols. According to Mashable www.ipoque.com 2007 survey shows an astonishing 74% of all traffic running over the network analysed, mainly Germany and the surrounding area, was ptp based!!! Of that traffic, 66% was BitTorrent, and of that percentage, 8% was audio file downloads! Come on people... pay for your art!



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