Ed DeGenaro: monster gods

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News:
10-02-2008:

Here's the rough of what Ed DeGenaro is working on with Dave Weckl and Ric Fierabracci, much more like a live Jam band for the first time. The first tune in the player Monkey Bowl Utility Scratch http://www.myspace.com/eddegenaro or http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/mbowl.mp3


11-12-2007:
Ed DeGenaro started work on the new CD...Less IS Seldom More. The CD will be released on Tex-Tone, a record label out of Austin, Texas. You'll be able to hear works in progress on his Myspace player: http://www.myspace.com/eddegenaro. First thing up is the demo track Bothers by Ford that I really dig.


03-12-2007:
Ed DeGenaro... no embedding of this video...Ed DeGenaro playing a Rahbek Guitars Cos-T at the 2006 Frankfurt Musik Messe

05-10-2007:
A new CD Review: Dog House - Ed DeGenaro
Although he's a great player on standard fretted guitars as well, DeGenaro seems more expressive on a fretless. And with or without frets, DeGenaro can flat-out shred. Using highly developed picking and legato techniques, his cascading runs of varied note-groupings are often reminiscent of the late Shawn Lane... The common denominator throughout this diverse recording is DeGenaro's great playing. He brings an obvious familiarity to whatever style he happens to be working in, and his great chops are always in tow. That's true whether there are frets present or not, but his fretless playing on Dog House really shines. By using the fretless so effectively in a such a wide variety of settings, DeGenaro really champions the instrument with this album. If you have any interest in fretless at all, or just want to hear a fine guitarist at work, pick up Dog House.


buy on line from abstractlogix


18-08-2007:
Ed DeGenaro has his new CD out. There is an introductory price 30% off for the first month. US$11.60 plus shipping and handling. Listen to sample tracks then Buy on line



23-07-2007:
Ed DeGenaro has finished work on his new CD and has added a few tunes from the upcoming rlease to his MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/eddegenaro

The Dog House CD will be mastered next week.

26-01-2007:
More video missed...Live at the New Daisy Theater in Memphis with Shawn Lane's Powers Of Ten Live band

Ed DeGenaro and Chris Nix


Ed DeGenaro and Chris Nix part2


12-10-2006:
Edward DeGenaro - Guitar Hero 2006 Finalist


07-07-2006:
A big sorry to Ed DeGenaro...I missed these...

Ed DeGenaro and Chris Nix - Live at the New Daisy Theater in Memphis with Shawn Lane's Powers Of Ten Live band


namm demo


westside boogie intro


Ed DeGenaro with Nick Sterling


space prints


19-05-2006:
A great splurge of activity from Ed. You can buy CD's and Videos from his online shop. The CD's should also be available from CD Baby later this week.

DVD Live At The Knitting Factory (fretless guitar)


CD DVD Live At The Knitting Factory (fretless guitar)


DVD Ed DeGenaro and The Powers OF 10 Band (remembering Shawn Lane)


Nylon 'n' Steel Acoustic mini CD


22-04-2006:
A great interview "Everything you wanted to know about Ed and were too afraid to ask" direct from the mouth of the six foot six monster god.

02-03-2006:
A snippet preview from Ed's upcoming CD: Unfrettenberg (mp3)

02-02-2006:
Good news for one and all, Ed should be mixing and mastering his CD next month. Ed has also added some sparkling videos to:Enjoy...Look out for some video from the Shawn Lane benefit with the Power Of Ten Live band...coming soon...now we just needs some more videos from Lorenzo Venza to get the whole thing cooking again!

Google Sample: Ed DeGenaro Band Live


YouTube Sample: Blue Strat



16-01-2006:
Ed DeGenaro's Jam Band will be doing a NAMM Gig for: Taylor Guitars on Saturday, January 21st, 2006 at 4:00 PM, Anaheim Convention Center, Level 2 Booth 213AB.

In the meantime check out his cool rendition of little wing.

Now all we need is the google videos?

23-12-2005:
Enough said:
"After getting schooled by Kimmock on bending down in pitch and together with the flat fingerboard on the O'Donnell (for wide bends) Fusion I finally can do my normal approach I would use a floating whammy gitfiddle for with a hard tail!!! Yeah babeeeee!!!!!!!!! "
http://eddegenaro.com/audio/loopjam.mp3

22-12-2005:
Ed has recently played a gig with the Steve Kimock Band (http://www.eddegenaro.com/kimock) and will be doing a trio gig at NAMM for Taylor Guitars (lucky NAMM attendees).

01-12-2005:
Ed Has added some video from the Knitting Factory group improvisation in September. These are big files of 200+ Mb each.
http://www.eddegenaro.com/video/knit1.mpg
http://www.eddegenaro.com/video/knit.mpg

25-10-2005:
Ed DeGenaro has recently added transcriptions of his playing and videos:

  • http://www.eddegenaro.com/html/edslicks.html
  • http://www.eddegenaro.com/video
24-10-2005:
Ed DeGenaro has added some great acoustic sample tracks from his upcoming acoustic CD, which should be out before Christmas.

  • http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/danged.mp3
  • http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/michelle.mp3
22-10-2005:
Ed DeGenaro began his assault on the forbidding "Must hear guitarist 2" poll in the late hours of an autumn friday evening. Through the foggy mist and swirling rain soaked haze, DeGenaro's troops, swiftly out flanked the sleeping Lorenzo Venza fans, who had sat comfortably on a poll lead for over two months.

Venza's men, sleepy with the excesses that come with holding the victors crown, had failed to read the tell tale signs of the bitter struggle ahead. The battle had been revealed to me by the less than stealthy refer trails left by DeGenaro's, hungry, vote whielding, foot soldiers.

The new king of the hill...Ed DeGenaro...Can the down trodden fans of Lorenzo Venza dig deep and summon up the force that could lead them to a final triumphant victory? ...watch this space....

Ed was kind enough to reveal his current situation once the battle was over.

He revealed that the Gods+Monsters CD had been put on the backburner:
"since he he didn't do any structured stuff anymore."
He is also working on acoustic and live CD's that should be out for Christmas....better put it on your list now.

Ed is also working with another killer Fusion guitarist, hopefully more on this later! ...and he is working with trumpeter with Sal marquez...so he's a busy guy.

Luckily, one track which was supposed to be on Gods+Monstas, Ed
"ripped away the guitars and replaced it with fretless stuff..."
You can hear this on the "unfretted" CD:



Which you can buy from: http://www.abstractlogix.com/

Check out unfretted web site to find out more about the disk.

PS he may change his mind on the Gods+Monsters CD and if he does. I'll let you know.

02-05-2005
Thanks god this man is not paid by the note. Ed's reposte on the Memphis monster forum, to a post about mythological hyper speed playing by Marcus Paus. This ones called bucked (mp3)...quick huh!

Background:
Ed DeGenaro is a working musician since age 18. His resume includes David Byron Band, Accept, Hammerhead, Alcatraz, producers David Rosenthal (Rainbow, Robert Palmer) and Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, Cars), and work on various feature movies, TV commercials and major labels such as EMI, Atco and Atlantic.

Ed is also an engineer aand he has worked on Elliott Sharp's last release Secular Steel, and the upcoming Henry Kaiser release 156 Strings II. Currently he is working on his long overdue new CD tentatively entitled Gods And Monstas.

If you want to know why Ed: check out his web site and music.