Vinnie Moore: MTV's Metal Hammer: The Bailey Brothers Interview July, 1988 and Fretboard Frolics with the late Mikhal Caldwell

Here's MTV's Metal Hammer with The Bailey Brothers interviewing Vinnie Moore. Do you have any MTV's Metal Hammer shows on VHS or DVD-R (Other than obvious the 11 LP Mode DVD's that were uploaded online, I don't need those apparently). I'm looking for FULL, Uncut episodes of MTV's Metal Hammer, SKY Channel's Monsters Of Rock (With Mick Wall hosting) and pretty much anything from the early SUPER Channel.
Please contact me at: EvilDeadRules99@Hotmail.com if you have any full shows. And again, please, not those 11 DVD's that are a bunch of cut up segments and videos. I'm looking for people who have the show sitting on VHS still, or have transferred the show to DVD-R in at LEAST SP Mode quality (with a standalone DVD recorder). No LP Mode bullshit.
Thanks and enjoy the video!

MTV's Metal Hammer: The Bailey Brothers Interview With Vinnie Moore (July, 1988)



Fretboard Frolics with Mikhal Caldwell guest Vinnie Moore

Mikhal Caldwell: RIP

Mikhal Caldwell: Amazing athlete, musician passes. These were my previous postsMikhal Caldwell. My condolences to family and friends.

Mikhal Caldwell: RIP

Mikhal Caldwell: chop shop project on abstract logix

Mikhal Caldwell (Guitars & Guitar Synth) and Charles Stuart (Percussion).

Brandi Caldwell supplies Laughter on Track 5 / "Open Hearts".

Blend of Middle Eastern/Jazz/Funk played with such intensity that it was recieved well by all guitar and percussion enthusiasts.

CHOP SHOP PROJECT is the result of a meeting between two of Detroit's most respected and talented musicians Charles Stuart and Mikhal Caldwell that took place in the mid eighties. Both were at that time already well known as "chops" kinda players and fusion guys. Both of these musicians have long been considered virtuosos.

Charles was and still is a 1st call session drummer, and was at the time doing up to 3 gigs in a day, playing in a multitude of styles and locking himself away and doing Zen like woodshedding, and doing recording sessions while handling a massive teaching roster. Mikhal was at the same time hosting a weekly television show the mutli award winning "Fretboard Frolics", playing in Detroit's first instrumental neo classical metal band "Electric Warrior", working in the fusion band "Clinic", teaching and training for his other career as a professional fighter.

According to both they had heard of each other through a network of Detroit's small progressive / jazz musicians, a call was made by Mikhal to Charles and they made plans to engage in a "progressive" project which never happened due to both guys just plain being to busy to commit to a demanding project such as they were planning. 1996, a phone call from Charles and plans are made again this time there's time and both musicians had become MONSTER players and mature well rounded musicians.

After the first meeting and the material was discussed and planned within and 2 weeks the project was recorded/mixed by Jay ( Coo Coo Bird) Clifton. The result was the all acoustic instrumental CD "Earth Music". Both the recording and the musician's performances receieved rave reviews.

Both were exicted to push into the "Electric Zone" and the material was written by Mikhal for the next CSP recording "Leap of Faith". Realizing that a Bassist would be needed to express the complete vision of the compositions and to ever perform the music live, the search for a bassist began. After a year of searching the task of playing bass was given to Mikhal, who then went and purchased a 6 six bass and within 2 weeks the CD Leap of Faith was done. Freeman Spells Jr was brought in to perform live material, but CSP still needed a bassist. To this end there has been an on going search for a permanet bassist which continues to this day.

They laughingly say that they are the Detroit Fusion Blues Brothers! Both musicians say in a word the problem is "CHOPS!" They have never been able to find a bassist that can adjust to the unusual meter and tempo changes and the extended melodic phrases and stay funky! Mik has confessed that "he HATES playing bass" and really was not able to handle the demands of the basslines to the music on the next recording project!

Both are also involved in outside projects such as "The Charles Stuart Trio" and Mikhals solo project "Reality Check" as well as with other musicians and sessions. These two musicians have forged a trail into the new fusion movement that can be traced back to over a decade of ground breaking fusion to a whole new generation of listeners and musicians. Thanks for the visit.

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SKU SKU21383
Track 1 Silat
Track 2 Tribes
Track 3 The Message / Jihad
Track 4 Stained Glass
Track 5 Open Hearts (For My Mom)
Track 6 Path Home

Ron Jarzombek: the fractured dimension: towards the mysterium

News:
09-10-2008:
A new CD available from abstract logix.
Modern compositional concepts and intensity of rhythm: that is what one can expect from this difficult to define group. High caliber musicianship, and a vast array of contorted theoretical concepts abound. Not technical for the sake of being technical, but extremely musical for the sake of transcending normality. The Fractured Dimension is made up of Alex Arellano on drums/percussion, Jerry Twyford on bass, and Jimmy Pitts on keyboards and piano. Ron Jarzombek, Marcel Coenen, Mikhal Caldwell, Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschlaeger, Aaron Roten (Super String Theory), Bill Bruce (ex-Shotgun Messiah), Brev Sullivan, and Brad Hull (Soblivios, ex-Forced Entry) will all be featured on guitar, along with Jim Shannon (trumpet), Joe Deninzon (violin), and Joshua Thomson (sax)--so expect some serious firepower to be unleashed.



TRACK LISTINGS

1. Prelude/Towards the Mysterium (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
2. PRISM I. Reflection (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
3. PRISM II. Refraction (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
4. Fibonacci's Notebook (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
5. Strangeness (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
6. The Mathematics of Divinity (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
7. Out of the Summer Sky (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
8. Worshipping Slonimsky in a Ravellian Mood (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
9. Piano Improv Take 1
10. Falling Down Stairs
11. Despair
12. Fractured are the Nine Principals
13. Slendro: An Improv for Lane 14. Reiteration and Extemporaneous
15. Preparatory Action (prepared piano, percussion and freewheel improvisation)
16. Lecture

Mikhal Caldwell: return of the mystery

News:
25-05-2007:
Thanks to Matt T McCourt for letting me know about Mikhal Caldwell, who is also on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mikhalcaldwell his main web site is mikhalcaldwell.net

Background:
Mikhal Caldwell started playing a $19 Decca Guitar in the mirror mimicking Jimi Hendrix at 10 years old. At 12, his grandmother purchased his first "real guitar" and provided him with the encouragement to play. By his early teens he began to transform his Hendrix inspired pentatonic / blues scale style, into a wide range investigating different genres of music.

Mikhal was captivated by middle-eastern music. After several damaged turntables and hundreds of broken strings, Mikhal began to understand the sitar musical style of Ravi Shankar and the important influences of players like John Coltrane, David Sancious,Chick Corea, Jeff Beck, Alan Holdsworth, John Goodsall.

Mikhal Caldwell has 4 recordings released that range from his 2 CD's with The True Stories Orchestra Light of Truth 1999 Balance 2000. A couple of the newer releases are available from http://www.abstractlogix.com/



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