Dream guitar

Posted on September 24th, 2010 Steve 2 comments

Dream Guitar

For some time now I’ve been looking for a new guitar, a special guitar of the up most quality and until recently I thought I had found it. The guitar I had set my heart and cash on was a Vigier Excalibur Supra, this guitar hits £1500, in fact I’ve seen them at £1800. This guitar had been tried against many others including Charvels, Caparisons, Ibanez and Suhr‘s. So on a random visit to my local store I thought, hey, I’ll pick it up and give it a wee seal of approval. I wasn’t playing well due to being cold but something else felt oddly missing. I started to blame the wee Egnator amp I had been plugged in to and as a result, a different salesman who had popped downstairs to fiddle on an acoustic changed amps to a Bognor Shiva and I must say, it was an impressive amp. So off I went blasting away on the Vigier when (as I thought) our time came to an end and it was time go head off to another store before closing time when I was told (by the little lady) that we still had time. So I turned round and noticed another guitar that I quite fancied having a go on even though I’d played them before, albeit a different model. The guitar was the expensive but handmade (like the Vigier) Suhr Modern. I cannot begin to tell you how good this guitar is, at least for me and my style of playing it was suited to a tee. This is not a review of the guitar, I’ll do that when I get my hands on it for keeps but lets just say that if you get the chance to play one, do it. The price is a bit of an eye popper at a staggering £2500 but I weighed it up against other guitar makers around at that price like the Ibanez Jem7V-WH retailing at £2350 and to my knowledge not hand built plus I’ve owned a Jem 77FP and played the Jem 7V-WH……….. Suhr all the way.

This video is not me, I’m much better looking

Steve.

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Do you play bass guitar? Any good? Fancy auditioning for Delain?

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 GuitarSavvy No comments

So Delain are soon to lose current bassist Rob van der Loo because of personal commitments and are looking to hire a replacement. If you think you have the bass guitar skills to cut it and join a pretty well established band, let’s be honest, then check out the Delain website here (within the news post: “A New Chapter”) to apply for an audition. Good luck!

If you’re not sure who Delain are, see YouTube vid below for a refresher:

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New Deftones album on the way in May Free Legal Download Track Here

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 GuitarSavvy No comments

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Deftones are well underway with production of their new album entitled Diamond Eyes, due for release on 18 May 2010.  Check out the Deftones MySpace page here where you can get a link to a legal, free download of their latest single Rocket Skates.  NOTE THAT THIS TRACK WON’T BE FREE FOR LONG SO MOVE FAST!

Diamond Eyes will replace their unfinished work Eros, which was abandoned after Deftones bass guitar player Chi Cheng was seriously hurt in a car crash back in 2008 (see original BBC news story here). Cheng is reported to be unable to talk or move but is still undergoing intensive treatment – so bass guitar duties were taken up by ex-Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega.

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Ozzy decides to bin title of forthcoming album cos it’s crap

Posted on January 25th, 2010 GuitarSavvy No comments

Ozzy Osbourne has described the reaction of his fans to the announcement of the title to his forthcoming album, due out in July (to coincide with Ozzfest 2010). The album, which was to be known as Soul Sucka (which is mince (colloq. means “crap”), if I’m being honest), will be renamed.  The Prince of Darkness told Rolling Stone:

“When we put Soul Sucka on the Internet none of my fanbase liked the title. They were like, ‘I can’t imagine walking round the house with the words ‘Soul Sucka’ on my t-shirt.’

“So I was like, ‘F’k it – I’ve got to come up with something else’.”

This year, the Ozzy Band will be without the not incosiderable talents of Zakk Wylde who was ditched by Ozzy last year (following the much-publicised “breakdown in communications” between Ozzy and Zakk).  Instead, Ozzy will continue to play with shredder Gus G (of Firewind fame) – see vid below for Ozzy and Gus G playing Mr. Crowley.

See Rock Radio for the full story.

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