Never Heard Of...

Matt Stevens

Name: Matt Stevens Website: mattstevensguitar.com Style: Live looped acoustic instrumental post jazz/rock/soundtrack Bio: Recent Press: "Matt Stevens, looping guitar specialist and "One man wall of sound" .Prepare to be blasted away by incredible Spanish, Jazz and Rock rhythms with leads that are out of this world" - Spratton Folk Festival "Recently,... [Read more of this column]

Daniel Michael Cherrier

Name: Daniel Michael Cherrier Website: www.DanielCherrier.com Played With: King Cobra, Allies, Rockit,Prophecy and more Style: All Music Career: Daniel plans to future his career playing his guitar and singing songs he has written himself. He learned how to play the guitar at early age of 11, taking private lessons and studying Berklee guitar method.... [Read more of this column]

Tex Boarder

Born and raised in the California Delta, Tex has been playing varieties of speed guitar for many years, finally defining a unique style which is Tex Boarder and now... could quite possibly be the greatest guitar player you never heard of. Name: Tex Boarder Website: texboarder.com Played With: Former founding member of San Francisco Bay Area Speed... [Read more of this column]

2010 Search For The Best Guitarist You Have Never Heard Of

This year I want to do something different. It's now 2010, and any serious musician has a home studio. Any serious musician has access to the internet. But with such a flood of music to wade through, how do you find the really good stuff? And how do you find find something remotely interesting to you tastes. This year, I want it to find me! This is... [Read more of this column]

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Thoughts From Backstage

Six Strings : A Guitar Documentary

Six Strings is a documentary currently in production from director James Player. James is trying to find guitarists from all over the world with stories to tell. Skill and technical proficiency, nor style are genre are necessarily important, it's about the story of how the instrument you love has affected the guitarist's life. In a bid to find interesting... [Read more of this column]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-22

I favorited a YouTube video -- John Mayer: "Crossroads" Guitar Lesson (Teaser) http://youtu.be/dxQ3iCw9BAY?a # New blog post: NAMM 2010 Day 2 Highlights http://www.guitartoybox.com/2010-01-16/namm-2010-day-2-highlights/ # I subscribed to gearwire's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/gearwire?feature=autoshare_twitter # I subscribed... [Read more of this column]

2009 Top 10 Albums

As I do every year, it's time to give you my Top 10 albums. I have to say, this year again it was hard for me to find 10 stand out albums. As it is, I short listed 15, and the remaining five will be in the honourable mentions. Also keep in mind this s MY favourite ALBUMS, not my Top 10 GUITAR albums of the year. I listen to music, not guitars so this... [Read more of this column]

Top Guitar Twitter Users List – Updated

Lately I have become a huge fan of Twitter. At first I didn't get it, but know I see how useful it is at getting quick messages and thoughts out to people. It's also a great way to make new contacts, and that is something that is slowly happening for me. But where do you find the people you want to follow? Seeing as you are reading this, I guess you... [Read more of this column]

Site Update

Yep. Sites been pretty dead. And frankly, so have I. Here is a quick update from the last few months. As most know, I just moved about 200kms to a new home, new job, new life really. It was a massive move done very fast and highly stressful. However it has been worth it. My new job is fantastic, if time consuming, and for the first time I can remember... [Read more of this column]

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