Music News

[roymond]

Alec Baldwin talks with Thom Yorke for an hour...
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2013/apr/01/

[Niveous]

Here's a piece of music news I'm excited about but no one else will be.

Living Colour will be playing "Cult of Personality" live at Wrestlemania on Sunday. ("Cult..." is the theme song of wrestler CM Punk)

[Billy's Little Trip]

I love that song. It's a shame they didn't stay together long enough to make more like it. Sort of a one hit wonder.
It' had everything I like. Funk, hard rock, riff driven guitar, loud drums and a catchy chorus.

[roymond]

I saw them play that warming up the Stones in '90 or so. It was great. But yeah, I can't remember another song of theirs. It's like that song was them. Sort of like Big Country was Big Country. But different.

[Niveous]

It's time for music news

Fleetwood Mac releasing an EP
http://www.nme.com/news/fleetwood-mac/69630

Kanye West sued for a sample
http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/04/09/kany ... er-sample/

Send an e-mail using your guitar
http://blog.wk.com/2013/04/04/wk-open-s ... echnology/

[Paco Del Stinko]

Also: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/showbiz/m ... andy-johns

[HeuristicsInc]

hey, living colour had a lot of good songs, although their later albums fell off sharply in quality.
"vivid" is awesome (which has cult of personality but other great songs)
"time's up" had quite a few good songs.
"stain" was pretty good but i don't listen to it much.
the other two, not sure when i listened to them last...
-bill

[ken]

Also: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/showbiz/m ... andy-johns

That is really sad. 61 is waaay too young to lose such an important artist.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Also: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/showbiz/m ... andy-johns

That is really sad. 61 is waaay too young to lose such an important artist.

I know, right?. That's not that old. He must have had pre-exsiting health issues. Being in the studio with Hendrix, Zep and the Stones I'm sure had a little to do with that. Yet Kieth Richards is still chugging along. Tiger Blood?
RIP Andy.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Tom Gabel, singer for Against Me, talks about his first year out as Laura Jane Grace. http://www.spin.com/articles/laura-jane ... as-a-woman

Morrissey said good riddance to Margaret Thatcher: "As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity."
http://www.spin.com/articles/morrissey- ... ng-remarks

[Niveous]

Here's the whole article about Laura Jane Grace
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/e ... as-a-woman

I'm an Against Me! fan and the way that Laura Jane Grace has handled the transition has only made me like them more.

[Niveous]

More music news:

Jeff Buckley, the musical:
http://www.nme.com/news/jeff-buckley/69694

Oklahoma forgets the Flaming Lips:
http://pitchfork.com/news/50300-the-fla ... -oklahoma/

The $100 guitar project:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/arts/ ... d=all&_r=1&
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2013 ... roject.php

[Niveous]

Music news

RIP Chi Cheng of the Deftones
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/showbiz/d ... index.html

G & R will play in your house for $1000
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle ... n=b56d01fa

The UK Charts show two different sentiments about Thatcher
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-new ... er-1-2163/

[Niveous]

The youngest composer to win a Pulitzer for music
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecaden ... -for-music

Ozzy falls off the wagon
http://www.nme.com/news/black-sabbath/69760

Victor Wooten thinks we need to learn to play a different way
http://qctimes.com/entertainment/music/ ... cea90.html

[Niveous]

Guitar design at its finest
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the- ... r-designs/

HIves v. Cardigans
http://pitchfork.com/news/50376-the-hiv ... cardigans/

A guitar auction to help cancer survivors
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/201 ... r-Saturday

[Paco Del Stinko]

That Wangcaster guitar is the nuts! Sorry.

[Billy's Little Trip]

That Wangcaster guitar is the nuts! Sorry.

Funny, when I saw that yesterday, I started to make a similar comment about the first thing that sprung to mind. It was really hard, but I took the high road.

[Niveous]

For those into guitar technology-

http://www.mmrmagazine.com/4971/home-sl ... re-is-now/

(Yes, I know this is a year old...)

[Lunkhead]

Wow, that Peavey AT-200 is crazy. Auto-tune in your guitar? Ugh.

[Billy's Little Trip]

^ that is awesome. I fear it will not properly teach a person to manage their guitar, like autotune for a bad singer not to practice. But for a seasoned guitar play, that guitar is the bees knees, the cat's pajamas.......best thing since sliced bread!

Hartley Peavey said, "Having a guitar that is out of intonation and won’t tune properly can take away the motivation and joy in playing".
I've said this before for new guitar players. A precision perfectly set up guitar can make a first time guitar player become addicted to it. A guitar out of intonation and won't stay in tune is very frustrating to a new guitar player because they think it's their fault that they don't sound anything like the song they are learning. So they say **** this! And throw it in the closet.

[ken]

I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that if guitarists can't tune their guitars then they will be deficient in some way. We don't expect pianists to tune their instrument and I don't think that anyone would say that electronic keyboards have eroded the skill level of the beginner. I suspect having access to an entry level instrument has probably helped keep people learning and playing this behemoth of an outdated technology.

[Lunkhead]

I would agree with the theory that it's discouraging to n00bs when they buy a cheap guitar and everything they play sounds like crap due to tuning/intonation issues. I just think that if you start out on something like the AT-200 you may develop a distorted perspective about how guitars work and sound. You're not really hearing the actual guitar anymore, everything's going through a DSP. At which point do you stop bothering with actual having the strings except for strumming/picking? There are already MIDI guitars that just have strings down on the body for strumming, and no strings on the fretboard. To me at that point it's not really an "instrument" per se, or at least not a "guitar", it's just another MIDI controller. Maybe just buy a $100 MIDI controller if you just want to trigger samples or something. I don't know. I guess there's just going to be a spectrum between straight-up MIDI controller and actual organic acoustic instrument, with more and more options everywhere along the spectrum, which is kind of cool I guess. It's probably going to cause confusion and communication issues though, with a lot of people only knowing about the one point on the spectrum they're familiar with.