Past News
Manuel Barrueco plays Piazzolla
A new CD by classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco entitled “Solo Piazzolla”, was released on July 15, 2007 containning only music by the Argentinian composer. The CD includes Piazzolla’s well known “Verano Porteño”, “Invierno Porteño”, as well as “Cinco Piezas”, and Barrueco’s arrangements of the “Tango-Études”, originally written for solo flute. Another CD by Barrueco featuring Piazzolla’s music will come out this fall with the Grammy nominated quartet Cuarteto Latinoamericano. The CD is called “Tango Sensations” and includes Barrueco’s arrangements of the Five Tango Sensations, as well as La Muerte del Ángel, Milonga del Ángel, Libertango by Piazzolla, and Jeromita Linares by Guastavino. The albums are part of the new Manuel Barrueco Collection and are available from TonarMusic.com.
Posted: 17 August 2007 by modern guitarist » 0 Comments
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Megadeth: Roadie For a Day
The band Megadeth is giving its fans a chance to be Mustaine’s roadie for a day. Their website states the following: “How would you like to be Dave Mustaine’s personal assistant for the day??!! Or have VIP backstage passes, or be ‘Roadie For A Day’ at a show on the upcoming US Tour?!! The MegaFanClub is now offering a chance at all of this to its members with a fan club membership drive!! All a member needs to do is recruit new members and you could be backstage hanging out with Megadeth, helping set up the show, or even the the ultimate prize, the chance to be “Personal Assistant to Dave Mustaine” for that day!!” Check out more details here.
Megadeth’s U.S. tour starts September 4, taking the band through 24 U.S. cities. Tour dates can be found here.
Posted: 16 August 2007 by modern guitarist » 0 Comments
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Van Halen and David Lee Roth
Beginning this September Van Halen will embark on a national concert tour throughout the U.S. and Canada with its original lead singer David Lee Roth for the first time in 22 years. Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and drummer Alex Van Halen will perform with Eddie’s 16 year old son, Wolfgang, who joins the line-up as the band’s bass player. “This is not a reunion. This is a new band,” said Roth at a news conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, and later added, “This is not ‘rockers with walkers’.”
Van Halen and David Lee Roth have not performed or recorded together since 1984’s classic multi-platinum album 1984 and subsequent tour. Twenty five dates have been announced for the tour which is scheduled for a September 27th kick-off in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tickets for select dates on the tour go on sale beginning on Saturday, August 18th and are available on www.LiveNation.com. A complete list of confirmed dates can be found HERE.
Posted: 14 August 2007 by modern guitarist » 0 Comments
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Pat Metheny Trio Tour
The Pat Metheny Trio with Christian McBride on bass and Antonio Sanchez on drums, will hit the road in October after completing a new recording that is due out in early February 2008. The trio will tour through the midwest, northeast and then after a short break, continue on to South Africa. The tour will continue in February and March, 2008. More dates will be announced soon.
Metheny’s website has also announced a new “Pat Metheny podcast series” section, where fans can listen to Metheny himself talking about the insights into the making of his records.
—–update—–
Pat Metheny Trio Tour 2008 dates:
March 18 - New York, NY. Town Hall Theater.
June 30 - Darmstadt, Germany. Central Station.
July 4 - Budapest, Hungary. Margaret Island Openair Stage.
July 5 - Gardone Riviera, Italy. Teatro del Vittoriale.
July 8 - Barcelona, Spain. Palau de la Musica Catalana.
July 9 - Madrid, Spain. Auditorio Patio Central Conde Duque.
July 11 - Ghent, Belgium. Blue Note Records Festival.
July 12 - Rotterdam, Netherlands. North Sea Jazz Festival.
Posted: 14 August 2007 by modern guitarist » One Comment
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John Abercrombie Interview
A lengthy and very informative interview with jazz guitarist John Abercromie has recently been published by All About Jazz. Here’s a snippet:
AAJ: What kind of gear do you take on the road? One or two guitars? Do you bring an amp or backline one?
J.Abercrombie: I always backline. You can’t bring amps on the road anymore. You can barely even get your guitar on the plane these days. Lately I just take this Brian Moore guitar and a little box with some effects. The main effect I use, and I’ve been using it for about twenty years, is little stereo effects processor made by the Boss company, which is a subdivision of Roland, called the SE-50. It’s just a little half-rack unit that has multi-effects—reverb, delay, chorus and a lot of really useless stuff that I don’t use like distortion and compression. I just generally use it for the reverb and the delay and sometimes maybe a very little bit of chorusing. That’s changed over the years. I used to use a lot more of that effect. During the eighties, I was using more chorus; I was addicted to it. As I get older, I find that that sounds like too much to me. My sound is getting a little more pure over the years—less effected, more direct.
Read the full interview here.