If there's any indication this has been a mild Texas winter, I had to mow the yard last weekend. My typical yard work routine is to punch up one of my custom Pandora stations and get to it...this week's artist: Eric Johnson. Around four or five songs into the station stream, Stevie Ray Vaughn came o... [More]

I typically can't stand hearing DLR speak for more than 30 seconds, but this is a very cool story behind the myth and insight into what it takes to put on a big touring show. [vph:36615187:Van Halen and Brown M&Ms]

When I first started playing years ago, I grabbed the thin no name pick I found in the bottom of the box housing my Father's acoustic and had at it. It was an afterthought. If I hadn't seen people playing guitars with picks before, I probably wouldn't have even known what it was. After I moved to e... [More]

On the third day of Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix opened the show with what would become one of his most iconic performances; an impressionistic interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner. Hendrix, who served in the Army, later stated in an interview on the Dick Cavett show that he didn't think the perfor... [More]

Absolutely killer vid showing the culmination of digital tech and guitar. Its hard to tell what sounds are exactly generated by the guitar with the synth backing track and he's clearly got some automated switching of effects going on, but very, very cool. With dance and electronica music showing no ... [More]

From the FG Forum: I've been on a Matrix kick lately (BTW - if you're a fan of animation at all and haven't seen the Animatrix, check it out ASAP) and my crazy brain started thinking about the whole virtual versus real world and how that applies to the current digital vs analog debate in the guitar ... [More]

Last weekend, my wife and I were purchasing new phones at a local Best Buy and decided to do a little Christmas shopping as well. My father had asked for a couple of CDs so I headed over to the music department. We are Rhapsody subscribers so I haven't been in the CD section of a store for at least ... [More]