Monday January 28, 2008 NAMM 2008: A Guitarist Account
With some 88,000 vistors, NAMM 2008 was a very busy four-day orgy of gear, gear, gear. All well and good unless your mission — like ours — is to visit every stand and get info on all the new products. Even being selective there were over 200 guitar-related...
Thursday January 24, 2008 Guitarist archive available online
Here at Guitarist we get a lot of requests for articles from past issues. So regular readers will be pleased to hear that we’re publishing our archive material online through the brand new website for musicians and music makers, MusicRadar.com ...
Wednesday January 23, 2008 Stolen guitars: can you help?
Stone Gods (featuring three former members of The Darkness) had two instruments stolen from Bristol Fleece & Firkin after their gig on 17 January. The first is a black Gibson Explorer serial number 00652369, instrument is in a black case with a Gibson logo...
Tuesday January 22, 2008 Exclusive NAMM show coverage
If you want to find out what really went on at the 2008 NAMM show in Anaheim, California - the guitar industry's most important showcase of new products - you should cut to the chase and check out the definitive online eyewitness reportage
right here. ...
Metallica Euro Shows!
Don’t get too excited, as none have been announced for Blighty as yet, although the band’s official site heartily promises that there are more gigs to come. Here are the shows so far on the European Vacation 2008 trek:
May 28 - Chorzow, Poland - Slaski...
Thursday January 17, 2008 NAMM Show Reports
The massive NAMM show opens at the Anaheim Convention Centre today, and we’ll be keeping you up to date with live reports and stories as they happen, courtesy of our crew who are in sunny California.
Bask in the glow if, like us, you’re stuck in windy and...
Munky business: Korn guitarist drops out of European tour
UK fans expecting to see Korn 's longtime guitarist on their tour this week are about to go ape:
James 'Munky' Shaffer has been forced to leave the band's current European tour for personal/family reasons.
The band's frontman Jonathan Davis had the...
No future: Sex Pistols to record new material?
Some of you are going to think this idea has disaster written all over it in neon pink…
According to eGigs.co.uk, the reformed (again) Sex Pistols are set to record the new material in 30 years after the success of their recent reunion tour.
The...
Tuesday January 15, 2008 Extreme: guitarist gives update on comeback
Guitarist Nuno Bettencourt of the reunited Boston funk rockers Extreme has issued the following update:
"We are now finishing up the recording of our new release... which, by the way, rocks. We had a great time jamming and creating. We ended up with...
Monday January 14, 2008 Live Evile: UK thrashers writing new material
Guitarist Ol Drake from up and coming UK thrash metal Evile – who will support Megadeth on their UK tour in February – has issued the following update:
"So we've pretty much started writing material for the second album. As some of you might know, we like...
Megadeth: new guitarist officially announced
The revolving door that is Megadeth continues to spin: the band has officially named Chris Broderick ( Nevermore , Jag Panzer ) as their new guitarist, replacing Glen Drover .
Drover's departure was suggested as far back as November with band chief ...
Tuesday January 08, 2008 Rumour: Megadeth to recruit new guitarist
As any Megadeth fan will know, the band is a revolving door of personnel with chief songwriter Dave Mustaine the only original member after the controversial departure of bassist Dave 'Junior' Ellefson a few years ago.
Now numerous internet whispers...
Wednesday January 02, 2008 In issue 298 of Guitarist
In issue 298 of Guitarist, on sale 20 December:
CAN ONE GUITAR DO IT ALL?
We put the hybrid electric and acoustic offerings from Ovation, Fender and Taylor head-to-head in this in-depth review PLUS in a special feature, we look at how the hybrid...
Monday December 17, 2007 Surprise Arctic Monkeys Show Tonight!
D'oh - missed it. Here's the news story anyway...
The band has just announced a show tonight (17th December) at Manchester Apollo.
There’s not much more to say aside from you’d better get your skates on if you want a ticket…they’re limited to two per...
Wednesday December 12, 2007 Taylor Solidbodies – We Got ‘Em!
We very happy to be able to report that three examples of the eagerly awaited range of Taylor Solidbodies landed with us this week. Needless to say, we’re going to rev our all-conquering Reviews juggernaut to full speed and bring you an exclusive feature very...
