NEWS: Erik Mongrain CD released
Erik Mongrain’s album, Equilibrium, is released this week in the US.
I’ll post a review later this week and an interview with Erik in the near future, but in the meantime you can check out his playing on YouTube here, and visit his website here.
Erik begins a month-long tour of the UK in November. Tai Irwin of the Boston Herald said, “…Mongrain demonstrates the percussive two-handed tapping technique he calls “air-tap” that makes an acoustic guitar emit tones I never thought it could. It’s like Van Halen meets James Taylor; furious but soothing.”
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Hi! I'm Peter Hodgson. I write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine (including my instructional column, 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God,' which has been running since 2007), guitarworld.com, Tone Deaf, Beat (including their weekly hard rock/metal column Crunch) and The Brag. And I'm Assistant Social Coordinator with Seymour Duncan.
I've been playing guitar since I was 8 years old, and I've been writing for magazines since I was 18. I've also worked as a guitar teacher (up to 50 students a week), a setup tech, a newspaper editor, and I've also dabbled in radio a little bit. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and my hobbies include drinking way too much coffee, and eating way too much Mexican food.
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