Month: December 2011

Now where have I seen that before?

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Sorry for the non-guitarry diversion, but I was just sitting around watching infomercials (yeah, I’m just that exciting) when I realised that the Baby Bullet reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

What could it be? Why is the Baby Bullet setting off some kind of vague shadow of a memory, and why does it make me feel creeped out and uncomfortable?

Oh wait, I’ve got it.

Argh! It’s the Cybermen from Doctor Who!

Perfect soundtrack: Doctor Who theme remagined as gypsy jazz!

Van Halen rehearsals rock the Roxy

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Whoa! Van Halen have been secretly rehearsing at the legendary Roxy on the Sunset Strip.

Here’s a snippet from the Roxy’s post about it on their website. Go here for the full article.

VAN HALEN REHEARSALS

For the past 2 months VAN HALEN has been rehearsing here 2-3 times a week!!!!!!

Do you have any idea how hard that was to not tell you?? When you come in at 10:00AM and David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, and Wolfgang Van Halen are on stage with 3 other people in the room playing “Running With The Devil” and you can’t say anything?! It’s tough, to put it simply.

It all began with a 3 day video shoot for their newest single that you don’t know about yet (shhh) and we were all geeking out like never before. Little did we know, the guys had fallen in love with the room and decided to rehearse for their upcoming unannounced tour for the next 2 months!

We couldn’t film it for obvious reasons, so we’ve decided to share some of our favorite VH moments that happened for the next 2 months.

“My favorite Van Halen moment was when I came out of the kitchen and they were doing Panama. I was one of the only people standing in the room by the stage. David Lee Roth looked at me, smiled, and waved. I thought to myself “that is the only time in life I will know David Lee Roth was actually singing to me.” – @LizzyDStadler

And if you’re wondering what guitar EVH is using in the recently-released promo video shot at the Roxy for Van Halen’s forthcoming tour, it’s an EVH Wolfgang Stealth. It’s available in Special and regular versions. [geo-out country=”Australia” note=””]Here’s the flat-top Special and here’s the carved-top version.[/geo-out]

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Looks like Dean has some cool new stuff coming out…

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Got the Dean mail-out yesterday with info about their NAMM webcast and 35th anniversary celebrations. The graphic at the top of the email looked cool enough – bitchen two-headed eagle thing, NAMM dates, booth number… but then I looked in the bottom left corner, two axes tucked away behind another:

Good lord. It’s a Dean VMNT Dave Mustaine signature with a Peace Sells …But Who’s Buying? graphic, and a version (with a different headstock) of one of Dimebag Darrell’s lesser-known but cooler Dean MLs! In fact, this was the guitar Dime was using in one of the first pics I ever saw of him, in a Randall ad back in the day when Dime went by the name Diamond Darrell publicly instead of Dimebag Darrell. You can see Dime using this axe in this video for “Primal Concrete Sledge,” and that’s what this Dean model is named: the Dime ‘Concrete Sledge’ ML. The original was actually a Washburn neck on a Dean body.

Keep an eye on Dean’s website and I Heart Guitar at NAMM time!

Aaron Kusterer – Language of Emotion ships January 6

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Hey! Did you see that interview with Aaron Kusterer recently in Guitar Player magazine? Aaron’s CD Language of Emotion is released on December 30 with a launch at BRG Music of Perry & Ames Iowa. Go check it out if you’re in the area! If you preorder the CD from Aaron it’ll ship January 6. Aaron’s an amazing guitarist, a super-nice guy and an awesome ambassador for Buddy Blaze guitars – in fact that’s how I first met him, when I recognised the Blaze logo on his guitar case at an airport. Aaron also gets some amazing tones out of AmpKit.

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