Archive for October 2011
Guns N’ Roses (sometimes abbreviated as G N’ R or GnR) is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album. The classic original lineup, as signed to Geffen records, consisted of lead vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. Co-founder Axl Rose is the only current original member of Guns N’ Roses. The band has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including shipments of 45 million in the United States. The band’s 1987 major label debut album, Appetite for Destruction, has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and is also the highest selling debut album of all time in the US.
Indie rock can be (loosely) defined as a melodic or punk genre guitar-based of rock music, and a means of producing that music, that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an alternative to the mainstream music of the time. The indie genre, it could be claimed, was mainly inspired by the Sex Pistols and the punk rock movement in the UK, which led to a more DIY approach to music and inspired young people to form bands. For example, on 4 June 1976 in the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester – in a smaller room above the main hall, the Sex Pistols played a gig that is widely believed to have been the catalyst to the punk rock movement, New Wave, and the subsequent indie movement.
Many of the musicians who attended the either of these two famous gigs by the Sex Pistols (as they returned to play another date) went on to form some of the important and critically acclaimed bands of the era. People who are believed to have attended these gigs include The Smith’s front man Morrissey, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, members of Joy Division/New Order (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook), members of the Buzzcocks (Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle), and The Fall’s Mark E Smith.
Ibanez guitars are a well known Japanese brand who make a large range of guitars to suit everyone from beginner to expert guitarists. Ibanez are renowned for their heavy metal and rock guitars but they also produce some all round guitars as well as starter packs and guitars to suit every genre possible. The quality of their workmanship really is second to none and it’s difficult to believe when anyone buying an Ibanez guitar being disappointed with their purchase. Today we will review a good beginner guitar for the novice who is just starting out on their guitar playing dream. So, what to buy a novice guitar player who dreams of success and wants to be just like their favourite guitarist. Well, what I really like is the Ibanez IJV 50. This comes in a starter pack, with everything you need for a new guitarist. The pack includes:
* A gig bag
* Strap
*Tuner
*Some replacement parts
*A set of picks, medium
*A DVD to show you how to play it, by Paul Gilbert
And of course, the precious guitar!
The Fender Telecaster guitar has quite rightly been amazingly popular for many years because of its good looks and particularly distinctive sound, which is very effective in country music and blues. It has of course very often been utilised in other musical genres too.
The guitar has not surprisingly acquired a large number of famous guitar playing admirers through the years including Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers and Bruce Springsteen.
Listed below are 10 quick facts relating to this legendary six string electric guitar:
1. Leo Fender developed the Telecaster in 1948 in sunny California. This was a time that many leading manufacturers were experimenting and producing designs. As a result the Fender Telecaster needed to be extremely quick off the mark.
2. The guitar came onto the scene as the Broadcaster model in 1949 and is still manufactured today in one form or another. There have of course been numerous impersonators but the Fender original is the all-important model.
3. In 1950 the very first one pickup model hit production and was known as the Esquire.