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2023 Interview: #CoryWong names pros and cons of guitar tabs, explains why guitarists should care about nuances ā”ļø www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/on_the_recā¦
Top 9 Bass Legends Who Also Performed as Guitarists In Their Career
It's often really unfortunate to know that bassists often don't get the praise that they deserve. Looking at big rock bands, things seem to revolve around singers, guitar players, sometimes even around drummers. But rarely will you see a bassist taking a spotlight for more than just a random solo on selected live shows. It's also not unusual to have bassist jokes being thrown around all the time. Well, that really sucks, because some of these bassists can play regular guitars between than most guitarists out there. Today, we'll be checking out some famous bassists who also performed as guitarists in their career.
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Top 5 Metal Albums This September:
"Fear Inoculum" has finally arrived and everybody's been spending the last few days listening to it in an orgasmic misama of bliss and euphoria, and chances are that most of us will continue to do so and only skim through any upcoming releases in the near future. However, the music industry grinds on regardless of how much attention we give to the upcoming releases, and, as usual, there quite a few metal albums coming out this September that are well worth checking out. www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/liā¦
Sean Parkinson and Cole Lohmann of Anamorph premiere a playthrough of 'Sublimate', a song from their new ambitious full-length album, Lucid. Learn more here: www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ugā¦
How It Works: Anatomy of a Tube Amplifier
Before we can talk about tube amps, solid state amps, or various hybrids, we need to understand the purpose of amplification in the world of music is unique. It is unlike an amplifier you might use in your car or home stereo. Those amplifiers are designed to amplify the sound that is put in with no added effect on the sound whatsoever. Guitar amplifiers, on the other hand, are designed to sound different. Each amp will interpret the signal of your guitar in a unique way. To find out why this is, we need to take a look at what happens between the input jack and the output jack. Between these two jacks are the methods by which our signal is amplified and controlled. These various methods for amplification will have an unavoidable effect on your tone.
When we talk about amplifying and controlling our signal, what we are really talking about is amplifying and controlling the flow of electrons. The electronic signal that is generated by a string swinging through a magnetic field is, at its core, inaudible. Thatās what weāre putting into our amp - so we need to amplify that signal and send it to our speakers before it becomes audible. We wonāt delve too far into the world of electrical circuitry in this article (youāre welcome). So we will talk about the basic parts of an amplifier and how they can affect your tone but keep in mind, each component could probably be a separate article or two themselves.
Letās start out by looking at the general anatomy of your basic tube amp: www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/how_it_wā¦
A Quick Guide To Baritone Guitars: Taking The Low Road
Although we spend a lot of time talking about guitars and bass guitars, we far too often ignore the world of baritone guitars. Baritone guitars have always held a special role in music, filling the void in voicing between a standard guitar and a bass guitar. It started to become more prominent in heavier darker music for those who like to down-tune but also like the feel of a standard guitar.
Although the baritone was used a lot in country western music, to accompany the baritone voices of Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. Rock music has seen the baritone used widely as well. Pat Smear has been using them in the Foo Fighters since 2011. Robert Smith used them all over the album Disintegration. Its most commonly used in heavier music - Deftones, Metallica, Dream Theater, Machine Head, Devin Townsend, Cannibal Corpse, Coheed & Cambria, Staind, and Chevelle all have used a baritone at one point or another. Itās also been used by artists ranging from The Beach Boys, to Dave Mathews, to Buckethead. So thereās no questioning the range of the instrument. It has often been used to replace the bass guitar or simply add a layer to a bandās sound.
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Vivian Campbell: I Had No Idea Tenacious D Covered Dio, Let Alone Won a Grammy for It
During an appearance on Do You Know Jack, classic Dio guitarist Vivian Campbell was asked for his opinion on Tenacious D's cover of "The Last in Line," which won the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Grammy at the 2015 ceremony.
The guitarist replied:
"I have no idea. That's news to me. I didn't even know it existed, let alone that it won a Grammy. That's amazing.
"So, no, obviously, I've never heard it. I remember hearing Tenacious D doing a song about Dio, an original Tenacious D track. This is many, many, many years ago when Ronnie was still alive.
"I remember hearing that and reading something that [Jack Black] had met Ronnie and they collaborated on something. But I had no idea that he's done a version of 'The Last in Line.'
"It's always very flattering when somebody references something you've done in your career, regardless of whether it's an authentic cover or a parody or something, or whatever it is. It's still all very flattering."
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Duff McKagan: What My Life Was Like Before Guns N' Roses
During a conversation with Milana Rabkin Lewis, Duff McKagan talked about his life prior to joining Guns N' Roses, the band's early days, and more.
Asked on what his life was like before GN'R, the bassist replied:
"I came up in the punk-rock scene of Seattle. I saw The Clash in '79, a band that was so exotic to me. I saw Zeppelin in '77 play [the now-demolished Seattle stadium] The Kingdome. It was enormous, and the band was so small and so far away.
"I saw some other big bands - KISS and whatnot - and the punk rock thing hit, and The Clash were playing right in front of me.
"After the show, they came out into the crowd, and [Joe] Strummer said something on the stage that always left an indentation on me - 'There's no difference between us and you. We're all the same. We're in it together.'
"Thus was born a DIY, punk-rock scene in Seattle. We did everything ourselves - making fliers, booking shows, carting gear, booking VFW halls, lying to the police that it was a teen dance.
"Learning how to do the commerce of that - how to finagle the job you had to get to pay for rehearsal places, for an apartment and for fliers and for gear. You would trade for gear. I started really learning the value of things, and I was really driven.
"Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it. I had to do it.
"I played in a bunch of bands in Seattle. One of them got signed to Jello Biafra's label [Alternative Tentacles]. We got no money for it, but we put a mark on the American map of punk rock.
"I was working at a restaurant in Seattle, saving my money to move to LA... I moved to LA chasing my dream, and the first people I met was Slash and Steven [Adler] through an ad in the newspaper.
"We met down at Canter's [Deli]. We stared at each other but found that we had a lot of the same musical influences... There was always a missing piece in the tons of bands I was in Seattle.
"I toured. I knew how to book a tour, I knew how to make a flier. But if you're missing a piece in your band, like, there was always a weak link... When the five of us got in a room the first time in Silverlake in a rehearsal place, it was on. You could tell immediately. It was pretty ferocious."
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New Tool Album Is Done? Band Shares Photo From Mastering Studio With Engineer Bob Ludwig
Members of Tool have shared a photo from what appears to be the Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, ME, with engineer Bob Ludwig, who handled the mastering duties on the group's latest studio album, 2006's "10,000 Days."
Apart from Mr. Ludwig, the pic features guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor, drummer Danny Carey, and producer/engineer Joe Barresi.
The post received a lot of attention from the fans, who were quick to speculate that since mastering is the final stage of production, chances are that the album could be complete.
Some fans also pointed out that Bob is known for working fast and tends to wrap up the mastering process within just a day or two.
Singer Maynard James Keenan, who is not featured in the photo, recently commented that the record would likely arrive "between mid-May and mid-July." Prior to that, Carey said the plan is to have the album out "mid-April."
Additionally, Adam Jones shared a separate photo of Joe, apparently at an airport while arriving in Maine. You can check it out here: www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/newā¦
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