Plight of the guitarist

Sad. How many guitarists end up this way?

The Ventures

It’s amazing the amount of publicity you get when you’ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Ventures have been performing for about fifty years now, and they’ve never been as famous as now.

On the Fox News Channel (Fox & Friends)

Post Inducted*

Some sites of interest:

Nokie Edwards (long time lead guitar for the group)

The Ventures

Gerry McGee (long time lead guitar for the group, alternating with Nokie)

*One of the two original founders, Bob Bogle, was evidently too sick to attend; Gerry McGee was also unable to attend (yeah, these guys are pretty old now; Bogle still records with them but doesn’t do any touring; McGee still records and tours).

Kessel and Ellis

I could listen to these guys all day.

400 year old guitar

This guitar was made by Belchior Diaz in Portugal, around 1590. More about it here.

This must be the Salvadore Dali guitar

Check it out here.

The Dream Team–Bach and Bream

“99 ways to play better” Let’s all hope

“If you’re locked away in a basement for eight hours a day with a metronome and a torturous practice book that is equal parts Mel Bay/GuantanAmo Bay, you’re still not assured of transcendent 6-string skills. Sure, you may get stenographer-like dexterity and harmonic book-smarts up the f-hole, but playing soul-shaking music often requires a more diverse skill set. But this doesn’t mean that attaining the level of expression produced by someone like Jeff Beck necessitates a life of guitar monk-dom. First, don’t worry about the transcendent and unattainable talent of Jeff Beck. That’s just silly. What you need to do is ensure that whatever you play makes the hair on your arms stand up and quiver with bliss and excitement.” Read the rest at Guitar Player.

Two points: first of all, I know what a monk is but what’s a monk-dom? Secondly, I never want to play so that the “hair on your arms stand up and quiver with bliss and excitement;” that’s just weird.

Come on, Felder, get that site going!

Is Don Felder ever going to get his site up and running. Go there–donfelder.com–and all you still get is, Site coming soon. It’s been like that for months…Come on already, even if its just pics of your 300 guitars. However you can go here.

Take the electric guitar quiz

Right here.

The Theremin guitar

Yes, this is the latest transformation of the guitar. It’s played by moving your hand up and down the neck and tapping the button. Read more about this and other strange guitars here. I think I saw some of these on the Jetsons.

Oh, and let’s not forget this one (it’s at the same link above):