Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2011
It's said 'a poor musician blames his instrument' but what about good musicians? Do they claim their accomplishments are solely the result of their own efforts? Not really. Most of them thank co-writers, band mates, friends and family.
Guitar players, however, are famous for attributing success to a unique bond with their instrument. As a result, man and machine become inseparable, and over time, the general public has trouble separating where the guitar ends and the guitarist begins. Submitted for your approval is a list of several iconic guitar(ist) combination. And yes, this one goes to eleven.
10. Rick Nielsen
Hamer 5-Neck
As a boy, Rick Nielsen quit collecting stamps because they weren't loud enough. Switching to guitars should have slowed him down, but didn't: he recently pared his vintage guitar collection down to the essentials, and it's still well north of two hundred instruments.
That's not counting the dozens of novelty guitars he uses in every Cheap Trick show: he has checkerboard guitars, Beatles guitars, album cover guitars, even a cartoon character guitar that looks exactly like him. So it's gonna take a special guitar to cement the public image of Rick Nielsen on stage.
Enter the wonderfully stupid Hamer five-neck electric guitar. It hit public consciousness hard in the 1982 'She's Tight' music video, and Nielsen has been doomed to lug the 80-lb joke on tour ever since. Possibly one of the most-recognized rock instruments ever, the guitar is completely functional, with one 12-string neck, three six-string necks, and a fretless bottom neck (if you can reach it).
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Russian Band Plays Live Gigs Using iPhones and iPads as Instruments
0 comments Posted by eightq at 9:15 AMCooperative Style, a teenage rock band from Kazan, Russia, is the world’s first group to play a series of live concerts using only Apple iPads and iPhones as musical instruments.
Instead of using traditional instruments, the teenagers download apps for drums, keyboards and guitars and play their Apple gadgets on stage, through a downloaded mixing desk. They play covers and hits by rock legends like Nirvana, and say their audiences really like their original performances. Ruslan Halikov, the iPhone guitarist of Cooperative Style says it’s a lot harder to play a virtual guitar that it is a real one, not to mention rock and roll poses don’t look cool at all. Still, the public seems to like what they do.
While these guys may be the first to play Apple’s cash cows in live gigs, the iPhone and iPad have long been used to make music by amateur groups, and some of their performances are really very good. You can find loads of videos on YouTube.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Justin Bieber Unplugged Acoustic Album release date revealed!
0 comments Posted by eightq at 1:21 AM
The Justin Bieber Unplugged Acoustic album release date has been revealed. Not only has Bieber launched his own singing doll but he recently launched his autobiography First Step 2 Forever and will be soon be premiering his movie Never Say Never. And if that wasn’t enough, the Biebs will be releasing his acoustic album, a nail polish line and a new fragrance line.
Will you be buying the Justin Bieber Unplugged acoustic album? Bieber announced the project via his Twitter account confirming the release date of his new album. And per usual, I am sure Bieber fanatics are going into hysterics.
Justin tweets, “On November 23rd the Unplugged Acoustic album comes out! Taking it back to how we started.”
Not a whole lot of information has been released about this new album, but what we do know is that the album is going to include a stripped-down versions of his previous stuff. In addition to the old material, Bieber will be releasing a brand new song that he created in Hawaii, a holiday song of sorts is what the rumor on that track is.
Oh you Bieber fans will have many items to put on your holiday wish list! A book, a doll, nail polish, a recently announced fragrance line and a new album! Talk about being spoiled!
Justin also just recently had an interview with Extra TV and talked relationships. No, he didn’t mention Jasmine Villegas, but he did say this: “No, I think that whatever happens, happens. I’m not afraid to tell the truth.” Well hopefully he comes clean on his rumored relations with Miss Villegas! I know there are teen girls all around the world wondering the same thing!
What do you think of the Justin Bieber Unplugged acoustic album?
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