Police in Aurora, Ontario are trying to identify some turd that wouldn’t flush who was caught on security camera stealing an ~$8,000 Gibson Custom Shop 60th Anniversary ’59 Les Paul Standard guitar from a music store by shoving it down his baggy pants. From what I could gather, this master
This is a video of music student Matthew Van Ness (of the Loch clan presumably) performing the Halo theme by previously recording himself performing 100 different parts of the song, then mix-tracking them all together. That is impressive. For reference, I would have come up with the idea, said I
This is a video from musician and Youtuber Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of metal music, from the 1950’s to present. His lesson plan includes “a medley of metal examples accompanied by descriptions, artists, and albums that typified each era.” Neato. Of course if you don’t have time to
A patron of J.B. Hart Music Co. in Grand Junction, Colorado recently anonymously gifted a Dimebag Darrell signature Dean Guitar to Fallon, a young Pantera fan who would regularly visit the store and request to play the instrument (this one). Some more details about the heartwarming incident while I wipe
This is a video of musician Charles Berthoud (previously) playing an electric bass with its strings replaced with a cello’s. The result is beautiful, it almost sounds like a harp. Speaking of — have I told you I pay a woman dressed as an ancient Greek to play a large
This is a video of German musician Carolina Eyck performing ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ on theremin, with a background track of herself singing to provide a little vocal accompaniment. I was just listening to it out loud when my girlfriend walked in and asked if I was listening
This is a video of musician Astaremi showing off the custom liquid-filled electric guitar he built, using two colored liquids of differing viscosities so they flow around each other in there kind of like a lava lamp. Apparently the build was inspired by Kirk Hammett’s Wavecaster and John 5’s lava
This is a video of musician Charles Berthoud, who apparently shreds so hard he shredded the other three strings right off his electric bass, putting the remaining string to good use with this impressive single-string solo. Not bad, but I can even take it a step further and perform a