Archive for October, 2009
Foo Fighters Facts
Oct 27th
Do you know your Foo Fighters? Check out these Foo facts and see if you know your stuff…
Fact One
Foo Fighters’ biggest hit in the UK is ‘Best Of You’, which hit number four after its initial release in 05. Two years later , the song re-entered the chart at number 38 following the band’s famous performance at the Live Earth event held at Wembley Stadium.
Fact Two
Dave Grohl has a street named after him in his hometown of Warren, Ohio.
Creed Announce First Live DVD
Oct 20th
Fans of multi-platinum power rockers Creed are in for a special treat this Holiday Season as Creed Live, the first-ever live DVD from one of the most successful bands of the past decade, hits stores and all major online retailers on December 8, 2009, the day after its nationwide theatrical screening in movie theaters.
Creed Live, captured during the band’s long-awaited “Full Circle” reunion tour, includes every favorite track a Creed fan would want, including “Higher,” “My Sacrifice,” “With Arms Wide Open” and “Bullets” plus new songs such as “Overcome” and “A Thousand Faces” from Full Circle, the band’s first studio effort in seven years. Full Circle recently debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts second only to Michael Jackson’s This Is It. The DVD also includes a revealing documentary that follows Creed throughout “Full Circle” tour with exclusive band interviews and behind-the-scenes, and a photo gallery with over 100 intimate photos from the Summer 2009 trek.
U2 to Headline 2010 Glastonbury Festival
Oct 13th
The music event’s organiser Michael Eavis has signed up the Irish rockers – Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. – to perform for the first time at the world famous festival which celebrates its 40th anniversary next year.
A source said: ‘Everyone is over the moon that the deal has been done. Michael really wanted a huge name for the 40th anniversary and the fact U2 have never played Glastonbury in their 32-year career only adds to the mystique.’
The ‘Get On Your Boots’ hitmakers – who will headline the festival on Friday June 25, in Somerset, England – have been in discussions with Michael, 74, for some time.
The source added to Britain’s The Sun newspaper: ‘Eavis has been asking them for a while now and really stepped up the effort this year. This could be an iconic moment.’
Glastonbury tickets sold out just hours after their release last month, even though no acts had been named.
Top 10 Pick Squealers of All Time
Oct 6th
- Eddie Van Halen
There has always been a good deal of mystery surrounding the pinch harmonic, or, as hip players like to call it, “pick squeal.” A pick squeal is simply an artificial harmonic, or high-pitched sound, produced by choking up on the pick and allowing the thumb or thumbnail to catch the string in just as it is picked. The result, of course, resembles a squeal. Or a squawk. Or a scream. (It could take several tries before you get the desired s word.) Anyhow, what was once the domain of blues-rock string benders is now a staple for most metal guitarists. Here be the dudes who made it so.
10.) Greg Howe Sure, he’s moved on to smoother and faster fusion pastures, but early on in his rock career, velocity merchant Greg Howe used the pinch harmonic like it was going out of style. Listen to Howe II to hear him bend notes into frequencies perceptible only by canines. Sure, it went out of style. But it came back.
9.) John Sykes A speed freak of the scalar variety, Sykes really showed his know-how for the squeal upon joining Thin Lizzy for their 1983 swan song Thunder and Lightning. The repeated, howling fills in “Cold Sweat” were the precursor of the exaggerated squeals that became rampant in metal guitar playing during the decade. Later, Sykes would Top 40-fy the technique on Whitesnake’s “Still of the Night.”
