Under: Guitars
19 Jan 2010

Electronic Guitar

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Oh geez. Maybe in 10 years this will be a little better… for now, let’s keep the string companies, such as Ernie Ball, thriving and strong!

Coming soon,

post re: Paul Gilbert’s VIP lessons in Anaheim this past weekend.



Wow, this was really it.
The 5 song teaser show at the whiskey was nothing like this full out onslaught of Alice In Chains Live on Stage in California….where we had to ‘check our brains’.

I’ll be updating this post with more as we go. -- So Keep Checking Back!

Stage Before Alice In Chains Performs

This was the stage prior to the show.

At first I was concerned I would get my camera taken away and lose all my footage.

Here is a video from the start of the concert -- I had to hide the camera a lot and the angles are really bad, but hell I was right there for ya, and trying to enjoy it too!

Now it was funny how at one point Mike Inez (bassist) started playing rotten apple (when they were all using acoustics) and he apparently couldn’t really remember it nor were they supposed to play it…and it seemed hadn’t rehearsed ‘Rotten Apple’…people almost started jeering and booing him hahah) they quickly broke into ‘No Excuses’ to shut up everyone, quick. -- It can be annoying at times when your bass player ‘noodles around’ in between songs and gets people thinking things… haha. I was like, you GOTTA play Rotten Apple now…to save face…but nope.

Will DuVall Alice In Chains Singer

Will Duval making a Jesus Christ Pose-ish (ala Chris Cornell of Soundgarden) / Gibson on the Mic-stand screeching stuff….LIVE Last night (Sept 30th, 2009) at Avalon in Hollywood, California, the day after the Release of ‘Black Gives Way To Blue‘.

Jerry Cantrell Acoustic Alice In Chains Live

Jerry busts out the Acoustic and they Play ‘No Excuses’.

Jerry Cantrell Live Avalon Alice In Chains

Did they EVER DO A BADASS Version of Nutshell -- The Way it was intended to be. At this point I was not recording anymore and enjoying the show. We tried to get the audio but it sounds like shit on my cousin mike’s blackberry.

Man it was so great to see them ‘unplugged and all that, but we really haven’t had a chance to hear Nutshell done with the electric guitars like it was recorded. This was a first for me to see and it was really well done. Jerry Cantrell has some incredibly interesting little licks (that helped me get through exams in college on ‘Jar Of Flies’ !) that I finally got to see him play live. Even on the acoustic version of ‘no excuses’, it was obvious that the leads are done much better by anyone on an electric. -- He did No Excuses on an Acoustic, and then Nutshell on the electric, slowly bringing the show back up to an electric level again.



Alice In Chains Live at The Whiskey on Sunset

Opening with their newest radio hit, ‘Check My Brain’, Alice In Chains proved quickly that bands CAN sound good at the Whiskey a Go Go.

SET LIST:

Check My Brain

A Looking In View

Angry Chair

Man In The Box

Would

Here’s a picture I took of the set list:
Alice In Chains Set List Sept 30th At The Whiskey 2009
As you can see from the scribbled notes, they tuned to E Flat (D# is what they put because the chromatic tuners look for D# over Eb, I had the same deal as THERMOclinE was all D# or Eb. after awhile you get really used to the D#s!) for everything on this set list except for ‘A Looking In View’ which is #C (likely Drop C#, similar to Drop D just with the entire guitar 1/2 step down).

- Then they played ‘A Looking In View’, which I’ve only heard a few times. It’s very ‘dirt album-ish’(a good thing) and has a distinctive new edge to it. They recreated the song live like their recording very much the way they used to back in the day. The Alice In Chains sound hasn’t changed much over the years, essentially when you replace a vocalist, they aren’t coming in with tons of new gear to change things up. When you switch drummers or guitarists, that can really make a massive impact on a bands sound, however this singer has had it down pat since I saw their last performance at Gibson Ampitheather.

The only criticisms would be that newer fans simply may not ‘get’ the music like we all did back in the 90s.

It was nice to hear Angry Chair in this short set, followed by a rockin’ version (perfect for the sunset strip) of Man In The Box, which is very difficult to sing.

then while we were chilling in the aftermath of Man In the Box, the bassline to Would started and it was very soothing to hear this song done at the proper tempo the proper way again.

This band was SOLID to the core. The main backline and guitarist have been doing this for a very long time and it really showed in how tight they were. I’ve heard countless covers of Man In The Box, and its so great to see it done the right speed! and right way. Great job Mr. Cantrell. I would likely have met him but I decided to bail. I wanted to get this story posted!

More Photos!

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey on Sunset

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey on Sunset

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey on Sunset

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey on Sunset


(video of 24 seconds of Man in a box)… sorry they wouldn’t let us film and the photos looked like shi* (sorry kids) so I decided to video a bit so I could get a screencap or two and right away someone yelled at me for filming with my camera…also the annoying Whiskey bouncers whose job is to push people behind a line are a pain everytime i go there and I don’t have access to the Upstairs where you can just chill.

Live Alice In Chains At The Whiskey on Sunset

I’ll be at AVALON in Hollywood at their full show tomorrow night and I can’t wait.

:)



Under: Guitars
18 Aug 2009

Okay, so today I’m going to tell you that things are in the midst of development. From Guitar Tabs, to Guitar Center Reviews (i find they often have ‘too good to be true’ deals that may work for some, but not many professional musicians. I don’t really have much to say about Guitar Hero, however I do think it is a great way to get kids into music and even guitar. Just as the South Park episode depicts

it won’t be totally awesome to bust out your guitar and play the real songs. The kids just don’t care. Get a turntable at this point if you want to be semi-cool.

Okay so the Ultimate Guitar Player’s website is in need. This site is calling out for more contributors that wish to have their stories about celebrity guitar rigs or their own guitar rigs, or something interesting that others should hear about, from REAL guitar players not just wolfgang guitar nerds but ALL guitars and guitarists nerd-loving music freaks about.

I’ll be posting ‘my take’ on Pantera soon.. where I show some videos of me playing or trying to play some of my favorite riffs from Dimebag (we miss ya man).

The one’s with the sharp x’s in the pick were from his micstand at shows I attended in Toronto and Hamilton back in the 90s. The ‘Call Me Dammit’ pics were what the stagehands were throwing out to the crowd.

Pantera Picks Used by Dimebag Darrel

-KRONiS



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Under: News
15 May 2009

According to this post on YAHOO! Music..

Pearl Jam Bassist, Jeff Ament, Mugged outside an Atlanta Studio

pearl jam live Pearl Jam Bassist MUGGED outside studio!

Jeff Ament was struck in the head when his windows were smashed in and laptops ($4K worth) and $3K worth of cash were stolen.

Someone OBVIOUSLY knew he was gonna be there, i wonder if any of the unreleased music was on those laptops… probably as he was likely rehearsing the new tracks to something.. i know i would. hopefully he protected his data with passwords….perhaps we’ll find some unreleased pearl jam online soon.

Hopefully Jeff recovers quickly, i’m sure he’s more stunned but I would be SUPER PISSED at whoever leaked out the info…as the muggers were ready for him and jumped out of the bushes.

DAMN

I still think Pearl Jam’s TEN is their best record to date.
Pearl Jam Ten Album Cover



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