via youtube.com
Not too impressed with the headliners, but there are some sleepers on the bill.
Why People Steal Music
February 13th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
From Fred Wilson:
I like to buy music. I buy it from emusic (where I pay $23/month for use it or lose it credits for music downloads), Amazon, and when in a pinch, iTunes. I also have two Rhapsody music subscriptions that cost an additional $20/month. My kids also regularly spend money on iTunes for music (often for tracks we already own somewhere else in the house). I suspect between all of this, our family spends well over $1000/year on mp3s, probably closer to $2000/year.
And yet, today I find myself pirating an album on the Internet. I thought I’d outline how this happened to showcase what a fucked up system we have for content sales on the web.
Source: AVC
NAMM 2011 Wrap Up
January 28th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Well, that happened.
Didn’t get as much on here as I wanted to during the show, but that ok, all of the really good stuff was over on PG anyway. Here are some of the highlights for me:
- Kemper Profiling Amplifier – This amp basically copies the “mojo” of any amp you can get mic’d up. Here is the video I shot where we demo how close the profiling actually is.
- Vox Tony Bruno Combos – Vox teamed up with boutique amp guru to create a line of production model amps based on Tony’s designs.
- 65Amps Empire – This is a great 3-channel amp that covers some of the “greatest hits” of the classic British-voiced amps.
Heading to NAMM 2011
January 11th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Today I am heading out to the annual circus that is NAMM. If you are unable to make it out to sunny California in the middle of January, there are a few places where you can keep up with the show.
I will be posting some pics and videos here in addition to Twitter (@jasonshadrick)
Premier Guitar has a dedicated page here to collect all of our pics, videos, tweets and anything else we can squeeze out of the show. Of course I will be contributing to that as well as the Twitter account (@premierguitar).
So it begins…
Joe Satriani Gear Tour
January 8th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
A few weeks ago, Rebecca Dirks (our PG Web Editor) and I took a road trip to Chicago to get an inside look at Satch’s gear from the man himself. The Chicago Theater is a beautiful venue and hearing Joe crank up his Marshall amps in such a historic place was really cool. Check out the video below for news about his prototype Marshall Heads, his pedalboard and how his solo rig differs from his Chickenfoot rig.
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