What is the greatest instrumental guitar album of all time?
Don’t feel confined to just site one choice.
I just heard about Guitar Goddess Magazine. Check out the cover of Volume 01, Issue 01 featuring Lita Ford.
Guitar Goddess, Inc., was formed to bring female guitarist together under one site to learn, grow, network and celebrate our accomplishments.
There is a power in solidarity and our aim is to collect and maintain the largest database of female guitarist from around the world.
Each month we will be reviewing new works by female guitarist as well as sharing guitar tips and tricks of the trade. We will review equipment and keep you up to date with the latest technology.
To further bring awareness about female guitarists, we have launched the Guitar Goddess competition.
Each year we will comb the globe looking for the best female guitarists. Competition begins by submitting a video showing you at your best. From there selected artist are given an opportunity to attend a live audition in front of guitar industry professionals. Contestants who advance this round will be invited to compete in front of celebrity judges during a televised competition.
It’s a tough time to get in the magazine business but, I notice that the major, testosterone targeted guitar mags are still kicking (matter of fact, I was at Walgreen’s the other day and a mag rep showed up with a full stack of GW and nothing else).
Good idea and good luck Guitar Goddess!
I got in a Steely Dan bag this morning.
So, “Peg”…the guitar solo legend…much has been said, it’s part of the lore.
The original story goes something like this; Becker and Fagen brought every guitar player in the world in to the studio one at a time and coaxed each player with cattle prods and torture devices in an effort to produces the perfect guitar solo. After using enough two inch tape to circumnavigate Saturn 13 times the tyrannical duo selected the work of revered yo cat, Jay “Wah-Wah” Graydon, as the grand prize winner.
Since those days of yore, the formerly reclusive B&F have come out of seclusion on several occasions and continue to do so. This, of course, opens the debate all over again as a series of hired guns are faced with the challenge of going toe to toe with Graydon’s epic effort.
YouTuber, drhey 19, has put together compilation of “Peg” solos starting with Graydon’s original studio version and followed by live takes from Drew Zingg, Georg Wadenius, Wayne Kratz, and Jon Herington.
As always, smile for the camera and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.
Adding to they fun, DrHey19 is encouraging folks to rate the solos.
He rates the solos as:
1. Graydon (studio)
2. Wadenius (94)
3. Herington (since 2000)
4. Kratz (96)
5. Zingg (93)
I would rate ‘em thusly:
1. Graydon-got to be tops as it’s the standard
2. Zingg-great note choices, not a big fan of the big delay sound (board mix issue?) but, sweet phrasing.
3. Herrington-He starts with Graydon’s bend and it almost seems to throw him off track for a bit but, some cool stuff after that.
4. Kratz-It’s kind of riffy to me…
5. Wadenius-The tone distracts me (board mix issue?)
What say you, deep geeking guitarionados and music headed ramblers?
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