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Slash: At Guitar Center

Posted By: dustin hinz

Feb 5, 2010

Slash is more than just a musician, he’s a legend. Best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, Slash has also served as a first-call studio gun-for-hire who has played on records by Alice Cooper, Daughtry, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, and Iggy Pop. But for the first time since he shot onto the scene more than [...]

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Your Next Record with Slash

Posted By: dustin hinz

Feb 1, 2010

Guitar Center has teamed up with one of the greatest guitarists to ever walk the face of the earth to present YOUR NEXT RECORD with SLASH, a groundbreaking unsigned band competition that will give one up and coming band the chance to win the ultimate career-altering opportunity: record a 3-song EP with the legendary producer [...]

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John Petrucci: At Guitar Center

Posted By: dustin hinz

Jan 30, 2010

Like a lot of great bands, Dream Theater formed when their members were attending school together. But the band’s core members did not meet at any ordinary school. Rather, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung and drummer Mike Portnoy met at Boston’s legendary Berklee College of Music. Filled with students of above average compositional skills, technical playing abilities and music career ambitions, Berklee proved [...]

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In B Flat

Posted By: Norman Hajjar

Jan 25, 2010

We’re keenly interested in tools that allow musicians to use the Internet to collborate. We keep our eye on emerging serial-collaboration sites like kompoz.com and real-time oriented sites like eJAMMING.com (which just announced a partnership with our friends at Fender). And then there’s InBflat.net, pictured at the top of the post. Simple genius. A 4 x [...]

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