Like or Fail? Van Halen » A Different Kind of Truth
Unless you have lived in a bubble, you’ve heard of Van Halen’s reunion. First it was the stealth reunion concert at small club Cafe Wha in New York City, which was the announcement that frontman, singer David Lee Roth was uniting with Eddie Van Halen once again. Then the single relase of Tattoo, and next the album, A Different [...]
Continue ReadingDavid Grissom’s Clinic on Tone @ PRS Experience 2011
More on the PRS Experience event at Rudy’s Music in Soho, NYC. In addition to seeing the great band with Davy Knowles and David Grissom play two fine blues tunes, we were treated to a 15-minute guitar clinic on tone from great artist and session player David Grissom. Grissom started by turning off his stompboxs. He was using a new PRS [...]
Continue ReadingDavy Knowles, David Grissom @ PRS Experience 2011, Rudy’s Music NYC
Last November, several months ago, I went to Rudy’s Music in Soho to check out the PRS Experience traveling show. They came to the store and took it over for the day. Paul Reed Smith, the designer who turbo charged the electric guitar with his boutique designs and luthier work in the ’70s, came with an entire team of PRS staffers [...]
Continue ReadingWolff Clark Expedition killin’ @ The Jazz Standard: Review
Pianist Michael Wolff and drummer Mike Clark put together a truly stellar lineup of musicians for the launch of their new band Wolff Clark Expedition at The Jazz Standard in NYC last night. Even though, full disclosure, I’m friends with the band, I have trouble not viewing last night as one of the best jazz shows I’ve seen or heard [...]
Continue ReadingWolff & Clark Expedition playing The Jazz Standard, NYC
My great friend, Michael Wolff, the jazz pianist not the biz exec, has formed a new band with the awesome drummer Mike Clark, oft-called the most sampled drummer in hip-hop and famous for his work in Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters. Michael W. is an alum of Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderley, and was also the musical director for the Arsenio [...]
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