It's a great pleasure for me to present you with a second interview with the great blues man Eric Bibb (aka @ericbibb). The first one is in episode #68. He was in Paris for a cameo appearance at the New Morning but he will be back to play his own gig on April 2nd.
Extracts from Deeper In The Well
+ Dig A Little Deeper In The Well
+ Could Be You, Could Be Me
+ Money In Your Pocket
+ Movin' Up
Three great photos taken during the interview by Nicolas Esposito from Rendez-Vous Création (www.rendezvouscreation.org):
Don't forget if you are in the Paris area, Eric Bibb is playing at the New Morning on April 2nd 2012.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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The Aristocrats is what you can call a super group with Guthrie Govan on the guitar, Bryan Beller (aka @bryanbeller) on bass on Marco Minnemann on drums. I had the great opportunity to talk to 2 out of the 3 members of the band.
Here is part 1 of 2 with the interview of Bryan Beller who also played with none other than Steve Vai among many others.
I tremendously enjoyed the Aristocrats debut album. Yes, it's chock full of incredible technical work but it is even more full of great songs with great melodies and feelings all over the CD.
We are talking music here, it's NOT a boring intellectual jazz-fusion thing. I can't wait to see those guys play live.
Song extracts from the album played before the interview:
Flatlands
I Want A Parrot
They will be playing in Paris on March 14th in Paris at La Scène Bastille (www.la-scene.com) so if you are
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I am happy to present you with an interview of Tony Macalpine, one of the not-so-numerous survivor of the 80s shredder era. He has a very rich career so far and his latest album rocks big time.
If you are into metal and high class guitar playing, you will sure enjoy Tony's work.
Extracts played before the interview
Blue Maserati
Dream Mechanism
Ölüdeniz
Flowers For Monday
If you are in the Paris, France area, Tony will play March 21st at Le Divan du Monde. All the tour dates are in the Tours page of his website.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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For the second time I had the pleasure to meet and interview Bjorn Berge the great norwegian guitar player. The first time was last year in episode #78. The guy can be pretty intimidating but he is very cool and extremely nice.
I was at his New Morning show the night before we did the interview, he gave a superb show. The place was packed and the crowd very responsive to Bjorn. I highly recommend seeing him on stage, he rocks BIG time with "only" his 12 string guitars.
Here he is now with his latest CD called Blackwood.
Extracts played before the interview:
Blackwood
Woodstock
Sick'N Tired
Blues For One
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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I met Eric McFadden when he was in Paris for a couple of shows as well as promoting his latest album "Bluebird On Fire". He has a great voice, knows his way around a guitar and has a very wide range of styles he masters, from rock to deep roots blues to more funky stuff as well as more melancholic music.
It was a pleasure to discuss with him, check out his music or his show if you live nearby.
www.EricMcFadden.com
Concert dates:
15/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
16/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
17/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
18/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
19/11 - Roanne - Papillon Bleu
20/11 - Ensisheim - Caf' Conc'
22/11 - Ensisheim - Caf' Conc'
25/11 - Blois - Maison de Begon
Bonne écoute,
Pierre.
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For the 2nd time (see #81 for the 1st interview), I had the pleasure to interview Popa Chubby as he was in paris to promote his latest album Back To New York City. After the interview we did a video recording of the song Pound Of Flesh you will see in next week episode.
Meeting and interviewing Popa is always some kind of adventure, this time we were supposed to to the interview in a radio studio but during the show he broke two strings so we had to go back to the hotel to get some new strings. We ended up doing the interview in the basement of his hotel in the gym room!
Extracts from Back To New York City played before the interview:
Pound Of Flesh
Back To New-York City
A Love That Will Not Die
She Made Me Beg For It.
Don't forget to check out next
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Do you have any idea how it feels to get to interview such a guitar legend a Mr Leslie West (@lwestmountain)?? Maybe be Mr West is not THAT famous among younger guitar players but he is cited as an influence by many people and for good reasons.
I had a blast discovering his latest CD "Unusual Suspects" which is full of georgous guitar tones with an incredible range of guitar guests:
Billy F Gibbons
Slah
Zakk Wylde
Steve Lukather
Joe Bonamassa
I hope you will enjoy the interview I did with him on the phone.
Extracts:
Standing On A Higher Ground
Third Degree
I Feel Fine
My Gravity
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music of the Popa Chubby interview I did back in episode #81.
Link to the PDF transcription of the Poppa Chubby interview
Good reading,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music of the Bjorn Berge interview I did back in episode #78.
He is a great acoustic norwegian guitar player. I had the pleasure to meet him while he was in Paris for a couple of shows. I saw him play for the Dixiefrog label party in Le Bataclan, it is quite something to see and hear this giant play for a packed house, he knows how to set the audience on fire.
Link to the transcription of the Bjorn Berge interview
Good reading,
Pierre.
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For the first time ever, a guitar player from Central America on show, please meet Hedras Ramos from Guatemala!
This musician is only 19 but is showing a musical maturity way beyond his age. His latest album (no, it is not his first CD, it's the third one!) "Atoms And Space" is a great CD I took a lot of pleasure to discover. For sure Hedras is only getting started.
Extracts played from the album "Atoms And Space":
Glorious War
Virtual Tangles
Stars and Comets
Atoms of Distortion
Links:
www.reverbnation.com/hedrasramos
www.youtube.com/hedrasramoslive
www.facebook.com/hedrasramoslive
www.roland.co.uk/bosscomp/
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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Here is a video soundseeing of my beautiful Rittenhouse Telecaster (www.rittenhouseguitars.com).
The whole Rittenhouse Telecaster Story of this guitar is there in 5 parts:
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
If you want sone more there is another video in french here in episode #093 and also an audio only episode with a soundseeing of the same guitar here in #094.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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For this episode #107 I have very happy to have Jon Herington with me on the show. I really enjoyed his album Shine (Shine Shine) which is an excellent mix of Rock, Soul and Blues at the same time.
Extracts played in the show
Aveline
Everything
Harsh Light
Say You'll Stay
Links:
www.jonherington.com
facebook.com/JonHerington
twitter.com/HeringtonBand
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Mini-interview with Paul Reed Smith done at the 2011 MusikMesse 2011 on Friday April 8th.
After that there is some image of the PRS booth then extracts from the mini-concerts with Orianthi, David Grissom, Davy Knowles and PRS himself.
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Here is the full written transcription of the Paul Gilbert interview you can listen to on episode #87.
Thanks again to my usual transcriptor (is that a word?? Not sure... 🙂 ) who did all the hard work of putting the audio into words: Jenn (@jennfeather) at Random Chatter Music (metalichicka.wordpress.com).
PDF transcription of the Paul Gilbert interview
Happy reading,
Pierre.
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For the second time I had the great pleasure to interview the very tall Paul Gilbert while he was in Paris finishing his 40 date solo tour to promote his own album "Fuzz Universe".
Last time I met the guy was last year when he was touring with MrBig, the interview is on episode #26.
During the interview I asked questions on "Fuzz Universe" but also on "What If..." the next MrBig record which will be released in Europe early 2011.
Great shot of Paul by Nidhal Marzouk (www.yog-photography.com) during the Trabendo show in Paris on December 19th:
Extracts heard by order of appearance:
Olympic (Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe)
Mantra The Lawn (Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe)
Bach Partita In Dm (Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe)
American Beauty (MrBig - What If...)
Around The World (MrBig - What If...)
Unforgiven (MrBig - What If...)
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Popa Chubby is a New-York born guitar player which is pretty famous in France, I had the pleasure to interview him just before he played the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.
As usual, before the intervie you will hear some extracts from his latest album "The Fight Is On":
The Fight Is On
We Got Some Rocking To Do
The Right Time
Steelhorse Serenade
Enjoy,
Pierre.
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Here is a great acoustic norwegian guitar player in this episode. I had the pleasure to meet Bjorn Berge while he was in Paris for a couple of shows. I saw him play for the Dixiefrog label party in Le Bataclan, it is quite something to see and hear this giant play for a packed house, he knows how to set the audience on fire.
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Back in april 2010 I had the pleasure to meet none other than an idol of mine, Nuno Bettencourt, while he was in Paris for the Rihanna tour. Here is a word-by-word complete written transcription done by Jenn at Random Chatter Music.
PDF transcription of the Nuno Bettencourt interview
he audio recording of the interview is in episode #57.
Happy reading,
Pierre.
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Hello,
Back in september I had the pleasure to meet Matthias Eklundh while he was doing some promo for the Freak Kitchen album "Land Of The Freaks", here is a word-by-word complete written transcription done by Jenn at Random Chatter Music.
PDF transcription of the Mattias Eklundh interview
The audio recording of the interview is in #038.
Happy reading,
Pierre.
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This is the ONE YEAR anniversary episode of The Guitar Channel!!
Let me tell you it was quite a ride the past 12 months. Even in my wildest dreams when I started I did not think about being able to meet so many great musicians, from Steve Vai to Pierre Bensusan??? No Way!! And here we are, 50 episodes later with many interviews and guitar soundseeings, one year later, going stronger than ever. 🙂
Back in december I had the honor to interview Vernon Reid, a great musician and an incredible guitar player, when he was in Paris on tour with Living Colour. I think it is pretty appropriate to publish his interview for this episode #50 AND the one year anniversary.
The VERY impressive equiment Vernon uses on stage:
As an added bonus for this special episode, I am VERY proud to debut a new music for the intro
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In this episode two superb guitar players I interviewed just before the International Guitar Night at the New-Morning in Paris back in September:
Peter Finger
Dylan Fowler
Links:
www.guitar-night.com
www.peter-finger.com
www.myspace.com/dylanfowler1
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Another guitar super-star on The Guitar Channel with none other than Bruce Kulick himself!! World wide known for his 12 year time as the lead guitar for KISS, he is now pursuing a solo carreer as well as being involved in many different projects.
I had the pleasure to do a Skype interview with Bruce to talk about his latest solo album BK3 and many other subjects.
Links:
kulick.net
www.kulick.net/blog : blog on the recording of BK3
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kulick
Happy listening,
Pierre.
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Meeting with Mattias "IA" Eklundh was an experience. The guitar player for the swedish power-trio Freak Kitchen is very funny and manages to be also very serious in his answers at the same time.
I have to admit I discovered very recently the music from Freak Kitchen (shame on me, I know!) and I was more than anxious to discuss with such a guitar player.
They will be in France in 2010 (February 2nd at La Maroquinerie in Paris) so don't miss them if they come near you. Check the tour dates on their website.
With the authorization of Mattias, I played two extracts in this show:
"Sick" from the latest Freak Kiychen album "Land Of The Freaks"
"Mumbo Jumbo" from IA solo album "Freak Guitar"
Links:
www.freakkitchen.com
www.freakguitar.com
www.caparisonguitarcompany.com/en/: marque de la guitare de Mattias
Pierre.
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Comme promis dans voilà une transcription écrite complète de l'interview audio de Steve Vai sous forme d'un fichier Acrobat PDF. Steve Vai est un invité exceptionnel qui m’a fait l’immense plaisir de répondre à mes questions pour une interview téléphonique à l’occasion de la sortie de son nouveau DVD/CD live Where The Wild Things Are.
Lien direct pour télécharger le fichier PDF
Bonne lecture,
Pierre.
Vous voulez télécharger le PDF ? Abonnez-vous !
Je m'abonne
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