Tony Iommi diagnosed with Cancer

According to the official Black Sabbath facebook page, guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with a type of cancer called “lymphoma”. Nothing has been said yet, but this may be bad news for future Sabbath reunion plans! According to Facebook (there’s something I never thought I’d say): “With the news that Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi [...]

January 9, 2012 at 3:46 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

Is Rock Dead?

Why is it that all the great rock bands are the bands of the past? Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Genesis, Nirvana…you get the point. Even the rock bands around today that are the most successful seem to date from the “good old days” of rock- U2, Bon Jovi (the band that made the most in [...]

January 6, 2012 at 12:00 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

Iron Butterfly Guitarist, Larry Reinhardt Dies!

If you’re not familiar with Iron Butterfly, you should be! It’s even been in an episode of the Simpsons (introduced as a hymm in Church as “In the Garden of Eden, by I. Ron Butterfly”). Here’s the clip: The song’s actual name is, of course: “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and is actually a heavy rock song, and Larry [...]

January 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

Q and A…

A few things in this video. I’m wondering what people thing about me doing some “question and answer” videos, where I can basically answer all your questions in one go. I do get a lot of questions and- although I don’t mind answering them- I’d rather answer each question once and then direct further questions [...]

December 9, 2011 at 7:36 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

A Knighthood for Jimmy Page?

Well, if Elton John can have one… ..but seriously, this might become a reality with enough support! All because of Tory MP Louise Mensch, the wife of Jimmy Page’s former manager Peter Mensch (who also works for the company that manages Metallica…). She’s apparently been campaigning for the knighthood of the former Led Zeppelin guitarist. [...]

November 15, 2011 at 3:32 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

William Shatner, Bohemian Rhapsody

…right…this is just getting weird now… Although not nearly as weird as finding out that William Shatner hadn’t even heard of the original Queen song until he had to record this! You may remember a previous post about Shatner and Zakk Wylde doing a cover of Black Sabbaths “Iron Man”, I have to say: that [...]

October 19, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

New Frost Hammer demo tracks!

Most of the time I’m very busy running ChainsawGuitarTuition.net or teaching private guitar lessons, but you’ve probably realised by now (if you read my blog often) that I also have a few other projects going on (recording heavy metal covers of Vivaldi, for example…). Last week, my heavy metal band “Frost Hammer” finished recording a [...]

October 12, 2011 at 5:36 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

William Shatner, Zakk Wylde, Iron Man, WTF?!

Ok it has come to my attention that William Shatner (yes, Captain Kirk off of Star Trek!) has recorded a version of Black Sabbath’s song “Iron Man” with guitar and backing vocals by Zakk Wylde from the band Black Label Society. I’m not joking either, this is just too weird…yet…strangly awesome too! Here’s the track: [...]

September 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

The Metal Version

If you’ve been following this website for a long time now (and I mean a long time, this was years ago…), you might remember that I had a kind of side-project going on where I play rock and metal versions of classical and baroque pieces… …well, anyway, I had to remove those original videos from [...]

August 31, 2011 at 11:00 pm | Music News and Opinions | No comments

Got Wood? (update!)

Why isn’t this stuff in the news?! Apparently Gibson facilities in Nashville, Tennessee have been raided by the Feds (and when I read about it, I’m slowly getting this image in my head of Moulder and Scully rocking out…). According to sources, federal agents confiscated computers, files, guitars and wood used in the manufacture of [...]

August 25, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Music News and Opinions | 1 comment

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