What I've Been Listening too.....

My guitar teacher turned me on to an awesome guitar player....Andy Timmons. I borrowed his most recent cd and all I can say is wow. The whole CD is instrumental no, singing. I have probably listened to it 5 or 6 times since I got it last Thursday. I will probably have to go buy his other CD's now.

My son turned me onto the new Coheed and Cambria CD and that one is pretty good also. I then went out and got their previous two CD's....not so good. I guess the deal with these guys is that their lead singer writes comic books and then the music for the CD's matches the story of the comics. At least that is what the guy at the music store says. He is apparently a huge Coheed fan. The lead signer also has a fairly strange voice that takes a little getting used to. On their new CD they have three great tunes, Welcome Home, The Suffering and 10 Speed of God's Blood and Burial. The rest of the CD is fantastic, but those three are the best in my mind. I actually learned the suffering on my Guitar. Lots of fun to play.

The car also has some of my favorites from Triumph and Rainbow. You can never go wroing with Rik Emmett or Ritchie Blackmore.


My guitar teacher has suggested that I learn some Santana next, so I guess I will have to pick up some new music there as my collection is light on his work. Looks like I will be learning something off of Abraxas..Oye Como Va. Neat tune. I wouldn't have come up with it, but he strongly suggested it. We are also working on my solo's. I want to be able to shred, but I can't play fast at all so we are working on that.

Picked up a new amp Friday. A Vox 15ADT. I love my Peavey 5150, but it's just to loud for the house. I generally can't turn it up past setting 1 when anybodys home so I need something a little smaller. The Vox amp is incredible, 10+ effects, plus it's a modelling amp for I can get the sound of 10 other amps out of it. Was messing with it a bit today what great tone. Of course Momma Musky seems to think I have too much stuff, I don't buy it. Here is the list:

Guitars:
2004 Gibson Explorer
2005 Gibson Faded Flying V
2002 Ibanez G10
1983 Kramer Focus 3000
2001 Ibanez Acoustic

Amps:
Peavey 5150
Vox 15Adt
Crate 15 watt piece of crap

Pedals:
Grunge Distortion

Amp Modeller/recording:
M-Audio Black Box with Ableton Live Lite 4
As soon as I can get the latency issue resolved when recording a second track, I will record a couple of songs that I've been working on.