guitar players

Guitar Player
$78.00
Guitar Player has become a wonderfully diverse and intelligent voice and advocate for new, and generally less heard styles and talent. Lately they have featured many terrific artists that are just under the pop culture radar. I find myself running to the computer to check out 4-5 new artists per month based on GP advice. In addition, their features are not glib, puff pieces, but detailed, literate and informed journalism. GP is going way beyond the hip flavor of the month or showing (yet again) some standard Hendrix lick. I think that GP has intelligently responded to the glut of free tab on the internet. There is no longer any need to waste print or editorial space on the Free Bird solo, as you can download the tab in seconds. Instead, they are introducing and championing fantstic players whose work is too difficult or demanding for the average 15 year old tabber. Don't get me wrong there are excellent articles still about legends (Jeff Beck, Satriani, George Benson) but they are now balanced with other talents. GP is definately the thinking guitarists guitar magazine.

Schleich Smurf Guitar Player
$3.99
I loved the Smurfs when I was a teenager. We are a musical family, and this year Santa brought each of us a musician Smurf, Smurf with Guitar, Keyboard, Trumpet, and Drums (for some of the musical instruments we play). We now have a cute display of this "Smurf Band" in our Music Room, along with an audience of Smurfs I own from my younger years. These are made of the same quality as the ones from the '80's. We love them!

Guitar Player (1-year auto-renewal)
$78.00
Guitar Player has become a wonderfully diverse and intelligent voice and advocate for new, and generally less heard styles and talent. Lately they have featured many terrific artists that are just under the pop culture radar. I find myself running to the computer to check out 4-5 new artists per month based on GP advice. In addition, their features are not glib, puff pieces, but detailed, literate and informed journalism. GP is going way beyond the hip flavor of the month or showing (yet again) some standard Hendrix lick. I think that GP has intelligently responded to the glut of free tab on the internet. There is no longer any need to waste print or editorial space on the Free Bird solo, as you can download the tab in seconds. Instead, they are introducing and championing fantstic players whose work is too difficult or demanding for the average 15 year old tabber. Don't get me wrong there are excellent articles still about legends (Jeff Beck, Satriani, George Benson) but they are now balanced with other talents. GP is definately the thinking guitarists guitar magazine.

Color Him Funky/H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player
$17.98
Howard Roberts was a real jazz guitarist. No fuzz boxes, no distortion or echo chambers, no special effects pedals littered across the floor like pseudo-jazz guitarists like John Scofield, who, in my opinion, must have an influential relative in the business. Not only does Scofield's alleged jazz playing sound like crude rock music with nothing more than a jazz pretense, he plays with about as much personality as a wet dish rag. He is bland. Roberts not only is a technical craftsman who plays real jazz with the proper technique, tone and style, but he has his own signature sound; whether on a great ballad like "Days of Wine and Roses" or on any of the swing tunes, he was both a master of nuance and subtlety as well as a cool, funky improviser. Roberts was the most sought-after studio guitarist of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the guitarist whose masterful playing graced the themes of dozens of popular TV shows and films in those same decades. He played fusion before the term became the description for minimally talented guitarists who wanted to play jazz but didn't have the chops to transcend the juvenile confines of rock music. Roberts played the standards as well as his own funky compositions with equal ease. When necessary, he also performed rock, blues and even some country/western. He also led some of the finest guitar-based jazz ensembles of his era. One of the greats---funky, cool, stylish and versatile. I highly recommend this two disc set.