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Tuesday 9 September 2008
Oasis' Noel Gallagher assaulted on stage in Toronto--2008-9-7
Oasis' Noel Gallagher assaulted on stage in Toronto--2008-9-7
Thursday 28 August 2008
Weird Gear: How I Found The Meazzi Hollywood Jupiter And Why It’s Great
Matthew Sweet is GetBack's guest blogger all week. Here's an acoustic performance of "Let's Love" from his new album, Sunshine Lies. Click here for another.
As a teenager in high school I had the incredible opportunity to go on a Lion's Club student exchange program. Almost as a lark I had filled out some forms in math class, not expecting to ever hear anything more about it. "What country?" I put England. "Why?" I wrote, "To see where the Beatles came from."
Unbelievably, I was given a scholarship to go to England for the summer and stay with families there. I'll write about the U.K. trip in another post, as it is relevant here only to explain how I ended up in amsterdam for the first time.
Before continuing on to our host countries, we all flew to Amsterdam, spent a couple of days sightseeing (more gouda, anyone?), and soaked up the amazing-ness of Holland and the Dutch people. During this visit I passed a shop that was closed, with a window full of very strange-looking alternate universe electric guitars that I now know were 1960s Italian models.
Years later, when I toured Europe as a recording artist, we usually stopped in Amsterdam to play shows, and I would always try to look around for the shop with the strange guitars. I could never find any trace or even a lead (remember, this was pre-Internet).
Then in 2003, in Amsterdam with the Thorns opening for the Dixie Chicks (loving the Chicks for their recent insult to Bush), I wandered into a normal-looking guitar shop. There in the back, like a shining Excalibur, was one of those guitars from my teenage memory.
I traded the shop owner an acoustic guitar I had for his odd electric. He took me for a beer afterward too (um, as he saw it, I think the deal was very much to his benefit, though I would never regret it). Over the beer he wrote down a very important piece of information on a coaster that I will share with you now: www.fetishguitars.com.
Soon I was learning all about my new baby, the Meazzi Hollywood Jupiter, an Italian-made electric guitar from the early '60s that was WAY ahead of its time.
Essentially based on a Fender Jazzmaster scale and body shape, the Jupiter introduced many amazing features, which I will try to list below.
Suffice to say, many famous guitarists came to visit this guitar at a Santa Monica shop where I had the neck pickup rewired. It is very rare.
Why it's great:
It's beautiful.
Feels and plays great.
Has giant sliders to mix the neck and bridge pickups and to set rhythm volume. This is an amazing way to mix pickup sounds, has to be tried to be appreciated, you can dial it in "just so."
Has a mercury switch inside it. Huh? When you put the guitar upright (on a stand or against your amp) there is a tiny glass globe inside the back with a drop of mercury in it. When upright, it mutes the guitar as the mercury falls and bridges a contact at the foot of the bulb. Cool. The Jupiter left turning down one's guitar or amp to the non-Hollywood European mid-'60s electric guitar crowd.
Has a 9-volt battery underneath the Meazzi logo plate, which powers the rippingly bright bridge pickup, which, by the way, can melt anything in its path using its ultra treble sound. A 9-volt guitar preamp in the early '60s (1963) was very ahead of its time.
Speaking of time (I should say space) - I'm out of it for today!
As a teenager in high school I had the incredible opportunity to go on a Lion's Club student exchange program. Almost as a lark I had filled out some forms in math class, not expecting to ever hear anything more about it. "What country?" I put England. "Why?" I wrote, "To see where the Beatles came from."
Unbelievably, I was given a scholarship to go to England for the summer and stay with families there. I'll write about the U.K. trip in another post, as it is relevant here only to explain how I ended up in amsterdam for the first time.
Before continuing on to our host countries, we all flew to Amsterdam, spent a couple of days sightseeing (more gouda, anyone?), and soaked up the amazing-ness of Holland and the Dutch people. During this visit I passed a shop that was closed, with a window full of very strange-looking alternate universe electric guitars that I now know were 1960s Italian models.
Years later, when I toured Europe as a recording artist, we usually stopped in Amsterdam to play shows, and I would always try to look around for the shop with the strange guitars. I could never find any trace or even a lead (remember, this was pre-Internet).
Then in 2003, in Amsterdam with the Thorns opening for the Dixie Chicks (loving the Chicks for their recent insult to Bush), I wandered into a normal-looking guitar shop. There in the back, like a shining Excalibur, was one of those guitars from my teenage memory.
I traded the shop owner an acoustic guitar I had for his odd electric. He took me for a beer afterward too (um, as he saw it, I think the deal was very much to his benefit, though I would never regret it). Over the beer he wrote down a very important piece of information on a coaster that I will share with you now: www.fetishguitars.com.
Soon I was learning all about my new baby, the Meazzi Hollywood Jupiter, an Italian-made electric guitar from the early '60s that was WAY ahead of its time.
Essentially based on a Fender Jazzmaster scale and body shape, the Jupiter introduced many amazing features, which I will try to list below.
Suffice to say, many famous guitarists came to visit this guitar at a Santa Monica shop where I had the neck pickup rewired. It is very rare.
Why it's great:
It's beautiful.
Feels and plays great.
Has giant sliders to mix the neck and bridge pickups and to set rhythm volume. This is an amazing way to mix pickup sounds, has to be tried to be appreciated, you can dial it in "just so."
Has a mercury switch inside it. Huh? When you put the guitar upright (on a stand or against your amp) there is a tiny glass globe inside the back with a drop of mercury in it. When upright, it mutes the guitar as the mercury falls and bridges a contact at the foot of the bulb. Cool. The Jupiter left turning down one's guitar or amp to the non-Hollywood European mid-'60s electric guitar crowd.
Has a 9-volt battery underneath the Meazzi logo plate, which powers the rippingly bright bridge pickup, which, by the way, can melt anything in its path using its ultra treble sound. A 9-volt guitar preamp in the early '60s (1963) was very ahead of its time.
Speaking of time (I should say space) - I'm out of it for today!
Tuesday 26 August 2008
Saturday 23 August 2008
Metallica - The Day That Never Comes
Metallica - The Day That Never Comes (with lyrics! 256kbps HIGH QUALITY!)
Wednesday 20 August 2008
The Jonas Brothers' Wax Appeal
The Jonas Brothers—Kevin, Joe and Nick—showed up for the unveiling of their very own wax figures at Madame Tussauds in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
And while we find the wax replicas sorta lacking in the good-looks department—Kevin suffers, especially—that didn't stop the first 50 rabid fans allowed into the exhibit from pawing at the faux bros. Truly disturbing.
And while we find the wax replicas sorta lacking in the good-looks department—Kevin suffers, especially—that didn't stop the first 50 rabid fans allowed into the exhibit from pawing at the faux bros. Truly disturbing.
O Jonas Brothers, Where Art Thou? No. 1
David Jenison
Keeping up with the Joneses is nothing compared to keeping up with the Jonases.
The Jonas Brothers—Joe, Kevin and Nick—just landed the third-biggest opening week of the year. Their latest album sold a whopping 525,000 copies to debut at No. 1, one of three Jonas-powered joints in the top 10.
A Little Bit Longer, which sold north of 200,000 on its first day in stores last week, trails only Lil Wayne's million-plus Tha Carter III and Coldplay's 721,000-copy Viva la Vida as the year's biggest debuts, per Nielsen SoundScan.
If that weren't enough, the Jonas boys are just the second sibling act to top the charts since the Bee Gees reigned supreme in the 1970s. (The Isley Brothers' Body Kiss accomplished the feat in 2003.)
The Jonases were all over the place. The Disneyfied band's eponymous sophomore album, released just over a year ago, inched its way back up the charts to No. 10, selling 31,000 copies. This marks the first time in nearly a decade that a group simultaneously claimed two top 10 spots. ('N Sync did it last in January 1999.)
And the Jonas-juiced Camp Rock soundtrack finished the week at No. 8, selling another 50,000 copies. Released in June in connection with the Disney Channel film, the disc is already the 10th best-selling album of the year, moving 861,000 copies to date.
The Mamma Mia! soundtrack, which rose to No. 1 last week, slipped to No. 2 on sales of 110,000. All told, the top seven albums on the new chart are all former No. 1 albums, a first in the 45-year history of the comprehensive pop albums chart, per Billboard.com.
Elsewhere, Daddy Yankee sold nearly 26,000 copies of the Talento De Barrio soundtrack at No. 13, while Yung Berg's Look What You Made Me opened at No. 20 with 19,000. Milking their reunion tour, the oldsters in New Kids on the Block came in at 22, selling 19,000 copies of their Greatest Hits. (Their reunion album, The Block, hits the retail racks in two weeks.)
Other notable debuts include the Toby Keith-led Beer for My Horses soundtrack at No. 74, Extreme's Saudades de Rock at No. 78 and Janelle Monáe's Metropolis: The Chase Suite at No. 115.
In other chart news, Nickelback's unstoppable All the Right Reasons celebrated its 150th week on the charts at No. 84, up 11 spots from last week. Clearly the oldest title on the charts, Reasons made its debut in October 2005.
American Idol runner-up David Archuleta also made news, as his debut single "Crush" topped the Digital Tracks chart by selling 166,000 copies.
Overall, album sales are up nearly 3 percent from last week but down 9 percent compared to the same week in 2007, when High School Musical 2 made its monster debut atop the charts.
Here's a recap of the top-selling albums for the week ended Sunday:
1. A Little Bit Longer, Jonas Brothers
2. Mamma Mia! soundtrack, various
3. Rock n Roll Jesus, Kid Rock
4. Breakout, Miley Cyrus
5. Love on the Inside, Sugarland
6. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
7. Viva la Vida, Coldplay
8. Camp Rock soundtrack, various
9. Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna
10. Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers
Keeping up with the Joneses is nothing compared to keeping up with the Jonases.
The Jonas Brothers—Joe, Kevin and Nick—just landed the third-biggest opening week of the year. Their latest album sold a whopping 525,000 copies to debut at No. 1, one of three Jonas-powered joints in the top 10.
A Little Bit Longer, which sold north of 200,000 on its first day in stores last week, trails only Lil Wayne's million-plus Tha Carter III and Coldplay's 721,000-copy Viva la Vida as the year's biggest debuts, per Nielsen SoundScan.
If that weren't enough, the Jonas boys are just the second sibling act to top the charts since the Bee Gees reigned supreme in the 1970s. (The Isley Brothers' Body Kiss accomplished the feat in 2003.)
The Jonases were all over the place. The Disneyfied band's eponymous sophomore album, released just over a year ago, inched its way back up the charts to No. 10, selling 31,000 copies. This marks the first time in nearly a decade that a group simultaneously claimed two top 10 spots. ('N Sync did it last in January 1999.)
And the Jonas-juiced Camp Rock soundtrack finished the week at No. 8, selling another 50,000 copies. Released in June in connection with the Disney Channel film, the disc is already the 10th best-selling album of the year, moving 861,000 copies to date.
The Mamma Mia! soundtrack, which rose to No. 1 last week, slipped to No. 2 on sales of 110,000. All told, the top seven albums on the new chart are all former No. 1 albums, a first in the 45-year history of the comprehensive pop albums chart, per Billboard.com.
Elsewhere, Daddy Yankee sold nearly 26,000 copies of the Talento De Barrio soundtrack at No. 13, while Yung Berg's Look What You Made Me opened at No. 20 with 19,000. Milking their reunion tour, the oldsters in New Kids on the Block came in at 22, selling 19,000 copies of their Greatest Hits. (Their reunion album, The Block, hits the retail racks in two weeks.)
Other notable debuts include the Toby Keith-led Beer for My Horses soundtrack at No. 74, Extreme's Saudades de Rock at No. 78 and Janelle Monáe's Metropolis: The Chase Suite at No. 115.
In other chart news, Nickelback's unstoppable All the Right Reasons celebrated its 150th week on the charts at No. 84, up 11 spots from last week. Clearly the oldest title on the charts, Reasons made its debut in October 2005.
American Idol runner-up David Archuleta also made news, as his debut single "Crush" topped the Digital Tracks chart by selling 166,000 copies.
Overall, album sales are up nearly 3 percent from last week but down 9 percent compared to the same week in 2007, when High School Musical 2 made its monster debut atop the charts.
Here's a recap of the top-selling albums for the week ended Sunday:
1. A Little Bit Longer, Jonas Brothers
2. Mamma Mia! soundtrack, various
3. Rock n Roll Jesus, Kid Rock
4. Breakout, Miley Cyrus
5. Love on the Inside, Sugarland
6. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
7. Viva la Vida, Coldplay
8. Camp Rock soundtrack, various
9. Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna
10. Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers notch third-biggest debut of 2008
Melinda Newman
Not only have the Jonas Brothers notched the year's third-biggest debut album, they've managed the rare feat of having two albums in the top 10 at the same time.
"A Little Bit Longer," the third album from the trio of siblings, sold more than 525,000 copies to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts, according to figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Wednesday.
Only Lil Wayne (whose "Tha Carter III" sold a little more than 1 million in its first week) and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" (which topped the chart with 720,000 its first week) have had better debuts this year.
With all the hoopla surrounding the release of their latest album, the Jonas Brothers' self-titled second album, released last year, also vaulted into the top 10; in addition, they are featured on the "Camp Rock" soundtrack, which is at No. 8.
According to Billboard.com, the last group to have two albums in the top 10 was another teen sensation, 'N Sync, back in 1999.
The Jonas Brothers — Kevin, 20; Joe, 18; Nick, 15 — have become one of pop's biggest sensations over the past year, and "A Little Bit Longer" represents their biggest success yet. The group, now on tour, were recently featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and are among the performers confirmed for MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.
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On the Net:
http://www.jonasbrothers.com
Not only have the Jonas Brothers notched the year's third-biggest debut album, they've managed the rare feat of having two albums in the top 10 at the same time.
"A Little Bit Longer," the third album from the trio of siblings, sold more than 525,000 copies to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts, according to figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Wednesday.
Only Lil Wayne (whose "Tha Carter III" sold a little more than 1 million in its first week) and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" (which topped the chart with 720,000 its first week) have had better debuts this year.
With all the hoopla surrounding the release of their latest album, the Jonas Brothers' self-titled second album, released last year, also vaulted into the top 10; in addition, they are featured on the "Camp Rock" soundtrack, which is at No. 8.
According to Billboard.com, the last group to have two albums in the top 10 was another teen sensation, 'N Sync, back in 1999.
The Jonas Brothers — Kevin, 20; Joe, 18; Nick, 15 — have become one of pop's biggest sensations over the past year, and "A Little Bit Longer" represents their biggest success yet. The group, now on tour, were recently featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and are among the performers confirmed for MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.
___
On the Net:
http://www.jonasbrothers.com
Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For
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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Open World Trailer
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Open World Trailer
Warhammer Online Production Video Podcast # 21 -- RvR Campaign
Warhammer Online Production Video Podcast # 21 -- RvR Campaign
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