| Luthier's Many Labors Of Love: Creator of SoloEtte travel guitars ...
The guitars designed and built by Rossco Wright were once truly unique: a single stick of solid wood, with tuning pegs on the bottom, and a removable framework so the instrument could be broken down for easy transport. The SoloEtte classical guitar was designed as a travel guitar, and travel it did: To space, where one was presented to Russian cosmonauts on the space station Mir in 1995. And to Seattle, where a SoloEtte is encased in the Guitar Gallery at the Experience Music Project next to other ground-breaking guitars. It was a tiny niche in the highly competitive guitar industry, but a profitable one for Wright. At its peak around 2000, Wright Guitar Technology employed about 10 workers who built 100 SoloEtte guitars a month at the company's workshop in a west Eugene industrial park.
The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude!
Eschewing the alt-rock intricacies of Out of the Fierce Parade and mostly down-tempo, piano-centric orchestrations of Elysium, the Velvet Teen once again redefine themselves and their sound on their latest triumph, Cum Laude!. Cum Laude! not only treads new ground for the group, but does so with formidable aplomb, wrecking any notion that this band can be pinned down.
In contrast to Elysium’s six extended tracks, Cum Laude! favors shorter, quicker, and more dynamic compositions. One of the first things you’ll notice on it is the heavy vocal filters, which, ironically, only embolden Judah Nagler’s croon. Nagler has never been stronger and here his voice simply rises above the glitch-heavy rock like a heralding of something prophetic and radical. Opening track "333" attests to this when Nagler belts out, "I took the pain out of my pen / I took my self out of my selfish ways / and wrote all...I took the greed out of my grin / and sunk my teeth into my work instead / and they followed."
Although produced with the same sparkling precision as Elysium, Cum Laude! is a hybridized beast of a supremely varied parentage.
Guytron Adds New GT20 Combo Guitar Amp to Its Family
Troy, MI, August 22, 2006 --(PR.COM)-- Guytron is pleased to announce the introduction of its new Guytron GT20 Amplifier System. This is not your grandfather's 20 watter, this is a totally new approach. The Guytron GT20 is a feature rich guitar amplifier, based upon the Guytron GT100’s proven, popular, and patented pre-amp technology. Along with some more ground breaking technology to boot. Designed to be a serious musician’s tool, it is perfectly at home anywhere from the Studio, to the big Stage, in the most stringent of stage environments. Naturally, just like its bigger brother, the Guytron GT 100 F/V, it delivers the true "Feel" and "Vibe", of a "cranked amp" so you can really have "Fun" with the GT20 in pretty much any setting, and at any volume from 0 to 20 watts. According to Guytron’s founder and Chief Designer, Guy Hedrick, "If you’re a person who ‘Plays the Amp’ like an instrument, and you're not just playing your guitar through an amp, then chances are you will love the new GT20 from Guytron! If that’s your thing, this amp will do wheelies!" The GT20 features: · Classic Vintage Styling with Versatile Modern Features · Includes "Highly Acclaimed" GT 100 F/V Channel Switching Pre-Amp with Gain, Tone, and Level Controls for Each Channel · Introducing Post Phase Master Volume "Cut" · Introducing all L.E.D.
'Friends of the band'
Narrow the process down to a simple checklist: gather four or five friends; spike their hair and encourage one to (try to) grow a beard; dim the lights and take photos of them in an alley; give the group a catchy name; and most importantly, create a MySpace page.Voila.A band - ready to lure fans, tour, sell merchandise and sign a recording contract - is born. .
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