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4 days ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Jas Obrecht |Christopher Scapelliti
Over his long career, Mick Ralphs played a range of electric guitars, including models by Burns, Epiphone, Fender and Gibson. In his cover feature published in the September 1979 issue of Guitar Player, the guitarist — who died June 23 of complications from a 2016 stroke— took a deep dive through his history, taking us from his very first budget axe to the dream guitars he played in the 1970s with Bad Company.
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4 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Jas Obrecht
Generate Key TakeawaysWhen you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Mick Ralphs plays a 1958 Gibson Flying V at Island Records' Basing Street Studios, London, August 10, 1971. . | Credit: Brian Cooke/RedfernsOver his long career, Mick Ralphs played a range of electric guitars, including models by Burns, Epiphone, Fender and Gibson.
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4 days ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti |Jas Obrecht
Mick Ralphs had the distinction of playing in two storied rock and roll groups in his lifetime: Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.
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5 days ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
During the years before World War II, Mayo Williams and Lester Melrose were the go-to men in Chicago for blues recording. Both worked as recording supervisors, music publishers, and A&R men. Both had been associated with Paramount Records during the 1920s. Earlier in that decade, Lester and Walter Melrose had opened the Melrose Brothers Music Company on Chicago’s South Side. Lester became a freelance A&R man in 1925.
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1 week ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
Recorded on March 20 and 21, 1985, these interviews capture the German guitar hero at a transitional moment in his career. Uli Jon Roth had already recorded classic albums with the Scorpions—Fly to the Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer, and Tokyo Tapes among them—as well as two albums with Electric Sun. At the time of our conversations, he had just wrapped up the sessions for his Beyond the Astral Skies solo project.
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2 weeks ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
Note: In 1980, an editor at Rolling Stone asked Tom Wheeler and me to write an article for their July 10th issue. Published as “Won’t Get Fooled Again: Tips for Buying an Acoustic Guitar,” this article was aimed at helping prospective buyers navigate the pre-online world of music stores. Forty-five years later, our advice about assessing new and used acoustic guitars still holds true.
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3 weeks ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
In 1988 Carlos Santana reassembled the original late-1960s Santana band to tour in support of a three-LP career retrospective called Viva Santana. It had been twenty years since Carlos, keyboardist Gregg Rolie, drummer Michael Shrieve, and percussionist Chepito Areas had played together. After two weeks of intensive rehearsals, Carlos called me on his last day home before the tour and offered to share his views on how musicians can make the best use of rehearsal time.
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1 month ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
This 102-minute interview took place on September 17, 1992, in the Manhattan office of Keith’s personal manager, Jane Rose. In a great mood that evening, Keith had just finished mixing his Main Offender solo album and was happy to talk about a wide range of subjects.
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1 month ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Jas Obrecht |Christopher Scapelliti
For close to 60 years, the heart of Neil Young’s live rig has been a very specific tweed 1959 Fender Deluxe that he controls remotely with a bespoke device called the Whizzer, which physically turns the amp's knobs when Young hits one of the foot switches on a red box onstage. The amp itself is a four-input 1959 tweed Fender Deluxe 5E3, a 15-watter with just two volume knobs and one tone control. Young’s Deluxe is completely stock if you ignore that he’s had to replace its two 6L6 tubes.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Jas Obrecht
'Where Are The Beatles?' Gene Simmons Speaks Up On Lack Of Big Music Artists Today, Explains Why Taylor Swift Can't Compare To Old Artists"That doesn't mean they're going to be 15-year-old guys putting guitars around their neck and saying, 'I want to be Taylor.'"
