A few weeks ago in front of a capacity crowd at the House of Blues in Hollywood, Kirby Kelley from Sherman Texas beat out more than 4,000 guitarists to be crowned Guitar Center’s 2009 King of the Blues.  At the final, Kelley competed against four other undiscovered blues guitarist from all across the country to [...]

[Read more →]

For a while I had been just giving guitar lessons, playing some gigs, and working part time advising a mid sized marketing/firm here in Dallas.  It was a lot of fun and even though I wasn’t making much money, my expenses were low, and I was really enjoying everything. Unfortunately, things did not work out [...]

[Read more →]

It’s not what you play, it’s how you play it. There are lots of ways to make guitar solos. Most guitarists focus on ‘what to play’ versus ‘how to play things’. Fact is, the nuances of phrasing (‘how’ the notes are played) often matter MORE than the notes we actually play. How many times have [...]

[Read more →]

And do you live in LA or the Hollywood area? If so, their GC’s media relations people are looking for one of GPZ’s followers to cover the event. I cannot make it out there but thought it would be cool if one of our LA buddies went and interviewed Joe Bonamassa and the finalists of [...]

[Read more →]