March 21, 2016

03/21/16 • 55 min

I remember talking with Jean Pierre Durand last November. He was busy finishing up mixing Incendio's Christmas Album "O Night Divine." He also mentioned as soon as the Incendio album was done he and Liza Carbe were recording a new album as a duo. They had toured and played in China earlier in April and that was the inspiration and motivation to do this new album. And thus "A Bridge Between" was born! JP and Liza toured China as duo, just two guitars, and a lot of the material on the new album were arrangements developed for their tour. We talk to Jean Pierre Durand and Liza Carbe about this new album which took them into new territory, both in terms of music and in recording! Some very inventive arrangements, killer tone and monster playing!

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March 14, 2016

Way back when I did my Senior Recital at USC, I had the privilege to use a prototype pitch to voltage converter, monophonic, that eventually became the 360 systems guitar synth that Lee Ritenour used on his legendary album "Captain Fingers." Later we saw such instruments like the SynthAxe, used by Allan Holdsworth and one of the first mass produced guitar synth, the Arp Avatar. Later we saw the Roland system come out, which has been the most popular guitar synth controller system. But now we have You Rock Guitars, who gives us new technology and makes a controller that is as elaborate as the SynthAxe, but at a much more affordable price. We are joined by electronics engineer and inventor, Cliff Elion, and he shows us a new recording, composition, and performance tool for guitar players. Using the power of MIDI, guitarists can now explore electronic music, and do it affordably. Joining me for the show is Bo Astrup. Bo is a recording engineer and mixer, having mixed Jim Stubblefield's recent award winning "Encantado" album. Bo is the one who turned me onto the You Rock system and he is well versed in electronic music and MIDI. Also joining me is synth guitarist user Jean Pierre Durand, of Incendio. Jean Pierre uses a Roland system live and in studio with Incendio. Join us as we take an in depth look at this amazing controller!

Next Episode

March 28, 2016

I am very happy to welcome back several people who have been on All About Guitar and The FLO Guitar-Enthusiasts, but the topic for tonight is a somber one. Guitar theft. In preparing for this show I have talked to various musicians that I know and pretty much all of them have had an instrument stolen from them at one time or another. (I have had a drumset stolen from me too.) So we are going to look at instrument theft and how we can prevent it and what to do when we see our stolen property in a store or somebody else playing it. Joining me is Craig Chaquico, of the Jefferson Starship, who has had his prized Les Paul stolen in the 1970's. On the other hand, Snuffy Walden will also be joining us who fairly recently had his prized strat and pedalboard stolen. To get more information on the what the music stores have to deal with, I have Gary Roudenko of the Bass Exchange. He will talk to us about what he has to do before he can sell a used piece of equipment. My guest host is Monique Caravello, who also had her Les Paul stolen! This is a program every musician should listen to!