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Rise Against Guitar Gear Tour

buddyhawke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:48:57 +0000

Guitar World has come through with another great guitar gear walk through featuring Zach Blair of Rise Against. Zach joined Rise Against for the recording and touring support of the “Appeal to Reason” album. It’s loaded with amazing song writing and catchy guitar riffs, and their live performances are a must-see. This also marks the [...]

Top Guitar Tuners

buddyhawke — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:57:27 +0000

I’ve been recieving a lot of questions from the Online Guitar Tuner page asking about my opinion on the best guitar tuners on the market today. Rather than make up reviews for the thousands I haven’t used, I opted to show my favorites based on the price range. Top of the Line Guitar Tuner – Peterson [...]

Orange Amps gaining traction

buddyhawke — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:30:17 +0000

I’ve noticed a trend growing among bands I’ve seen in person and online lately that has me fairly excited. Mixed in amongst the Mesa Rectifiers and Marshall DSL’s and TSL’s were some boldly colored and amazing sounding amplifiers. Orange amps have finally started reaching the younger crowd and aren’t being considered an earlier generation’s boutique [...]

Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio – Guitar Setup

buddyhawke — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:26:23 +0000

If you’re like me and into modern hard rock, you should be familiar with Alkaline Trio (If you’re not, get your ass to their Myspace page and never admit that you didn’t recognize them). All kidding aside, guitarist Matt Skiba is a very influential songwriter and one hell of a guitar player for Alkaline Trio. [...]

Gibson Robot Les Paul’s – Love ‘em or hate ‘em?

buddyhawke — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:31:51 +0000

If you haven’t seen them at the local Guitar Center yet, the Gibson Robot guitars are now on sale and causing quite a bit of discussion. I’m still on the fence with them because I’ve always appreciated traditional Les Paul’s to the more “modern” models they are cranking out at Gibson (like the Les Paul [...]

Getting Started on Guitar? Can’t figure out that riff? Cheat with Guitar Pro!

buddyhawke — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:19:43 +0000

One of the best tools I’ve been introduced to in the last few years turned out to be one of the best self guitar lessons I’ve ever had, and one of the best ways to remember a cool riff as it develops. Teach yourself guitar by learning how to play your favorite songs. And there’s [...]

Change is akward when it comes to Guitar

buddyhawke — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:10:58 +0000

An internal debate I’ve been having recently revolves around the constant options guitar players have with effects, analog or digital? To explain further, digital processor/modeler or traditional pedal board? I’ve used my trusty traditional pedal board for years. It’s been a constant revolving door of Dunlop , BOSS, Electro Harmonix, DOD, Digitech (almost every kind of [...]

Sweden gets heavy metal

buddyhawke — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:14:55 +0000

Is there anything better than taking a day to yourself from work? Yes. If it’s missing work (and being paid) because of your heavy metal addiction. Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction

The new Guitar.com

buddyhawke — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:44:12 +0000

Has everyone been back to Guitar.com since it was redone? It’s a fairly smart new concept and I’m encouraging all the guitar player readers of this blog to go and sign up. It’s the new Myspace for guitarists :) The new setup allows you to post recommendations on albums, guitars and gear and turn it into [...]

Internet Marketing for Bands- Part 3

buddyhawke — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:31:42 +0000

One of the biggest factors that seperates band marketing on the internet and standard SEO/SEM is how the target audience is going to find you. Most sites have to worry about keyword density, relevant content and other factors to help rank in SE’s under their primary key phrases. As discussed in Internet Marketing for Bands [...]

Thank you Myspace for giving crappy guitar a voice

buddyhawke — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:40:58 +0000

Have you ever searched “guitar” on Myspace Videos? I’ll save you the effort by summarizing 99% of the captions. Me playing guitar In searching for new additions to my guitar video collection, I tried the forementioned search. Twenty five pages later I realized how much anyone with a guitar likes to record themselves playing. Unfortunately, the good [...]

Matt Bellamy of Muse and his Manson Guitars of the future

buddyhawke — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:07:40 +0000

-Recent update: In April 2009, Manson’s Guitar Shop announced that Matt Bellamy’s signature guitars would be available to the public under the MB-1 model name. Available in two colors (“Matt” black and glitter red) this guitar comes packed with all the features the nerd guitarist drools over. It also comes with a hefty price tag, [...]

Muse, April 10th 2008 at the LA Forum

buddyhawke — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:31:04 +0000

Muse was incredible. It’s always great to see a band with such uniqueness and talent have such a draw. The sold out crowd at the LA Forum was very receptive to the 2 hour set and amazing light/video show the band put on. With the exception of the $40 t-shirts (boo), it was on of [...]

Internet Marketing for Bands- Part 2

buddyhawke — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:40:33 +0000

Your Band Name Is A Keyword In preparing for this post, I took a second to look for a band that I could be completely unbiased against so as not to offend fans, but to solely use their band name as the focus of the article. In my defense, I’m an average fan of AFI and [...]

Internet marketing for bands- Part 1

buddyhawke — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:00:37 +0000

Being a part of both of these industries, it’s become very apparent that these two entities (music marketing and internet marketing) are fairly unaware of each other. But it’s very important that up and coming bands out there realize the power of internet marketing. And not the “we have more friends on Myspace than you” [...]

Ask a guitar hero

buddyhawke — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:27:00 +0000

Guitar World magazine has an awesome new feature where you can email a question directly to a rotating list of guitar heroes. This months “columnists” are George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob, The Dojo) and the one and only Adam Jones of Tool. If the questions are good enough, GW will post them in next month’s magazine, [...]

NAMM 2007 recap

buddyhawke — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:58:00 +0000

After visiting the NAMM 07 show in Anaheim, I was quite impressed with the array of new products coming out. Mainly the PRS, Schecter, ESP, and the Roland/Boss booths. PRS is putting out a slew of new guitars, and they’re mostly artist models. One surprise that hit me was the new Chris Henderson model singlecut. Isn’t [...]

A Blog Begins!

buddyhawke — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:24:00 +0000

Welcome to the BuddyHawke.com blog spot. I hope you all enjoy!