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Guitar Newsletter #4 - September 6, 1998

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Welcome to the fourth edition of the Guitar Newsletter, from Neil Shedden, the Webmaster of "1000 Great Guitar Sites on the Web". If you missed previous editions, you can see them in the archive

Subscribers get this newsletter first, but each edition will be archived here on the site for general access later, where you may read it as an HTML document.

In this edition:

1 - *** WIN PRIZES ***

2a - BANDS / ARTISTS - Leighton Watts
2b - BANDS / ARTISTS - Lanny Cordola
2c - BANDS / ARTISTS - Terry Kath
2d - BANDS / ARTISTS - Phil Keaggy
2e - BANDS / ARTISTS - Browse Database A-Z
2f - BANDS / ARTISTS - WorldWideBands.com free listing

3a - GETTING GEAR OUTSIDE USA
3b - STRINGBENDERS

4 - Guitar and Effects Construction/Modification
5a - CLASSICAL GUITAR MAILING LIST
5b - CLASSICAL GUITAR and sheet music

6 - ONLINE CD SALES & MUSIC
7 - SEARCHING
8 - FINALLY

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1 - *** WIN PRIZES ***

OK, here's you chance to help fellow musicians AND help yourself to a valuable prize! All you have to do is submit a short entry for a future Guitar Newsletter (sent to GuitarMaster@hitsquad.com). Please keep it short (up to 200 words, but you can link to a longer article on the Web). All entries are eligible for entry to the newsletter at a future date, but the prizes go to the most original / entertaining / interesting / useful article. It can be a funny guitar-related experience, a tip, joke, tab, review - anything fellow guitarists would enjoy reading!

What do you win?

We still have the ENHANCR to give away - see last newsletter or go direct to ENHANCR

PLUS... Leighton Watts has kindly donated tapes of his recent albums, which will go to the lucky winners.

Don't know Leighton?
Go to http://www.LeightonBWatts.com
plus read the next section, 2a...

If country-style music is not for you, then we also have the new Melbourne Band TISM (This Is Serious Mum) CD up for grabs: www.tism.wanker.com Or you could choose another recent release on CD: "Mr Funny Face" by the US pop punk band "Sprung Monkey"

Just send in your article NOW!

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CD NOW  Search for discounted CDs from  here

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2a - BANDS / ARTISTS - Leighton Watts

Leighton Watts is a singer, songwriter, bush poet and humorist from Australia. He left for the US in 1993. "I spent much of my life in the bush and it is a big part of me. I've done a little of everything ... herding sheep and cattle, fencing, kangaroo culling ... " He has produced six albums of his own songs, a book of newsletters describing his "terminal case of itchy feet" and a volume of his own poetry. His music is played in over 20 countries as well as the US. www.LeightonBWatts.com   or Review

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2b - BANDS / ARTISTS - Lanny Cordola

Fans of Lanny Cordola can subscribe to his email Newsletter by contacting Dan: dan@pioneer-net.com

Here's a sample of what you will get:

"Have you ever noticed how good Lanny is at song endings? You know how most artist's songs just kind of fade out, or else they end awkwardly? That's because they either don't care about the ending, or they can't come up with one. (I remember listening to one of Ted Nugent's earlier albums and realizing that every song ended exactly the same - with a wild rave up crescendo!) Well, Lanny's songs have great endings, some of the most creative I've ever heard! Very rarely does a song just fade out. Take a listen and see if you don't agree."
Dan Smith, Sitekeeper
The Unofficial Lanny Cordola Website

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2c - BANDS / ARTISTS - Terry Kath

After hearing Chicago in 1968 at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles, Hendrix told Chicago saxophone player Walter Parazaider "Your guitar player is better than me". Who was he? Terry Kath

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2d - BANDS / ARTISTS - Phil Keaggy

"He has over 30 releases, played on hundreds of sessions and is highly regarded not only as a top notch musician and humble guy, but also as a respected man of God. Who is this guy? Phil Keaggy. You are asking yourself again, "Who??" Chances are, unless you have been listening to Contemporary Christian Music you have never even heard the name. He has been voted top fingerstyle guitar player in Guitar Player Magazine and recently won the Instrumentalist of the year Award in Nashville along with numerous other highly regarded awards" article by Mikey www.concentric.net/~Mikekeo/

Congratulations, you win a prize for this article, Mike!

Read more on Phil Keaggy at this new page on this site

CD NOWPhil Keaggy next CD release - to be Released, SEP 29, 1998 - get your advance order in now!


Christians may find the following interesting:
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2e - BANDS / ARTISTS - Browse Database A-Z

There are over 200 Bands/Artists sites in the 1998 Guitar Database. You can now browse these by selecting a letter:



You can also submit your own band site

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2f - BANDS / ARTISTS - WorldWideBands.com free listing

Erik Ramsaur of GearSearch.com writes: "I have started to new site called WorldWideBands.com. The first 125 bands that sign-up get a free one year listing. About 100 bands have already signed up, so there are only 25 spots left..."

www.worldwidebands.com "Helping Indie musicians promote their music"

www.gearsearch.com

"The musician's resource for finding music instrument and equipment dealers"



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3a - GETTING GEAR OUTSIDE USA

And on the topic of Gear Search, I see from the list of email addresses that many of you are not fortunate enough to live in the States, where you are spoilt for choice. Indeed, I live in Australia, where many items have to be ordered from overseas and paid for in US dollars. I received this email from Argentina:

"My name is Juan. I want to buy a Fender Telecaster American Standard B -Bender, Can you help me? In my country this kind of instrument does not exist and I don't know how much etc... I would like to learn more about this Telecaster" sampa@sion.com.ar

I referred him to this article, that may be of interest to others: From: stringbender.com Mail: info@stringbender.com

3b - STRINGBENDERS

"Gene Parsons made the first StringBender for Clarence White in 1967. For almost thirty years Gene Parsons has been installing StringBenders forgreat guitarists like Albert Lee, Pete Townsend, Jimmy Page, Bob Warford, Ron Wood, and Bernie Leadon. Now that Fender's American Standard B-Bender is available at any Fender dealer, and now that the new Acoustic StringBender is ready, Gene Parsons and the StringBender Custom Shop can once again provide personalized service to professional guitarists.

You can send a Telecaster, a Les Paul, or an acoustic flat-top guitar to Gene at the StringBender Custom Shop have him install your StringBender. Gene has also installed custom-made StringBenders in all kinds of instruments from twelve-string Telecasters and Bajo sextos to banjos and mandolins. Tell us about your wildest musical dreams and we will make them come true for you" http://www.stringbender.com/custom/

How did I find it? Just search AltaVista: fender telecaster american standard "b-bender"

Look at the comprehensive search page for a full range of guitar/music searching options

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4 - Guitar and Effects Construction/Modification

If you're like me and can't resist pulling guitars apart and modifying them, or want to know just how to maintain or fix your own guitar, then stop by OzRock Online Guitar Centre. I'll show you the basic principles for building and modifying guitars. I've also got a few custom wiring diagrams and ideas which basically anyone can do with a little care and patience.

For those of you a little more technically minded, there's also sections on building your own effects units. There also links to other sites with effects schematics. I'll take you through the principles of electronics and construction with some specific advice related to effects units.

It's a free site with a lot more information available about amplifiers, tab, software, music themes and bands. If you've got a question about custom wiring or want advice, I'm more than happy to answer. Stop by here

article by Peter Schmidt

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5a - CLASSICAL GUITAR MAILING LIST

Looking for more classical guitar-related email? You'll get more than you can handle by subscribing to the list at: cguitar-list-request@eskimo.com or the digest: cguitar-digest-request@eskimo.com

Such as: "My teacher has compiled a bunch of links to freeware, shareware and low cost programs for editing guitar music and posted them on his Website The Old Pueblo Guitar Co. www.opgc.com"

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Here's an excerpt from a recent digest about

5b - CLASSICAL GUITAR and sheet music:

The Guitar Houston society's web site has a links page to several classical guitar sites: www.neosoft.com/~guitar/gslinks.htm

The sheet music I've found is in several formats:

  1. GIF files. Print out using software such as PolyView (shareware) www.polybytes.com Usually low quality print.

  2. PS (post script) files. Print out using software such as Ghost Script (freeware) www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

  3. PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. Print out using free Adobe Acrobat reader   free from Adobe's web site

  4. MIDI (sound) files. Windows will play the sound files. You can also import the MIDI file to most music notation packages, arrange it, and print it. I hear that Finale is the best, but it's expensive. Lime is a shareware program you can download. There are lots of inexpensive software programs that can also do the job. Most classical MIDI files are pieces that were not written for guitar, e.g. Vivaldi & Beethoven, but with patience and hard work you can make your own arrangements.


There are links to 2 MIDI sites on the Guitar Houston page, where you can hear the pieces. There's not much in the way of tablature; mostly standard notation.
Item by Len Verrett www.neosoft.com/~guitar

More on Midi

More on Classical Guitar
This is a NEW page on the site - it greatly expands the number of Classical Guitar resources listed

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6 - ONLINE CD SALES & MUSIC

I get 5% commission (at no cost to you) on any "CD NOW" sale through my site, which helps support this newsletter & the guitar site & database. Just search from this CD NOW CD NOW link. As well as quick delivery of thousands of CDs in stock, they've got sound clips, reviews & other merchandise.

Checkout these forthcoming releases:

other CDs can be found on the CD page

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7 - SEARCHING

Look at the search page for a full range of guitar/music searching options

But now for a sneak preview of a search on the 1000 entries in the 1998 Guitar Database... go here

This URL isn't being promoted widely yet because it is still in testing phase - your feedback appreciated. Sorry, the dargo/cf server is in a long process of being upgraded, so it's not always available, but, hey, where else can I get free space on a database server? (Currently Cold Fusion running on NT).

Searching the database can't be done by a regular search engine because the content is generated dynamically by running queries on the database using Cold Fusion - search engines can only index static pages. The obvious faults are that results are in alpha order, not relevancy order. Also, ALL matches for the query are listed (I'll get it limited to 20 per page soon as I've had time to work out & write the code). Another thing, it looks for exact matches, treating everything you enter as a phrase, not a string of AND entries, so only type a word or two. Anyway, try it out & let me know what you think .

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8 - FINALLY

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