Johnny Cash goes Island

One of my friends bands called Landlocked and their island version of Ring of Fire. It's Johnny Cash like you never imagined it before!

Jeff Waful Interviews Huey Lewis

The latest episode in a terrific series by Jeff Waful, the lighting designer for Umphreys McGee. I strongly recommend working backwards and watching all the episodes if you have not already. Not only do you get a behind the scenes look at my favorite band, Umphreys McGee, but you also get interviews with the likes of Warren Haynes and Huey Lewis. The videos are available on youtube as well as relix.com. Enjoy!


Relix - Blogs - Picks and Pans (videos) - Jeff Waful +1: Episode Two

Brian May of Queen Describes his Rig

If you are interested in how musicians achieve their "sound" or "tone" this is a must see. I was especially interested in his reasoning for using 3 sperate amps and how that affects the clarity of his tone. Also, despite having multiple things happening at once (ie out of phase guitar, two pedals, and multiple amps) the concept behind his sound is quite simple and with simple switches he can achieve vastly different textures to his overall tone

Local Musicians in Sfat, Israel

Freestyled at its finest

My main man Cam'ron freestyle on BET from a few years back. His flow is ridiculous.



Some of the most intricate rhymes ever- including references to the Flintstones, his sweatsocks, and Dora the Explorer. Can't even make this stuff up

My drummer has some budding musician Daughters

So I drum with quite the interesting man. Not only does he have 5 daughters, but he is also a grandpa. He is pretty down on his luck right now, but at least he can be proud of his rock star daughters making an early start to a very wonderful industry. The first link his daughter is the drummer, the second link his older daughter is playing guitar.

Improvisation Interview with Trey Anastasio

A fantastic article with Phish's legendary guitar player. In this interview he really opens up and talks about his views on composition/improvisation, how he views his role in a "jam" band, and some of the ways that a band can approach extended jam sequences. Really enjoyed hearing his views on the role that music theory takes on for him as well as the concept of listening to the other members of the band to truly channel a musical idea as a group.

Copy and paste the link below:

http://believermag.com/issues/201107/?read=interview_anastasio