With the health issues that is currently making the headlines in all over the world, more bad news comes for music fans in Mexico as they have to wait a little bit longer to watch Greg Howe's clinic at the country. Without revealing the original dates, according to Greg's official site the Master class will be have May 27 & 28 as its new dates.

The master class itself will be held at a well known music school in Mexico the GMartell College of Music and Audio. According to the official promo ads on the school's official site the event will be staged at 12:00 hrs, more details about the event can be viewed at the site.

Beside announcing the rescheduling of his upcoming Mexican master class dates, on his web, Greg also shared other news which happened to be a great news. Those news were the release of his classic 1989 Instructional video lesson on a new DVD format and also finally the CD for his Introspection backing track is available for fans that have purchase Greg's Introspection Tablature book .

The classic DVD version can be purchased at Alfred Publishing meanwhile the backing tracks for Introspection is being sold for $10 to those who have already got the tab and to confirm their right for the CD, they can reached Greg via admin@greghowe.com. More details about this stuffs can be viewed at Greg's official site.

Exciting news arrives from Marty Friedman as the guitar master announced on his official site that he has just finished a new album titled "Tokyo Jukebox". According to the site, the album that has been worked for about seven months will reflects the chaotic lifestyle of Tokyo, its unique music and Marty`s futuristic interpretation of it.

Here are the official press release from Marty's official site about the album's description:
"Sonically it goes from his "Loudspeaker" lineup all the way to a 70 piece symphony orchestra. Marty covers the most unlikely artists to get his guitar heavy treatment, including Perfume, Maximum the Hormone, AI, Nakashima Mika, Ikimono Gakari and 7 other staples in the world of current Japanese music.

The songs were chosen in part by the readers of "Nikkei Entertainment!", Japan`s all time number one entertainment magazine, which features a popular page on Marty each month for over three years and still going strong."

The new album itself reportedly will be released on May 20 in Japan under Avex, and as for the international release date the former Megadeth guitarist still hasn't confirm and official date as just yet. Moreover on the site, Marty ensured that the upcoming record is the deepest evolution of his guitar playing and his overall musicality.

check out everything about Marty at his official site

Just like his fellow guitar hero Andy Timmons, guitar legend Eric Johnson has also played at the Dallas Guitar Show but unlike Andy who played on April 19, Eric take the stage earlier on April 17. At the event Eric played alongside his band the Alien Love Child, which consist of Bill Maddox and Chris Maresh.

Eric himself is currently preparing himself to play in another special show which is playing at at the annual Boys and Girls Club Bastrop Jazz Jam. The event will take place on Saturday, May 2, from 6:30- 10:00 PM at a beautiful setting behind Lakeside Professional Building, 3101 Highway 71 East in Bastrop.

Beside Eric, other jazz musicians that will be performing at the event are, Bobby Broom, Hannibal Lokumbe (trumpet formerly with Gil Evans and Pharoah Sanders), Rick McRae (guitar with George Strait), Chris Maresh (bass with Eric Johnson), Bill Maddox (drums with Eric Johnson), Paul Glasse (mandolin), Alex Coke (sax and bass flute), Liz Morphis (vocals). This huge line-up would definitely bring lots of fun and excitement to all music especially jazz fans.

Here are some videos of Eric Johnson at the Dallas Guitar Show:

This is probably not a new stuff for you guys but we are sorry for all of the troubles recently that didn't allowed us to give lots of new video updates. Here we provide you with some videos from Andy Timmons recent performances at the Dallas Guitar show on April 19. At the event Andy was accompanied by Mike Daane on bass and Dan Wojchiechowski on drums.

At the event Andy played lots of cool tunes from his latest record "Resolution" and also from his previous albums not only that the guitar master also played some cover of the Beatles' classic songs with his own interpretation. As always Andy played with an amazing tone and also his renown attractive performance on the stage, plus some nice jokes with the fans.

Meanwhile another latest news from the guitar virtuoso is the release of a new signature BB pedal collaborating with XOTIC. The new preamp BB pedal is a limited edition so fans might have to catch the gear as soon as it hits your local dealers in all over the world. More info of the new gear can be viewed at http://www.andytimmons.com/news.php or visit http://www.xotic.us/effects/bb_preamp/BBpreamp-AT.html.

Despite having a busy schedule with his band Deep Purple, guitar virtuoso Steve Morse still have the time to finish his own work as according to the latest report on his official site, Steve is preparing to release his new solo record. On the site the rock guitarist stated that the working process for the Steve Morse band upcoming LP has been finished.

Moreover, although hasn't set an official release date for his upcoming yet to be titled solo album's release, Steve has already revealed that the new record would be dropped sometime in September. Not only that, on his site, the guitar maestro also stated that a tour to promote the upcoming record will also be announced shortly.

Steve himself at the moment is still touring with Deep Purple and according to his tour schedule, he will be road tripping with his band mates until July 29, where they will be playing at Baalbeck, Lebanon. Deep Purple's tour itself has started since February 21, where the rockers hit the stage and entertain the crowd at Cosquin, Cordoba, Argentina.

After performing at the Dallas guitar show on April 17, guitar legend Eric Johnson adds another show on his schedule as he announced on his official site that he plans to perform at the annual Boys and Girls Club Bastrop Jazz Jam. The event will take place on Saturday, May 2, from 6:30- 10:00 PM at a beautiful setting behind Lakeside Professional Building, 3101 Highway 71 East in Bastrop.

Having just finished his latest tour that has just ended on April 16 in Croatia, Steve Lukather won't take to much time to rest as he has already set up another road trip dates set for this summer. According to the announcement on his official website, Luke will re-start his long trip on July 7, where he will be taking the stage at Plaza Calderon De La Barca, Locra in Spain and set to end on July 20 at Colossaal, Aschaffenburg in Germany.

The tour that he has been doing since February, is being held in support of Steve's lates solo album "Ever Changing Times" that was released on February 25, 2008. On the album Steve collaborates with lots of musicians as he always does, such as Bill Chamblin, Steve Porcarro, Jeff Babko even his on kids, Trevor Lukather and Tina Lukather. Commenting on working with his own kids previously in an exclusive interview with this blogsite, the former TOTO guitarist's stated that he likes it an "It was a lot of fun."

Meanwhile, Steve himself at the moment has just returned to his home and is still resting after his hecting two months tour. Revealing about his current condition, on his official site Steve wrote, "I am REALLY fucking tired and have been drinking water-sleeping-eating health food, no booze or smokes and letting my mind and body get back to some normality, if there IS such a thing. Hahaha."

Beside preparing for his upcoming summer tour, Steve also reveals that he still have some other projects to be done this year, including finishing George Benson's upcoming record. "I am very happy in life right now and aside from a few bits and pieces, sessions and finishing the George Benson track I am gonna try and chill as much as possible. Lots going on, but I cant say yet. When I can I will," Steve wrote.

Still taking a break from his recent European tour, guitar virtuoso Richie Kotzen announced some new exciting news for his fans which are update about his new album and also some new concert dates. Revealing on his official site, Richie stated that he has already going pretty far with his new solo album, saying that he has already recorded 3 songs. "Just finished recording 3 new songs for my next cd! Nice Times!" Richie said.

Beside stating the news about his upcoming CD, Richie also announced some new dates for his upcoming tour which includes his upcoming performance at BB King's Blues Club in NYC on July 28. The show is presented by the collaboration between Eddie Trunk and Zoom, the tickets for the show itself have been put out for sale on April 18 on this link.

Not only planing to play at New York, Richie also added new dates for his South American tour including two shows in Costa Rica on May 22nd and 23rd. Beside those two dates, there are also shows in Brazil and Argentina that will start from late April to May.

Do check out Richie's new project Wilson Hawk at www.richiekotzen.com and at Wilson Hawk's MySpace page

New updates arrives from Rusty Cooley via his official MySpace page revealing that he is in search for a vocalist to play with him on his new band with Derek Sherenian. The guitar virtuoso has actually started the hunt for a singer from February 14, however he still open the opportunity to this date. "Thank you for the hundreds of volcal submissions sent in as of February 14th. There were some very good prospects, but the search continues," written on Rusty's MySpace blog.

The upcoming band that Rusty and Derek set will be an aggressive metal band and to meet with their standart, the two set up some criteria for the one that they desire. Here are the things the two musicians look for in a vocalist:
* Must be a U.S. resident
* Must be male
* Looking for hetfield meets meshuggah no prog/operatic (hey abbot) style
If you fit the above criteria, please send your myspace link or mp3 to:
BEACHWOODMANOR@AOL.COM

Beside announcing the news about his quest for a vocalist, on his MySpace page Rusty also introduces to his fans about the new guitar column that he did for Premier Guitar, called the Fierce Guitar column, which he did together with Greg Howe. Explaining his excitement about doing the column and working with Greg, Rusty said in the column, "I'm excited to be working with Premier Guitar and Greg Howe on this new series of column, I've been fan of both for a long time."

Moreover, Rusty also added that he is very-very excited about working with Greg and is very-very keen to learn stuffs from the former Michael Jackson guitarist's part. "I can't tell you how cool it is to be working with Greg, and I look forward to what I'm going to learn from his side of the column," Rusty said.

Korg have just put out an interesting promo video that showed one of their endorser Paul Gilbert using and giving instruction of how to use the metronome. The metronome that Paul promoted on the video, streamed by the company on April 20 via is their official YouTube chanell, was Korg TM-40.

On the video Paul gives some practices and execrises that can be help guitarist to play better, faster and in time. Guitar virtuoso started with a simple combination lesson of rhythm stuffs with an A minor pentatonic notes. The Mr. Big guitar player also share lots of pattern that can be used with the first lesson.

On the final part of the lesson, Paul give an example of how to play a classical piano piece lick that was originally played by Johann Sebastian Bach, the guitar hero start the example without the metronome first, to show fans what the lick sounds like. After playing without the metronome, the "I Like Rock" singer showed how to play it with the Korg TM-40 at a slow tempo first before speeding up into the original time at 180.

Meanwhile, Paul himself, who has just finished his Italian master class program on April 17 at Verona, at the moment is busy gearing up and preparing for Mr. Big's Japan reunion tour which will start on June 5 at Sapporo and scheduled to end on June 21 at Yokohama. Beside his upcoming schedule with Mr. Big, the guitar master also prepares another clinic in August.

Having not heard lots of news lately, guitar hero Tony MacAlpine comes up with some new exciting news for his fans and also guitar heads they are his return with Planet X and putting two of his guitars on sale. Confirmation about his reunion with his band, stated on Tony's official MySpace blog writing, "Tony has rejoined Planet X! The band will return to the studio later this year! Stay tuned for more news."

Tony who got involved with the band since their first album "Universe" in 2000 didn't get involved with Planet X on their latest outing "Quantum" that was dropped in 2007 and his position was replaced by Allan Holdsworth. Tony himself was involved with the group since the first time the progressive metal band unleashed their project in 2000.

Beside revealing his plan to rejoin Planet X, on his official MySpace page Tony also reveals that he will be releasing two of his guitar, which are his Carvin T-MAC 6-string and T-MAC 7-string. According to the statement on his MySpace page, the reason Tony plans to sell his guitars is to cover up some of the costs he uses to upgrade his home studios.

Tony actually planned to put up his guitars on eBay however if there are buyers that interested to buy the guitars before he put in on eBay, the guitar virtuoso are willing to release it. "This guitar will go on Ebay on Sunday April the 19th - but can be had before that for $4000 ono, plus insured shipping. We may consider a combo deal with the 7-string that we're also selling. See below," Tony explained on his MySpace page.






written by Dewa Nugraha

It looks like the reception for supergroup Chikenfoot is very huge as according to the latest report on the band's official site, the presales tickets for the band's upcoming "Road Test" is huge and exceed their expectation. According to the press release, the rockers revealed that there are many disappointed devotees that failed to get tickets for their upcoming shows.

Revealing the success of the pre-sales and also the reason that lots of fans failed to get tickets for the upcoming U.S. shows, the band via their web stated, "A huge thanks to the overwhelming demand that we've had to the presale for the nine ROAD TEST shows in the US! Since these are very small venues, the demand far exceeded the availability and we know that left some fans very happy and others very disappointed."

However the band do promise that there are still some venues that will provide public onsales and they will be back to U.S. and Canada at a bigger venues after they hit Europe this summer. "Tickets sold out for the shows in minutes but we want you to know we are returning this summer to play the US and Canada in larger venues," the band revealed.



Meanwhile, Getting closer to their album release, just as they promise new supergroup Chickenfoot are planning to do a short U.S. promo tour, that they call as a "Road Test" tour. As always making the promo more merrier, the band premiered a special video to announce the upcoming road trip. Not to different as their previous greeting videos, the new clip also saw lots of crazy and funny stuffs from the band's members.
Here is the greeting video:

Following the latest news about reunited rockers Mr. Big plan to release a new compilation plus album, a new report comes stating that the highly awaited record is already available for pre-order. The new record titled "Next Time Around", will have two new songs which are the album title track and also "Hold Your Head Up".

Beside having the deluxe edition, the upcoming greatest hits record that will be officially dropped on April 29 in Japan via CDJapan also has a limited edition which contains a special DVD bonus on it. However there hasn't been any confirmation when will the greatest hits album reached other countries outside of Japan.

According to the latest news the first single from the greatest hits, which was "Next Time Around" has been aired through radios in Japan, and it shouldn't be long before the song hit iTunes. Considering the hectic schedule that the band's personils are having it looks like the recording that they did for the two new songs were done during their recent promo in Japan, earlier this month.

Beside preparing the release of their new greatest hits album, just as many have known Mr. Big are also getting ready to stage their reunion tour which will kicked of in Japan first before considering any more dates in all over the world. The Japan tour will start on June 5 at Zepp, Sapporo and set to end on June 22 in Yokohama, one of the highlight of the tour is the Budokan date which has been sold out and will have the show recorded Live for a special DVD set.

link for the greatest album's news can be viewed at Eric Martin's official site
to pre-order Mr. Big's new record just visit CD Japan's site






written by Dewa Nugraha

Great news comes for Blues guitar legend Eric Clapton's fans in the U.S. as the guitarist has some new singles that are available for purchase on Amazon MP3's. The two songs that are being released by Reprise records, are "Forever Man" and "Little Wing".

The two singles from the upcoming CD of Eric's "Live from Madison Square Garden," by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. However at the moment the new songs are only available for U.S. fans only this happens due to the fact that Amazon MP3 purchases are only available to U.S. costumers.

About the upcoming complete CD/DVD set just we previously informed in our news section back then the package is the recording from the latest show done By Eric and Steve at New York. The CD/DVD itself will definitely pleased music fans as it is set to be released in a special packaging which includes a poster, program from the shows and photos by Danny Clinch. This set can be pre-ordered from this day at Eric's official site

Beside preparing the release of his new CD/DVD this year, Eric is also gearing up for another tour that will start on May 11 at O2, Dublin and set to end on June 30 at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA. For his upcoming shows in June, Eric won't be performing alone as once again he will het the road with Steve Winwood.

An exciting news comes for Jeff Beck's fans as they will have an exclusive chance to take pictures of him and even win an exclusive prize which is the chance to meet Jeff at backstage. However to get an exclusive access to take picture of Jeff on his upcoming tour, fans must have and use Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1.

Through the official press release on Jeff's official site, it was confirmed that the guitar legend's fans who brought that small digital lens camera on to his concert, will be allowed to take pictures of him and they can submit them to the "Best of the Tour Series". The photos that are considered the best will be shown at VeiraCast of Facebook on a special Panasonic G1/Concert Series, as well as JeffBeck.com.

As for the chance to win a backstage pass on Jeff's shows, fans not only must have the new camera but they have to be the first 10 audience that show up at the venue and received the Panasonic VIP photo logo pass. Only by getting the pass, the devotees will be able to catch up with the guitar master in person at the backstage.

Meanwhile, Jeff himself at the moment is busy staging his world tour which currently take place in the U.S. in where he will play there until April 23. Beside the U.S. tour the guitar virtuoso will also hit Europe and will embark on countries such as U.K., Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium and others.

More news comes from new supergroup Chickenfoot as the band through their official website have just dropped a new track that will be their official first single from the upcoming debut record. The new song that can be also be heard at the band's official MySpace Page, is titled "Oh Yeah".

Despite being set as the official first single for Chickenfoot's upcoming debut LP, "Oh Yeah" itself, is not the first song that was released by the band as previously they have dropped two other tracks. The two previous songs that have been streamed by the rockers were, "Down the Drain" and "Soap on The Rope".

Beside revealing the new single, Chickenfoot also announced the dates for their limited U.S. tour as an test drive for them before they embark to Europe to promote their new record that will be released in June 9. The U.S. tour itself will kick off on May 14 at El Corazon in Seattle, WA and set to end on May 29 at TLA, Philadelphia. Tickets for the show will be priced around $50 per shows and to get your hand on the tickets earlier and also get a discount just join the band's oficial fans club.

Meanwhile, commenting about the upcoming debut album, the band's guitarist Joe Satriani stated on the rockers' official site that the songs are great and he can't wait to play them live for fans. "We spent a lot of time together in the recording studio working long hours to make Chickenfoot live up to expectations. We really feel like we've mastered it and recorded a great album but now we're especially excited to take the show on the road and see how the fans react to it live. I think we are really going to feed off of the fan's energy. We're really that type of band," Joe said.

Not only will be giving fans a new album this year, progressive metal act Dream Theater reportedly are ready to give another special stuff for this fans as the band is giving a Meet and Greet packages for their devotees. The meet and greet stuffs will give fans the chance to get closer with the band, take exclusive photograph together and other exclusive prices.
Here are the things that the the band offer through their official news letter:




Dream Theater Meet and Greet Packages

Package includes:

* Exclusive Meet and Greet with Dream Theater
* Personal photograph with the band
* Autograph session (includes 8X10 photo)
* Official Meet and Greet Laminate
* Exclusive Dream Theater Bandana
* Set of Dream Theater Guitar Picks
* Collectible Dream Theater "Black Clouds & Silver
Linings" Patch
* $25 voucher to the official Dream Theater online store

- Limited availability
- Package does not include a ticket to the concert.
You must have a ticket to attend the M&G
- M&G details will be emailed to fans prior to show date
to get your hand on this exclusive packages just log in to this website

Dream Theater themselves previously have confirmed that they will be releasing their new album, entitled "Black Clouds & Silver Linings" which will be dropped to stores on June 23 via Roadrunner Records. The album is the rockers second outing under the record company and just as its official press release earlier, the record will have 6 songs and As for the first single, Dream Theater has chosen "A Rite of Passage".

In support of the new album, the band will also embark on an extensive tour that will start this summer. They will be hitting lots of venues and festivals including their own Progressive Nation Tour, you can see all the tour info of Dream Theater just log in to their official site.

It looks like English shred metal band Dragonforce still hasn't lost their charmed on impressing lots of people, another prove of that is the nomination that the band received at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2009. According to the band's official site, the group have been nominated for two awards for the event which are for "The Best U.K. Bands" and "Best Shredder".

For the "Best U.K. Band category" Dragonforce will be competing with the likes of Iron Maiden, Motorhead, The Answer, Saxon and Gallows. Meanwhile for the "Best Shredder" award, that were represented by the "The Last Journey Home" hit maker guitar duo, Herman Li and Sam Totman, will be competing with other metal band guitarists such as, Jim Root and Mick Thompson from Slipknot, Mike Akerfeldt from Opeth and many more. The voting itself is being made open for public so if you are a Dragonforce fans just vote for them at the event's official site

Before receiving the nomination for this upcoming award, Dragonforce previously have also received a nomination for the latest Grammy Award for the "Best Metal Performance" category with their song "Heroes of Our Time". However, the band failed to take home the award because they lost out to the eventual winner trash metal legend Metallica with their track "My Apocalypse".

Dragonforce themselve at the moment are busy staging their world tour and according to their schedule at the moment they are touring in South East Asia, at Singapore precisely where they were perform today (April 11) at 8 P.M. local time. After performing in Singapore, the band prepared to hit U.S. to do a tour there that will start on April 15 at the House of Blues,
Annaheeim, C.A. The complete tour list of the band can be viewed at their official website

Following previous news about super group, Chickenfoot's upcoming debut album that previously reported will be released on June 6 in Germany and 8 in U.K has been changed to June 5 for all of European country. Not only the European date, the release time for North America is also being re-scheduled from June 7 to June 9.

Moreover,revealing more info about the debut album, the band through their official newsletter on their site, stated that the new record will be packaged in a exclusive "heat sensitive" artwork, which will reveal photos when it is touched by our hand. The LP itself, will also have about 11 songs, which two of them have been streamed by the band on their MySpace page, those songs were ""Soap on a Rope" and "Down the Drain".

Beside revealing the new release date for their album, on their official news letter the band also announced that the official fan club of the band is already open and fans can already join. Just like any other Fans Club, Chickenfoot's devotees that joins will also be given special treats such as access for the band's pre-sales tickets, 10% discounts, T-Shirts and other stuffs. To join the fan club just log in to the rockers' official site

Beside preparing the release for their new album, the band are also busy preparing their tour in support of the upcoming records. According to the latest interview, Joe Satriani said that they will play some release party shows in the U.S. before embarking on a tour in Europe. To get the official tour dates of the band just checked this site.






written by Dewa Nugraha

As it seems like the issues has gone quiet for sometime, but latest news just arrived again regarding the copyright infringement case between Coldplay and Joe Satriani as the case has now reached the L.A. court. According to Billboard.com, the English band's attorneys still denies any copyright issues that was addressed to them by the guitar virtuoso.

The band's attorney stated to the court that there are not enough similarities between Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" with Joe's "If I Could Fly" that could cause ingfridement issues. Moreover, the attorneys wen't on to attack, the guitar legend's song to be "lack of originality" and for that it shouldn't even received a copyright protection.

Meanwhile, answering this denial and insane counter attact, Joe's attorney Howard E. King replied that Coldplay's defense is a normal thing to be done in such case and also adding that the problem could've been easily done without any lawsuit. The case itself occured in December last year, as Joe suid the band, claiming that they have used "substantial, original portions" of his "If I Could Fly" song on their "Viva la Vida".

In a previous interview, Joe stated that he wasn't actually aware of the problem and it was his fans who tipped him off by mailing him and stating that Colplay's new track was so similar to his song. "from the minute their song came out, my e-mail box flooded with people going, 'Have you heard this song by Coldplay? They ripped you off man.' I mean, I couldn't tell you how many e-mails I received," Joe said to Music Radar.

Meanwhile, Coldplay themselves denies that they ripped off Joe's song in purpose and claims that any similirarities are purely a coincidence. Explaining it to the press, the band's vocalist Chris Martin said earlier, "If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him. Joe Satriani is a great musician, but he did not write or have any influence on the song Viva La Vida. We respectfully ask him to accept our assurances of this and wish him well with all future endeavors.

We at Guitar Legends are honored to received an award from our blogger friend Aan, which was given by another friend Kifni. Though this blog's purpose is not to seek or look for many awards, still we appreciated our friends acknowledgments to us. So in receiving this award one must tell the reason they made the blog. Here goes a short story from Guitar Legends.
This blog is basedly created as a means to fulfiled our interest and hobby of music and guitars, so starting in January 2009 with some discussion and preparations we finally launched the blog as an effort to promote and give news about great guitar players and their projects to all of the people all around the world. However beside our noble purpose, we honestly admits that we are also looking for some cash through the blog, and though it hasn't give us much we do hope in time we can get more trust and received an appropriate outcome based on our works.
We know it won't be easy, especially with the financial crisis these days to get alot out of blogging, and getting sponsors to support the blog, we hope that we can keep on providing info and news to all music lovers and also keep promoting works from great guitarists and band out there.
We hope this award could at least help people to ackowledge this blog and the work that we have done till this date to promote amazing and maybe unheard music from great musicians. Once again we appriciated this lovely gift and that's our story.

Despite of his busy schedule with clinics, shooting instructional video and also his work with his band Angra, Brazilian guitar virtuoso Kiko Loureiro, still have the time to do another side project and this time he made a new band called Neural Code. The info of the new band can be found on Kiko's official blog, but since it's in Brazilian a credit to The Rock House Blog that managed to transcribed the info in English.

On the new band Kiko teams up with Cuca Teixeira (drums) and Thiago Espirito Santo (bass), together they created a music that is called as the mixture of rock and jazz which creates a contemporary Brazillian music sound that's unique and progressive. Samples of their work can be found on Neural Code's official MySpace page, there are two tracks that have been streamed there, "Cangaceiro Maroquino" and "Drenal".

Kiko himself is currently busy with his guitar clinic schedule that has already started since March 31 at the Future Music School in Germany and scheduled to end on May 11, 2009 in Brazil. Beside the clinic, just as it already mentioned earlier Kiko will be back with his band Angra as they will staged a tour that will kick off on April 29 and set to end on May 24.

Here is the clinic and tour schedule of Kiko, just as it was written on his official MySpace page:
Mar 31 2009 8:00P
Guitar Clinic - Future Music School - GERMANY Frankfurt
Apr 6 2009 8:00P
Guitar Clinic - Pinocchio Concerts - SPAIN Toledo, Toledo
Apr 10 2009 8:00P
Guitar Clinic - CIAM - FRANCE Bordeaux
Apr 12 2009 8:00P
Guitar Clinic - Plymouth Music School - UNITED KINGDOM Plymouth
Apr 29 2009 8:00P
Concert - SESC Consolação - BRAZIL São Paulo, São Paulo
May 9 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - São Paulo - Via Funchal - BRAZIL São Paulo
May 11 2009 7:00P
Guitar Clinic - MEGA WORKSHOP 3 - BRAZIL Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro
May 15 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - Aeroclube - Jaú - BRAZIL Jaú, São Paulo
May 24 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - Casa do Gaúcho - Porto Alegre - Brazil Porto Alegre
May 29 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - Rio de Janeiro - Canecão - BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro
May 30 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - Vitória - Ginásio Dom Bosco - BRAZIL Vitória, Espírito Santo
May 31 2009 8:00P
ANGRA´s Concert - Governador Valadares - BRAZIL Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Jun 20 2009 8:00P
Concert - Tarja Turunen Tour - Miskolc Opera Festival - HUNGARY Miskolc
Jun 26 2009 8:00P
Concert - Tarja Turunen Tour - Metalway Festival - SPAIN Zaragoza, Zaragoza
Jun 28 2009 8:00P
Concert - Tarja Turunen Tour - Gods Of Metal - ITALY Milan
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Concert - Tarja Turunen Tour - Rockperry Festival - FINLAND Varsa
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
Concert - Tarja Turunen Tour - Festival Benatska Noc - CZECH REPUBLIC

After taking same time off from his latest tour that was finished on January 21 in Texas, guitar legend Eric Johnson announced on his official website that he will be taking the stage again this April. According to his site, Eric will be playing at the Dallas Guitar Show which will be held on April 17, Friday.

For the show Eric will be accompanied by his band, the Alien Love Child which consist of him, Bill Maddox and Chris Maresh. The event itself will be staged at Dallas Market Hall-Outdoors 220 Stemmons Freeway Dallas, TX. For complete info about the ticket prices just check out the Dallas Guitar Show official site

Beside announcing the news of his upcoming concert, on his site Eric also revealed the release of a new DVD called "Love In-A Musical Celebration", which features his appearance along side other renown musicians. According to its press release the DVD is"a theatrical celebration of the music of 1967’s Summer of Love, featuring legendary artists and a spectacular psychedelic light show. Rock n’ roll never felt so good!" For more info about the DVD just log in to http://www.loveinthemusical.com/.

The annual MussicMesse event has always been a cool and exciting event for musicians and music lovers to go to, including for guitar hero Joe Satriani who also attended the event, held from April 1-4. At the event, Joe spare his time to do some interviews with TV journalists such Music Radar, Premiere Guitar and Accordo TV.

On the interview with the press, the main topic of the discussion doesn't really have lots of difference as it focuses mainly on his VOX pedals and about his new band Chickenfoot. Joe reveals lots of stories about the process of designing and creating the pedals and also revealing again the story about Chickenfoot's birth process and it's upcoming projects.

Speaking about his VOX "Satchurator"pedal, which won a MIPA award at the event, Joe told Premier Guitar some stories about it, revealing how he would invited some of his friends at his basement to test out lots of amps and distortion so they can figured out the perfect sound for the pedal. Morever, he also stated that there will be more pedals that he plans to release in the future, though the guitar virtuoso refused to reveal any specific details yet.

Meanwhile, on the Chikenfoot story just as it was revealed to the press earlier, Joe said on how that the band started after he got a call from Sammy Hagar to jamm with the former Van Halen singer, Chad Smith and Michael Anthomy at a concert in Vegas and how things were just too good and that's what made them decided to continue the project. Joe also revealed in the interview about the band's tour plan, revealing that after their scheduled tour in the U.S. and Canada ends in September, the band will probably take a short break to give the members chances to finish their own projects.

Just as it was scheduled, guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert did his show at the MusicMesse Frankfurt 2009 and some videos of his show on April 4 have been streamed online. On the videos that were uploaded on YouTube, Paul was seen playing some cover tunes of his favorite musicians' track such as Robin Trower, The Doors, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy and others.

Just like at NAMM, at the MusicMesse beside performing Paul also did other promotional activities for the gears that he uses, which in these case were Ibanez guitars and also Marshal Amps. If in NAMM Paul introduces his Ibanez Fireman and PGM 100 RE, at the event staged in Frankfurt, Paul debuted his PGM 401 and also officialy announced that the PGM 300 will be re-issued for a limited edition.

The MusicMesse is not only the big events for the reunited Mr. Big guitarist, as he will also do other cool stuffs such as giving clinic, master class and also doing a reunion tour with his band. The nearest event for Paul is doing guitar clinic in Italy, which will be started today (April 5). He will be touring the soccer country until April 17.

Another big schedule for the virtuoso giutar player is also the upcoming Mr. Big reunion tour in Japan which will kick off on June 5 at Sapporo and set to end on June 21 at Yokohama Arena. The band's reunion and tour is definitely one of the most awaited events these year as the popular rock band have disbanded for quite some time, proving fans enthusiasm, on the Budokan gig, the tickets have been sold and they have to add another show which will be at Yokohama.

Videos of Paul's Performance at Music Messe

After announcing some dates for his acclaimed Alien Guitar Secret Master Class in U.S. and some countries in Europe, guitar master Steve Vai confirmed another new date and venue for the special program on his official site. This time the master class will be visiting Israel on June 30th and it will be held at Culture Palace, Tel Aviv and this will also be Steve's first visit there.

Beside announcing the new date for his master class program, on his site Steve also announced other new stuff for his fans which is about his merchandises, new offer and stuffs. Here is the official press release for Steve's merchandise:

The Naked Tracks Backing Tracks Box Set is now back in stock in the Vai.com Online Store! We also have many discounted items (up to 25% off) in the store right now, along with two NEW shirts and a NEW hoodie available. Plus, until April 30 if you spend $50 or more, you will receive a FREE Real Illusions Tour Book featuring 24 pages of full-color photos of Steve and the Breed on tour.

The following items are on sale now:
- “Bars” Men’s Zip Hoodie: $33.95 (15% off regular price)
- “Vai Real Illusions: Reflections” Flexfit Hat: $14.95 (25% off regular price)
- “Vai Real Illusions: Reflections” Beanie: $14.95 (25% off regular price)
- “Sound Theories” Men’s T w/ 2007 dates on back: $16.95 (15% off regular price)
- “Flurry” Men’s T Men’s T w/ Sound Theories 2007 on front: $16.95 (15% off regular
price)
- “Church of Vai” Junior’s Tee: $19.95 (20% off regular price)

Here are the 3 new designs that are being added to the webstore:
- “Roots” Men’s tee
- “Cyber” Men’s tee
- “Growth” Men’s Zip hoodie

This days, Steve is very keen on working on his master class program, as he has booked some dates aside from the upcoming Israel event, one of the most important dates for his master class will be in London where he will be giving the special masterclass program at the London Guitar Show which will be held on June 13-14.

After having his old PGM100RE guitar re-issued, now Ibanez guitar has announced that another classic gear from guitar virtusoso Paul Gilbert is ready to be released again as the celebration of Paul's PGM 20th Anniversary. The guitar that has been picked to be re-issued this time is PGM 300, the decision was made through a vote done by fans and Paul's signature's owner on-line.

The re-issued guitar will be first released at the upcoming MusicMesse in Frankfurt, Germany,and soon after being introduced at the event the guitar will go straight for production again. Revealing the unique thing about the Ibanez PGM300, on the press release send by our friend Jenn from Metalichicka. Paul said, "To me, one of the unique things about that guitar, for whatever reason, was that it cleaned up really nice."

Moreover, Paul also revealed his coolest experience while using that guitar stating, "I remember playing that guitar on the Tonight Show, doing a song called "Just Take My Heart" that had a really clean sound. It just sounded beautiful on that. There was no channel switching necessary. I just plugged it into a cranked up Marshall, turned the volume down, and got this beautiful, clear, shimmering sound. Of course when you crank it up, it was total metal." He then added, "So that was the guitar that my hands have spent the most time on out of any of the PGMs. I think my chest cavity has modified to its shape. It's a very very dear guitar to me. I love it."

In other news, Paul himself is currently preparing himself to do some clinic and tour this coming months including the highly anticipated Mr. Big Reunion tour at Japan, which will start on June 5. Other events that Paul will be attending are the upcoming Frankfurt Musicmesse, which is set to start from 1-4 April and also flying to Italy to do guitar clinics that scheduled to start on April 5 and set to end on April 17. To check out more details about Paul's schedule just visit his official website.

more info about Paul and the PGM300 can be checked out at this links:

Still taking a break from his current band DC4 promo schedule, doesn't mean that rock guitarist Rowan Robertson taking the time off from the music world as he uses his spare time to work on a movie soundtrack. The soundtrack that he will start to work on April 4 to 8 won't be a new one as he is continuing the previous project that he did for an indie movie called "Dirty Step Upstage".

Previously Rowan has actually did work on a soundtrack for the movie, which was titled "I Kissed a Girl in the Red Dress" where Rowan filled in the solo guitar part for the song. It seems that the movie producers were pleased by Rowan's work so they asked him to lend his hand again on the finishing touch for the movie.

However unlike when he was finishing his previous project for the movie on which he was working alone, for the upcoming instrumental project Rowan won't be working by himself as according to the press release on his official MySpace page. For the next scoring production for the movie, Rowan will be accompanied by his old friend a concert violist Juliette Primrose.

Juliette herself has also worked with Rowan on his band DC4's latest record "Explode" in which she showed her stringed qualities on a song titled "This Is What You Wanted". According to the press release their collaboration on the movie is believed to bring a creative and mood setting for the movie's score.