Holy Hell It's Been A While .

Ok so basically i lost track of this completely and pretty much completely forgot i had this thing so if anyone's still about or reading this now then thank you and also a belated happy Christmas / New Year .

For todays post i figured i'd give you links for a new tutorial DVD that was released by Deron Miller of Foreign Objects / CKY / World Under Blood fame . Now i've always been a fan of him as a guitarist but anyone who's followed CKY for a while knows he's not always been the easiest person to get along with which culminated in him throwing a guitar at Jess during a Christmas With CKY gig a few years ago . Since then he's gone on to release some stuff with World Under Blood which he describes as "Melodic Death Metal" , can't say i'm the biggest fan of the band as a whole but the guitar is work is pretty damn good . Anyway Deron made and sold 60 of these "Tutoral / Tab" DVD's through ebay and as you would expect someone soon uploaded it for everyone else who didn't fancy the £40 price tag .

The DVD it's self runs for about 2 and a half hours and he covers songs from pretty much every project he's been involved in over the years , i'll be honest though at times it does seem like even he forgets the songs and it's like he's learning them from scratch with you . Also there is no conventional tabs in this video at all he just plays the parts to the songs kind of slow and you have to do a bit of working out on your own . But for anyone who's been a fan of him over the years it's really not a bad watch at all .

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqLt_5OAWbU
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcziBn9yyuk
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXfhuU5EqM
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk_bjEyA2YI

Hopefully someone out there can get some enjoyment out of this and possibly learn something new while they're at it  . Also again is you do see this post after all this time then thank you again for checking it out , i really do appreciate it .

A Crow From Wolves

This isn't another guitar book post (that comes tomorrow) this is one about a blog i can honestly say i enjoy reading , he likes to voice his opinion on a whole variety of topics and more often than not he's bang on the money , you get everything from his random TV Show reviews to just his day to day observations of certain topics which are always bang on the money ...so check it out and i garuntee you won't be dissapointed .

http://crowbloke.blogspot.com/

Finally I'm Back ...Also Heres Some Incubus Books

So first off i'd really like to appolgise for the lack of updates and posts but hopefully things are finally going to get back to normal , sometimes life likes to hand out a bitchslap to keep you in line and moving on the right path and thats pretty much what happened ...so hopefully now i can go back to daily updates and get things moving along again ...not to mention i've got a hell of a lot of reading to catch up on with all the blogs i follow .


Incubus - Make Yourself

Pages - 62
Contents :

1 - Privilege
2 - Nowhere Fast
3 - Consequences
4 - The Warmth
5 - When It Comes
6 - Stellar
7 - Make Yourself
8 - Drive
9 - Clean
10 - Battlestar Scralatchtica
11 - I Miss You
12 - Pardon Me
13 - Out From Under


Incubus - Morning View

Pages - 66
Contents  -

1 - Nice To Know You
2 - Circles
3 - Wish You Were Here
4 - Just A Phase
5 - 11am
6 - Blood On The Ground
7 - Mexico
8 - Warning
9 - Echo
10 - Have You Ever
11 - Are You In
12 - Under My Umbrella
13 - Aqueous Transmission



Incubus - The Best Of

Pages - 105
Contents -

1 - 11am
2 - Drive
3 - Nice To Know You
4 - Pardon Me
5 - Privilege
6 - Stellar
7 - Warning
8 - Wish You Were Here


Download Links In Order - 1 2 3

Quick Update ....Hooray I'm Not Dead

So it's been one hell of a busy week so i havn't had time to get on here like i'd planned on doing and by the looks of it i've got a lot of catching up to do with reguards to all the posts i've missed and need to read through but never fear ..normal service and 10 - 12 new books will be up tomorrow garunteed .

Welcome To The Jungle ...I Wanna Watch You Bleed

Thats right it's Guns N Roses time , one of personal all time favourite bands . Theres no denying they've really made their mark on the music scene and left one hell of a lasting impression and even today 28 years after the original release their debut album Appetite For Destruction is still amazing as ever and still gets regular plays from me and at a best guess a hell of a lot more people , it really has stood the test of time . Through all the drink and the drugs they always managed to pull of one hell of a live performance as well ..if you've ever seen the Live In Tokyo DVD's you'll know what i mean . There's been some casualties along the way as well ..Steven Adler for example and while he might not be the most technical drummer ever there's no denying he left his mark and Appetite just wouldn't of sounded the same without him , while i'm really no big fan of the current incarnation of GnR in the slightest i still hold the orignal line up through the Use Your Illusion albums in very high reguard .

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Pages - 96
Contents :

1 - Welcome To The Jungle
2 - It's So Easy
3 - Nightrain
4 - Out Ta Get Me
5 - Mr. Brownstone
6 - Paradise City
7 - My Michelle
8 - Think About You
9 - Sweet Child O' Mine
10 - You're Crazy
11 - Anything Goes
12 - Rocket Queen

Guns N Roses - Lies

Pages - 49
Contents :

1 - Reckless Life
2 - Nice boys
3 - Move To The City
4 - Mama Kin
5 - Used To Love Her
6 - Patience
7 - You're Crazy
8 - One In A Million


Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I

Pages - 168
Contents :

1 - Right Next Door To Hell
2 - Duns N' Bones
3 - Live And Let Die
4 - Don't Cry
5 - Perfect Crime
6 - You Aint The First
7 - Bad Obsession
8 - Back Off Bitch
9 - Double Talkin' Jive
10 - November Rain
11 - The Garden
12 - Garden Of Eden
13 - Don't Damn Me
14 - Bad Apples
15 - Dead Horse
16 -  Coma

Note - Bookmarks in this PDF are a little messed up but all tracks are there .


Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II

Pages - 144
Contents  :

1 - Civil War
2 - 14 Years
3 - Yesterdays
4 - Knockin' On Heavens Door
5 - Get In The Ring
6 - Shotgun Blues
7 - Breakdown
8 - Pretty Tied Up
9 - Locomotive
10 - So Fine
11 - Estranged
12 - You Could Be Mine
13 - Don't Cry (Alt. Lyrics)
14 - My World

Download Links In Order - 1  2  3  4

Original Guns N Roses Line Up To Appear At Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame

The original Guns N' Roses lineup will attend the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony after all - but will they perform?

"I know that all the original band is going to be there," said keyboardist Dizzy Reed in an interview with Billboard. "I don't know exactly what's going to go down. It's one of those things I'm sure will all come together and be really cool. I'm just going to go in with a good attitude and a clear head and a grateful heart."

While Dizzy can't promise a performance, his confirmation that they will attend is the strongest suggestion so far that they will perform after all.

GN'R were confirmed for their induction into the Hall of Fame last December, which bands are only eligible for 25 years after releasing their first record.

It left fans hungry for a reunion of their early lineup, but unresolved tension between members - particularly Axl Rose and Slash - meant a stage reunion was uncertain.

Dizzy Reed said the band are yet to discuss any potential performance, but only because it's a touchy topic to mention:

"I don't know when or why or how to bring it up. It's not an every day sort of thing. So we haven't really talked about it - but I'm sure we'll have to at some point."

Meanwhile, the modern GN'R lineup continues to prepare for a European tour of arenas and festivals from May - and they might even return to the studio to work on a follow-up to 2008's "Chinese Democracy".

"There are some clamoring and rumors that we might be getting some material together" Reed said. "There was so much material that didn't make it onto ['Chinese Democracy']. From what I remember there were a lot of really cool songs; I can only hope that some of that stuff does resurface and get worked out."

As a huge Guns N Roses fan (well the original line up , i figured this was worth sharing)

Don't Wanna Be An American Idiot ....Greenday Megapost Time

Formed in 1987 in Berkley California , Greenday are a standout in the mish mash of Punk Rock bands that have happened over the years mainly due to the fact that they've lasted so long and always been a mainstay in the genre . While i'm not a fan of the newer stuff which really moved away from the punk rock roots they were known for there are still a few good tracks on more recent albums but nothing that really compares or comes close to the early works such as Kerplunk , Dookie or even Warning .

Greenday - 1039 /  Smoothed Out Slappy Hours

Pages -  65
Contents :

1 - At The Library
2 - I Was There
3 - Don't Leave Me
4 - Dissapearing Boy
5 - Green Day
6 - 16
7 - Going To Pasalacqua
8 -  Road To Acceptance
9 - Rest
10 - The Judges Daughter
11 - Why Do You Want Him
12 - Paper Lanterns
13 - 409 In Your Coffeemaker
14 - I Want To Be Alone
15 - 1,000 Hours
16 - Dry Ice
17 - Only Of You
18 - The One I Want



Greenday - American Idiot

Pages - 108
Contents :

1 - American Idiot
2 - Jesus Of Suburbia
3 - Holiday
4 - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
5 - Are We The Waiting
6 - St Jimmy
7 - Give Me Novacaine
8 - She's A Rebel
9 - Extrordinary Girl
10 - Letterbomb
11 - Wake Me Up When September Ends
12 - Homecoming
13 - Whatsername


Greenday - Dookie

Pages - 57
Contents :

1 - Burnout
2 - Having A Blast
3 - Chump
4 - Longview
5 - Welcome To Paradise
6 - Pulling Teeth
7 - Basket Case
8 - She
9 - Sassafras Roots
10 - When I Come Around
11 - Coming Clean
12 - Eminus Sleepus
13 - In The End
14 - F.O.D
15 - All By Myself


Greenday - Insomniac

Pages - 54
Contents :

1 - Armatage Shanks
2 - Brat
3 - Stuck With Me
4 - Geek Stink Breath
5 - No Pride
6 - Bab's Uvula Who?
7 - 86
8 - Panic Song
9 - Stuart And The Ave.
10 - Brain Stew
11 - Jaded
12 - Westbound Sign
13 - Tight Wad Hill
14 - Walking Contradiction


Greenday - Kerplunk

Pages - 89
Contents :

1 - Private Ale
2 - 2000 Light Years Away
3 - Welcome To Paradise
4 - One For The Razorbacks
5 - Christie Road
6 - Dominated Love Slave
7 - Android
8 - One Of My Lies
9 - 80
10 - No One Knows
11 - Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
12 - Words I Might Have Ate
13 - Best Thing In Town
14 - Sweet Children
15 - My Generation
16 - Strangeland

Big thanks to HIPPIE for helping me get this book .


Greenday - Nimrod

Pages - 81
Contents :

1 - Nice Guys Finish Last
2 - Hitchin' A Ride
3 - The Grouch
4 - Redundant
5 - Scattered
6 - Worry Rock
7 - All The Time
8 - Platypus
9 - Uptight
10 - Last Ride In
11 - Walking Alone
12 - Jinx
13 - Haushinka
14 - Reject
15 - Take Back
16 - King For A Day
17 - Good Riddance ( Time Of Your Life)
18 - Prosthetic Head


Greenday - Warning

Pages - 53
Contents :

1 -  Warning
2 - Blood , Sex And Booze
3 - Church On Sunday
4 - Fashion Victim
5 - Castaway
6 - Misery
7 - Deadbeat Holiday
8 - Hold On
9 - Jackass
10 - Waiting
11 - Minority
12 - Macy's Day Parade


Download Links In Order -  2  3  4  5  6  7  (I'll add the missing link later on when Mediafire behaves)

Time For Some Guitar Education

On the basis that no matter how long you play or have played guitar for it's always been obvious to me that you can never learn enough , even small bits of information can work out being extremely helpful in the long run so before i do the Greenday mega post i thought i'd bring you 3 books that hopefully can help you gain a bit more knowledge about certain aspects of guitar playing . Even if you only take away one small bit of info that somehow only helps you out 10 years down the line then i figure it's worth it .


The Guitar Chord Encyclopedia

Pages - 269 

Simply put ..the more chord you know the further you'll go , combine this with the 3rd book i'm putting up
and you'll be well on your way to hammering out simple songs in no time , even if it's something simple that only uses 3 chords you still made a song and it's a good basis to work up from .



The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar

Pages - 89

Practice makes perfect as they say and having a decent practice/warm up routine before you have a jam session or whatever else will help you out immensley , wether it's chords or scales or arpeggios you need to work on this book will help you get into the right sense of mind when wanting to practice properly.



Understanding Chord Progressions

Now this is where the magic somewhat happens , if you've got the chord progressions memorised then your going to know where to go next and where not to go and when having a jam session or writing a simple song knowing these things will save you a lot of time and make everything a lot smoother . A good example of a chord progessions knows as the Pop- Punk progression was done by an Australian improv act knows as the Axis Of Awesome and it's demonstrated perfectly how many songs have been made with just the same 4 chords , check out the video below to see what i mean .

Download Links In Order : 1  2  3

Enjoy.

Quick Update

Fixed the links on the two missing books i couldn't get up yesterday thanks to mediafire messing about , so if you was after Coldplay or Disturbed the links are there and should be working fine now . Hopefully tomorrow i'll be able to get around to posting the Foo Fighters books , a Greenday megapost and to top it off some from one of my favourite bands ..well the original line-up anyway ..Guns N Roses  ...and now to blatantly steal an idea from Family Guy ...ladies and gentlemen ...here's Mr Conway Twitty .

Eric Clapton You Say ? ...I Think I Can Do That

Again this artist needs no introduction what so ever and anything i could say that hasn't been said already really won't do this guy justice , i can basically sum it up by saying Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time and you better believe it's true  .

Eric Clapton - Journeyman

Pages - 135
Contents :

1 - Pretending
2 - Anything For Your Love
3 - Bad Love
4 - Running On Faith
5 - Hard Times
6 - Hound Dog
7 - No Alibis
8 - Run So Far
9 - Old Love
10 - Breaking Point
11 - Lead Me On
12 - Before You Accuse Me


Eric Clapton - Unplugged

Pages - 105
Contents :

1 - Alberta
2 - Before You Accuse Me
3 - Hey Hey
4 - Layla
5 - Malted Milk
6 - Lonely Stranger
7 - Nobody Knows When Your Down And Out
8 - Old Love
9 - Rollin' And Tumblin'
10 - Running On Faith
11 - Signe
12 - Tears In Heaven
13 - Walkin' Blues
14 - San Fransisco Blues

Download Links - 1  2