Axe Masters, Shredding

This is a music video from a couple of years ago, but I got a Guitar Center catalog in the mail today with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on the cover, and that made me think of it again.  I've never been huge into Steve Vai, exactly, although I do believe I owned his solo Passion and Warfare album for most of the 1990's.  I was pretty heavily into Joe Satriani during that time, his Flying in a Blue Dream record is still one of my all-time favorites.  But there's certainly no mistaking that Vai is one of the all-time great lead electric guitarists in rock.  It's amazing to me to watch him play like he does in this video.  I haven't heard anything about Orianthi since I first saw this, but then again there are always massive gaps in my awareness of goings-on in the music biz.  She's obviously a massive talent as well.  It's pure joy for me to watch these two interact musically here.  Enjoy!

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The Proposal

This isn't about me, I just had to share.  This is the animated video that 24-year-old Anthony Pinder posted on June 25 (this past Monday) to propose to his girlfriend of 6 years, Ariana Gomez.  He is a graduate of the University of Texas' film program, currently living in Brooklyn, New York.  It is So cute and sweet.  Oh, and in case you're wondering, she said yes.





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How to Make a Record in 2 Days: Part 10

The Home Stretch of Day Two, also known as "The LAST and FINAL Day, by which EVERYTHING must be ABSOLUTELY FINISHED!"  I lay down my vocal tracks, and do ALL the mixing with my engineer and co-producer, Ian. Oh, and due to the absurd length of this VideoBlog series, YouTube imposes one of its rules.  So there's also a, um...special guest at the very beginning. 'Cuz I'm all about compliance with rules, baby.

Wanna watch the next (and FINAL) 2 VideoBlogs in this series?  Click HERE.
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How to Make a Record in 2 Days: Part 9

Done with Day One, on to Day Two, only one million things left to do...

Can't wait for the end?  Watch the rest of this VideoBlog series now HERE.
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How to Make a Record in 2 Days: Part 8

In this next installment of my VideoBlog series, about the making of my just-released album Just Keep Goin', I take you through the rest of Day One of recording…one musician arrives and begins recording, another musician arrives, the previous musician finishes and leaves while the next one starts…it’s a full-on flurry of musical chaos, folks.  Thank goodness we had a rock leader like myself holding it all together.  Um, YEAH…
Watch the rest of the videos in this series NOW! (I know, you can't wait.  It's okay.)

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How to Make a Record in 2 Days: Part 7

In this installment of my VideoBlog series, recording finally begins, and I am STILL without a VERY important piece of the musical puzzle.  But am I shaken?  Am I thrown off my game?  Not a professional rock star like me, baby.  No Sir.  No Sirree-Bob. I am cool under pressure.  I am calm, I am ICE. I am...yeah, NO. I lost my mind, basically…

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How to Make a Record in 2 Days: Part 6

WAIT! On my just-released, first solo album Just Keep Goin', WHO played the DRUMS?  Who are those people, who hit things with sticks so elegantly and thunderously?  Who built the rock-solid, rhythmic foundation, which I and all the other musicians played upon, track after track? PERHAPS this installment of my VideoBlog series will answer these mysteries, and reveal the true artists sitting behind all those percussive, cylindrical...things, and the, um...round, shiny...gold things on metal sticks...
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Tour Update (and Other News...)

Just wanted to update you on the tour I'll be doing starting this August.  Venues and bills are not 100% nailed down yet, but it does look like I'll be playing O'Brien's in Allston, Mass (right near Boston) on Monday, August 20, then Philadelphia (venue TBA) on Tuesday, August 21, and Minneapolis/St. Paul on Sunday, August 26.  There should be like, at least 20 or so more cities and dates added, but that's what I have so far for you.  Of course I'll keep you up to date as confirmations and further information comes in.  So excited to get on the road again!!

This past Monday, I wrote an instrumental song, called "Sunshine Every Day."  I recorded it with four tracks on an app on my Apple iPhone4, made a video for it and posted the whole thing on my YouTube channel, all in the same day.  The recording is a bit rough, but when I finished, I just had this moment of being in awe of the technology at our fingertips these days.  Pretty incredible.  




I have been working pretty hard the last couple of weeks on a new music video for my song "Hey, Colleen."  I am definitely on the home stretch with it, so I am guessing I'll have that up on my YouTube channel within a week or two.  It's gotten a really great response from the people who have seen the rough cut, so hopefully it'll be something people will enjoy.


That's the news for now.  Thanks so much for visiting my site here and reading.  Keep rockin'!! 


 ++Collin
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