Over 400 Instrumental Artists Now Available

Growth of CDs Available in 2001 Exceeds 20%

December-January 2001 · December 2001

Welcome to the December holiday edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Looking back, we started in instrumental guitar e-commerce in 1997 with a total of six CDs - and now we stock well over 600 titles! Just in the past two months we've added a whopping 38 new releases to the site, including instrumental CDs by Moodafaruka, Spirit Gang, Joe Stump, Kopecky, Miguel Mega, Stew Cutler, Sean McGowan, Tony MacAlpine, Bernd Steidl, Joe Satriani, Bumblefoot (Featuring Ron Thal), Ted Reece, Bailey/Wooten, Garsed/Helmerich, Herring/Lavitz/Harward, MacAlpine/Brunel/Chambers/Auger, Baked Potato (Live), Vinnie Moore, Gary Hoey, Frank Zappa, Strunz/Farah, Carlton/Lukather, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Howe, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Jens Johansson, John Paul Jones, Greg Koch, Merry Axemas, Eric Johnson, Project Z, Jordan Rudess, Steve Morse Band and Doug Markley. You can now listen to and order 731 instrumental releases by 441 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).

In this issue

21 columns

Guest Columnists

Double Arpeggios

Francesco Fareri

Want to double your fun? Double tracking your arpeggios may be the way to do it.

Guest Columnists

Dynamite Dynamics

Will Landrum

Yet another weapon in the arsenal of techniques you can use to spice up your music.

Interviews

Interview: Harvey "The Snake" Mandel

Dan McAvinchey

I was on mp3.com for a while, but my opinion of the web is that piracy seems to be the end result of all the freebies, so we are staying with pressings even though they get copied and sent out for free. I'm a professional recording artist, so I'm committed to charging for my work.

Interviews

Interview: T.D. Clark

Dan McAvinchey

I usually will come up with ideas by throwing on my drum machine and just playing riffs, or by sitting in front of the TV and getting inspiration from whatever is on. I wrote the song "The Fugitive" while watching the movie of the same name. All the action was incredible, and the song turned out to be just as intense.

Guest Columnists