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Dream Theater’s John Myung was interviewed by MusicRadar.com after being voted “Greatest Bassist of All Time” in their online poll. In response to the title, the bassist exclaimed, “…I, in no way, feel that it’s true in the sense of the title of the award, because there’s so many great players all over the world who contribute amazing music. So,...

A bass amp played by Dave Ellefson on numerous Megadeth tours is being auctioned on eBay, with all proceeds being donated to the American Cancer Society. The Hartke HyDrive 112C combo amp, which is signed by every member of Megadeth, was used backstage for rehearsals and warm-ups on the Rust in Peace 20th anniversary tour, the Big Four tour, the...

Ron Carter will be the first interview of the year for the Jazz Legacies series at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. Hosted by critic and author Gary Giddins, the series offers listeners a chance to hear about the lives and careers of jazz legends from the musicians themselves, and Carter has a lot to say. He had...

Glenn Hughes has returned endorsing Laney amps, after originally using them with his band Trapeze in the early 70’s. Hughes will be using the Laney Nexus Tube heads with the company’s NX810 cabinets on his upcoming solo tour as well as with his new supergroup, Black Country Communion. “The crazy thing is, I’ve been looking around for the right bass...

Bass guru Stu Hamm has just released his latest instructional video, Fretboard Fitness, through Truefire TV. Aimed at intermediate players, Fretboard Fitness contains 40 video lessons on theory, fretboard navigation, and hand strength that are designed to avoid becoming tedious, as often happens in instructional methods. “These are the bass guitar lessons I wish I had when I was coming...

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures will honored with a Gold Badge Award, given out by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. The event, which will also recognize twelve other recipients, will take place October 20 at the Savoy Hotel in London. Jones is being honored not only for his time with Led Zeppelin,...

In an online essay on Index on Censorship, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood revealed that the band has finished work on a new batch of songs and that they are contemplating how to release them. “…We have just finished another group of songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again,” Greenwood...

Phish bassist Mike Gordon will be releasing his third solo album, Moss, on October 19. Moss follows Mike’s 2008 release, The Green Sparrow, and about half of its songs stem from the same “50-song burst of creativity that seeded that album”. Anyone who pre-orders the album will receive one of four limited edition sketch replicas of the original album cover,...

Sir Paul McCartney will be one of five recipients at the 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors, to take place this December. President Barack Obama will present the award to the former Beatle, who also received the Gershwin Award earlier this year. The Kennedy Center Honor award is given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to...

A little less than a month after Andy Rourke’s departure, the bass supergroup Freebass has called it quits for good. The group was based around Rourke, of the Smiths, New Order’s Peter Hook, and Primal Fear’s Gary “Mani” Mounfield. Though Freebass has been in the works for about five years, the band’s dissolution comes just shy of two weeks before...

Only five months after joining, Duff McKagan will be leaving the ranks of Jane’s Addiction due to musical differences. “Hey we wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record,” the band said in a recent email newsletter. “We love the songs we worked on with him – and the gigs were a blast – but...

Shred master Billy Sheehan will be an honorary Ramone when he joins Marky Ramone for a special fundraising concert. The 31 full-length, “all Ramones” song set will take place October 8 at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood California, and money raised will go to Marky Ramone’s new drum scholarship at MI. Joining Sheehan and Ramone will be the Misfits’ Michael...