Conversations with GoD: 'Shreds' Mastermind Santeri "StSanders" Ojala

SHRED. Officially referring to the ripping apart of something. Unofficially referring to a rock guitarist's best solos. Now, a cunning mix of both known as Shreds has arrived thanks to StSanders.

Finnish artist Santeri Ojala, aka StSanders, takes classic rock shredding footage and cunningly overdubs it with, well, anything but classic guitar work. Cleverly matching the fingerwork and some other on-stage antics, at first it's tough to call it, til you realize just how utterly awful the solo is. StSanders has gone and put these Shreds through the shredder. (Check out our favorites: Jake E. Lee with Ozzy Osbourne and Eddie Van Halen.)

So, I decided to ask him some stupid questions...continue reading this AWESOME interview at Geeks of Doom!

Music Review: Lindsey Boullt 'Composition'

So this album is huge and as it's name suggests, full of compositions. Some musicians write tunes, others write songs, but the really dedicated virtuoso types... They write compositions. This album, or this "moment of genius" as I prefer to relate to it, is just that. Fans of musicians who utterly bury themselves in their art, or to put it more bluntly, musicians wanking, need to put their seat-belts on, or some such metaphor...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Music Review: Joe Satriani ‘Surfing With The Alien’ Legacy Edition CD/DVD

JOE SATRIANI
Surfing With The Alien Legacy Edition
Sony Legacy
Release date: August 7, 2007

I was 14 years old when Surfing With The Alien was released. For close to two years prior I had been doing my best to learn how to play the guitar -- but I was not entirely unguided. My guitar teachers were all my LP heroes -- Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley, Frank Zappa, Jake E. Lee, Jeff Beck, Ted Nugent, and a 10-minute segment of audio from the movie Crossroads that I had extracted onto cassette tape via my brother-in-law's Tascam 4-track and a set of RCA cables. I'd record all of my favorite songs onto the 4-track, then turn down the tape speed by half and listen to them, doing my best to pick out what segments I could and attempt to mimic them on my $80 black Yamaha SE-110. Diary of a Madman, Blow by Blow, Alive II, The Wall, Masters of Reality -- this was my curriculum.

Then Surfing With The Alien crash landed into my life like a UFO. Suddenly, my world as a budding guitarist was blown wide open. All of my preconceptions of what being a guitar player meant were changed in all of 38 minutes. I had a found a new teacher...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!