Course Blog: Blues Rock Road Trip – Part 1
TrueFire Course Blogs are created by students who post summaries of their learning experience as they work through a particular TrueFire course. While an indivi...
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The Original Rock Star
A few years back, Stanford scientist Dr. Alexander Kosovichev and his gang of space junkies recorded something that had never been heard before: the sound of th...
Snowy Day Inspiration
Snow is hammering the East Coast like Pete Townshend hammered his Rickenbacker at the Railway Tavern circa 1964. For those of you trapped in that frozen mess, I...
Austin, Texas Blues
by Rich Maloof With all the bad news that pours in every day, we can be somewhat unfazed even by jaw-dropping acts of hatred like the one that made news yest...
Pat Metheny’s One-Man Band: “Orchestrion”
Pat Metheny released Orchestrion this past week. If I’ve counted correctly, beginning with Bright Size Life in 1975, this is Pat’s zillionth record. Not a fu...
Blues Guitar Lesson: “Sweet Home Chicago” Genealogy
by David Hamburger Come on...Baby, Don't You Want to Know? Over the years I've had the pleasure of teaching at various workshops in the company of som...
Daily Kindling: Goodbye Gibson?
Industry insiders at the NAMM show in Anaheim are murmuring that Gibson could be out of business by this summer....
Fireside Chat: Seymour Duncan
While the name Seymour Duncan might be synonymous with high quality pick ups and stompboxes, few know that before he was winding magnets and soldering wires, Se...
Happy New Year!
We’ve had a great time launching TrueFire’s blog this past year, and the feedback we’ve received from players around the world has been nothing short of inspiri...
The Top 7 Guitar Stories of 2009
7. The Top 50 Guitar Albums of All-Time - With a lot of help from their readers, Guitar World released in February what they consider to be the 50 greatest guit...
Daily Kindling: Record Labels Sued for Pirating!?
Fuel for the Fire: "If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music."
- Gary Arnold, Mercha...
Fireside Chat: John Wlaysewski
Our latest Fireside Chat is with a Zeppelin-loving, Fender-playing guitarist who is unafraid to go to 11 and shred on solos. His name? John Wlaysewski. He is th...