Check this out if you like hearing guitar players tear it up. A blog of with lots of videos (YouTube) of guitarists "shredding" (or ripping your face off, if you prefer that terminology.) The blog contains video posts, with some short commentary. The commentary generally outlines the guitarist appearing in the video, their credentials, and a brief discription of thier performance.
This blog is a personal blog, in that all entries that I witnessed were posted by the same author. It is a filter-type, with links to news and other guitarist-related happenings (record deals, new albums, performances, etc.)
Informing guitar music lovers of the great players featured is the intended purpose of the blog. This could be portrayed as informative, from the standpoint of the blog viewer, or as reputation building, from the standpoint of the guitarist featured. Obviously, there is also a self-expression element contained in the choice of who to feature, as well as musical style choices.
This is a guitar blog focused solely on great guitarists, and what they are doing. It provides good background information on the individual artists featured, who they've worked with, and things of that nature.
Interestingly, while it is focused on chops (technical ability, speed, etc) it does cover a wide variety of genres. Most often, insanely fast guitar playing is associated with metal, but you can find traditional jazz, fusion, and even flamenco styles within this blog. Definitely a must for those who appreciate skilled guitarists.
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Eric, thank you so much for your positive comments. The analysis of the content of the blog is well defined.
There is one caveat: currently I do not provide a rating for the guitarists featured. They are normally featured in the blog for their techical merits alone. NB these are assessed by me... I would like to work towards a blog rating once per artist the technology allows. I also appreciate this also reflects my own personal choice.
There is one caveat, my choice is also based on 30+ years of listening to guitar orientated music and instrumental guitar in particular. NB this means I missed a lot of jazz players along the way...but I think the blog overall is about players and introducing fans to players they may have not heard of before.
Thanks for providing some time to my blog.
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