Google guitar Les Paul doodle cost businesses £166m in lost productivity
Daily Mail - Jun 17, 2011
By Newswoman The Google guitar doodle marking Les Paul's birthday last week cost the world £166million in desperate productivity. The late guitar pioneer was celebrated on what would have been his 96th birthday with his own playable doodle. Les Paul doodle cost great $268 millionGoogle's Les Paul Doodle Costs the World $268 MillionGoogle Les Paul doodle outlay 5.3m hours in lost productivity - -all 38 news articles »
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Cutting The Cord: WildChords Brings Guitar Hero To Real Guitars On The iPad
Washington Post - Jun 17, 2011
So, to contend this drop-out problem, Ovelin, an early-stage startup from Finland has built a game for the iPad called WildChords that aims to make a fun way for beginners to learn guitar so that they can get over those early humps and go on to The WildChords iPad app will help you learn guitarall 3 news articles »
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Irishman sets guitar-playing record
Irish Times - Jun 17, 2011
Dublin musician Dave Browne's incredible record for the longest continuous guitar-playing session was met with scenes of jubilation at The Temple Bar pub in Dublin this morning, and palpable release from his bleary-eyed support team and staff at the bar. Dubliner breaks guitar world recordDubliner guitar hero breaks jamming era recordDave Browne breaks the Guinness World Record!all 5 news articles »
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Now, the Guitar Gently Weeps for Its Owner
New York Times (blog) - Jun 16, 2011
Designate Vaccacio, a lanky guitar player from Yonkers who spent most of his adult life as either John Lennon or George Harrison in excise bands playing in “Beatlemania” on Broadway, at Shea Stadium and in Caribbean bars and social gathering boats, died on Wednesday. and more »
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Air Guitar Championships -- Shredding with the Stars!
TMZ.com - Jun 16, 2011
ESPNThe greatest try musicians in all the land gathered in NYC yesterday for the 2011 Air Guitar Championships -- and what they lacked in instruments, they made up for in CRAZY!!!! With model power moves like the famous drop to the knees, Feelin' it at the Air Guitar Championships in NYCall 2 rumour articles »
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Looking back at guitar great Lonnie Johnson
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Jun 17, 2011
Evening StandardJohnson was a very authoritative guitar player, working in jazz and blues, recroding early in his career with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In 1927, Johnson recorded in Chicago as a lodger artist with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, Does London's first BluesFest signal a revival of the devil's music?all 2 hearsay articles »
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Paisley's show gets bigger each year
Cincinnati.com - Jun 17, 2011
Paisley's show gets bigger each yearWell-established as one of the smarter songwriters, improve guitar players and nicer guys in mainstream country music, Brad Paisley is a surefire summer get. His trip through Riverbend Thursday was not unlike visits in previous years: a set of 22 songs and more »
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Remembering a Pioneer of Folk Music and Blues
New York Times - Jun 17, 2011
Bob Riesman, at the Old Burgh School of Folk Music, holds a guitar that belonged to the blues musician Big Bill Broonzy. A nonprofit, nonpartisan talk organization providing local coverage of Chicago and the surrounding area for The . and more »
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Around the Town: Grand Canyon Guitar Society hosts quartet concert tonight
Arizona Daily Sun - Jun 17, 2011
Dignified Canyon Guitar Society will host a special concert by Helios Guitar Quartet today. Helios Guitar Quartet is a minor guitar quartet visiting from USC. They will perform Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier." The concert begins at 8 pm at the Coconino
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Guitar Hero Duane Eddy Returns with Album and Dates
Gibson - Jun 17, 2011
ClashMusic.comThe majesty of the twang guitar spoke about how he got that unique sound back in the day: “We didn't have an echo chamber. Before I started we all went down to Cautiously River and we found a 2000-gallon water tank that echoed. The studio owner bought it and Guitar Legend Duane Swirl on First Album in Twenty Four YearsDuane Eddy: Road Trip – reviewDuane Eddy One Off London Showall 6 dirt articles »
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