GuitarMania Celebrates First Anniversary

Hard to believe that already a year has passed since we kicked off with GuitarMania on 22 January 2013. One year ago, we conducted our first interview with the amazing STANLEY JORDAN at the Porgy & Bess jazz club in Vienna. It is hard to put into words how grateful we are to Stanley for this interview, particularly because we did not have much to show for at first. Images: Jerzy Bin



Since our interview with Stanley, we had the chance to talk to almost thirty incredible musicians, and explore with them their passion for music. Have a look at the artists below on who we met in 2013 (listed in reverse chronological order of publishing). And, shame on us, we still have not published all the stuff we did in the past twelve months. Not included in the list are interviews we conducted with MIKE STERN and DEAN BROWN, which will be published in the course of the forthcoming weeks.

 

Photo: Stanley Jordan performing at the Porgy & Bess on 22 Jan '13.



We would like to thank all viewers and people who liked us on Facebook, as well as all subscribers on the GuitarMania YouTube Channel for their support and feedback, and hope you keep coming back for some nerdy tech talk about guitars, basses, equipment and the personalities behind the music in 2014.

Things we have planned for the forthcoming months include a report from the Musikmesse in Frankfurt in Spring, as well as occasional columns on various guitar related topics by renowned guitarists, such as PETER ROM, HANS PLATZ, GERALD GRADWOHL, CHRIS MONTAGUE, MARKUS STEFFEN, CONRAD SCHRENK and others.

Hope you like what you are seeing and reading, and thanks to all who have contributed in the past months, including Thomas Patsch, photographer Georg Marlovics (www.georgmarlovics.com), and the fantastic Bruno Cavicchini, who just released an album "Mood Balance", which will be reviewed here soon. Thanks also to Bruno Unterberger (www.newschoolofrock.at) for hosting us in Carinthia, as well as Christoph Huber and the team of the Porgy & Bess Club, the Reigen Club, FM Service, and all the record companies.

Stay tuned for more stuff to come, including interviews with John Petrucci from DREAM THEATER, Andreas Kisser from SEPULTURA, WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL, or the great JOHN MAYALL!

Thanks again & let us celebrate with an interview we conducted with one of Austria's best guitarists ever - CONRAD SCHRENK.

The GuitarMania Team
 

CONRAD SCHRENK



SCOTT HENDERSON and JEFF BERLIN - HBC Interview



ANA POPOVIC


http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/140-ana-popovic-interview.html

ERIC GALES



DEVILDRIVER - Jeff Kendrick and Mike Spreitzer


DEATH ANGEL - Rob Cavestany


CHILDREN OF BODOM - Alexi Laiho



HANS PLATZ



http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/121-hans-platz-timestamps-interview.html



SKILLET - John Cooper



ROM SCHAERER EBERLE - Peter Rom


http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/108-peter-rom-rom-schaerer-eberle-interview.html



JOE SATRIANI



STEVE HACKETT



ANDY TIMMONS



GUTHRIE GOVAN



http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/79-interview-with-guthrie-govan-release-of-culture-clash.html



LEE RITENOUR



ERIC SARDINAS



GERALD GRADWOHL


http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/59-gerald-gradwohl-big-land-interview.html


TROYKA - Chris Montague



http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/57-interview-with-troyka-guitarist-c-montague-may-2013.html


PAUL GILBERT


http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/55-interview-with-paul-gilbert-march-2013.html



STEVE LUKATHER



GREG HOWE



http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/47-interview-with-greg-howe-new-band-maragold.html


ALEX MACHACEK



http://guitarmania.eu/index.php/interviews/38-interview-austrian-jazz-fusion-artist-a-machacek.html


LIVING COLOUR - Vernon Reid


SELIG -  Christian Neander and Leo Schmidthals



TM STEVENS



STANLEY JORDAN