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The World’s First Guitarist TV Channel

September 2009

Guitarist TVMusic & Video Magazine

Steve Vai

Joe Satriani

G-TV Film at the London International Music Show

The Historic 2006 Interview

Rich SeversonJazz Guitar Master Classes

Lick LibraryLearn to Play the easy way!

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Phil Hilborne

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The Guvnor..a perfect host!The 14th June 2009 was indeed a special day for the small Guitarist TV crew.

Our assignment was to film as many guitarists as we could in our allocated 12 hour slot at the London International Music Show.

Cameraman Adam Mann, a recent grad-uate of Northampton University, joined our squad in 2008 and has worked with me on location many times, the most memorable being the Joe Satriani shoot in 2008 at the Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Pete Caldwell, a dear friend and guitarist joined us as presenter and looked after the interviews. Pete interviewed Joe Satriani at the historic launch of Guitarist TV in June 2006.

My journey to London started at 6am from Winchester, Pete’s from Cambridge and Adam from Nothampton. We met at the Excel at 9am and had a cup of coffee in the press room. Our host at the Excel was A&R Marketing’s David Phillips.

After a quick walk around of the exhibi-tion we decided that I would set up the

crane in the live concert hall, Adam went walkabout with his Panasonic cam, film-ing musicians and bands performing in various parts of the venue.

Pete hooked up with Adam to interview Jan Akkerman, Gareth Pearson and Albert Lee.

First up on the live stage were various drummers including IRON MAIDEN drummer Nick McBrain.

Jan Akkerman took to the stage and per-formed a blinding acoustic set. He then introduced a young Welshman, Gareth Pearson who proceeded to blow us all away with his acoustic set.

Just when we thought our jaws couldn’t drop any further, Jan joined Gareth on stage for the most incredible acoustic finale I have ever seen.

The duo performed Jan’s classic track Hocus Pocus. If I had come away having only filmed that performance, I would have been a happy man.

Outstanding to say the least.

Albert Lee and his band, Hogans Heros

played a great set, Albert’s playing has to be seen to be believed. His is a true country rock guitarist legend and his band of polished musicians enhance what he does to the max.

Finally, Phil Hilborne appeared with an extreme lineup including Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

Phil Hilborne has a list of accomplish-ments in the industry us mere mortals could only achieve in a few lifetimes.

For the crew, it was the performance we had been waiting for and we were not disappointed.

Filming it live with a single HD cam perched precariously at the top of an eight foot crane was tough enough, but adding to the stress level was the fact that I knew I only had one chance to do this.

Filming the world’s greatest guitarists usually means this is a one off gig and the chances of doing it again could be few and far between.

Phil was the perfect host for the ex-clusive lineup of guest guitarists that followed his opening set. First up, gui-tarist Jamie Humphries followed by the ultimate guitarist’s guitarist, Steve Vai.

Phil was the perfect rock n roll gentle-man (if there can be such a thing) inter-acting with the maestro at every level, yet giving Steve the space to do what he does best...make that white Ibanez Jem sing, shred, wail, growl while his fingers dance on the fretboard like a prima ballerina.

The band was superb, hearing Steve play with Brit musos was really cool. The band had an edge which comes from a deep embedded tradition of classic Brit rock...an album with the same lineup?

Not likely but something to think about...considering it’s never been done before.)

Joe SatrianiAfter recording my first CD in Wolverhampton entitled DREAM in 2001, the next logical step was to have a web-site to sell it on. Know-

ing absolutely nothing about web design or how the internet actually worked was a problem that had to be overcome.

Finding an isp that had a magical web app that could do it all for me was a real bless-ing, and so www.mikedejager.co.uk be-came the testing ground for most of what I do today.

The website helped me sell a few units of the DREAM CD but it was my work with Guitarist magazine contributor Adrian Clark that really inspired me write more songs which were really only meant as my contribution the Guitarist Collective.

Where there’s a song...there should be a video! That became the driving force be-hind what eventually became the website www.MpegUK.com.

The video camera I owned was a Panasonic G5 in 2001 and I began to experiment with video on the internet using Real & Windows Media is almost every conceiv-able format.

Flash has been around since 1996 but it wasn’t until I had done the course at Halle-sowen College, Stourbridge in 2003, that I began to understand see the possibilities of publishing secure streaming video on the internet.

Brightcove came along in 2004 and I signed up for the free Beta version which hosted my rather clumsy video produc-tions. Brightcove grew from strength to strength and by 2005 the embedded video players on the my websites were fantastic.

Somehow I managed to talk my lovely wife Karen into letting me spend £1900.00 on a brand new Canon XLS1 camcorder in 2005 and that was the

real turning point in the quality of my video work.

I spent a lot of my time on weekends film-ing rugby games at Stourbridge Rugby Club in the freezing cold. The experience gained however, was to stand me in good stead in the year that followed.

My first ‘piece de camera’ was directed by Karen and that was when I realised that hey, I am enjoying doing this and really have a good time doing it.

Messing around on the internet one evening, check for silly url names, I tried www.Gui-taristTV.com and to my astonishment, no-body owned it...and so Guitarist TV was born.

Mick Brigden, Joe Satriani’s visionary direc-tor gave me the green light for the interview at the Birmingham Symphony Hall in June 2006 and that was when the panic set it. For-tunately a friend of mine, Philippa Hughes had just finished her media studies degree at Uni and she agreed to help with the direc-

tion, lighting and the 2nd cam and my dear friend Pete Caldwell got roped into doing the interview...being an Oxford man and a mean guitarist himself, he was perfect for the job.

On the day, I was there at 11am, carry-ing my gear into the main hall where I was politely told that a room on the 4th floor had been allocated for the interview and so, I humped the gear up far to many flights of stairs and began the process of setting up the room for the shoot.

Pete and Phillipa arrived in the afternoon and at 5pm Joe entered the room.

My heart was racing as I silently prayed nothing would go wrong. Pete was su-perb, he was relaxed and looked like he had been doing this for years. He had a great repore with Joe and certainly on an intellectual level, they were both very much on a par.

During the interview Pete mentioned to Joe that he was the first ever guitarist to be interviewed on Guitarist TV and Joe graciously wished us well on our maiden voyage.

Officially, Guitarist TV was on it’s way and from that moment I knew that no matter what, Guitarist TV will be with future generations forever.

Joe invited us to film three songs during the show which was indeed an honour and an unbelievable privilege.

We thank Joe and Mick for an unforget-table experience and for their blessing which has helped make Guitarist TV the world’s first guitarist TV channel.

The Historic Interview of 2006

Guitar College on G-TV

Originally from the L.A. area, Rich Sev-erson has been playing professionally and teaching guitar for over 30 years. His education includes college as well as countless years of private instruction with a variety teachers including Mitch Holder, Ted Greene, Joe Pass, Charlie Shoemake, to name a few. He feels edu-cation is a continuing process, there’s always more to learn. Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Howard Roberts, Ted Greene and Larry Carleton have all influenced his playing.

Rich wrote three books for a major publisher, Dale Zdenek/ Belwin Mills/Co-lumbia, and in house for the publisher, providing him the opportunity to work with other great guitar artist/authors like Tommy Tedesco, Joe Diario and Ted Greene. Rich taught at GIT/Musicians Institute, in Hollywood, CA, for three years, then in 1989 began developing and publishing his own home study, guitar school curriculum still available today on his website www.GuitarCol-lege.com. This program has helped over 10,000 students worldwide to improve their playing and increase their musical knowledge.

Rich won honorable mentions and awards in songwriting and served as president of the Ventura County Pro-ducers and Songwriters Guild. While touring for three years with “Dick Clarks Good Old Rock and Roll Show” he had the opportunity to perform with Bo Did-

dley, Chuck Berry, Little Anthony, Chris Montez and many other great, old time rock and rollers. After moving his family the Fresno area he taught guitar and directed the jazz band at Fresno Pacific University for 2 years.

Being a well-rounded player, Rich is comfortable playing a variety of styles including jazz (his style of choice), blues, rock, fusion, country and solo finger-style. He performs at local venues in a number of different scenarios; as a solo guitarist, with his jazz trio or quartet or smooth jazz quintet, with an eleven piece cover group as well a big band orchestra.

At home in his studio he is continually producing new lessons for GuitarCol-lege.com. In addition he hosts and publishes the Guitar College Video Magazine, an entertaining and instruc-tional, 90 minute DVD, featuring player interviews, performances, guitar events, product demos and multiple lessons in an array of styles. Rich also writes an article regularly for Christian Musician Magazine and contributes to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine,

For over fifteen years Rich has been playing guitar in church, serving as the musical director and guitarist at Northside Christian Church since 2003. Rich is committed to raising the level of musicianship in the Christian church today. He travels throughout the U.S. and Canada instructing and playing at variety of Christian worship conferences, workshops and seminars. Rich is also endorsed by Hofner Guitars which takes him around the country to guitar shows, workshops and clinics. He also hosts an annual Guitar College Jazz Workshop in the Yosemite area.

You can contact Rich at rich@guitarcol-lege.com or 559-642-2597.

The O2 Gibson at the BME

The Gibson Interactive Studio is a fully in-tegrated and exciting addition within the BME offering visitors an opportunity to play on various Gibson and Epiphone elec-tric guitars, Slingerland drums and Baldwin digital pianos. Visitors will be given step-by-step video tuition featuring artists such as KT Tunstall, Sir Paul McCartney and Amy Macdonald’s best known tracks with content supplied by award-winning website Nowplayit.com. The Gibson Interactive Stu-dio will also house a vocal booth sponsored by Sennheiser to add to the educational ex-perience. The Gibson Interactive Studio is proudly supported by Gibson Guitar, the world’s leading guitar company and pioneers in music education.

Gibson Guitar is the world’s premier musical instrument maker and leader in music tech-nology with over 120 years as the industry’s finest manufacturer of quality instruments. Gibson Guitar is headquartered in Nash-ville, Tennessee. The company is known worldwide for delivering unrivalled prestige, quality, innovation and above all playability in every instrument produced. Baldwin Pi-ano, the world’s most popular piano is also a member of the Gibson family of brands and offers musicians the opportunity to per-form on handcrafted pianos produced with the latest technology and unique customised designs.

Gibson Guitar’s many Iconic guitars include the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, Gibson Flying-V, Gibson J-45, Gibson J-200, Gib-son Hummingbird, Gibson ES-335, Gib-son Explorer and the Gibson Robot guitar. The 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard now celebrating its 50th Anniversary is a design classic and the world’s most iconic guitar, played by legendary artists such as Jimmy Page, Slash, Noel Gallagher, Sir Paul Mc-Cartney, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Lenny Kravitz, Bob Marley, U2’s The Edge and the inventor of the solid body electric guitar himself, Les Paul.

Gibson Guitar continues to stay on the cut-ting edge of innovation, developing new product lines and technologies.

Hosted by Rich Severson

GDBTV

Guitarist TV Rocks Up Its Broadcast Reach With Global IPTV Platform

DATE (Brighton, UK): The world’s

first premier broad-band, multi-genre guitarist channel, Guitarist TV (G-TV), rocks up its broadcast reach by signing with leading inter-national IPTV specialist, Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV). Guitarist TV was founded by professional South African guitarist Mike de Jager, who is spon-sored by Marshall Amps (UK) and Moser Custom Guitars (USA) and has played with numerous artists including, Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden 1979/1980); Simon Lees (Budgie); Brian Tatler (Diamond Head); Simon Bradley (Guitarist Mag.); Tim Manford (Dante Fox); and Paul May (Temple Dogs / V-Rats). The channel was originally launched online in 2006 by guitar legend Joe Satriani.

Launch on the GDBTV IPTV platform, across several countries between North

America, the UK and the MiddleEast, comes after GDBTV co-founder and COO David Wray took a personal interest in Guitarist TV.

Mike explains: “David first discovered Guitarist TV on the internet while he was on business in Los Angeles and arranged for us to meet up back at his offices in Brighton, UK. There was an immediate connection when we met and it felt as

though we had known each other for years. David and I share the same vision and, as fellow guitarists, we share the same passion. Together we are creating the world’s most amazing Guitarist TV channel ... for the good of mankind!”

He continues: “IPTV is perfect for niche markets to expand to a greater demo-graphic and allows easy access to the content. Guitarist TV is built by guitarists for guitarists around the world and the GDBTV platform will enable us to reach them all.”

In addition to expand-ing its broadcast reach, Guitarist TV is also boost-

ing the channel offerings to include: broadcast of live concerts; guitar workshops, seminars, educational programmes and fun guitar weekends for beginners to advanced; promotion and PR for both major record companies and unsigned artists; G-TV radio; a G-TV magazine; hot-off-the-press news and reviews; celebrity guests; and even guitar orientated travel programmes.

Artists who have featured on the channel thus far include: Joe Satriani; Greg Howe (Michael Jackson / Justin Timeberlake); Johnny A.; Eddie Van Halen; Luke Morley and Ben Matthews (Thunder); Steve Lukather (Toto); Joe Stump (Berklee); the late Eric Roche; Neville Martin (Guitarist Mag.); Ainsley Lister; Innes Sibun and Pete Caldwell (Basement Jaxx).

The Power behind Guitarist TV

David Wray coments: “There is a huge global guitarist community in every genre imaginable. As a former guitar teacher I know how much guitarists want visual resources. This channel enables educational and, of course, information indulgence, which is straight to the heart of the players worldwide and, best of all, it’s on their TV sets.”

Guitarists who contribute content to the channel also benefit from two dedicated G-TV award events – the annual G-TV Golden Glass Awards and the Guitar-ist TV Hall of Fame. The G-TV Golden Glass Awards launched in 2007 and the award is presented to the guitarist who has made both the greatest contribu-tion to Guitarist TV and the guitar world in general. The award itself is a one off, signed, glass art piece, made by fine glass artist Vic Bamforth. The 2009 G-TV Golden Glass Awards will be expanded to include a public vote. The Guitarist TV Hall of Fame was launched in 2008 in order to respect and remember the world’s greatest guitarists and G-TV supporter Joe Satriani was commended both launch awards.

Mike comments: “Joe has graciously met with us every year and his contribution and association with us is something we treasure. He is, without doubt, the most famous instrumental guitarist of the 21st century and that is why he took these awards..”

Joe Satriani adds: “I met Mike in 2006 in Birmingham and the connection was a good one; he does great work and I am proud to be associated with him and his work on Guitarist TV. I wish Mike every success with the channel and congratu-lations for finally making it onto the GDBTV network!”

Established in 2005 and headquartered in Brighton, East Sussex, Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) provides technical services in order to enable internet protocol television (IPTV) to be delivered by broadcasters around the world, to viewers around the world. It is the first to develop and implement such a comprehensive, end-to-end, IPTV application, including the G-Studio middleware; a hybrid set-top box (STB); the online virtual set-top box (VSTB) application; secure age verification processes; and its pioneering MyPVR application, which enables the user/viewer to access previously screened programmes, including saving them in full, in addition to facilitating remote capacity.

GDBTV maintains and operates IPTV networks in America with SuncasTV, delivering Asian content across the US and globally; US based and Canal Sur run Via America, which delivers Latin and Brazilian content across the USA and Europe; Canada based IP Qube which delivers Filipino content to the US and Canada; and Something in the United Kingdom. GDBTV can deliver to 86 countries worldwide, has existing clients in over 30 countries; and territory IP-STB re-sellers positioned in Germany, Sweden, Chicago, L.A., China and Canada.

About Global Digital Broadcast

Guitarist TV goes MobilePlaying live on a mobile phone near you – some

of the world’s greatest guitarists!

Guitar freaks and music lovers can now watch and hear on their mobile phones some of the

finest musicians in the world play live, following the launch of the first mobile channel dedicated

to guitarists.

Guitarist TV has teamed up with mobile TV streaming experts Yamgo to bring live concerts and scheduled programmes from guitar heroes

right to fans’ mobiles, anywhere in the world.

Superstars of the guitar and the most technically accomplished players all feature on the new

channel, including outstanding musicians like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Dennis Stratton, Guthrie

Govan and many more.

Guitarist TV was started by Mike De Jager and launched by Joe Satriani. With commercial

operations being run by David Wray, the channel has, until now, been only available on IPTV net-

works and as an Internet TV channel. This deal with Yamgo now brings it to mobile phones.

From today it is being broadcast simultaneously on mobile phone networks worldwide, IPTV and

Internet.

Yamgo’s founder and CEO, Ian Mullins said: ‘From today millions of phone owners will be able to

enjoy guitarist TV on their phone.

‘Consumers across the world will be able to watch Guitarist TV on over 1,000 different mo-

bile devices simply by visiting Yamgo’s mobile website at http://www.yamgo.mobi/guitarist

and clicking play.

‘There is nothing extra to pay and no software to download.

‘Click the link and our software recognises the handset and network speed and delivers the

best quality stream for that particular device.

‘The solution is optimised for 3G phones but dynamically adapts to 2.5G or WiFi speeds deliv-

ering the best quality of service possible under different network conditions.

‘With millions of consumers now having almost unlimited web browsing time built into their

packages from the networks, the service can be considered free.

‘We recently broadcast the finals of the IPL Cricket Twenty/20 to mobile phones around

the world and that was a huge success, so we consider ourselves the experts in this space!’

Guitarist TV’s David Wray said ‘Mobile TV is a great way for us to increase our audience and

generate additional revenue from advertising, which will allow us to continue to grow the

great content we show!

‘We are delighted to partner with Yamgo, who have provided an end-to-end solution for mobile

TV publishing. Mobile phone represents one of the fastest growing digital platforms and we

are excited that our users will be able to watch

Guitarist TV at anytime and anywhere.’

Music is one of the most popular mobile TV categories.

Yamgo takes the Guitarist TV live TV feed – pro-vided by Global Digital Broadcast – and processes

it in its automated real-time encoding platform, which optimises the live video stream for differ-

ent networks and different phones.

About Yamgo

Yamgo was established in 2005 by mobile TV expert Ian Mullins. Yamgo was one of the early pioneers in optimising video for small screens and phone networks. It provides a service to distribute live TV and video to mobile phones. Yamgo’s technology auto-matically ingests live broadcasts and video clips and optimises the material for mobile phone networks from 2.5G to WiFi. This white-label service enables content owners to increase distribution and monetise con-tent on over 1,000 different devices, includ-ing the iPhone. Content is delivered from a mobile-optimised streaming server, which adapts the bit rate dynamically to deliver a high-quality mobile TV experience.

For more information please contact:

Ian Mullins

Tel: 0870 471 3144

Email: press@yamgo.com

www.yamgo.com

John Quinn

Tel: +44 (0)7736 149410

john@johnquinnconsult.co.uk

www.johnquinnconsult.co.uk

Lick LibraryLearning to Play the Easy Way

www.LickLibrary.com

Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out, Lick Library has something for you.

Learning to play guitar from a DVD is the easiest way to get you from zero to hero in no time at all. Long gone are the days of stopping, rewinding and then re-starting CD’s or worse, those dreadful cassette tapes that slowly but surely lost their audio qual-ity and finally ended up as spaghetti around

the mechanisms of your most expensive tape deck.

The standard and expertise of the Lick Li-brary tutors is top draw. Stuart Bull, Danny Gill and Richard Barret are working pro’s and experienced music teachers who do an outstanding job.

The carefully constructed and easy to re-member sequences will make your learning experience a really enjoyable one.

The DVD is also yours forever should you ever need to refresh your memory of tracks that maybe you have not played in a while.

The lucrative tribute band market is calling and this is the perfect way to get to grips with your favourite guitarist’s licks.

With over 200 superb DVD titles to choose from and over 300 free jam tracks to down-load, it is the world’s ultimate guitar tuition website.

Gary Moore has long been my favourite Brit guitarist, I learnt most his songs in the late 80’s during my days doing the pub circuit in Durban, South Africa.

Gary’s best ever guitar solo, in my humble opinion, was the one he did on the track Out in the Fields...Stuart Bull showed me how he did it on the latest Learn to Play Gary Moore Solos DVD!

Wicked mate, many thanks!

Mike de Jager

Editor : Mike de Jager

Email: mike@guitaristtv.comBusiness: David Wray

Email: david@guitaristtv.com

2nd Floor Ridgeland House 165 Dyke Road Brighton BN3 1TL UK Tel: +44(0)1273 774800 Email: info@guitaristtv.com