Great guitar music: Gretchen Menn again

Hot diggity. Here's another. This song also has a recognizable Steve Morse sound, but her tone and picking style also recall Eric Johnson.

Kind of a weird video, though.

Great guitar music: Gretchen Menn

Sure, most of the modern day female guitar player buzz surrounds Australia's Orianthi, but I'll rather listen to Gretchen Menn any day of the week.

Here's Menn playing "Oleo Strut" from her debut recording called "Hale Souls":



I'd say the style reminds of Steve Morse on this one.

Hey, that Stu Hamm's no slouch on bass, eh?

Cars reunion? Works for me

Some preliminary reviews are calling this stuff "boring" or saying the band hasn't grown or developed. Horse hockey! The music isn't boring. It's vibrant rock & roll written the way rock & roll was intended: crammed with hooks and tied together with barely-comprehensible lyrics. The Cars have figured out what so many bands with a very long history so often forget: It's the simplicity in rock music that provides much of its appeal. And I say that as one who's into complex music as from the Dixie Dregs and Dream Theater. When you've got a great guitar riff played with energy you've got the makings of the great song (Tom Petty take note).

The Cars look like they've still got it.

Guthrie Govan: Ner Ner

This guy can flat out play.

Other takes on Star Wars

These are old, but I'm posting them here anyway because it makes it easier to find them again. Really.

Toy Matinee: Last Plane Out (video)

Yeah, it's kind of old. But this little-known group from the 1990s is worth remembering.

Two Pound Planet

How stoked am I to hear unreleased tunes from an awesome and way underappreciated band from the early 1990s?

Cats in IKEA

Hulu: Tiffany discusses her role in "Mega Piranha"