Dan McAvinchey
A real focus on music without vocals
3,295 of these recordings are instrumental, which is what happens when you spend twenty years running a guitar label. 69,329 tracks in total, about 5,218 hours.
1991's On The Prowl was the last Loudness album to feature American vocalist Mike Vescera. Metal-Reviews.com writes about the release, "While listening to the opening track of this release one gets the impression that Loudness has moved towards overly mainstream, glam-like feel. However, that isβ¦
Mosaics and sculptures, built out of bricks
They go up on Instagram as they are finished, which shows them well enough but has never been able to sort them. Every one is now sorted by subject. Where a piece began with someone else's artwork, that artist is credited.
Every film, and the threads between them
Cast, directors, keywords, genres and awards, all cross-linked β so a film leads to a person, and a person leads to five more films.
Counted one season at a time
21,172 episodes across 1,208 seasons, with every guest appearance recorded. Owning four seasons of six is not owning the show, so the record says which four.
Concerts, mostly, and then everything else
History, the natural world, and a great deal of live music. Kept separate from the films because they get browsed for subject, not for story.
Live - Unforgiven World Tour is a recording taken from three great performances at The Edge in Palo Alto, California. All classic Michael Schenker can be found packed onto this 2 CD set. Featured are his stunning instrumentals ("Captain Nemo", "Into The Arena", "Essense" "Bijou Pleasurette")β¦
The Power of Nine
A relentless armada of guitars, effects and other gear, marshaled into strict legions of nine. Every collection carries an unrequested title and a highly questionable explanation.
A working library, pulled from the magazines
4,457 pages from Guitar Player, Keyboard, Electronic Musician and eleven others. Technique, recording and production β kept since the eighties to work from, and now indexed so going back to them is possible.
Emptied, kept, relentlessly stacked
All of them have been built into 58 unique pyramids, which are cataloged as well β because structural engineering is nothing without proper documentation.
When learning something meant buying a disc
Guitar, bass, drums, recording, production. Most of it was never reissued in any other form.
The year 2000 marks the thirty-fifth year in the career of Finnish guitarist Jukka Tolonen. On The Rocky Road is a retrospective collection aiming to provide an overview as well as to highlight some of Jukka's best work. Throughout the years, Jukka has performed and recorded music of many stylesβ¦
Reconstructed from stubs and programs
Shows, games and nights out, worked back from whatever came home in a pocket. The paper was the only record, so the paper became the record.
A reading log, not a shelf
What was read, when it was finished, and where the copy currently is β which matters when family keeps borrowing them and forgetting.
Six issues a year, for twenty-five years
Started in 1996 as an online magazine and a small record label. 150 issues in all β technique, recording, songwriting, live performance and the business of it. Still up, still a reference.
guitar9.com ↗
390,000 sports cards, in color
What started with a fifteen-cent weekly allowance and a love of five-cent packs is now a site of its own, with a collecting community around it. It outgrew this one a long time ago.
cardcybermuseum.com ↗