Dan McAvinchey
A real focus on music without vocals
3,299 of these recordings are instrumental, which is what happens when you spend twenty years running a guitar label. 69,369 tracks in total, about 5,221 hours.
Trapped is French guitarist Julien Damotte's progressive metal concept album full of contrasts and influences. Entirely composed and recorded by the Damotte (from the band Madonagun), this album is also a true human adventure that every guest musician featured has helped to shape. Gus Monsanto…
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 — so a film leads to a person, and a person leads to five more films.
Counted one season at a time
20,861 episodes across 1,184 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.
Guitar Zeus 2001 is the successor to the first Guitar Zeus CD, this time around bringing the talents of Zakk Wilde, Stevie Salas, Warren DeMartini, Ty Tabor, Paul Gilbert, Ted Nugent, Dweezil Zappa, Vivian Campbell and Neal Schon, just to name a few. Led by the core band of Carmine Appice (drums)…
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 — 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 — 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.
Laying down the grooves abnormally thick in the traditions of his teachers, Jaco, Stanley and Bootsy, Doug Johns believes in soul. "You are not gonna believe this," is most people's reaction to this debut CD. It's layered with fat horns in the tradition of "Tower of Power" as well as stripped down…
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 — 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 — 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 ↗