LCG-140-20120218.mp3

Hello,

I am happy to present you with an interview of Tony Macalpine, one of the not-so-numerous survivor of the 80s shredder era. He has a very rich career so far and his latest album rocks big time.

If you are into metal and high class guitar playing, you will sure enjoy Tony’s work.

Extracts played before the interview:

• Blue Maserati
• Dream Mechanism
• Ölüdeniz
• Flowers For Monday

If you are in the Paris, France area, Tony will play March 21st at Le Divan du Monde. All the tour dates are in the Tours page of his website.

Enjoy,

Pierre.

LCG-136-20120119.mp3 (39min 27s)

Hello,

Philip Sayce (aka @philipsayce on Twitter) is a very prolific and talented singer and guitar player, here he is with another very powerful album called Steamroller (Release date: February 27th 2012).

To speak about it we did a Skype interview just last week so, hot from the press if I can say, here is the second interview of Philip on The Guitar Channel (the first one is in episode #058).

Steamroller extracts played before the interview:

• Steamroller
• Black Train

Enjoy,

Pierre.

LCG-132-20111219.mp3

Hello,

For the second time I had the pleasure to meet and interview Bjorn Berge the great norwegian guitar player. The first time was last year in episode 78. The guy can be pretty intimidating but he is very cool and extremely nice.

I was at his New Morning show the night before we did the interview, he gave a superb show. The place was packed and the crowd very responsive to Bjorn. I highly recommend seeing him on stage, he rocks BIG time with “only” his 12 string guitars.

Here he is now with his latest CD called Blackwood.

Extracts played before the interview:

• Blackwood
• Woodstock
• Sick’N Tired
• Blues For One

Enjoy,

Pierre.

LCG-127-20111111.mp3

Hello,

I met Eric McFadden when he was in Paris for a couple of shows as well as promoting his latest album “Bluebird On Fire”. He has a great voice, knows his way around a guitar and has a very wide range of styles he masters, from rock to deep roots blues to more funky stuff as well as more melancholic music.

It was a pleasure to discuss with him, check out his music or his show if you live nearby.

www.EricMcFadden.com

Concert dates:

15/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
16/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
17/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
18/11 - Mantes La Jolie - Blues Sur Seine
19/11 - Roanne - Papillon Bleu
20/11 - Ensisheim - Caf’ Conc’
22/11 - Ensisheim - Caf’ Conc’
25/11 - Blois - Maison de Begon

Bonne écoute,

Pierre.

Hello,

After the interview published in episode #124, here is the video of “Pound Of Flesh” song from the lasted Popa Chubby album ”Back To New-York City”.

Once more, Nicolas Esposito de Rendez-Vous Création has done a great job to capture on video this moment. Thanks A TON Nicolas.

Here a few pictures taken during the session:

Pierre.

LCG-124-20111023.mp3

Hello,

For the 2nd time (see #81 for the 1st interview), I had the pleasure to interview Popa Chubby as he was in paris to promote his latest album Back To New York City. After the interview we did a video recording of the song Pound Of Flesh you will see in next week episode.

Picture: Nicolas Esposito (http://rendezvouscreation.org)

Meeting and interviewing Popa is always some kind of adventure, this time we were supposed to to the interview in a radio studio but during the show he broke two strings so we had to go back to the hotel to get some new strings. We ended up doing the interview in the basement of his hotel in the gym room!

Extracts from Back To New York City played before the interview:

• Pound Of Flesh
• Back To New-York City
• A Love That Will Not Die
• She Made Me Beg For It.

Don’t forget to check out next week episode with the video recording of Pound Of Flesh!

Happy listening,

Pierre.

PS: Popa will play the Olympia on November 20th with Walter Trout.

LCG-122-20111007.mp3

Hello,

Do you have any idea how it feels to get to interview such a guitar legend a Mr Leslie West?? Maybe be Mr West is not THAT famous among younger guitar players but he is cited as an influence by many people.

I had a blast discovering his latest CD “Unusual Suspects” which is full of georgous guitar tones with an incredible range of guitar guests:

• Billy F Gibbons
• Slah
• Zakk Wylde
• Steve Lukather
• Joe Bonamassa

I hope you will enjoy the interview I did with him on the phone.

Extracts:

• Standing On A Higher Ground
• Third Degree
• I Feel Fine
• My Gravity

Happy listening,

Pierre.

Hello,

Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music (metalichicka.wordpress.com) of the Popa Chubby interview I did back in episode #81.

Good reading,

Pierre.

Hello,

Here is a transcription by Jenn at Random Chatter Music (metalichicka.wordpress.com) of the Bjorn Berge interview I did back in episode #78.

Good reading,

Pierre.

LCG-113-20110719.mp3

Hello,

For the first time ever, a guitar player from Central America on show, please meet Hedras Ramos from Guatemala!

This musician is only 19 but is showing a musical maturity way beyond his age. His latest album (no, it is not his first CD, it’s the third one!) “Atoms And Space” is a great CD I took a lot of pleasure to discover. For sure Hedras is only getting started.

Extracts played from the album “Atoms And Space”:

• Glorious War
• Virtual Tangles
• Stars and Comets
• Atoms of Distortion

Links:

• www.hedrasramos.com
• www.reverbnation.com/hedrasramos
• www.youtube.com/hedrasramoslive
• www.facebook.com/hedrasramoslive
• www.roland.co.uk/bosscomp/

Enjoy,

Pierre.

Hello,

Here is a video soundseeing of my beautiful Rittenhouse Telecaster (www.rittenhouseguitars.com).

The whole Rittenhouse Telecaster Story of this guitar is there in 5 parts:

• Part 5
• Part 4
• Part 3
• Part 2
• Part 1

If you want sone more there is another video in french here: www.lachaineguitare.com/2011/02/lcg-093-video-rittenhouse-telecaster.html and also an audio only episode with a soundseeing of the same guitar here: www.lachaineguitare.com/2011/02/lcg-094-guitar-soundseeing-telecaster.html

Enjoy,

Pierre.

LCG-107-20110602.mp3

Hello,

For this episode #107 I have very happy to have Jon Herington with me on the show. I really enjoyed his album Shine (Shine Shine) which is an excellent mix of Rock, Soul and Blues at the same time.

Extracts played in the show:

• Aveline
• Everything
• Harsh Light
• Say You’ll Stay

Links:

• www.jonherington.com
• facebook.com/JonHerington
• twitter.com/HeringtonBand

Happy listening,

Pierre.

Hello,

Mini-interview with Paul Reed Smith done at the 2011 MusikMesse 2011 on Friday April 8th.

After that there is some image of the PRS booth then extracts from the mini-concerts with Orianthi, David Grissom, Davy Knowles and PRS himself.

Enjoy,

Pierre.

Hello,

Here is the full written transcription of the Paul Gilbert interview you can listen to on episode 88.

Thanks again to my usual transcriptor (is that a word?? Not sure… ) who did all the hard work of putting the audio into words: Jenn (@jennfeather) at Random Chatter Music (metalichicka.wordpress.com).

Happy reading,

Pierre.

MP3 file: LCG #087 – Paul Gilbert interview

Hello,

For the second time I had the great pleasure to interview the very tall Paul Gilbert while he was in Paris finishing his 40 date solo tour to promote his own album “Fuzz Universe”.

Last time I met the guy was last year when he was touring with MrBig, the interview is on episode #26 with the written transcription in PDF in episode #22b.

During the interview I asked questions on “Fuzz Universe” but also on “What If…” the next MrBig record which will be released in Europe early 2011.

Great shot of Paul by Nidhal Marzouk (www.yog-photography.com) during the Trabendo show in Paris on December 19th:

Extracts heard by order of appearance:

• Olympic (Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe)
• Mantra The Lawn (Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe)
• Bach Partita In Dm (Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe)
• American Beauty (MrBig – What If…)
• Around The World (MrBig – What If…)
• Unforgiven (MrBig – What If…)

Happy listening,

Pierre.

On a glorious 2011 january morning, here it was, the parcel coming from Florida with the precious Rittenhouse Telecaster inside!

First impressions:

• The guitar is very light, I need to weight it precisely but I am pretty sure it is the lightest guitar I have
• The relicing job is very well done. It looks and feels old. All my colleagues at work (where I got it shipped) asked me how old was the guitar!
• Acoustically it is loud and very resonant.
• The neck is huge, when Abe Rittenhouse says chunky, he MEANS chunky!! You need time to get used to it but I love it.

Here are some pictures of this baby:

Stay tuned for an upcoming video and audio review of what is now my very personnal Micawber Telecaster replica (even though there is no humbucker in the neck position, it is still the inspiration).

Past stories on this:

• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 4
• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 3
• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 2
• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 1

Pierre.

Well, it seems that my Rittenhouse (rittenhouseguitars.com) Telecaster is finished! Abe just needs to string and ship it my way.

Here is a picture update:

Past stories on this:

• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 3
• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 2
• The Rittenhouse Telecaster Story – Part 1

Can’t wait to get my hands on this baby!

Pierre.

Hello,

Popa Chubby is a New-York born guitar player which is pretty famous in France, I had the pleasure to interview him just before he played the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.

As usual, before the intervie you will hear some extracts from his latest album “The Fight Is On”:

• The Fight Is On
• We Got Some Rocking To Do
• The Right Time
• Steelhorse Serenade

MP3 file: LCG-078-20101021.mp3

Hello,

Here is a great acoustic norwegian guitar player in this episode. I had the pleasure to meet Bjorn Berge while he was in Paris for a couple of shows.

I saw him play for the Dixiefrog label party in Le Bataclan, it is quite something to see and hear this giant play for a packed house, he knows how to set the audience on fire.

Happy listening,