Blues has influenced numerous styles of music, with everything from jazz, to early rock and metal being saturated with the depth of its influence.
Read More: Perusin’ the Blues by Guitar Virtuoso – Duri Dhansay
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The annual Herschel unplugged competition, was held on Friday 13 April, at The Knead Restaurant at Palmyra Junction. Twelve, rather nervous, but excited students, performed covers and originals on guitar and vocals, to a very partisan appreciative audience. 
Jim Marshall, the Father of Loud has passed away. He was born on July 29, 1923 in London, England and died on April 5, 2012. He was a pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification continues to produce amplifiers with an iconic status. 
More than a 100 Magazines, all over the world, voted for the best musical instruments and audio equipment of 2011 and 2012, in more than 40 categories. 
Travelling down the Main Road, from Somerset West, there are a few visible landmarks to look out for. Most notably, has always been the Checkers Centre. With the recent addition of window signage, Paul Bothner Music is fast becoming the newly recognized landmark. The shop itself, is not only the place to go, for all your musical instrument needs and queries, but also a hub or for musicians to visit and casually trade ideas and knowledge. 
The Boss Tone Room gives you access to over 100 famous guitar tones – from Jimmi Hendrix to The Eagles. Twenty Five of these gripping guitar tones are FREE to download directly from the Tone Room… 
The beauty of an RCS card is that you can use it at any RCS retailer countrywide, giving you over 15,000 shops to choose from. Whenever you need a Personal Loan, look no further than RCS. Loan applications are processed with minimal hassle, paperwork and stress. From R1000 to R100 000… 
Duri is a Cape Town based acoustic and electric guitarist, bassist and musician with a focus on varying styles, including Classical, Rock, Arabic, Funk, Avant-garde, Metal, Slide, Jazz, Blues, and Flamenco amongst others. He’s done countless collaborations, including working with SAMA nominated classical guitar legend JAMES GRACE, and more recently, the ambient/rock entity CRIMSONSHIMMER. Besides studying classical guitar at UCT he’s a proficient bassist and has dabbled in Keyboards, Drums, Harmonica, Mandolin, the eastern Oud and more. Duri was awarded the title of fastest guitarist at the ‘Fretboard Frenzy’ competition. He’s also an avid player of 8 string electric guitar. 
Recently we had the opportunity to showcase our state-of-the-art-gear at the annual COPA Industry Day.The basic idea of the COPA Industry Day, is to expose the students to the music industry – where they have a chance to ask questions about what we do and to showcase the latest gear. 
Every year, Paul Bothner Music sponsors a UCT Music Student who shows great promise as a performance artist. This year’s glowing winner is the prodigious David Male, the hot new talent who plays in the style of masters such as Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall. His prize, a R10 000 voucher from Paul Bothner Music. 
Cort Guitars announced today their new relationship with In Flames’ frontman Anders Friden. While in the studio last year, preparing to write new material, Friden reviewed the acoustic guitar line from Cort and selected the AS E5 and AS S5 models stating “When I am in the studio working on new songs and ideas, I will always rely on my Cort acoustics”. 
“Whether you play the guitar or the recorder, whether you’re a beginner or advanced, there’s no escaping one fact: as a musician, you can forget about death and taxes, practice comes first.” Duri Dhansay is one of our ‘Fastest Guitarist’ contest winners, officially called the Paul Bothner Music Fretboard Frenzy Competition. He clocked in a blinding victory, corroborated by his highly accurate, equally blinding speed in the branch level contest. He’s also a UCT graduate, composer, multi-instrumentalist, columnist and guitar teacher. 
From 1974 through 1989 Max would become part of one of the most popular musical forces in the nation: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Numerous albums and more than a few hits later Bruce broke up the band and Max found his way onto television as the bandleader and drummer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien. 
Gene Simmons Accepts No Substitute: There is no one mightier than the God of Thunder himself, Gene Simmons. Check out the latest promotional videos coming out in 2012. Both videos feature the rock star himself telling you exactly why you need to own his signature model basses. Gene accepts no substitute. Should you? 
New features: True stereo inputs and outputs; up to three hours onboard stereo recording & loop storage… a marked upgrade to its predecessor’s mono I/O & 16 minutes of mono recording. The RC-30 has a new dual phrase loop feature that lets users create and play 2 independent stereo loop phrases in sync. The LOOP FX feature lets users process their loop recordings in real time, plus 99 memories for onboard loop storage and an LED memory indicator. Plus, a USB 2.0 port lets users swap and manage WAV audio loops. Phantom Power for condenser mics and onboard rhythms to play along to… |
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