Chuck Berry October 31, 1952, pianist Johnnie Johnson hired Chuck Berry as a guitarist in his band. Berry kept his day job as a hairdresser for the next three years. The Quarrymen The Quarry Men changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs this day, in 1959. The band was in Liverpool auditioning for the…

Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars. His music is hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. In this lesson, we look at a 3-String Sweeping Arpeggio in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen that modulates from…

On Oct 13th, 1965, The Who recorded “My Generation”, at Pye Studios, London. It reached No.2 on the UK chart. Roger Daltrey would later say that he stuttered the lyrics to fit them to the music. The BBC in the UK refused to play the song because it did not want to offend people who…

On October 26, 2004, Apple introduced the U2 Special Edition iPod as part of a cooperative between Apple, U2, and Universal Music Group. The new U2 iPod held up to 5,000 songs and featured a red Click Wheel and custom engraving of U2 band member signatures. The iPod was being introduced as the band dropped their current album How to Dismantle an…

Amy Winehouse released Back in Black on this day in 2006. The album won the Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK’s second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies….

TGIF October 23 Trivia The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single ‘Hey Joe’ on October 23, 1966, at De Lane Lea studios in London. The earliest known commercial recording of the song is the late-1965 single by the Los Angeles garage band The Leaves. The Stones then re-recorded the track and released it in 1966…

In this lesson, we will learn the pedaltone used exclusively by Yngwie Malmsteen. He learned this listening to Bach’s ‘Violin Concerto’s’. To view the lesson, click here. Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. His music is hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by…

In 1996, they announced that “The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles”. They based the statement on sales in 1996, having sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of The Beatles Anthology 1 and The Beatles Anthology 2. The thought was the release of The Beatles Anthology…

http://media.artistfirst.com/ArtistFirst_Terry_Lovelace_2019-04-16_Kevin_Estrella.mp3 Kevin is the guitarist and composer of the instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. Hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. Kevin has always had a passion for and has spent over twenty years researching to understand why they are…

Last Time on Stage Before His Death Keith Moon was on stage for the last time with playing his last show with The Who tonight in 1976. It was the end of a North American tour. The band played at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto. Keith Moon died of a drug overdose, by a drug to…