Paul Nelson
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Veteran Guitarist Goes Instrumental
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Paul Nelson, a guitarist who has done dates with dozens of national acts as a sideman and touring guitarist, submitted a five song promotional CD-R of his new, all-instrumental release, entitled Look. Documenting his command of several styles, including rock/metal ("Full Blast"), blues ("Rocking Chair") and fusion ("Complicated"), the CD-R exudes boundless energy, and displays some ferocious solo sections. Nelson has control over the emotional side of his playing as well, with a tasteful melodic sense coming through on each cut. Hopefully, Nelson will have even more time in the future to compose and record more original material like that found on Look. This guy's got something to say with his axe!
Paul grew up at a time when guitar was the instrument of choice. While attending Berklee College of Music, he became one of Steve Vai's first guitar students. Soon after he joined the band Liege Lord who then signed with Metal Blade Records. Paul co wrote and performed on two of the band's most popular classic power metal albums. He has been in literally hundreds of magazines and on radio stations world wide, some of the most notable being Billboard, BBC, Circus, RIP, Kerrang, Rock Hard, RRN, About.com and Scream. Paul has written guitar instructional columns for several nationally syndicated magazines. Being able to play such a broad variety of styles, Paul still continues to record and tour with many national acts.
Plans are being made for a possible reformation of Liege Lord at the Wacken Open Air festival in Hamburg, Germany this August where a crowd of over 20,000 will be able to see Paul in action along with his fellow band mates once more.
Contact Information
BigWaveBuz Management
P.O. Box 3207
Stamford, CT 06905-0207
United States
E-mail:
Paul Nelson
Web site:
www.paulnelsonguitar.com
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Geoffe Hein
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Broadening His Horizons With Solo Release
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Twenty-eight year old Cleveland, Ohio native Geoffe Hein submitted his self-titled CD-R release, which features a heavy metal sound and approach (especially in the leads), occasionally delving into blues, ballads, rock and surf. The songs are all instrumental, Hein played all the instruments, and wrote, arranged, recorded, mixed, engineered, mastered and produced the entire recording. He favors extremely fast playing, with over-the-top shredding, crunchy rhythms and ripping, improvised solos. There was a tendency for some of the lead work to slide out of tune at times, or linger on non-scale tones, which created an uncomfortable dissonace, and it would have been nice to hear a live, aggressive drummer on the tracks (which heavy music demands), so if Hein can find an outside producer to assist on his next project, it would probably bring out more of his abilities.
After playing in various bands for the last thirteen years (Escalation Anger being the most recent), playing hundreds of shows and completing mini tours up and down the east coast, Geoffe decided to take some time off and write some new material. Feeling a little bit restricted doing underground metal style music, he decided to broaden his horizons and write in some different styles and modes. Geoffe picked up some recording equipment and used experience gained from five previous studio releases with other bands to complete the songs found on his CD-R release.
Hein has added quality, experienced musicians to his band for the purposes of live shows and tours.
Contact Information
GMFGP Music
Attn. Geoffe Hein
580 Sandra Dr.
Brunswick, OH 44212
United States
E-mail:
Geoffe Hein
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