Tosin Abasi discusses his Ibanez TAM100 8-string signature guitar - YouTube

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15 bologna: MUSIC ITALY SHOW and JAMBO, the weekend of Music in Bologna

15 bologna: MUSIC ITALY SHOW and JAMBO, the weekend of Music in Bologna:

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MUSIC ITALY SHOW and JAMBO, the weekend of Music in Bologna

The 14, 15 and 16 June, will be a whole weekend dedicated to Music, in all its forms, and will be hosted in Bologna exhibition center.  
 Music Italy Show and JAMBO together to provide music and sport to 360 degrees.JAMBO is the first Urban Summer Festival in Italy, dedicated to electronic music and to action sports. Will offer music for 12 hours continuously from 3 pm until 3 am the night in an area of over 60,000 square meters and over where bars and restaurants, there will be a beach and a beach volleyball court. For lovers of extreme sports will be missed performances by skateboarding, football, basketball freestyle, fmx, parkour and wakeboarding. Do not miss surfing with icons world of freestyle.

A completely different music to the Music Italy Show where the three stages set up  (in the 42, 44 and the outside Hall 22) will be held about 140 concerts of artists such as Stadium, the Blastema, Bononia Sound Machine, Power Francer, Tystnaden Carlo Guaitoli, Tosin Abasi, Enrico Santacatterina, the rocker Pia Tuccitto, The Rio, Gerardo Pulli, Elio Rivagli and Ivano Icard, Gabor Lesko. The   live show will begin at 11 to finish at 20.00.

There will be the finalist bands to the two national competitions and Arezzo Wave Capitalent.

A series of workshops will be held at the Auditorium with speakers and guests artists famous Dodi Battaglia, Fabio Coppini, Gianni Morandi, Fio Zanotti, Bruno Sconocchia, Mauro Coruzzi in art Platinette, Red Ronnie and Luciano Tallarini telling who will discuss their experience in world of music.Livia Elena Laurentino 

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Interview: Rick Toone | Luthier

EDITOR'S NOTE: Guest writer Dennis Yates interviews luthier Rick Toone. Many thanks to Tyler Matteson for suggesting the interview format.

DY: What drove you to start making your own guitars?
Rick Toone: Simple frustration.

I’ve fought with the guitar my entire musical life — almost 30 years now. I want to express myself, lose myself in the music, but at some point the instrument always intrudes on my physical consciousness and knocks me out of right brain, into the present moment.
Awkward balance, like having to support a neck that wants to point toward the floor. Constantly having to reposition the instrument to reach all fretting positions. Crouching or hunching around the body to see and hear what I’m doing. A sharp edge that digs into my right forearm. The knob or switch I whack when strumming. Sloppy or uncomfortable tuning systems.
Honestly, it’s as if these machines were designed to prevent us from creating art.
My first guitar was a plywood Les Paul clone I bought from my cousin in 1980 for $75. The best thing I can say about the guitar is it was so awful I was fearless about making modifications. Disassembled and reassembled every component to learn how it worked then tried to make it better.
I was a freshman in high school and late to the game in terms of learning to be a musician, but got totally hooked on wanting to improve the instrument. I kept thinking to myself: “I can do better than this.”
Throughout high school and college I spent every available moment building instruments for myself or my friends. A few of them are still floating around today.
Excellent question. Makes me realize I’m Don Quixote — on a mission to systematically improve the guitar until I finally create one I like. An instrument that is exquisitely expressive yet physically imperceptible. Don’t know what happens at that point. Fame? Fortune? Death? Yikes!