I was surfing around Flickr tonight and kind of bored; so I though I’d pick out what were the 5 most interesting photos.

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JamLoop.com is a Vertical Search Engine that only searches new or used gear.

You can select whether you want to find new or used gear as well you can also compare different prices for different instruments.

It would be a really good tool even just to research gear before you start going out to stores if you prefer to buy locally and in-person.

Do you ever sit at home wondering about how great life would be if you had a Guitar Mini Widget on your Myspace Page, Blog, or Website. Oh come on, I know you do! That is why I made a Mini Guitar Tuner for you.

Feel free to add this anywhere… It’s probably the smallest guitar tuner you will ever find.

SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Gibson Guitar Inc has told Activision Inc that its wildly popular “Guitar Hero” video games infringe one of Gibson’s patents, and Activision has asked a U.S. court to find the claim invalid.

Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a guitar-shaped controller in time with notes on a TV screen, violates a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance.

Read the full article at Reuters.com

Was just perusing some websites that I haven’t visited in a while, and since I’m taking a break from my daily demands thought I’d make a little linkfest post.

• A wicked live Subway Performance, I love stuff like this; so awesome to fill a public space with good music or art. A boring daily grind it out ride the subway home day becomes an experience.
• A whole bunch of tabs that are sure to be really great judging by past work from Heartwoodguitar.com - if you feel like learning a song tonight check out that list, there will likely be something you like on it.
• An interesting new device that will give you just about any tone or sound you want.
• I don’t really know what to think of this at all or even why I am linking to it.
• A really unique guitar by Ken Butler.

I was up at the local pub having lunch today and was reading the newspapers that were laying around and came across this good article from Exclaim! by Allison Outhit. You can read the full article online by clicking here.

In the wasteland of the music business, hundreds of truckloads of CDs wind up every year in the landfill. How does this happen? For starters, the practice is to manufacture in bulk, regardless of sales viability, because it’s cheaper. If half of the units manufactured actually ship to retail, a big chunk of those — perhaps half again — may end up coming back to the warehouse anyway. ‘

Add to this pile the promotional copies, many of which don’t even exit the shrink-wrap before getting chucked in the bin by whatever totally uninterested executive or editor they’ve been sent to… Well, that’s a mountain of plastic. A recent report in the U.K. Guardian claims that one million unsold copies of Robbie Williams’ last CD Rudebox will be shipped to China to be crushed (and hopefully used for road-surfacing). Dealing with product waste like this reportedly costs EMI millions of dollars a year.

Read full article…

Okay I will be honest; I have never actually played Guitar Hero. The whole idea seems so absurd to me, playing a little plastic guitar that is attached to a TV. I admit it would probably be fun, and if it were around I’d probably give it a go. And for the first 10 minutes or so I’d probably be mesmerized by it.

The reason I hate Guitar Hero though is that when I subscribe to Google Alerts with the keyword Guitar - I get like 10 links to Guitar Hero Articles sent to me everyday. Things like Ex-NFL player almost dies - concerned about Guitar Hero skills, This new device is all you need to be a true Air Guitar Hero or my personal favorite The Tragic Death of the Guitar Hero.

It’s really quite ridiculous - here I am sifting through these emails to find anything of value happening on the net Guitar wise and I end up watching someone play Guitar Hero on YouTube for 10 minutes. Seriously, quit posting this stuff on YouTube, you are wasting my life.

The video that I ended up accidently watching tonight is below.

I’m not particularly interested in this Genre of music, but his picking style is pretty freakin’ amazing; very original too.

There is a new kid on the guitar video game block - and this one looks quite promising in terms of actually helping people learn to play guitar.

Guitar Rising was recently unveiled at the Independent Game Conference in Austin, TX. At the conference’s Game Demo Night, players - both guitar newbies and hobbyists alike - strapped on a real electric guitar and fretted and strummed their way though introductory and skilled game levels. Unlike games like Guitar Hero, where gamers use a small fake plastic guitar, this one actually requires the gamer to use a real guitar. Check out the cheesy video ad below.

I found what I think to be one of the more interesting guitar blogs on the net - Guitar Flame. Written by Ovidiu Oprescu from Romania the blog has tonnes of interesting articles. Here are my favorite 3 so far:

• Geek quits his dayjob as a software programmer to become a rock star - A story about a former software programmer who now codes songs.
• Wish it would be on my guitar too… - Some really cool video of Les Paul from Youtube. This guy was way ahead of his time…
• The most difficult part of learning the guitar is starting it… - A post about how to approach learning guitar when you are first starting out.