Jeff Kollman

Back in the 90s, guitar player Jeff Kollman of EDWIN DARE fascinated the rock fans with his unique style of a jazz/fusion taste blended with hard rock music. Jeff Kollman went on as a solo musician after working with EDWIN DARE, as well as forming COSMOSQUAD with drummer Shane Gaalaas, who is known for his work with big names such as MICHAEL SCHENKER and B’z. Jeff also joined THE BOMBASTIC MEATBATS, a project formed by Chad Smith from the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.

Jeff Kollman talked to us about his recently released live album with THE BOMBASTIC MEATBATS “Live At The Baked Potato” and his new solo album “Silence In The Corridor”. Jeff also took time to tell us about some of his insights on music and playing guitar.

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Philip Sayce

Philip Sayce is a guitar player popular to both rock and blues fans. He is known for his magnificent dynamics and emotional performances, which resonates not only in the ears of the listener, but all the way into the heart. Philip Sayce has constantly been releasing quality music, and his collection of albums, old and new, are now available in Japan.

Philip Sayce’s new album “Steamroller” has been released this year in Japan, along with the re-releases of all of his past albums starting with “Peace Machine”. The 4 albums definitely portray Philip evolving and growing as a musician. Philip took time to talk to us about his new “Steamroller” album, as well as about his past albums.

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Pete Lesperance

Pete Lesperance is known for his work with the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. His highly technical guitar performance and guitar style with trademark licks definitely proves him to be a guitar hero. Pete is also known as a great songwriter and keeps fascinating his fans with his quality music. 

Unfortunately, Harem Scarem has broken up, but Pete continues to make and deliver his quality music to the fans. Pete Lesperance has now released his new solo album “Fade Into Stars” and proves that he is taking his music and performance as a singer and songwriter to another level.

Muse On Muse asks Pete about his new solo effort.

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FLYING COLORS

Photo : Joey Pippin

FLYING COLORS is a new super band featuring Mike Portnoy on drums and vocals, Dave LaRue on bass, Neal Morse on keyboards and vocals, Casey McPherson on vocals and guitar, and Steve Morse on guitar. Their self-titled album is an amazing blend of folk, prog, pop and metal, creating a marvelous style of music. Steve Morse and Neal Morse talked to us about the new album.

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Steve Hackett

Steve Hackett is known as early day GENESIS member and the founder of GTR, a project with YES member Steve Howe. Steve Hackett also continues to deliver high quality music with his solo projects. Steve has recently released his newest project “Squackett”, a collaboration with Chris Squire who currently plays for the legendary progressive band YES. Steve talks to MUSE ON MUSE about his new project.

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Trevor Rabin

Trevor Rabin has just released his new album “Jacaranda”, 23 years since his last album “Can’t Look Away”. Trevor Rabin made his name in the music scene when he took part as a key figure on the YES album “90125” in the 80s. After parting with YES, Trevor went on to do film scores, and was involved in productions of numerous movies such as “Armageddon” and “National Treasure”. Trevor continues to work in the film industry, creating quality music for various movies. Here, Trevor talks about his new release, “Jacaranda”.

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Joey Tempest (EUROPE)

Photograph : Fredrik Etoall

Swedish hard rock band EUROPE has just finished their newest studio effort “Bag of Bones”, 2 and a half years after their previous album “Last Look At Eden”. The new album marks their 9th album (4th after the reunion) and portrays a newer style of their music, adding another masterpiece to their discography. Singer and main songwriter, Joey Tempest talks about EUROPE’s new album “Bag of Bones”.

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Joseph Williams

In September, 2011, Joseph Williams appeared in front of the Japanese audience and put on a great performance as the lead singer for the re-united TOTO. Joseph talked to us about the Japan Tour, about his project WILLIAMS/FRIESTEDT with Swedish guitarist/composer Peter Friestedt, as well as some insights on his songwriting.

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Michael Landau

Photograph : Miles Overn

11 years from his last album, and his first all instrumental album since his first album “Tales From The Bulge” released in 1990, Michael Landau now releases his newest studio effort “Organic Instrumentals”. The new album can be described as high quality hard fusion, and Michael Landau explains to us about his approach to playing guitar on this new album filled with superb music and quality sound production.

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Richie Kotzen

Richie Kotzen has released his new album “24 Hours”, an album well balanced out between excellent guitar technique and songwriting. Richie’s great vocal performance and songwriting with style should appeal not only to guitar players, but to mainstream rock music listeners as well. We were able to ask Richie about the new album, as well as about his guitar playing, including his newly developed technique of playing without using a guitar pick.

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