Dan McAvinchey
A real focus on music without vocals
3,295 of these recordings are instrumental, which is what happens when you spend twenty years running a guitar label. 69,329 tracks in total, about 5,218 hours.
WenLin's A Fascinating Journey sports a modern, techno/jungle feel, with the Chinese axeman's limber guitar licks providing the heaviosity and creativity. An almost completely one-man band operation, WenLin's swirling, melodically evocative and freaked-out passages have been practiced and perfected…
Mosaics and sculptures, built out of bricks
They go up on Instagram as they are finished, which shows them well enough but has never been able to sort them. Every one is now sorted by subject. Where a piece began with someone else's artwork, that artist is credited.
Every film, and the threads between them
Cast, directors, keywords, genres and awards, all cross-linked — so a film leads to a person, and a person leads to five more films.
Counted one season at a time
20,861 episodes across 1,184 seasons, with every guest appearance recorded. Owning four seasons of six is not owning the show, so the record says which four.
Concerts, mostly, and then everything else
History, the natural world, and a great deal of live music. Kept separate from the films because they get browsed for subject, not for story.
VirtuosityOne.com writes about the Symphony X double live CD, "Proof that Symphony X are not just a mere studio phenomenon but are a formidable live band where documented with the release of their first ever live album. Live On The Edge Of Forever is a double album reflecting where the band was on…
The Power of Nine
A relentless armada of guitars, effects and other gear, marshaled into strict legions of nine. Every collection carries an unrequested title and a highly questionable explanation.
A working library, pulled from the magazines
4,457 pages from Guitar Player, Keyboard, Electronic Musician and eleven others. Technique, recording and production — kept since the eighties to work from, and now indexed so going back to them is possible.
Emptied, kept, relentlessly stacked
All of them have been built into 58 unique pyramids, which are cataloged as well — because structural engineering is nothing without proper documentation.
When learning something meant buying a disc
Guitar, bass, drums, recording, production. Most of it was never reissued in any other form.
Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar And Orchestra is a Pony Canyon (Hong Kong) released DVD featuring the maestro Yngwie J. Malmsteen with the New Japan Philharmonic live on June 15th and 17th, 2001, with all music composed by Mr. Malmsteen. After opening with an orchestra-only version of "Black…
Reconstructed from stubs and programs
Shows, games and nights out, worked back from whatever came home in a pocket. The paper was the only record, so the paper became the record.
A reading log, not a shelf
What was read, when it was finished, and where the copy currently is — which matters when family keeps borrowing them and forgetting.
Six issues a year, for twenty-five years
Started in 1996 as an online magazine and a small record label. 150 issues in all — technique, recording, songwriting, live performance and the business of it. Still up, still a reference.
guitar9.com ↗
390,000 sports cards, in color
What started with a fifteen-cent weekly allowance and a love of five-cent packs is now a site of its own, with a collecting community around it. It outgrew this one a long time ago.
cardcybermuseum.com ↗