Dan McAvinchey
A real focus on music without vocals
3,299 of these recordings are instrumental, which is what happens when you spend twenty years running a guitar label. 69,369 tracks in total, about 5,221 hours.
Odd Man Out is the Japanese edition of the solo debut by Mr. Big's drummer Pat Torpey. Mr. Big was Atlantic Records biggest selling act in Japan until their breakup in 2002. Torpey supplies the drumming and vocals as well on this fine collection of catchy MOR hard rock, on which his fellow Mr. Big…
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.
Melodic Meltdown features the heavy metal blast of Danish guitarist Michael Sobygge. The 12-track instrumental release is a unique blend of classical and electric guitars which are used to frame compositions ranging from baroque to raw power metal. Fans of Chris Poland's (ex-Megadeth) solo work…
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, occasionally stacked
58 of them have been built into pyramids, which are cataloged too, because if you are going to keep the cans you may as well record what you did with them.
The cans
When learning something meant buying a disc
Guitar, bass, drums, recording, production. Most of it was never reissued in any other form.
James Ryan's Blown is an instrumental rock guitar casserole. A spicy mix of modern Satriani-inspired mayhem, with a twist of acidic drum and synth flavours, tossed with a large portion of blues spices. It suits many guitar tastes as well as lovers of exciting rock guitar hymns. Ryan hails from…
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 ↗