July 24, 2009
Official Press Release
OnBoard Research/ProgPower USA
OnBoard Research, the maker of The Intellitouch Tuner and Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer, is proud to announce its sponsorship for the artist clinics for Saturday September 12th at the 2009 ProgPower USA metal festival. OnBoard brought the first “touch” tuner into the music product mainstream in 1997 to much acclaim including winning several industry and manufacturing awards. As part of its ongoing dedication to artists and the music industry as a whole, Intellitouch Tuner artists Drew Creel and Joel Gregoire will be conducting a guitar clinic and subsequent “first-time ever” guitar battle as the opening clinic on Saturday, the second day of the festival. Drew is the ex-guitarist of Meyvn and a 3-time winner of Austin’s Best Metal Guitarist award. He has played ProgPower Europe and is currently recording his first album with new band Izrafel with engineer Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Damageplan). Drew has been featured on the websites Chops From Hell and Guitar9. Joel Gregoire is an esteemed graduate of the Musician’s Institute Guitar Institute of Technology (1987) where he studied under several legendary guitarists including Paul Gilbert and Frank Gambale. Most metal fans will recognize his name as as one of the founders and writers for the band Stride which played ProgPower USA in previous years. As a member of Stride, Joel received accolades for winning the Guitar Center Guitarmageddon contest, securing the opening act spot for Bon Jovi, and teaching for the National Guitar Workshop institution.
Also, Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer endorser Casey Grillo will be the featured drumkit clinician on the same day bringing his respected power metal technique to the festival. As the drummer for the band Kamelot since 1998, Casey has toured North America and Europe extensively over the past few years, including recent summer drumkit clinics in Netherlands. Casey is well-known to ProgPower fans having played the festival in prior years as well as his recording work with Brazilian band Almah and Ian Parry’s Consortium Project.
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Details:
September 12
The Loft
Door: 11:30
Start time: 1200
Cost: FREE to everyone (500 person capacity- gold badges & sponsors get first entry)
Official Press Release
OnBoard Research/ProgPower USA
OnBoard Research, the maker of The Intellitouch Tuner and Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer, is proud to announce its sponsorship for the artist clinics for Saturday September 12th at the 2009 ProgPower USA metal festival. OnBoard brought the first “touch” tuner into the music product mainstream in 1997 to much acclaim including winning several industry and manufacturing awards. As part of its ongoing dedication to artists and the music industry as a whole, Intellitouch Tuner artists Drew Creel and Joel Gregoire will be conducting a guitar clinic and subsequent “first-time ever” guitar battle as the opening clinic on Saturday, the second day of the festival. Drew is the ex-guitarist of Meyvn and a 3-time winner of Austin’s Best Metal Guitarist award. He has played ProgPower Europe and is currently recording his first album with new band Izrafel with engineer Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Damageplan). Drew has been featured on the websites Chops From Hell and Guitar9. Joel Gregoire is an esteemed graduate of the Musician’s Institute Guitar Institute of Technology (1987) where he studied under several legendary guitarists including Paul Gilbert and Frank Gambale. Most metal fans will recognize his name as as one of the founders and writers for the band Stride which played ProgPower USA in previous years. As a member of Stride, Joel received accolades for winning the Guitar Center Guitarmageddon contest, securing the opening act spot for Bon Jovi, and teaching for the National Guitar Workshop institution.
Also, Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer endorser Casey Grillo will be the featured drumkit clinician on the same day bringing his respected power metal technique to the festival. As the drummer for the band Kamelot since 1998, Casey has toured North America and Europe extensively over the past few years, including recent summer drumkit clinics in Netherlands. Casey is well-known to ProgPower fans having played the festival in prior years as well as his recording work with Brazilian band Almah and Ian Parry’s Consortium Project.
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Details:
September 12
The Loft
Door: 11:30
Start time: 1200
Cost: FREE to everyone (500 person capacity- gold badges & sponsors get first entry)
Nice!!
Did you at least see the J-Mac/IA jam?
