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FEATURE
PAUL HANSON: Rocks
Music Lab!
by Tom Lounges
Guitar journeyman,
Paul Hanson,
who spent 20 years on the road rocking two continents, will pay a
6pm
visit on Tuesday, October 19, to Music
Lab. The music retailer is located at
17805 Burnham Avenue
in Lansing, Illinois.
Hanson will be
hosting a clinic for Roland Guitars and demonstrating the company’s new
line of gear.
Before joining Roland
in 1999, Hanson spent the better part of two decades making a living as
a guitarist in Los Angeles and in Europe.
After spending
several years in the Los Angeles club circuit bending strings for the
infamous Brooklyn Brats,
Hanson went on to become lead guitarist for a side project by Duran
Duran’s Andy Taylor, called
Thunderworld.
Hanson was also the
lead player for Vanilla Fudge
for their much lauded reunion tour.
Along with those
accomplishments, he worked as a rock specialist at Musicians Institute
in Hollywood in the mid-1980s. In 1990 and 1991 Paul was made director
of the Rock Guitar Department at the American Institute of Music in
Vienna, Austria, where he recorded and toured behind his own debut
album, The Visitor, on MGI Records.
Given his credentials
as a player, it is not surprising that Hollywood movie makers soon came
calling on Hanson. He has been a guitar coach for a variety of films
and television shows and has taught a wide array of famous and not so
famous actors how to not look silly while on camera “playing” a guitar.
Among the actors his
has coached are: Michael J. Fox
(“Back To The Future”), George
Cloony,
Eric Stoltz, Maria Conchita
Alonso,
Mitch Polleggi (of “X-Files”),
and Charlotte Ross (Aaron Spelling’s
“The Heights”).
Just when one would
think he could not find time to accomplish more, Hanson authored a very
successful music book –– “Shred
Guitar” (Warner
Bros. Publishing)
and followed it up with a series of instructional videos ––
“Hard Rock”, “Metal And Rock
Improvising” and “Arpeggios for Lead
Guitar.”
When he is not
traveling, recording, touring, writing and teaching... Hanson also runs
a home-based studio where he composes music for television and film.
Some of his compositions include the “main menus” for such film DVDs as
“The Matrix,” Oliver Stone’s “Any
Given Sunday”
and “The Perfect Storm.”
More
information on the clinic, call
MUSIC LAB
at (708) 895-2218 |
