Monte Pittman played an intimate acoustic gig at the Living Room in New York last night and he rocked it -as per usual! Max Whipple played bass and Johnny Kelly was on percussion. Monte played with his brand new Bourgeois acoustic guitar, which he picked it at this year’s NAMM.
Check out the performance of “Rain is Falling”.
Axe-Static_Process has its 3rd birthday today! With all the latest internet/social network madness going on, it’s a small miracle that we are still here and still rocking! We have many things to be excited about in 2012, the most important of all – Madonna returning to her throne and releasing a new studio album and of course, going on tour!
Happy 3rd Birthday ASP!
But let’s take a moment and rewind back at some special moments of 2011! ASP Guitar Hero/Rock God Monte Pittman released his 2nd solo album “Pain, Love & Destiny” which made us love him even more! This album rocks so much that not only you have to get it, but also share it will all your friends. It is THAT good!
The badass drummer Brian Frasier-Moore toured with another diva, Janet Jackson, while the multi-tasking and incredibly talented Nicki Richards found the time to get in the studio for her solo thang.
HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone! Hope you had a great time with family & friends! 2011 has just started and we are already axe-ited about what this year will bring and most importantly, the new Madonna album!
So, let’s sit back for a moment and take a quick look at some interesting numbers here at Axe-Static_Process!
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 88,000 times in 2010. If it were an
exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 4 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 315 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 655 posts. There were 338 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 34mb. That’s about 7 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 26th with 1,893 views. The most popular post that day was Adam Lambert to Release Acoustic Album.
There are two major events happening today! The first is: Monte Pittman performing at Molly Malones! The second is: Axe-Static_Process’ 2nd birthday! Since we’re in the last few weeks of 2010, let’s see what happened this year on the ASP interwebs…!
ASP mostly covered Adam Lambert‘s promo tour & Glam Nation Tour –and thanks to some fantastic people who shared their videos with us and the rest of the world, ASP picked up a few new fans along the way! Monte Pittman positively shined as the guitarist&music director for GNT and Miss Fitz finally met the Montster in Portland last summer!
The ASP Girls also launched the Montster of Rock website – a site dedicated to Monte Pittman: Guitar God!
Happy 2nd Birthday ASP!
But that’s not all! While Madonna was busy filming her movie “W.E.”, ASP covered her madge-icians: Marcus Brown & Steve Sidelnyk resumed their European tour with Seal, Ric’key Pageot worked on Dessy Di Lauro’s new album and toured with Diana Ross, Nicki Richards performed with Whitney Houston, the sax legend Chris Botti and is also in the process of making a new album and DJ Enferno traversed the USA & Canada, spinning and scratching his remixes!
Adam Lambert may have been the last to find out the news (since our sources say that he has stayed in Europe for a little vay-cay!) but it’s still cool, because he is a GRAMMY nominee for “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance” for the song “Whataya want from me”! Congratulations Adam!
Rob Cavallo & Dr.Luke who produced (separately) several songs from “For Your Entertainment” are also nominated for the category “Producer of the Year”.
Monte Pittman & Adam Lambert during Glam Nation Tour. Photo by @catcherofdreamz
Click here to read all the nominees & categories of the GRAMMYs!
As announced last Friday, this lovely day of August around 12pm PST/ 7pm GMT we sent out the tweet to get re-tweeted (!) so 3 of you would win this fantastic prize pack! We got a TON of retweets, (felt like a rockstar for a few minutes) and we’d like to thank each one of you who participated! You all rock!!!
AFL introducing Monte F.Pittman to the audience of Glam Nation
The winners : (as announced via @axestatic)
the Lightning-Fast + Amazingly talented @catcherofdreamz !!! The fastest in the land & an amazing photog, to boot! Congrats!!
@DanaK6 from Gloucestershire!!! Another guitarist in the GlamNation, HUZZAH!!!! Congrats!!!
@adamsheroin! Ioana from Bucharest! A truly international #GlamNationGiveAway! Woot!
Calling the Axestatic colonies to order (that includes you, Glamberts, Angels, Glitterbabies, and the rest of ya!)!!! ASP is thrilled to announce that we’ve scored some swag to give away to a few lucky fans of Monte Pittman & Tommy Joe Ratliff!
When ASP met up with the Glam Nation Tour last week in Portland, I (Miss Fitz!) had the chance to hang out with ASP’s main Object-of-Rock-Affection, Monte Pittman. I also got a meet & greet with… wait for it… Monte’s White Gibson Hummingbird!
the Holy (acoustic) Grail!
And the Hummingbird got a meet and greet with… wait for it… my double chin (sad trombone)! What a lucky guitar! Special thanks to Vince for hanging out and for taking the picture… and for taking care of Monte’s harem of Gibsons!
So– in addition to being a rock god, a gentleman, AND a scholar—Monte is incredibly generous. He not only spent a ton of time with ASP, showing off his guitar rig– he also took the time and effort to get us some autographed 8×10 color photos courtesy of Orange Amps—and he also gave us some guitar picks from his stash, as well as giving us some of Tommy Joe’s picks.
There are a million words you could use to describe Her over a stunning 25-year career: the Queen of Pop. Inspiration. Instigator. ICON. You may now add to that list: Guitar Goddess. Welcome to Axe Static Process, making the world safe for guitar geeks to love Madonna, one power chord at a time!
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