December-January 2001

Welcome to the December holiday edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Looking back, we started in instrumental guitar e-commerce in 1997 with a total of six CDs - and now we stock well over 600 titles! Just in the past two months we've added a whopping 38 new releases to the site, including instrumental CDs by Moodafaruka, Spirit Gang, Joe Stump, Kopecky, Miguel Mega, Stew Cutler, Sean McGowan, Tony MacAlpine, Bernd Steidl, Joe Satriani, Bumblefoot (Featuring Ron Thal), Ted Reece, Bailey/Wooten, Garsed/Helmerich, Herring/Lavitz/Harward, MacAlpine/Brunel/Chambers/Auger, Baked Potato (Live), Vinnie Moore, Gary Hoey, Frank Zappa, Strunz/Farah, Carlton/Lukather, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Howe, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Jens Johansson, John Paul Jones, Greg Koch, Merry Axemas, Eric Johnson, Project Z, Jordan Rudess, Steve Morse Band and Doug Markley. You can now listen to and order 731 instrumental releases by 441 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).