"strange" AND iconic

Spotted on YouTube: Trevor appears on yet another listicle, this time of the video kind...and honestly, if he hadn't I would have had a bone to pick with one of the Internet's most well-known Boomer pundits, Rick Beato.

"Owner" comes in at number five (but Rick notes it could have been number one) on his Top 20 Strangest Guitar Solos of All Time, and that's fair enough.

Rounding out the top five are solos from Eddie Van Halen, Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth and Jeff Beck.  Good guitar company indeed!

Collector's Corner: new vinyl reissue

Coming May 27th from boutique label Music On Vinyl is a special reissue of 1985's 9012Live: The Solos, the companion album to the concert film 9012Live.

The track listing follows the original (rather than the 2009 reissue with the bonus tracks) and the album is 180 gram audiophile silver-colored vinyl.  This release is an exclusive numbered limited edition of 1500, so all you vinyl completists get ready to snag one!

format wars

Spotted thanks to Twitter: a episode of Young Canada on Canadian television channel YTV featuring an appearance of Our Trev which was aired sometime in 1990, apparently.  It could be that the interview segment itself is from 1989.  It concerns the decline (at the time) of vinyl, and - always at the forefront of audio technology - Trevor establishes himself as an advocate of the DAT format, which had its' consumer debut in 1987.  Interestingly, Trevor is introduced as the ex guitarist of Yes.

The part with Trevor is at the 2:40 mark.