Are You the Next Joe Bonamassa? Enter the Battle of the Blues Now!

Sign up now for Guitar Center’s Battle of the Blues, the search for the top undiscovered blues guitar player! The grand prize package, worth more than $50,000, includes $25k cash, plus gear from Gibson and Epiphone – including the winner’s choice of a custom ’59 Les Paul or ES-335 reissue and an Epiphone ’65 Elitist Casino. Plus, the six finalists will perform live at the grand finals featuring Gibson star Joe Bonamassa.

Visit GuitarCenter.com/BattleoftheBlues for more details, and check out the videos below.

Joe Bonamassa talks about the contest, and gives a few tips on playing the blues:

An overview of the Battle of the Blues contest:

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Gene Simmons Talks Battle of the Sexes

KISS bassist and rock legend Gene Simmons recently shared his thoughts on the differences between men and women. He talked to Parade magazine about how “most men are really just 12-year-old kids.”

“Men are not reflective. What happened yesterday happened yesterday. We’re in the here and the now,” he said. “Women are wiser. Women have a 30,000-foot viewpoint. They see the bigger picture, which is why they want to have kids and men don’t. Women want to get married and no man I ever met actually wants to.

“We want to be left alone to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it without asking anybody. So the hair on our backs rise when the female species says, ‘Where have you been?’ That’s all part of being a kid and immature.”

Simmons also spoke about his currently rocky relationship with Shannon Tweed, his partner for 28 years.

“Well, when you have a cut on your hand, it doesn’t heal overnight,” he said. “It takes time, and if you don’t take care of it, it gets inflamed. We’re working on it. It’s not easy on the kids, Shannon, or myself.”

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