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Mastering and compiling work has just been finished by Phil on the upcoming 'Jane' CD 'CLOSE UP AND REAL'. The CD features some of the last ever recorded keyboard playing of Pete Jacobsen. It is due to be released in January.
For more info visit - www.janemusic.info

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Work has been completed on the CD for David Mead's new book 'Chords & Scales' - to be published soon by Sanctuary Publishing.

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The Michael Schenker track 'Into the Arena' has been fully transcribed and recorded by Phil for inclusion in the Winter 2002 edition of 'Guitar Techniques' magazine - Phil's 'Are You Serious?' is the '1 Minute Lick'.

15th Anniversary T-Shirts
As we only have a limited stock of '15th anniversary' T-Shirts left we have dropped the price from £9 to £6 - Just in time for Xmas too!..........

Book Release
Phil's performance with Keith Emerson & The Nice at the 100 Club is featured in a new book titled 'Hang on to a Dream - The Story of The Nice' by author Martyn Hanson and published by Helter Skelter. Quote from book - 'The highlight of the evening was when Keith introduced guitarist Phil Hilborne'............

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Phil has just finished mastering, editing and compiling the new CD by Zakk Barrett (Sax player with The Fellowship). The album is called 11 by 4 and features Pete Riley on drums. Pete also produced and engineered the CD. Incidentally, the new Fellowship CD that Pete and Phil also worked on is now out - at the moment it is only available at Fellowship gigs - which occur pretty much every Thursday night all year round at the Basement in Chelmsford.

Geoff Whitehorn
Phil performed the track 'Ninetyonogy' with Geoff Whitehorn at the end of his recent clinic at Honky Tonk Music in Southend on Sea. He also met up with ex-pupil and 'Guitarist of the Year' winner Owen Barry.

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Dominion Theatre, London
Phil's next list of dates for 'We Will Rock You' have just come in, they are as follows: 21st Oct - 2nd Nov (14 shows) and 18th Nov - 30th Nov (14 shows).
As you probably know the shows are at 7:30pm Mon-Sat and there is also an extra afternoon show on Saturdays at 3:30pm. Each show is 2½ hrs including a 15 min interval. If you need tickets you can try Ticketmaster on 0207 3164840 or for late bookings phone 08705 321321.              www.ticketmaster.co.uk

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Dominion Theatre, London
Phil is playing in the Queen 'We Will Rock You' show from 11th - 14th September.
For further details please see the Shows page.

Dominion Theatre, London
Phil is playing at the Dominion Theatre London in the Queen 'We Will Rock You' show on Thursday 29th August.

The Army & Navy, Chelmsford, Essex
Phil and Jason were joined by drummer Adam Bushell for the night.

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Paul Samson RIP...
Paul Samson the guitarist and founder member of the band Samson sadly lost his battle with cancer on Friday the 9th of August. As both a musician and a person Paul was totally - 100 per cent the real deal and his passing will be a great loss to the U.K's Rock music scene. Personally, I will always remember with great fondness a gig we did at the Royal Standard in Walthamstow when Paul got up and played guitar and I played bass for a storming version of Hendrix's 'Voodoo Chile' - it was great. We also shared the bill at the Town And Country Club in London for one of 'Guitarist Magazines' charity nights - he again played brilliantly.
Our Sincere condolences to Paul's family and close friends. Any donations on Paul's behalf should be sent to Cancer Research UK - www.cancerresearchuk.org
...........Phil H..

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Clive Grant ex-Memphis Roots country band came over to the studio and Phil mastered and compiled the debut album for his new band 'No Regrets'.
Details regarding the release date, price and availability of the CD will be posted on www.memphisroots.com soon...

The IGF Bath
The yearly visit to the International Guitar Festival in Bath is now over and it was certainly the biggest and best ever. Phil had a great time teaching one half of the Rock level 2 class for the week. The 25 or so students in the class were great fun to be with and ranged in age from 11 to 50! The weeks teaching ended up with them all performing live at the Michael Tippet Centre on the closing night as part of the 'Night Of 1000 Guitars' concert. They Rocked!...

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Phil has just completed writing the full technical development syllabus for the Brighton Institute Of Modern Music. He is also booked to teach masterclasses at the school on the 13th of August as part of their 'Kerrang Summer Slam' and on the 19th of August as part of 'The Guitarist Festival Of Blues, Rock and Jazz'. There is also a live performance workshop on the 10th of October which Phil will be teaching at as well. For more info check out the BIMM site - www.bimm.co.uk

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Adrian Legg's upcoming CD 'Guitar Bones' has just been re-mixed and compiled by Phil - it will be released worldwide on Steve Vai's 'Favored Nations' record label early in 2003.

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Phil has just finished recording two instructional CD's with fellow GT contributor Guthrie Govan. The CD's are for Guthrie's upcoming books 'Creative Guitar Book 1' & 'Creative Guitar Book 2'. Both titles will be published later this year by Sanctuary Publishing.

Sad News
It is with great sadness that we have heard the news of the sudden, tragic passing of founder Who member and bassist extraordinaire John Entwistle. Phil had the pleasure of working with John on a couple of occasions - the first was at a British Music Fair live demo for Rotosound strings/Heart guitars at Alexandra Palace in 1987 and the other time was at Wembley Conference Centre in 1993 along with Nicko McBrain and Andy Frost. John's passing will be an immense loss to the world of Rock. Our sincere condolences go out to his family and close friends.

British Music Fair 1987 >                          Wembley 1993 >

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Phil has just finished mastering and compiling the 10 track debut CD by 'The Fellowship' - This fine Jazz/Fusion band features Phil's fellow GT contributor and current Asia member Guthrie Govan. Pete Riley recorded, mixed and plays all the drums on the CD too!. Details about where to buy the album will be posted here soon.

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Phil has just finished recording/producing 2 tracks for the Bath International Guitar Festival 2002 CD. The tracks are - Phil's Rock guitar adaptation of Prokofiev's 'Romeo & Juliet' and a David Mead composition entitled 'A Winters Carol'.

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Phil transcribed and played the Gary Moore track 'Walking By Myself' which will appear in the Summer 2002 edition of 'Guitar Techniques' magazine.

Geoff Who? 2002
Phil guests on Geoff Whitehorn's new album 'Geoff Who? 2002'. This is actually a totally re-recorded, re-mixed, re-packaged and re-mastered version of Geoff's earlier 1990 Music Maker records album 'Geoff Who?'. It also features 2 brand new tracks - 'Without Annette' and 'Eightyonavee'.

Phil guests on track 2 of the CD - 'Ninetyonogy', which is in fact an extended version of the original 'Geoff Who?' track. The release date is May 10th.
To order the CD visit - www.procolharum.com

Pete Jacobsen RIP...
Phil, Pete and Jason are very sad to hear the recent news of the passing of keyboardist extraordinaire Pete Jacobsen who died suddenly on Monday 29th April after a very short illness aged 51.

Although not exactly a household name Pete was nonetheless one of the most respected and talented keyboard players this country has ever produced. He had played on all of Lee Hodgsons GTCD country sessions here at WM Studios as well as the track ‘Funk-Orona’ that Lee composed for the Fret-King guitars 2001 compilation CD and that was produced by Phil.

Over the years Pete also played many Jazz gigs with him and he'd had high hopes of working with him in the future.

His passing is a real loss to this country’s musical community. We would like to offer our sincere condolences to his family; he will be greatly missed…

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Guitar Tablature
There is a full guitar tablature part available for the song 'Reach For The Horizon' that Phil co-wrote with ex-Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley.
The track appeared on the 2000 SPV records 'Blaze' album 'Silicon Messiah'.
To download/look at the tab - Click Here

Little Waltham , Chelmsford, Essex
New Gig.......
Just in - Phil, Pete and Jason have just been confirmed for the midsummer bike rally in June at Little Waltham - check out shows page for more details.

LA2, Charring Cross Road, London
Pete Riley is playing with Ken Hensley & Free Spirit at the LA2 on Friday 19th April - Phil's fellow GT comrade Dave Kilminster is playing guitar - Check it Out!

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Phil transcribed and played the 'Rush' track 'Tom Sawyer' which will appear in the June 2002 edition of 'Guitar Techniques' magazine.

Phil also plays the '1 Minute Lick' that appears in the same issue.

100 Club, Oxford Street, London
Phil joined Keith Emerson on stage for the launch of Emerson's new album 'Emerson plays Emerson'.

This exclusive showcase for EMI featured Lee Jackson and Brian Davison from Emerson's legendary forerunner to ELP 'The Nice' and is the first time in over 30 years that 'The Nice' have performed in public.

Phil traded solos with Emerson on the classic numbers 'America' and 'Rondo' which received rapturous applause from the audience.

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Phil recorded and mixed the final two tracks for Adrian Legg's upcoming album,
the tracks are entitled 'Old Friends' and 'Ghosts in the Hills'.

They have now recorded, mixed and mastered 11 tracks.

The Army & Navy, Chelmsford, Essex
Phil and Jason teamed up with drummer Adam Bushell for the night.

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