You may know him from Guns N’ Roses, Carole King, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Alice Cooper, Bruce Willis and the Boxing Ganhis but most recently Teddy “Zig Zag” Andreadis has been counseling the campers of Rock N’ Roll Fantasy Camp. We caught up with Teddy in Las Vegas last week for his take on Roland’s RD-700NX stage piano, check out [...]
Congratulations to our six U.S. finalists Steven Cantor Vox Machina (Mister Tim & Matt Murphy) Paul Newman DJ Berlin (Belgin Ugursu) Danny Watson Robert Williamson
In this video Kip Winger discusses his involvement with Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp, his career, and current projects. Related links and articles: Rock Fantasy Camp’s New Home Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp photos from WeissGuyGallery.com Behind the Scenes at Rock Camp
David Fishof discusses Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp‘s history and it’s new permanent home in Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Hotel. Since 1997, the camps have taken place in different cities in the United States, England, and the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. At Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp attendees, write and record music alongside famous talent, [...]
UPDATE: The entry period has ended. Thanks to all who participated. The winner will be announced on or about November 14. In celebration of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp’s 15th Anniversary and Roland’s 40th Anniversary, Roland Corporation U.S. is honored to announce the first ever Roland Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp Giveaway. One lucky Roland [...]
On Saturday, September 29, our good friend, Brendan Buckley took a break from his very busy touring schedule with Shakira and Taiwanese super star Leehom Wang to judge the V-Drum semi final contest at Sam Ash in Torrance California. Sandwiched between tour dates in Italy and China Brendan had just one week in the United States before jet setting over seas. Besides the judging criteria, [...]
A long time advocate of Roland products, Static Revenger AKA Dennis White is an extremely prolific, in-demand musician. His work spans a wide number of musical genres and styles and is perhaps best known for his EDM (electronic dance music) hits. In using the INTEGRA-7, Dennis explains that his turn around time for his projects has significantly decreased. Dennis explains, [...]
Like all members of the Agents (Pitbull’s band), Omar Tavarez wears many hats. When Pitbull is not touring, Omar is in the studio with Pitbull working on new songs and productions. Omar explains how using MIDI mapping of samples helps brainstorm ideas and significantly expedites production. (This is a common technique used in dance music. Omar’s example in this [...]
On September 24, RolandUS.com launched its newly redesigned website. In charge of this facelift is Joe Sparacio, Web Manager for Roland US. In this video Joe explains some of the technologies and exciting new features integrated into the new redesign. According to Joe, when planning the redesign our goals were to:
