PRESS RELEASE

PG3

Portland Guitar Three

Jennifer Batten | Terry Robb | Geoff Metts

ELECTRIC GUITAR SHOWCASE

and Benefit for Parkrose k-12 Music Boosters

Presented by Buko Magazine and Guitar Center

Peter's Room At The Roseland

10 NW 6th Ave. Portland

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 8pm

Tickets: $15.50 in advance, $18 at the door*

An event dedicated to showcasing the unique stylings of 3 guitar masters coming from the NW, while helping support NW music education programs.

We are proud to present an annual showcase featuring some of the best electric guitarists Portland has to offer in this premier of PG3. Similar to Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's best-of-the-best guitar extravaganza, each artist will do a set of their own special selection of music then converge to play a set together for a grand finale.

What better to start out than with these 3 great players. Their 3 distinctive styles are sure to keep the audience acutely interested in their juxtapositional presentations, then playing together on selected songs and swap solos.

Jennifer Batten:

Attaining world-wide acclaim as one of the worlds best axe players. Best known as the "Golden Goddess of Guitar", having played lead guitar with Michael Jackson for 3 world tours, as well as several of his videos throughout the 80's and 90's. Touring with Jeff Beck for 2 world tours...wow!

She escaped to the N.W. and, lucky for all of us, she now calls Portland 'home'. Her new original release called "Whatever" is a title testimony of her discontent with the dog-eat-dog rat race of L.A. She has been touring her multimedia show around the country.

Terry Robb:

The consummate 'musician's musician', Terry has garnered utter respect from many accomplished guitarists around the globe. He possesses accolades that many covet. An incredibly gifted guitar player, Terry's licks run a literal gamut between Muddy Water's soul-filled simplicity to Hendrix' complex psychedelia. The logic of his soloing calls up anything from Zappa, Beck and Buchanan, to hauntingly and unfamiliar territory's like Sun Ra and John Fahey, all while leaving his own indelible fingerprint... and he can shred like a mother!

Geoff Metts:

Achieving vast popularity as frontman and lead guitar player of Western Aerial, knocking out one hit show after another: Vans Warped Tour, Voted “Best of Portland” in the music category by PDXPosed, playing KUFO’s Rockfest an impressive 3 times. Recorded Portland Trailblazers theme music and video on national television. Geoff was honored with an invitation to play "The Star Spangled Banner" for a sold out crowd of 25,000 at the Rose Garden Arena this year and continues to provide guitar instruction at Five Star Guitars.

Geoff is probably the heaviest player around, easily filling the boots of both rhythm and lead simultaneously. His solos are at once crunchy as they are effortless.

Hand picked all-star backing band:

A.G. Donnaloia ( Liv Warfield, Lifesavas)

Jay Haser (Debra Arlin)

Kevin Rankin ( Animotion, Kleveland)

* purchased ticket holders are automatically enters them to win a $600 Fender Stratocaster, played at the show and signed by all 3 artists in a raffle!