!: Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero 07 Champion Ladd Smith

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero 07 Champion Ladd Smith

Ladd Smith of Nashville Crowned Guitar Player Magazine's International Guitar Hero 2007 This is the Official Video of Ladd Smith's Winning Instrumental Performance of His Original Song "Outrun The Train"... Read More Here: www.laddsmith.com http www.myspace.com Pick up a copy of The February 2008 Issue of Guitar Player Magazine to read more about Ladd Smith Guitar Hero 2007 www.guitarplayer.com Joe Satriani and Elliot Easton of the Cars among celebrity judges who selected winner San Francisco, CA (Winter 2007) Ten finalists battled for the international title of "Guitar Hero" at Guitar Player's Guitar Hero 2007 competition Friday, October 12 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. All ten tremendously talented players were roundly applauded by celebrity judges Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Nuno Bettencourt, Elliot Easton, Greg Howe, and Mike Varney. In the end, they chose Ladd Smith from Nashville, Tennessee, as the champion, Les Robot from Edmonton, Alberta, as first runner-up and Danny B. Harvey from Canyon County, CA, as second runner-up. "What a celebration of white-hot, burning guitar!" said Guitar Player Editor in Chief Michael Molenda. "All ten contestants were simply awesome -- on fire, in fact — and the crowd was devouring every run, riff, and lick. It was great to see such enthusiasm over transcendent guitar playing, as you certainly don't hear these styles very much on radio or television these days." "Ladd Smith took the GH07 championship because ...