Pete Prown
{{Short description|American musician and writer}}
Pete Prown (born 1963) is an American writer and magazine editor, painter, guitarist, and music journalist. He has worked as the editor-in-chief of Guitar Shop magazine and music editor for Vintage Guitar. His writing has also appeared in publications such as Guitar Player and Guitar for the Practicing Musician, among dozens of other magazines.
Works
Paintings.
Samples of Pete Prown's acclaimed artwork can be found on his [http://www.peteprown.com website].
Recordings. Beginning in 2006, released a series of indie CDs showcasing his noted guitar work and receiving strong reviews:
- Guitar Garden - [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=21862 China Rose] (2006)
- Guitar Garden - [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=21861 Secret Space] (2007)
- Sir Clive & the Raging Cartographers - [http://www.vintageguitar.com/3874/sir-clive-and-the-raging-cartographers-guitar-safari/ Guitar Safari] (2009)
- Guitar Garden - Guitar Garden III (2011)
- [https://ovalplanet.bandcamp.com Oval Planet] - Trench Poems (2019){{cite web | url=https://houseofprog.com/blog/2019/10/29/oval-planet-release-trench-poems/ | title=Oval Planet release "Trench Poems" | date=29 October 2019 }}
- Gordon/Prown/King - Moorish Code (2020)
- [https://ovalplanet.bandcamp.com Miscellaneous recordings] (2019-2022)
Music Journalism. From 1993 to 1998 Prown was the editor in chief of the international magazine Guitar Shop,{{cite news
|title=Play it again, Dean Company hopes to strike chord with custom guitars
|newspaper=Tampa Tribune
|author=Margaret Talev
|date=Jan 28, 1996
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}} followed by his role as a Music Editor at Vintage Guitar magazine.[http://www.vintageguitar.com/about/writers About VG: Meet the Writers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001112507/http://www.vintageguitar.com/about/writers/ |date=2010-10-01 }}. Vintage Guitar. He is also the author of several rock-music reference and guitar-instructional books and CDs, such as:
- Modal Riffs for Rock Guitar (1995)
- [https://www.amazon.com/Legends-Rock-Guitar-Pete-Prown/dp/0793540429 Legends of Rock Guitar] (co-written with HP Newquist, 1997)
- Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends (co-written with Lisa Sharken, 2003)
- Shred! The Ultimate Guide to Warp-Speed Guitar (co-written with Rich Maloof, 2006)
- Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars ([https://www.quartoknows.com/default.aspx Quarto] Motorbooks, 2023)
Brown has written for Guitar Player, Guitar One, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Car Stereo Review, Musician's Planet, InTune Monthly, Music Alive, Philadelphia Magazine, as well as many others.
Fiction Books. Among other projects, Prown writes fantasy fiction, publishing the following via Amazon.com:
- [http://joydfanning.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-of-thimble-down-by-pete.html Thimble Down] (2013)
- [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129417-devils-demons Devils & Demons] (2014)
- [https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Ones-Chronicles-Dorro-Book-ebook/dp/B01CGOTKF8/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1653080591&refinements=p_27%3APete+Prown&s=digital-text&sr=1-3&text=Pete+Prown The Lost Ones]
- [https://www.amazon.com/Master-Blacke-Tales-Great-Wood-ebook/dp/B0752XV4Y9 Master Black] (2017) -- print and audiobook editions
Other Publishing From 1998 to 2013, Pete Prown was also editor of the gardening magazine Green Scene for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, based in Philadelphia. He's also edited several books (such as Jane Godshalk's Flower Arranging Secrets), and is an accomplished photographer and communicator.
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Category:American rock guitarists
Category:American male guitarists
Category:American music journalists
Category:American fantasy writers
Category:20th-century American guitarists