SLACKER Glass- master Ned Evett is walking the thin line between obscurity and acclaim.

BOISE, (Feb. 3, 2004) — There’s this vibe that hovers about Ned Evett like some force field out of “Star Trek.” It gives you the distinct impression that Evett, the inventor of the glass-necked fretless guitar, is destined for greatness. Chat with him for a few minutes and even if you don’t believe in fate, you’ll feel the vibe. Hear him perform his music and it will resonate even deeper. Evett is one of the world’s foremost fretless , and the sumptuous sounds he seduces from his instrument’s strings fuse rock and pop with jazz, , and soul. The lack of any interposing (the series of metal ridges set across a traditional guitar’s ) frees Evett to play every note you can conceive of and all the ones in between. The net result, according to CreativeMusicWorks.org, is “like listening to a waterfall on fire.” Evett and his music are gathering increasing acclaim. Last year he won the 2003 North American Rock Guitar Competition, and he’s earning the respect of a growing number of legendary performers. For instance, Grammy-nominated guitar-virtuoso Joe Satriani — for whom Evett has opened 30 concerts in the U.K. and the U.S. in the last year — says, “Ned plays a mirrored glass fingerboard in a completely new and exciting way.” And frontman describes Evett as a “virtuoso hotshot guitar player” and says, “He’s amazing, beautiful.” Rik Emmett, Canadian guitar virtuoso and founding member of Triumph, says Evett is “a highly entertaining yet artistically advanced musician” and “his approach is inspired and inspiring.” And Sid McGinnis, lead on CBS-TV’s “The Late Show with David Letterman,” describes Ned’s live show as “beautiful,” adding that, “He has taken the slide-guitar concept and flipped it over to where it’s as if he has glass slides on all of his fingers.” Critics are also duly impressed with Evett’s abilities and style. Troy Awarestore.com, CDbaby.com, FretlessGuitar.com, Guitar9.com, and Nelson, Guitar One magazine editor-in-chief, says “Ned’s command of the TheRecordExchange.com. fretless guitar is astonishing,” and Fingerstyle Guitar magazine writes that Recorded in August 2002 after Evett's last European tour, “Evett/ “Ned Evett will make you rethink the plucked-.” Vigroux” — an experimental-pop collaboration with French fretless Guitar9.com proclaims, “Evett breaks all existing fretless-guitar barriers,” guitarist Franck Vigroux — was released in the U.S. and U.K. Feb. 3, 2004. and UnderdogMusic.net advises, “Hear Ned play before you die – it Evett is currently working on the follow-up to “Circus Liquor,” a vocal should be the 11th Commandment.” Seattle Stranger, a weekly pop/rock record titled “I Stole” slated for release this summer. entertainment newspaper, writes that “Evett’s technique on the fretless Evett, who hails from Boise, Idaho, tours extensively throughout the guitar comes praised from every quarter, especially his performance of U.S. and Europe and has staged nearly 500 concerts and clinics in the last what are described as ‘unearthly, theremin-like that create six years. In June, he performed at the 2003 WNED Buffalo Niagara whole new landscapes of sonic possibilities.’” Guitar Festival, and he was a featured performer in April 2001 at “La Nuit Evett, whose career spans nearly two decades, has recorded with De La Fretless” (“The Night of the Fretless”), the world’s premier fretless dozens of bands and artists, including Maria McKee, China Forbes of Pink guitar festival held every other year in Mende, France. In addition to Martini, Rosalie Sorrels, and Built To Spill. In fact, the song “Some Things Satriani, Evett has opened for such noteworthy artists as Dishwalla, Doug Last a Long Time” on the 1993 Built To Spill album “The Normal Years” Martsch, John Scofield, Johnny A, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, features the first recording of Evett on his trademark instrument. the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, California Guitar Trio, and Sex Mob. Evett first began experimenting with the fretless guitar in 1990. “My He has also worked as a session guitarist and bassist. In addition to first fretless guitar was a Fender Stratocaster that I hacked to death with a the Fox NFL 1998 season theme, Evett’s guitar licks have been heard on pair of pliers,” he says. “If there could have been screams, there would numerous radio and TV commercials for such industry leaders as have – kind of like the sound a lobster makes when you boil it.” Microsoft, Toyota, Isuzu, Seagate, and Kaiser Permanente. And several of In 2000, Evett released his groundbreaking, experimental, his songs were used in the independent short film “The Mulligan,” which instrumental-rock debut, “An Introduction to Fretless Guitar.” The next appears on the “Coldgrain” DVD (www.coldgrain.com). year, he co-produced and performed on “Fretless Guitar Masters,” the Evett plays a Fernandes Fretless Native Pro with a mirrored glass world’s first compilation recording of fretless guitarists and the inaugural fingerboard of his own invention, as well as stainless-steel and aluminum CD from his label, FretlessGuitar.com Recordings. Guitarist magazine fingerboard models built by Fernandes and Steve Abbett. gave the CD 4 stars out of 5 in the March 2002 issue. Both albums are Evett’s line of Fernandes fretless guitars are played by such artists as available at FretlessGuitar.com, Guitar9.com, and Amazon.com. of the legendary group , Emptybeach Records released Evett’s second solo record, “Circus Emmy-nominated composer Stephen James Taylor, Dweezil Zappa, and Liquor,” last year. In terms of guitars, every track on the CD was recorded Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, and his Web sites — NedEvett.com and exclusively with fretless electric and fretless acoustic guitars — a first for FretlessGuitar.com— are the Internet’s leading resources for building, vocal pop/rock albums. The disc — described as “brilliant” and playing, and buying fretless guitars. “infectious” by 20th Century Guitar magazine — is available at He endorses Ashdown amps, Fernandes Guitars, and Line 6 effects.