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Replacement Strat Pickups Compared: Check Out These MP3 Samples!

7. March 2007

If you’ve found yourself in the market for a set of replacement pickups for your Stratocaster––or heck, maybe you’re just in the early research phase of doing some hack & slash guitar mods––you really need to check out the Strat Pickup Sound Clips page over at Acme Guitar Works. These guys are in the business [...]

REVIEW: Fender Classic ’60s Stratocaster

27. February 2007

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Model Fender Classic ’60s Stratocaster Intro The Classic ’60s Strat is Fender’s low-cost, Mexican made answer to the seemingly endless fascination we guitarists have with the Stratocasters of yester-year. While far from being on a par with its costly American made counterpart––the American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster––the Classic ’60s Strat still manages to fill a particular [...]

See The BOSS/Fender ’59 Bassman Pedal In Action

21. February 2007

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When BOSS & Fender announced their new ’59 Bassman pedal last month I greeted it with more than a bit of skepticism… to be honest, as a dyed-in-the-wool vintage tube-amp fiend I actually found the whole idea rather unsavory. Not that I begrudge anyone for wanting to get some of that classic tone without shelling [...]

My Quest For The Perfect Strat

16. February 2007

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It’s funny, I’ve been playing the electric guitar for over twenty years now, and in all that time, while I’ve owned numerous great guitars, I’ve never owned a basic Stratocaster… not a single one. I’ve owned Gibsons, Gretchs, and Guilds, a Rickenbacker and a few Teles to boot, but never a Strat. Sure, I’ve played [...]

Fender Unveils G.E. Smith Signature Telecaster

13. February 2007

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More good stuff from Fender: the company has announced a rather intriguing new signature model for its 2007 lineup––the G.E. Smith Signature Telecaster. The guitar, which was created in cooperation with G.E. Smith, decade-long bandleader from Saturday Night Live, is apparently intended to be a mash-up between a Fender lap steel from the ’40s and [...]

John 5 Gets Another Signature Guitar: Fender’s J5 Triple Tele

8. February 2007

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According to their website Fender has released yet another John 5 Signature instrument––the new J5 Triple Tele Deluxe––which looks to be based on a classic ’70s Tele Deluxe, albeit with some modern, high-power modifications. John 5′s other signature model guitar is of course the J5 Bigsby Telecaster. Unique features of the J5 Triple Tele Deluxe [...]

It’s Official: Fender Unveils Andy Summers Telecaster

7. February 2007

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We hinted about it back in October, but now it’s official: Fender has announced its Andy Summers Tribute Telecaster, a replica of Summers’ heavily-modified ’61 Tele, which he apparently bought in the ’70s for a staggering $200 ;) The guitar will be produced in a limited run of just 250 instruments, the first of which [...]

’59 Fender Bassman In A Box… Am I The Only One Scared, Here?!

19. January 2007

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OK, really, I’m the farthest thing from a Luddite folks––I’m a computer professional and blogger for gawd’s sake––but this move towards ‘digital everything’ is really starting to get on my analog-lovin’ nerves. Yesterday I discovered Fender’s new digital modeling Stratocaster, and this morning I got an e-mail from BOSS pointing me towards another new Fender/Roland [...]

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