I have to admit that as a long-time Sonic Youth fan I’m kind of bummed that I was missing in action when Fender finally got around to officially announcing the release of their new Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo Jazzmasters. Rumors had been going around for well over a year, and to be honest, I [...]
Continue reading...14. October 2009
Yep — leave it to Gretsch to get me blogging again… If there is one guitar manufacturer that manages to continually appeal to my tastes in both instrument design and function it is Gretsch. Case in point: the good folks at Gretsch have now teamed up with So Cal hot rod artist JimmyC to create [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2009
Wow, have you seen this thing? Once again, Electro-Harmonix produces another stimulating, informational, and just plain fun video demo of one of their new pedals — the Voice Box Vocal Harmony Machine & Vocoder. Yeah, before seeing this demo the chances of me purchasing any kind of vocoder was pretty damned slim, but I have [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2009
So, anybody got the inside scoop on this? I apparently missed the memo. Off the top of my head I remember two other official Ritchie Blackmore Stratocasters coming out of Fender in the last decade or so… there was a 1997 MIJ Limited Edition version with set-neck construction, and a lower-cost MIJ production version with [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2009
Ooh, there is a really positive review of the PRS Starla coming out of Premier Guitar, so those of you who’ve been asking for one here (sorry, just haven’t had time!) might want to check it out. Matching what we discovered from the poll we took on this very model a few months back, the [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2009
Okay, I don’t usually post on the weekends, but I came across this great resource over at Vintage Guitar Magazine’s website and I just wanted to share it with you all. When searching for after-market pickups most of us will never get a chance to try out multiple different units in the same guitar, with [...]
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16. October 2009
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