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VOX Expands Heritage Collection With Three New Models

5. October 2007

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If you remember, VOX started this year off with a bang when they announced their new Heritage Collection line of guitar amplifiers––including the super-slick Limited Edition AC15H1TV––meant to celebrate the company’s 50th Anniversary in the rock & roll business. Today the company upped the ante when it announced three new additions to the Heritage Collection: the [...]

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Guitar Player’s Video Review Of The Campbell American Caledonian

5. October 2007

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Just finished watching Guitar Player Magazine’s recent video review of the Caledonian––one of Campbell American’s newer models. I take a keen interest in pretty much everything Campbell American does these days, because when I did my hands-on review of their first model, the Precix, back in August of ‘06, I really fell head over heels for [...]

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Ibanez & Bungie Giving Away Custom Halo 3 Xiphos Guitars

5. October 2007

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If you’re a mad Master Chief fanatic like me (much to my beautiful wife’s dismay,) you’ll definitely want to get in on this giveaway from Ibanez and Bungie. As if the Halo 3 marketing juggernaut weren’t already powerful enough––they’re pawning off energy drinks for gawd’s sake––Ibanez is now set to give away three Custom Halo 3 [...]

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Rare Find: Moonlander Stereo Drone-Guitar For Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo

4. October 2007

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Noise-guitarist extraordinaire Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, is apparently the happy recipient of this custom built Moonlander guitar from experimental luthier Yuri Landman. The instrument, one of just two in existence (Landman owns the other,) is a bi-headed stereo drone guitar armed with a whopping 18 strings––6 standard and 12 sympathetic. While the six standard strings [...]

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A Closer Look At Guitar Of The Week #37 :: The ‘67 SG Special Reissue w/P-90’s

4. October 2007

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Over the past thirty-seven weeks Gibson’s put out a few real lookers, a few clunkers, and a wide array of just so-so semi-customized Guitar Of The Week instruments, but yesterday’s release of the ‘67 SG Special Reissue with P-90 pickups is easily the one guitar from this program that I’d really like to own. Week 37 [...]

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Gibson Jumps The Gun, Reveals Next Twelve Guitar Of The Week Models

2. October 2007

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Oops!  I have to admit I took a double-take when I cruised over to Gibson’s website this afternoon only to discover that they’d rather unceremoniously pulled the veil off all but four of the remaining sixteen Guitar Of The Week instruments. Now, I have no way of knowing if it was intentional or not––heck, someone [...]

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New York’s Music Zoo Gets Exclusive Ultimate Relic Series Strats

2. October 2007

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If you’re looking for something a little different in the way of a “Relic,” you might want to check out New York’s Uber Fender Custom Shop Dealer The Music Zoo––these guys have collaborated with CS guru John Cruz to develop a line of exclusive “Ultimate Relic” Strats, and the current batch is looking pretty stellar. According [...]

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Leaked! Gibson Guitar Of The Week #48: RD Standard Reissue Silverburst

1. October 2007

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Well, it looks like yet another online guitar retailer has inadvertently released specs and photos of a not-yet-announced guitar from Gibson’s Guitar Of The Week program, this one being GOTW #48––the RD Standard Reissue Silverburst. Yep, what you’re looking at is a reissue of the ill-fated RD Standard, circa the late ’70s, finished off in Gibson’s [...]

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