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And The Award For Ugliest Stompbox of 2008 Goes To…
The Ibanez Steve Vai Jemini Distortion Pedal… two channels of overdrive and distortion, each with individual Drive, Tone & Level controls, and all packed into a zinc die-cast chassis decked out to perfectly complement Vai’s famously color-challenged JEM guitar. Ibanez is calling this one Vai’s “first Signature Distortion pedal…” Can that be correct? I’m not a [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Month #1 :: SG Diablo
14. February 2008
Wow… this thing sure is gaudy ;) Apparently not ready to repeat last year’s rather “love it or hate it” Guitar Of The Week program (we gear hounds sure can be picky, can’t we?) for 2008 Gibson has slowed custom guitar production a bit and will instead be offering the Guitar Of The Month. First up, the [...]
Continue reading...Ouch! ESP Unveils More Than 50 New Guitars & Basses
16. January 2008
Well you’ve got to hand it to ‘em––ESP’s R&D department certainly wasn’t resting on their laurels this past year. The company has announced that for 2008 over 50 new and improved guitars and basses will be added to their line-up. And these are just the six strings…
Continue reading...Here They Are: The New Fender American Standard Lineup
15. January 2008
By now you will have no doubt heard about Fender’s newly re-designed American Standard line for 2008. I won’t go into a long re-hash here (Modern Guitars Magazine covered it well, as always,) but since I hadn’t seen much in the way of photos––and yeah, I’m pretty much a junkie for gear pictures––I contacted Fender and [...]
Continue reading...Gretsch Kicks Off 125th Year With Gorgeous Chet Atkins G6120-125
10. January 2008
25 Pieces Worldwide Wow… talk about a Limited Edition. To celebrate their first 125 years in the guitar-making business, Gretsch today announced the upcoming release of the Chet Atkins G6120-125––an instrument built the way Gretsch used to build them: hand-crafted, and detailed down to the bone. The gorgeous 125th Anniversary Chet Atkins model will be coming straight [...]
Continue reading...Reverend Unveils Ron Asheton Signature Guitar
7. January 2008
Nice… based on their popular Flying-V styled Volcano, Reverend this weekend officially announced the release of the new Ron Asheton Signature guitar––named after Iggy Pop & The Stooges guitarist/songwriter Ron Asheton. The guitar will feature a solid Korina body with raised center, optional tremolo, and a dual-action truss rod (with headstock access,) but the real story [...]
Continue reading...Ibanez To Introduce SV Prestige At Winter NAMM 2008
4. January 2008
The Ibanez SV5470 Prestige––no specs yet, but I’ll keep you up to date as more info becomes available…. you can check out the full page here.
Continue reading...It’s Back! Gibson Re-Releases Limited Edition Custom Shop Reverse Flying V
17. December 2007
Well, I’ve gotta’ say I definitely didn’t see this one coming… Gibson’s rather controversial Reverse Flying V (first released as part of the Guitar Of The Week series,) was apparently so popular that Gibson decided they just had to make a few more. Now available in three different finishes (Natural, Ebony, and Classic White,) the Reverse [...]
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15. February 2008
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