Archive | Guitars
Rare Find: Moonlander Stereo Drone-Guitar For Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo
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 [...]
Continue reading...A Closer Look At Guitar Of The Week #37 :: The ’67 SG Special Reissue w/P-90′s
4. October 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Jumps The Gun, Reveals Next Twelve Guitar Of The Week Models
2. October 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...New York’s Music Zoo Gets Exclusive Ultimate Relic Series Strats
2. October 2007
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. [...]
Continue reading...Leaked! Gibson Guitar Of The Week #48: RD Standard Reissue Silverburst
1. October 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...A Reader Reviews Gibson’s Guitar Of The Week #21: The SG-3 Fireburst
1. October 2007
Over the weekend EGR reader Jarrod Perkins left us a great review of his new Limited Edition Gibson SG-3 Fireburst (Guitar Of The Week #21,) and I thought I’d post it here so more of you would get to read it. Enjoy–– So my SG3 arrived yesterday. After giving it a proper workout, I’m very [...]
Continue reading...Guitar World Reviews New Fender Princeton Recording Amp
28. September 2007
There’s an excellent review of Fender’s new Princeton Recording Amp over at Guitar World right now, so if you’re into the whole low-power/big-tone tube amp thing like I am, you might want to check it out. As usual, they’ve got a pretty decent demo video as well, though getting it to buffer smoothly can be [...]
Continue reading...It’s Official… Gibson Unveils The Dave Grohl ‘Inspired By’ DG-335
27. September 2007
Well, you heard it here a few weeks ago, but today it became official: Gibson’s Custom Shop has announced the release of the new Dave Grohl DG-335––part of Gibson’s small but illustrious Inspired By series of signature guitars. As called out by more than a few of our readers, the guitar is based on the [...]
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4. October 2007
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