Archive | Guitars

Last Chance To Win A Guitar Slide Hand-Made By George Thorogood

23. August 2007

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Hey, just a quick reminder that you’ve got just twelve more hours to get in on the George Thorogood Custom Guitar Slide Giveaway we announced last week. To enter for a chance to win a slide hand-made and signed by Thorogood himself,  just leave a comment (using a valid e-mail address so we can contact [...]

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Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part Three – Fillin’ Up the Chassis

22. August 2007

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Well, with Part 2 out of the way it’s time to finish populating the circuit board on our BYOC Tri Booster, and then get to filling up that chassis. Installing The Transistors & Capacitors If you check out Step 7 in the official PDF instructions you’ll see that our next move is to install two [...]

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Hello Gibson? This Is IG Calling…

22. August 2007

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If you’re like me you’ve probably got a good little Gibson Guitar Of The Week wish list going on in the back of your head… you know––something like a Goldburst Les Paul with a Bigsby Vibrato and locking tuners… or maybe an ES-335 decked out in Amber, with dual P-90s and a Charlie Christian at [...]

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Fender’s Limited Edition “Thin Skin” ’62 Jaguar In Shoreline Gold Is Now In Stores

21. August 2007

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You won’t find it listed on their website, and you certainly won’t stumble onto one while perusing the guitar racks down at your local “big box” guitar store, but if you look in the right places you’ll find that a few select retailers are now carrying this Limited Edition “Thin Skin” ’62 Jaguar decked out [...]

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Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #31 :: Flying V New Century

21. August 2007

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So here it is: the latest custom Flying V to be born out of Gibson’s year-long Guitar Of The Week series––the newly minted limited edition Flying V New Century. To be perfectly honest, I’m very happy to see Gibson taking the New Century line in a whole new direction, because in case you missed it, [...]

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Play Like A Girl! Reviews The Luna Andromeda Floyd Grape

20. August 2007

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When I published my Top 10 Guitars For Girls list back in 2006, Luna Guitars‘ Andromeda Floyd Grape came in with an honorable mention at #9, not due to any kind of lack of quality on Luna’s part (actually, the specs looked great,) but because the company was simply too young, and for the life [...]

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Hey, We’re Giving Away A Custom Slide Hand-Made By George Thorogood!

17. August 2007

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Well, this week marks the grand release of the 25th Anniversary Edition of George Thorogood and the Destroyers‘ seminal album Bad to the Bone––now digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and including a bunch of great extras, like six new recordings and a rare B-side. To help celebrate the re-birth of Bad to the [...]

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See & Hear The Electro Harmonix Germanium OD In Action

17. August 2007

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Just a quick note for the vintage effects freaks out there––over on YouTube Avi Bortnick & Michael Leonhart have posted a short clip of the new Electro-Harmonix Germanium OD in action, and it sounds pretty much like you’d expect… a little bit sweet, a little bit raunchy, and a whole lot of old-school overdrive. Would [...]

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