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 [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...21. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...21. August 2007
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, [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
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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23. August 2007
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