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Tattoos: So Much More Painful Than Guitar Lessons…

18. May 2010

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Tattoos: So Much More Painful Than Guitar Lessons…

Saw this over on Geeky Tattoos and thought I’d better share.

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Pickup Maker Lindy Fralin Shows Off His Pure PAF Humbuckers And New Noiseless P-90′s

17. May 2010

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Guitar Raffle To Benefit The American Cancer Society, In Honor Of Josie Alise Greenwood

13. May 2010

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Guitar Raffle To Benefit The American Cancer Society, In Honor Of Josie Alise Greenwood

As many of you know, I lost my young wife Lori to cancer in October of 2007, and hence, this cause is particularly close to my heart. Please consider forwarding this to all your guitar-loving friends. We will all be touched by cancer one day. Here’s a chance to help fight this terrible disease and [...]

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The Robots Are Back! Gibson Announces Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited

12. May 2010

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The Robots Are Back! Gibson Announces Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited

Well, I’m fresh back from a really relaxing diving trip to Honduras (I just got SCUBA certified!) and trying to get back into the swing of things around EGR. The big guitar news while I was gone appears to be Gibson’s release of the Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited –– a strictly limited run of [...]

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Seymour Duncan Giving Away 10 Sets Of Slash Signature Humbuckers

29. April 2010

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Seymour Duncan Giving Away 10 Sets Of Slash Signature Humbuckers

Sweet… I wanted to give you all a heads-up that venerable pickup-maker Seymour Duncan is currently running a contest to giveaway ten full sets of Slash Signature Humbuckers –– officially known as the Alnico II Pro Slash. These are the same pickups used in Gibson’s recently announced Slash ‘Appetite For Destruction’ Les Paul, and they [...]

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Demo: Marshall’s Class5 Tube Amp Matched With Various Guitars

22. April 2010

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PRS 305 Takes MIPA Award & Guitar Player Magazine’s ‘Editor’s Pick’

19. April 2010

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PRS 305 Takes MIPA Award & Guitar Player Magazine’s ‘Editor’s Pick’

There’s a ton of great press going around for Paul Reed Smith’s new 305 model guitar, and I just wanted to point some of it out to you –– in the last few months this gorgeous guitar has won both the Musikmesse International Press Award (or MIPA,) and the June 2010 ‘Editor’s Pick’ from Guitar [...]

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Fender Announces ‘Tele-bration’, Celebrating 60 Years Of The Telecaster

13. April 2010

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Fender Announces ‘Tele-bration’, Celebrating 60 Years Of The Telecaster

According to Fender’s Custom Shop website, the company is celebrating 60 years since the advent of the Telecaster with a ‘Tele-bration’ that includes the release of a number of gorgeous Custom Shop relics. The real stand-out to me is the 60th Anniversary Limited Telecaster Proto (left), which reproduces one of the earliest prototypes of the [...]

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