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Ouch! ESP Unveils More Than 50 New Guitars & Basses

16. January 2008

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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…

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Here They Are: The New Fender American Standard Lineup

15. January 2008

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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 [...]

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Gretsch Kicks Off 125th Year With Gorgeous Chet Atkins G6120-125

10. January 2008

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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 [...]

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Reverend Unveils Ron Asheton Signature Guitar

7. January 2008

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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 [...]

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Ibanez To Introduce SV Prestige At Winter NAMM 2008

4. January 2008

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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.

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A Few Words From The Young Widower

27. December 2007

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Dear friends and fellow guitar freaks…. while time is undoubtedly flying by for many of you, today marks just two months since my dear wife Lori passed away in my arms at the tender age of 31. It has been a long and hard battle just to keep my head above water in the last eight [...]

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It’s Back! Gibson Re-Releases Limited Edition Custom Shop Reverse Flying V

17. December 2007

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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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Short But Sweet Video Demo Of The Love Pedal Eternity Overdrive

13. December 2007

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Ever since guitar-slinger extraordinaire Andy Summers gushed about the Eternity Overdrive pedal in Guitar Player Magazine I’ve been keeping an eye out for a decent video demo. Coming from a fairly small boutique effects shop––Love Pedal––these babies aren’t easy to find at your local “big box” guitar retailer, so taking one for a test drive is [...]

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