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Chop Shop: Upgrading My SG To Lindy Fralin Hum-Cancelling P90s
As some of you will remember, in 2007 I was lucky enough to purchase one of Gibson’s “Guitar of The Week” models, the gorgeous Limited Edition ‘67 SG Special Reissue w/P-90’s. I have since fallen in love with this guitar over and over again, and it only sounds better with time… with one caveat –– [...]
Continue reading...Dunlop Giving Away A Ton Of Zakk Wylde Gear… Deadline June 1st
20. May 2010
Just a quick note for you Zakk Fanatics… You’ve got something like twelve more days to get in on Dunlop’s big Zakk Wylde Gear Pack Giveaway. The company is giving away a ton of stuff here, including an Epiphone “Graveyard Disciple” electric guitar, Crybaby Zakk Wylde Signature Wah, MXR Zakk Wylde Overdrive and MXR Black [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Raffle To Benefit The American Cancer Society, In Honor Of Josie Alise Greenwood
13. May 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Robots Are Back! Gibson Announces Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited
12. May 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Seymour Duncan Giving Away 10 Sets Of Slash Signature Humbuckers
29. April 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...PRS 305 Takes MIPA Award & Guitar Player Magazine’s ‘Editor’s Pick’
19. April 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Fender Announces ‘Tele-bration’, Celebrating 60 Years Of The Telecaster
13. April 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...It’s Back… Gibson Releases 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul ‘Black Beauty’
8. April 2010
Wow, Gibson’s running fast and furious with the ’50th Anniversary’ models these days… the latest in the line, announced earlier this week, will be the 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Custom ‘Black Beauty’ –– a re-creation of one of Gibson’s most popular and iconic guitars. The guitar appears to have all the bells and whistles [...]
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25. May 2010
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