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Gretsch Introduces Gorgeous Country Club Hollowbody
I’m sorry to say I missed any kind of “official” announcement from Gretsch, but the company has apparently released two new models of their gorgeous Country Club Hollowbody –– one in two-tone smoke gray/metallic violet finish (shown here,) and the other in bamboo yellow/copper mist. Both the G6196TSP-2G and G6196TSP-BY Country Club are decked out [...]
Continue reading...Epiphone Announces Suped-Up Emperor “Swingster” Hollowbody
19. October 2009
Epiphone this week announced the resurgence of their classic Emperor Hollowbody in a new suped-up package officially dubbed the Emperor Swingster. The guitar (shown here in Wine Red) is expected to feature a newly updated set of pickups designed specifically for the Swingster (Epiphone SwingBuckers?) along with a push/pull tone knob for tapping standard and [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Dark Fire Follow-Up: The Dusk Tiger
17. October 2009
I hope they aren’t betting the farm on this thing ;)
Continue reading...Just Three Days Left To Get In On Gibson’s MLB Les Paul Studio Giveaway
16. October 2009
Hey all you Major League Baseball fans, I just wanted to give you a quick reminder that you’ve got only three days left if you want to get in on a chance to win this MLB branded Les Paul Studio from Gibson. Now, I dug around a bit, and unfortunately there’s really not much info [...]
Continue reading...Fender’s Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo Jazzmasters Due In Stores Soon
16. October 2009
I have to admit that as a long-time Sonic Youth fan I’m kind of bummed that I was missing in action when Fender finally got around to officially announcing the release of their new Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo Jazzmasters. Rumors had been going around for well over a year, and to be honest, I [...]
Continue reading...Limited Edition: Gretsch Introduces JimmyC Custom Pin-Striped G5120
14. October 2009
Yep — leave it to Gretsch to get me blogging again… If there is one guitar manufacturer that manages to continually appeal to my tastes in both instrument design and function it is Gretsch. Case in point: the good folks at Gretsch have now teamed up with So Cal hot rod artist JimmyC to create [...]
Continue reading...See & Hear The New Electro-Harmonix Voice Box In Action
29. January 2009
Wow, have you seen this thing? Once again, Electro-Harmonix produces another stimulating, informational, and just plain fun video demo of one of their new pedals — the Voice Box Vocal Harmony Machine & Vocoder. Yeah, before seeing this demo the chances of me purchasing any kind of vocoder was pretty damned slim, but I have [...]
Continue reading...Fender Reproduces The Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster… Again?
27. January 2009
So, anybody got the inside scoop on this? I apparently missed the memo. Off the top of my head I remember two other official Ritchie Blackmore Stratocasters coming out of Fender in the last decade or so… there was a 1997 MIJ Limited Edition version with set-neck construction, and a lower-cost MIJ production version with [...]
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21. October 2009
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