Yep, it’s that time again… Winter NAMM 2009 is now in full swing, and even though difficulties in my offline life have kept me from attending for the last two years straight, I’m certainly there in spirit! The big news from Fender this season (at least as far as electric guitar enthusiasts are concerned,) is [...]
Continue reading...4. January 2008
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.
Continue reading...30. July 2007
Moving right along with our ongoing NAMM 2007 coverage (I promise, this won’t last much longer,) Ibanez unveiled yet two more handsome additions to its Artcore line of hollowbody guitars this weekend––the semi-acoustic AS73B, and the Artcore Custom AS103BM. Both instruments feature the same basic double-cutaway design, sound block-mounted pickups (for increased sustain,) rosewood fingerboards, [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2007
I’ve been a big fan of Ibanez’s low-cost Artcore Series of jazz boxes since they were first introduced in 2002, so I’m more than happy to see that the line is continuing to expand, and looking better all the time. Over the weekend, at Austin’s Summer NAMM 2007 show, Ibanez introduced this gorgeous new hollowbody [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2007
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that if the Grinch banged heads the Ibanez RGR320EX would be his weapon of choice. Playing off the popularity of its truly classic RG series of shredders (heck, these guitars have been around for over 20 years,) Ibanez today announced the release of this dangerously green [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2007
Moving right along with our NAMM 2007 coverage… Fender today unveiled another new addition to its recent run of Squier artist-branded guitars––the Squier Avril Lavigne Telecaster. The guitar boasts a number of unique Lavigne-inspired features, the most obvious being a distinctive checkerboard pickguard, 5th fret fingerboard inlay in the shape of Lavigne’s star logo, artist [...]
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16. January 2009
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