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Gretsch Releases High Style, Low Cost Electromatic Junior Jet II

5. May 2006

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While we’re on the subject of Gretsch, check out this cool sunburst edition of their Electromatic Junior Jet II… Now, I’ve been coveting the classic – but incredibly pricey – Duo Jet for many, many years, but with the introduction of Gretsch’s less-expensive Electromatic line I’m starting to seriously reconsider my priorities. Now, it goes without [...]

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Pure & Simple: Gretsch Debuts 6163 Executive Tube Amp

4. May 2006

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You probably know Gretsch for its incredibly stylish, and truly timeless vintage guitars, but it’s worth noting that the company who brought you both the White Falcon and the Tennessee Rose also makes one mean tube amp – provided you’re a purist. I say “provided you’re a purist” because Gretsch’s super-cool, all tube, 20-watt wonder known [...]

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Epiphone Releases Limited Edition 1964 Paul McCartney Texan

4. May 2006

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“Yesterday…love was such an easy game to play.” —Paul McCartney Epiphone has announced the final, limited edition re-release of their classic 1964 Paul McCartney Texan — a replica of the acoustic guitar that Paul played during The Beatles’ ground-breaking performance on the Ed Sullivan Show, not to mention the recording of “Yesterday,” arguably one of The Beatles’ [...]

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Gibson Debuts New SG Standard VOS W/Maestro

3. May 2006

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Somebody Pinch Me! What can I say? For an old-school SG fan like myself, news that Gibson will be producing the SG Standard Vintage Original Spec With Maestro is absolutely drool-inducing… it’s got style, grace, and presumably a whole lot of humbucking power. Based on Gibson’s early, and now utterly classic SG, this new SG Standard will [...]

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VOX Releases DA15 Digital Guitar Amp

1. May 2006

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Big Things Come In Small Packages Not content to be one of the main contenders on top of the tube-amp market (sorry, valve-amp for those in Europe,) VOX has now released two incredibly small amps that pack a powerful punch in the digital guitar effects department: the tiny VOX DA5, and it’s slightly larger cousin the [...]

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Full-Throttle: Electro-Harmonix Announces Metal Muff Distortion

27. April 2006

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New Spin On A Classic Distortion Pedal Well, it looks like Electro-Harmonix has done it again – they’ve apparently just updated their venerable line of distortion pedals (whose pedigree starts way back in the ’70s with the classic Big Muff,) with the newly-released Metal Muff – a distortion pedal aimed squarely at the metal-head demographic. The Electro-Harmonix [...]

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Love At First Sight: Fender Introduces Super-Sonic 112 Combo

26. April 2006

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New From Fender For 2006 ALL-TUBE PERFECTION? OK, first off I think Fender has been reading my mind… seriously, according to their website Fender’s new Super-Sonic 112 Combo may be the all-in-one guitar amplifier I’ve been dreaming of for, I don’t know, the last 20 years! Anyone who follows this blog knows that after years of loading equipment [...]

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Gibson Giving Away A Les Paul Goddess!

21. April 2006

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GIRLS ROCK, TOO! Hammer Of The Goddess Contest According to their website, Gibson is running a contest to give away one of their newly-minted Les Paul Goddess guitars, and as far as I can tell, all you have to do to be entered for a chance to win is fill out their short entry form (contest deadline [...]

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