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Gibson Debuts Gorgeous New Les Paul Studio 50s Tribute… And It’s Affordable!
Wow… we may all have our own tastes when it comes to guitars and finishes, but to my mind this latest model from Gibson America is easily one of the most gorgeous LPs currently selling, and it’s surprisingly affordable. Announced just this morning, Gibson’s new Les Paul Studio 50s Tribute will apparently be selling for [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Adds Two More Slash Les Paul Models To The Mix: VOS & Aged
2. June 2010
No, you’re not reading that wrong… Gibson this morning has announced yet two more Slash Les Paul models –– the Custom Shop Slash Appetite for Destruction VOS, and Slash Appetite for Destruction Aged –– both in Butterscotch Nitro finishes, and both in strictly limited editions. According to Gibson, the new Custom Shop Slash LPs have [...]
Continue reading...Your Chance To Win A Road Worn ’50s Telecaster… From Fender & BigBang
26. May 2010
I’m not sure how I missed this before, but I wanted to point out that Fender, along with Norwegian band BigBang, is giving away a Road Worn ’50s Telecaster, and there are just a few more days before the deadline is up (May 31st.) Fender’s foray into producing budget “Relics” –– via their Road Worn [...]
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...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 [...]
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9. June 2010
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