“I’ve always wanted to be known as something more than a blues guy,” says Doyle Bramhall II, a guitarist still known for his teenage association with Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Double Trouble’s first post-Stevie outfit, the ARC Angels. But his heavy blues past notwithstanding, Bramhall is starting to look like he’s on [...]

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The Nashville Convention Center was the scene for this year’s summer NAMM Show, and Babicz Guitars used the occasion to offer a “sneak peek” of their new, all US manufactured Crescent Series line of solid body guitars.
This new innovative design, fresh off the bench of Jeff Babicz, will initially be produced in Indiana using all [...]

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In 1970, Gary Kramer co-founded Kramer Guitars with his friend Dennis Berardi. Originally, Kramer started out making Aluminum neck guitars. By 1981 he abandoned the idea to follow Charvel’s trend with wooden neck guitars, which were also the first guitar company to offer Original Floyd Rose locking tremolo systems on their production guitars. Kramer began [...]

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If only for his contributions to the Band of Gypsys, Drummer Buddy Miles is one of the true legends of the Sixties rock scene. Born in 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska, Miles began his career at the age of 12, playing drums in his father’s jazz band. By the time he was 15, Miles had hit [...]

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If you are looking for a bit of inspiration to help you get out of a rut, or to help you write better riffs then you should definitely check out Dave Weiner’s YouTube channel ’Riff Of The Week‘.
Dave Weiner is a Favored Nations artist, he released “Shove The Sun Aside” back in 2004 and is [...]

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Whilst reading my daily guitar rss feeds I came across a very interesting guitar over at Thumbrella by Italian guitar company Manne Guitars established in 1987 by Andrea Ballarin in Schio, in northeastern Italy. Manne guitars’ main shape is quite unique just check out the Taos to see what I mean. Well it turns out [...]

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Charlie Wallace asked: Buying a new guitar can be an often exciting moment, but you have to stop your excitement getting in the way of making an informed decision. The first thing that I will point out is that even if a guitar costs $5,000, it may not be better than a $2,000. The first [...]

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I just came across this link over at Boing Boing to a Flickr Pool of hand made guitar picks. I thought this was a really cool idea although I’m not sure about cardboard picks! This person, sorry I don’t know a name just the Flickr username Aud1073cH, has actually used bits of old laptops, old [...]

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The competition to win a signed copy of Prashant Aswani’s album “Revelation - Fully Loaded”. Thank you to everyone for entering but in the words of Highlander, there can be only one! So congratulations to the chosen one Stanford Axle!
Prashant sent me a video of his appearance at the Melbourne music conference CMI Frontrunner 2008 [...]

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I have just been loaned a Vox AmPlug AC30 by Rob from Dirt Loco so that I can review it for Guitar Noize, thanks Rob. The AmPlug is a very simple and clever idea, it simply plugs into your guitar where you would normally plug in your guitar lead from your amp, plug in a [...]

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