Buying music gear, especially online, can be a little tricky. It can be hard to know how something really sounds and how it performs in real-world situations just by reading manufacturer’s websites and eBay ad […]
Ex- Guns N Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist, Slash, plays an eerie cover from the 1972 Italian-American mob flick, The Godfather. You’ll notice Slash’s tempo on guitar is a bit faster than the original […]
Only in the world of “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” would the guitar-world have such craziness and drama, right? Wrong! We are all too familiar with the recent debacle the past few days–the ongoing internet […]
Music is a funny thing. From the time we are first inspired to pick up the guitar or any other instrument, most of us dream of stardom as a musician. Our fantasies are filled with […]
9.28.09–Update: Gibson removes Hendrix Strat content from official website Gear-Vault was first to break the story: Gibson to create Strats for Jimi Hendrix’s new Signature Model? However, the question remains the same, “did Gibson screw […]
Guitarists, as most of us already know, are perhaps the most intense and obsessive of all musicians about their instrument and their relationship to it. This obsession normally manifests itself in one of two ways […]
Rock star, Richard Patrick of Filter confesses, “I’ve never felt more spoiled.” What is this rocker talking about? His Fender Custom Shop guitars, of course. Both Patrick and Filter lead guitarist Geno Lenardo are currently […]
“There’s a little bit of history behind the guitar,” says veteran Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray of the 1957 Strat he used to produce the wailing sounds heard on each of Iron Maiden’s first eight […]
Les Paul–arguably the most influential and innovative guitarist and inventor of musical technology in history, passed away August 13th, 2009 from complications that resulted from a severe bout of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in […]
The topic of Angus Young, who is, of course, the lead guitarist in everlasting rock gobstopper AC/DC, comes up frequently in guitar circles, both with students and with peers. There are a lot of folks […]
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