Why Won’t The Blues Evolve?

I love the blues. Blues was my favorite music for many years and I have played it, listened to it, supported it, and written about it. I also realize its historical importance as one of […]

Fender Custom Shop Esquire Guitar [Fender Telecaster]

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The Fender Telecaster is seen by many as the primordial electric guitar. It is brutally simple and to the point, built for functionality, and tends to appeal to the caveman contingent of the guitar community, […]

Charvel San Dimas Style 2 Guitar Video Review

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Wayne Charvel set up what was to become a legendary repair and customizing facility there in the mid-seventies, initially in San Dimas before moving to Glendora in 1980. Although the name seems, on the face […]

Valley Arts Guitars Brent Mason Signature Custom Pro Guitar

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Valley Arts Guitars Brent Mason Signature Custom Pro – Brent Mason collaborated with Valley Arts on this amazing-sounding guitar, which is based on the 1968 Fender Telecaster that Mason has used for years. The Brent […]

Fender Guitars Lose Guitar Copyright Case

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Legendary guitar maker, Fender Guitars, helped pave the way for electric guitars of today, but the question of today, “is Fender’s body-shape generic?”. Obviously TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) believe so. Fender lost its […]

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LMG ‘T’ Guitar – Liquid Metal Guitar at NAMM

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NAMM –Liquid Metal Guitars have been making heads turn with their unique metal-bodied guitars for a while now. And now, LMG (Liquid Metal Guitars) has unveiled their latest rock and roll machine, simply dubbed the […]

Reverend Slingshot, Spy and Commando Guitars

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Imagine a Fender Jaguar mating with a 1950s Formica diner table. Imagine their numerous love children, tiny guitars adopted by Leo Fender and raised in the Danelectro plant in Neptune, New Jersey. Fed on the […]

Fender Story: Leo Fender Stratocaster Invention 1954

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Contined on from Leo Fenders invention Broadcaster Article — The third of Fender’s epoch-defining trinity of early guitar designs came in 1954. The impetus for the Stratocaster arose, George Fullerton says, from a demand by […]

Fender Jim Root Telecaster Guitar

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Jim Root Fender Telecaster–The Fender Telecaster is not typically thought of as being ideal for a hard rock/metal sound, yet some hard rock guitarists, such as Jim Root, lead guitarist for Stone Sour and Slipknot, […]