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| Three New Tube Amps BY Carlsbro Introduces |
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| Drawing inspiration from the 50 Top, made over 30 years ago, Carlsbro has created a new line of all-tube guitar amplifiers. The single channel 50 Top valve head is being re-issued exactly as it was 30 years ago. Following original 70's specifications with military spec hand wiring, chassis mounted porcelain valve bases and heavy gauge welded steel chassis, the 50 Top Reissue comes in the original black vinyl with yellow panel cosmetics. |
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| Gibson Wins Trademark Case Against Paul Reed Smith |
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| Gibson Guitar Corp. in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has won a trademark infringement case against manufacturer Paul Reed Smith. The claim involved Gibson's Les Paul single cutaway guitar with a body design which Paul Reed Smith used without permission or compensation to Gibson. This case declared that Paul Reed Smith infringed Gibson's valid trademark. |
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| National Guitar Workshop Expands |
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Twenty-one years ago, Smolover and his wife, Barbara, founded National Guitar Workshop, a Litchfield-based summer music education program.
Over the decades, National Guitar?s success skyrocketed to become the country?s largest music education program with campuses in Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, and at New Milford?s Canterbury School. Now the business is planning a $5 million investment in an Internet-based guitar instruction program. |
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| Grand Opening of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino |
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The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino officially opened today with the smashing of a guitar, "Hard-Rock-style," and Flying Elvi skydivers in Elvis costumes jumping from an altitude of 10,000 feet and performing death-defying free-fall airborne acrobatics before parachuting to earth, all to the delight of hundreds of grand opening guests below.
With the official guitar smash, the Flying Elvi skydivers and concerts by Hootie & the Blowfish, the grand opening of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino ushered in a new dimension of entertainment excitement in Tampa Bay. The $100 million, 250-room hotel and casino complex is already emerging as the region's leading entertainment destination. |
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| New Rock Acoustic Guitar Lessons DVDs |
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| Rock House is now offering a two level Rock Acoustic Guitar program. The first DVD program titled Learn Rock Acoustic Beginner is designed for anyone with little or no experience; it begins at the roots with an easy-to-follow look at basic chords, scales, finger picking and strum patterns. The second DVD titled Learn Rock Acoustic Intermediate includes techniques like strumming, finger picking, acoustic slapping and soloing and introduces players to song writing by showing how to put chords togther to form progressions. |
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| Sonic Implants Releases Talk Box Guitar Sample Collection |
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| Those unfamiliar with the "Talkbox" by name will almost certainly be familiar with the litany of distinctive sounds it can produce, as popular artists as diverse as Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, and Bon Jovi have used the Talk Box over the course of the last thirty years of popular music. In short, the Talk Box is an apparatus that allows guitarists to effectively 'talk' guitar notes by routing the guitar's amplified sound through a piece of tubing the player holds in his mouth. Fluctuations in mouth position relative to the tubing enable the player to evince all manner of artificial 'speech' using the guitar as the players 'voice'. |
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| Guitarist John Mcgeoch dies at age 48 |
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| John McGeoch, a veteran of the British punk movement, has died in his sleep at the age of 48.The guitarist, who co-founded Manchester band Magazine and later played with Souxsie and the Banshees and John Lydon's Public Image Limited |
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| LedendaryTones Updates Their Time Machine Boost Pedal |
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| A new 2004 model of the Time Machine Boost has been announced, offering a lower price with both battery and AC adapter functionality. The Time Machine Boost is a dual-channel, tri-mode boost pedal designed to deliver both vintage style treble boosts as well as a modern, transparent clean boost to maximize the tone of a player's existing guitar and amplifier. Optimized to work with tube amplifiers set on the verge of power tube distortion or already in full saturation, the Time Machine Boost can enable a player to capture greater gain and dynamics from their amplifier that they could otherwise not achieve. Its two footswitchable channels with independent volume levels provide further dynamics, tone shaping, and versatility and provide convenient switching between desired rhythm and lead boosting tones. |
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| New Summit Series Acoustics By Johnson Guitars |
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| Johnson introduces new Summit Series guitars. They feature selected woods including Engelmann spruce, Honduran Mahogany, and Indian Rosewood. Two models, with a solid spruce top and solid mahogany or solid rosewood back, are offered, along with cutwawy versions with B-Band EQ. |
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| TC Electronic Software Update for their G-Major Guitar Processor |
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| TC Electronics has once again updated the software for their G-Major rackmount guitar processor. The update is available now for free download from TC's web site, and requires a PC running Windows XP or 2000 plus a MIDI interface to install. New features in the version 1.27 release include: In Level, Global Out Level and Preset Out Level mapping - A Mapping Response Curve has been added to the three level parameters in the Mod Menu so you can define your own curve to the "In Level", "Global Out Level" and "Preset Out Level" parameters. This gives control over the behavior when using an Expression pedal to control one or more of these parameters. |
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| World Guitar Congress Set for Towson, Baltimore |
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| World Guitar Congress Set for Towson, Baltimore in June. Guitarists from styles including classical, jazz, country, rock, blues, flamenco and fusion will gather in Baltimore for a week in June. They'll play in what's being called "The First World Guitar Congress." |
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| Limited Edition Music Man Guitars |
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| Music Man goes for the gold with Music Man Limited Edition guitars and basses in Radiance Red, with a gold silk-screened logo on a black headstock. A special neck plate will be stamped with "Limited Edition" and pickguards will stand out with a white pearloid finish. |
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| Schecter Guitars Now Shipping Tempest Specials |
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| The redesigned Schecter Diamond Series Tempest Specials now feature a mahogany 'slab' body, a set-in 24 3/4" mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard, 22 jumbo frets, Grover tuners and a TonePros 'locking' tune-a-matic system. Electronics consist of dual Seymour Duncan Designed P-100 pickups, two volume knobs, tone control, and 3-way pickup selector. |
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| Crafter Guitars Adds Twin Bird Acoustic-Electrics Model |
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| Crafter Guitars introduces two new Twin Bird guitars for this year. Both new solid top cutaway-style acoustic electric guitars offer Crafter's patent-pending T-Brace System. Each guitar features handcrafted wooden bird designs inlaid around the soundhole and fingerboard. |
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| Washburn Southern Cross Dimebag Darrell signature guitar |
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| Former Pantera ax-meister and lead guitar hell-raiser for the newly formed Damageplan, Dimebag Darrell is a metal icon with sincere adoration for the dark side of music. His rib-cracking rhythm assaults and melodic lead hurricanes simultaneously brutalize and amaze fans. Behind Dime's bearded, party-hearty appearance are a keen musical mind, tremendous six-string talent and a techsavvy head for gear. |
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Major Keys contain 7 chords.
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Archived Files |
| Wednesday, January 06 | | · | Guitar Painted By Picasso Found In Shoe Box |
| Monday, December 28 | | · | Guitarist for Janis Joplin's Big Brother Band Dies |
| Thursday, December 03 | | · | Upgraded Pedals and Amps From Danelectro |
| Wednesday, December 02 | | · | Hughes & Kettner Complete 2009-2010 Product Lineup |
| Tuesday, December 01 | | · | Mbrace Guitar Holder Super Sale! |
| Monday, November 30 | | · | Jimi Hendrix Tops Guitar Riffs List |
| Thursday, November 19 | | · | Gibson Guitar CEO Leaves Rainforest Group After Nashville Raid |
| Wednesday, November 18 | | · | Gibson Guitar Plant In Nashville Raided By Feds |
| Monday, November 02 | | · | New Gibson Guitars to Sport Völkl Ski Graphics |
| Friday, October 30 | | · | Lava Cable New Improved Retro-Coil Cables |
| Monday, October 12 | | · | Blues Guitarist Freddy Robinson Dies At 70 |
| · | Fender Cuts Rapid Prototyping Costs in Half with Objet 3D Printer |
| · | T-Mobile and Fender Team Up on Guitar Inspired Wood Grain Phone |
| Monday, October 05 | | · | Jimi Hendrix 1967 Stratocaster Back Up For Sale |
| Wednesday, September 02 | | · | MI Awards Honorary Degree to Guitar Legend Steve Vai |
| Tuesday, September 01 | | · | Kyle Busch Donates 150 Guitars To Students |
| Tuesday, August 18 | | · | Brian Setzer Orchestra Meets Film Noir On Songs From Lonely Avenue |
| Thursday, August 13 | | · | Guitar Legend Les Paul Dies At Age 94 |
| Wednesday, August 12 | | · | Fast Axe Multipurpose Guitar Cleaning Brush |
| Wednesday, August 05 | | · | Monster Cables Now Available At The Guitar Files |
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