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Rewind Festival The World’s Biggest ’80s Music Festival (3 Festivals)

Rewind Festival The World’s Biggest ’80s Music Festival (3 Festivals)

Posted January 28, 2020 at 7:35 am | No comments

Rewind The ’80s Music Festival, the world’s first and biggest ’80s music festival, returns with three amazing UK festivals for summer 2020. Tickets for all festivals go on sale at 10am on Thursday 30th January 2020 via the official festival website HERE.

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Fender ® Announces Change in Owner, SERVCO Pacific Inc. to Secure Majority Stake

Fender ® Announces Change in Owner, SERVCO Pacific Inc. to Secure Majority Stake

Posted January 27, 2020 at 8:17 am | No comments

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announced Servco Pacific Inc. (Servco) and TPG Growth have entered into a sale and purchase agreement in which Servco will acquire TPG’s shares in the company. The acquisition is targeted to close in February 2020, subject to certain closing conditions.

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Ovation Guitars Announces the Opening of an All-New Custom Shop

Ovation Guitars Announces the Opening of an All-New Custom Shop

Posted January 14, 2020 at 6:12 am | No comments

Ovation Guitars is proud to announce the opening of the all-new “Ovation Custom Shop”. This purpose-driven shop is located in New Hartford, Connecticut and features a small team of dedicated luthiers and technicians who have a truly specialized focus – custom-made, USA built Ovation guitars.

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PRS Guitars Brings McCarty 594 Instruments to the S2 Series

PRS Guitars Brings McCarty 594 Instruments to the S2 Series

Posted January 8, 2020 at 9:27 am | No comments

The S2 McCarty 594 family can seamlessly master authentic humbucking tones and nuanced, sweet single-coil sounds, thanks to their 58/15 “S” pickups and dual volume and push/pull tone controls. This versatile tonal set up is backed by modern construction, so these guitars play in tune, stay in tune, and are intonated the entire length of the neck.

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Ronnie Van Zant’s “Lucky Pants”, Personal Photos and Handwritten Notes to be Auctioned for the First Time!

Ronnie Van Zant’s “Lucky Pants”, Personal Photos and Handwritten Notes to be Auctioned for the First Time!

Posted December 1, 2019 at 5:36 am | No comments

Ronnie Van Zant’s rise to fame and his untimely death at age of only 29 made for the most unfortunate rock star tragedy. In 1973 Van Zant, along with his original bandmates signed with MCA and began releasing what was to become some of the world’s most widely recognized Southern rock and blues music.

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America Rockers Dewey Bunnell & Gerry Beckley on The Big Interview Nov. 27 at 8pE

America Rockers Dewey Bunnell & Gerry Beckley on The Big Interview Nov. 27 at 8pE

Posted November 25, 2019 at 9:17 am | No comments

Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, founding members of the legendary GRAMMY-winning rock band America,join Dan Rather for an all-new episode of The Big Interview—airing Wednesday, November 27 at 8pE/5pP.

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Knaggs Guitars Offers Up the Kenai J with Several Pickup Options!

Knaggs Guitars Offers Up the Kenai J with Several Pickup Options!

Posted November 1, 2019 at 1:26 pm | No comments

Knaggs Guitars continues to run in front of the pack and press on with their beautiful line-up of guitars and we recently got an update from them on the Kenai J model and it’s various pup configurations using versions of P-90s and Humbuckers.

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Ovation Guitar Wall goes up at Glen Campbell Museum & Rhinestone Stage in Nashville

Ovation Guitar Wall goes up at Glen Campbell Museum & Rhinestone Stage in Nashville

Posted October 31, 2019 at 10:52 am | One comment

Behind the scenes working the design, site preparation and construction phases of The Glen Campbell Museum and Rhinestone Stage are The Temeka Group of Corona, California and Clearbrook Hospitality, LLC, of Nashville, Tennessee. The museum will be in downtown Nashville, and is scheduled to open early in 2020.

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PRS Guitars Advances SE Series with Significant Model Addition

PRS Guitars Advances SE Series with Significant Model Addition

Posted October 8, 2019 at 12:25 pm | No comments

PRS Guitars is pleased to announce the expansion of the PRS SE Series with the introduction of six new models, including the return of some beloved designs, hollowbody models for the first time in the SE Series, and two new exotic veneer instrumen

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Luke Brindley of Jammin’ Java fame Sets up a Kickstarter Campaign – The Devil’s Drum and Symbus

Luke Brindley of Jammin’ Java fame Sets up a Kickstarter Campaign – The Devil’s Drum and Symbus

Posted September 20, 2019 at 12:48 pm | No comments

Recently, Luke Brindley decided to go the Kickstarter route to help fund his planned album, with many of the tracks he’s written and tested with the locals, and friends of his and his brothers’ fine venue, where you’ll find such well-known artists as, Adrian Belew, Jason Masi, Marshall Crenshaw, Patty Larkin and many more.

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