PRS Guitars is reopening for factory tours in January 2024 for the first time since 2019. The PRS factory tour starts in Rough Cut with raw wood blanks and goes through every step of the electric guitar build process in Maryland. The tour also covers PRS SE Series inspection and the PRS amplifier department.
The National GUITAR Museum announced that Tommy Emmanuel, one of the most revered guitarists to ever pick up the instrument, will receive its annual “Lifetime Achievement” Award for 2023. Emmanuel is the fourteenth recipient of the award.
“I think it was a great first night. It was heartwarming to see so many people from both the DMV and music communities come out to support our new venue. It was an outstanding first night with many more to come!” – Michael DeMarco
My name is Michael DeMarco, and I am the owner of Earp’s Ordinary in Fairfax, Virginia. Four years ago, I started the long process of developing a business plan to create a music venue, restaurant, and bar here in the City of Fairfax.I have a lifelong love of music and have leveraged that love, along with my skills from the corporate world, to create a space for local and touring musicians to showcase their talent as well as provide a welcoming environment for music lovers of all ages to enjoy live performances.
PRS Guitars has announced the “Dead Spec” Silver Sky Limited Edition. Designed for John Mayer’s prominent work on Dead & Company’s most recent tour, the PRS “Dead Spec” Silver Sky is a significantly modded PRS Silver Sky that pays homage to Jerry Garcia’s iconic “Alligator” guitar tones. Only 1,000 “Dead Spec” Silver Sky Limited Edition instruments will be sold worldwide.
Paul Reed Smith is an internationally-known guitar maker, musician and guitar player. Those facts are brilliantly evidenced on the debut album from his Eightlock band, Lions Roaring in Quicksand, which releases December 1st on Steele Records, distributed by Amplified Distribution. The first single, “Breathe,” will be released digitally on Friday, November 10th.
Today Gretsch is expanding the Professional Collection with two Limited Edition models. This collection sets the bar with modern, professional-grade features designed to power classic Gretsch tones and bold, dynamic sound. The Gretsch Limited Edition models elevate the brand’s most celebrated designs with striking finishes and upgraded features and appointments.
The Les Paul Foundation presented the “Early Days of Multi-Tracking” with presentations by Grammy winning record producer and sound engineer Steve Rosenthal and curator Perry Margouleff. Rosenthal spent time discussing the work on Les Paul’s collection of recordings at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
The concept of playing for free or for spare change is one for the ages. And the decisions for performing for little to no compensation is one to not take lightly, and should consider one’s level of talent, name recognition, commerciality, as well as the venue or circumstances that offer “real estate” to perform your original songs, cover songs or, most likely a mix of the two.
Today’s guitar review is of the Limited Edition G5622T-140 Electromatic®, a mid-range guitar that should be a welcome addition to any guitar player’s gathering of stage ready guitars. The guitar draws design features, functional electronic and hardware components, and inspiration from such masterful Gretsch guitars as those cool Country Gentleman and White Falcon instruments, that we’ve seen in the hands of George Harrison, Gene Vincent, Brian Setzer, Michael Nesmith, Neil Young and many more legendary play
