Posted April 18, 2011 at 4:50 pm | No comments
It’s not uncommon for a musician to record more work than they release. In my case I have a digital ocean of snippets in various degrees of completion. Some are leftovers from assorted project recording sessions, projects that were never completed, sound check jams, demo snippets, etc. There are enough lonely unreleased notes in my world to fill an ”infinity shelf.” VaiTunes are tracks that are culled from this melodic abyss, brushed off, sometimes severely hosed down, and released as digital singles.
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Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:49 am | No comments
PRS Guitars is proud to announce that the new NF3 model has received the Musikmesse International Press Award (mipa) in the “Best Electric Guitar” category for 2010/2011. Press from all over the world voted for this year’s most revered musical gear, and winners were announced at the Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound trade show in Frankfurt, Germany on April 7, 2011.
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Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:20 am | No comments
Six Degrees Records is proud to announce Vieux Farka Toure’s third and most accomplished studio album, The Secret, to be released May 24, 2011. The album produced by guitarist Eric Krasno (of Soulive fame) also features Dave Matthews, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Ivan Neville and Vieux’s final collaboration with his legendary father, Ali Farka Toure.
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Posted April 12, 2011 at 6:41 am | 2 comments
Fender introduces the Wayne Kramer Stratocaster® model, a spot-on replica of the starred-and-striped Stratocaster that infamous MC5 guitarist and Detroit proto-punk Wayne Kramer used back in the late 1960s and early 1970s to kick out the jams and kill hate. It bears his distinctive U.S. flag finish, with a red-and-white striped body and white-stars-on-blue-background pickguard and headstock.
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Posted April 4, 2011 at 8:27 am | No comments
Guitar International is happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with master luthier Dan Smocke and legendary jazz guitarist Jack Grassel to showcase Jack and Dan’s new guitar, the JG-1. In this article, the second in a 3-part series, we have 10 great photos of the guitar being made in Dan’s shop, as well as a full list of specs on the guitar and a video demo of Jack laying down some sweet licks on his new instrument.
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Posted April 2, 2011 at 7:19 am | One comment
Virtuosic jazz-guitarist Jack Grassel has recently teamed up with master luthier Dan Smocke to build his latest, and as Jack calls it “his best,” guitar. Jack was gracious enough to sit down and record a video where he talks about the history of the guitar, why he chose to design it the way he did and perform on the instrument for our readers to hear this master picker in action.
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Posted April 1, 2011 at 12:11 pm | 2 comments
Fender is proud to continue its long tradition of innovation by introducing the new Pawn Shop Series guitars—the Fender ’51, Fender ’72 and Mustang® Special. These instruments draw inspiration from the eccentric and sometimes wildly innovative Fender creations of the mid-’60s to mid-’70s era that sometimes found their way to the outside world and into the more esoteric pages of Fender history. With this adventurous spirit in mind, Pawn Shop Series instruments emerge as all-new Fender guitars with a boldly creative alchemy of diverse Fender components. And while they are brand-new members of the Fender family crafted with thoroughly modern sound and quality, Pawn Shop Series instruments now take the stage with a remarkable new identity as “guitars that never were but should have been.”
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Posted March 26, 2011 at 5:36 am | No comments
What do you get when you invite 15 great bands showcasing at SXSW to record acoustic numbers in a wine cellar decked with recording equipment, a former XM radio DJ, and two PRS acoustic guitars? You get internet radio’s new kid, New Normal Music, and their upcoming series “The ABC’s of SXSW on NNM.” Airing March 28 through April 1 on www.newnormalmusic.com, this uniquely indie acoustic program will feature wine-cellar recordings of fresh-faced artists performing exclusively with Paul Reed Smith acoustic guitars direct from SXSW 2011. “The ABC’s of SXSW on NNM” will play back these acoustic sessions in alphabetical order and will be hosted by NNM DJ’s Art and Tobi.
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Posted March 26, 2011 at 5:20 am | No comments
EVH is proud to introduce two new Wolfgang guitar models, the Wolfgang USA Custom and the Wolfgang Stealt. Both are distinctive variations on the hugely successful original model, the U.S.-made EVH Wolfgang guitar designed by Eddie Van Halen.
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Posted March 20, 2011 at 5:12 am | No comments
Koentopp Guitars has launched a new website showcasing its new line of handmade guitars. The new website incorporates beautiful pictures of Dan Koentopp at work as well as high definition pictures of each instrument from his line of Archtops, Classicals, and Electric Guitars. Dan makes it evident that each guitar is meticulously crafted by hand with the customer in mind from the very beginning.
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