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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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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Posted January 6, 2020 at 11:39 am | No comments
Acclaimed guitarist Johnny A. announces that he will be returning to the West Coast for a series of tour dates beginning on January 9, 2020. “Most of these venues will be a first for me and I’m excited to be bringing the ‘Just Me…And My Guitars’ show to them,” says Johnny A. “As I usually only get to the West Coast once a year, I’m counting on all my friends and fans to please help me get the word out.”
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Posted December 16, 2019 at 6:00 am | No comments
Catawiki, the most-visited curated marketplace in Europe is thrilled to offer this excellently maintained Manuel Ramirez guitar. It was commissioned by a young Andrés Segovia in 1914 and given by Andrés Segovia to the seller’s grandfather and friend of Segovia: Enrique Anaya Padilla.
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Posted December 12, 2019 at 10:02 am | No comments
ZZ Top’s big, brazen blues-rock, combined with a surrealist charisma that continues to intrigue fans, catapulted the band into worldwide stardom. Their history is deeply explored in ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas
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Posted December 11, 2019 at 7:00 pm | 3 comments
The Immediate Family is a rock and roll band composed of five of the most recorded, respected and sought-after players in modern music: Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel and Steve Postell. They are the modern iteration of a legendary studio ensemble known as “The Section”
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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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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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Posted November 18, 2019 at 10:04 pm | No comments
Beware Of Darkness has toured with artists like Smashing Pumpkins, AWOLNATION, The Wombats, Tegan and Sara, Deftones, KORN, Eagles Of Death Metal, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Social Distortion and more.
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Posted November 15, 2019 at 10:50 am | No comments
Hailed by The New York Times as “a big-hearted musical that breaks the mold, Jagged Little Pill officially opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on Thursday, December 5th following a record-breaking, sold-out world premiere at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) last year
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