Posted May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm | No comments
In early 1969 Bob Dylan called and asked me to take a picture for the back of his new album, Nashville Skyline. He had the front cover already picked out—a picture of the skyline of Nashville, where he had recorded the album.One afternoon, I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “Take it, and we’ll see.”
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Posted April 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm | No comments
What happens when a pint-sized female singer/guitarist JamBase calls a “supersonic fretburner” meets Gov’t Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson? Add Amfibian drummer John Hummel for gorgeous rock and fierce jamming — recorded by John Agnello and mixed by Sylvia Massy on Debra Devi’s new EP, A Zillion Stars Overhead.
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Posted March 18, 2020 at 8:28 am | No comments
Fender Music KK, part of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, announced today the launch of the Made in Japan Heritage Series
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Posted February 29, 2020 at 10:53 am | No comments
I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance my new book, Contacting the Band. It will feature selected contact sheets of the photos I took of The Band in the late Sixties for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. It will allow fans of The Band a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the process and frame by frame progression of these landmark photo shoots
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Posted February 11, 2020 at 12:09 pm | No comments
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today released the Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster guitar with the Grammy® award winning artist Eric Johnson. As part of this unique collaboration with the singer, songwriter and guitarist, Fender has recreated Johnson’s 1954 “Virginia” Stratocaster in the Fender Custom Shop
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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 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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Posted November 12, 2019 at 10:56 am | No comments
By 1968, Tim Buckley had developed into one of the most promising singer/songwriters on the scene, following the release of his second album, 1967’s Goodbye and Hello. Less than a year after that album’s release, Buckley checked into The Electric Theatre Co. in Chicago in May 1968 for a couple of shows.
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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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