Monthly Archives: January 2013
Eminence Adds to Kappalite, Patriot Lines
Eminence Speakers has added three 10" neodymium drivers to its Kappalite series – the 3010 HO, 3010MB, and 3010LF. The company has also introduced...
Vibramate Introduces String Spoiler for Bigsby Vibratos
The Vibramate String Spoiler is a bracket that fits on a Bigsby vibrato and is designed to ease the string-changing process while eliminating unwanted...
NAMM Show Weekend
Photos from NAMM and some of the other events in SoCal last week!
James Brown with Amptweaker Our friends at Allparts.
VG “Live” at NAMM!
VG is at the NAMM show, and will be giving you an inside look at vintageguitar.com/13017/winter-namm-2013, as well as its Twitter page. Make it...
Chris Antonik
Blues guitarist Chris Antonik seems determined to prove the adage that every note counts. While his song structures are familiar, his playing keeps them...
Amy Black
There’s a solid old-school thump to Amy Black’s modern, acoustic-guitarbased blues. Sometimes (as on “Stay”), she leavens her music with a rockabilly flavor with...
Carole King and James Taylor
There have always been singer/songwriters in rock (from Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry to the Beatles and Bob Dylan), but from 1968 to ’75,...
D’Angelico Intros Standard Archtop Reissues, Bass, USA Masterbuilt Series
D’Angelico Guitars Standard models are reissues of John D’Angelico’s Excel archtops and are available in single-cut and double-cut styles. All have spruce tops, maple...
ZT Amplifiers Launches First Pedal
ZT Amplifiers’ Exortion pedal offers pure analog and DSP-enhanced signals. The digital circuitry is not a separate “stage” placed in series. Rather, the pedal...
Blues Magoos
Following British Invasion bands like the Yardbirds and Rolling Stones, but mostly fizzling before 1967’s Summer Of Love, bands that straddled the transition from...