Seymour Duncan is set to offer its Whole Lotta Humbucker to players worldwide. The pickup is based on Duncan’s personal experience in the ’70s, when he worked at the Fender Soundhouse with artists like Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and many others. “I liked to rewind pickups with 42-gauge plain-enamel wire,” he said. “I’d [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Beatles’ Casinos
Of all the guitars the Beatles made famous, the only one that John, Paul and George had in common was the Epiphone Casino. Each owned a Casino and used it for countless recordings and performances. Paul McCartney was the first Beatle to acquire a Casino. Influenced to purchase it by his friend, blues musician John [...]
Eastwood’s Airline Bighorn
Goin’ “Old-Store”
Most everyone has seen a department-store-catalog guitar (or two!) from the ’60s or ’70s. With their funky, cool body shapes and smorgasbord of knobs and switches, their looks grabbed ya’. Trouble was, they were usually plagued with cut-rate hardware and electronics, low build quality, and crude playability. The latest creation from Eastwood, the Airline Bighorn, [...]
PRS’ L.A. Showroom To Go Full-Time
PRS Guitars will open its Los Angeles showroom on a full-time basis beginning March 1. Located at the CenterStaging facility in Burbank, the showroom will extend its artist relations’ efforts by offering musicians the opportunity to try various instruments in its intimate studio environment. “We value the relationships we have with our artist endorsers and [...]
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Eastwood Guitars Searching for World’s Ugliest Guitar
Eastwood Guitars is launching a find the “World’s Ugliest Guitar” contest, with the winning entry to be re-created in a limited-edition run. Eastwood is gathering opinions with an interactive voting system at facebook.com/EastwoodGuitars1. This page offers a choice of eight of the world’s “most extreme mistakes” in mass-produced guitars from the past 50 years. Round one is [...]
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Surreal Amps Preps Two New Models
Surreal Amps is offering two new models; the Surreal LC 100 is a single-channel amp with a stripped down circuit and aesthetic, while the Classic² 18 Watt is a 6V6/18-watt version of the company’s Classic amp. Both are hand-wired at Surreal’s headquarters in California, using premium components. Custom tolex colors are offered at no extra [...]
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Happy Traum
American Stranger
Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop
Resurrected from Stefan Grossman’s Kicking Mule label of the ’70s (1977, to be exact), Stranger was the followup to Traum’s solo debut, Relax Your Mind. In lieu of beefing up the 30-minute set with bonus tracks, the album is paired with a 13-song DVD of Traum in concert in ’81. Also, the CD includes a [...]
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Tim Bogert’s Modified Fender
One Fudged Bass
When Vanilla Fudge helped pioneer the progressive-rock movement in the latter half of the ’60s, bassist Tim Bogert played more than one Fender Precision – and usually installed Telecaster Bass necks on them. Bogert preferred the chunkier feel of the Tele Bass neck, which reminded him of ’50s P-Basses. And for him, one instrument, in [...]
Reverend Guitar Set For Cancer Society Raffle
Reverend Guitars and Naked Body Guitars have collaborated on a custom-finished instrument that will be raffled for charity April 28. The Reverend Warhawk II is painted to match a 1967 Mustang being sold to raise money for The American Cancer Society during this year’s Shelbyfest in Herman, Missouri. The program was begun by Mary Jean [...]
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Dan Toler, Guitarist in Great Southern, ABB, Passes
Dan Toler, former guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman Band, and Dickey Betts’ Great Southern, died February 25. He was 65 and had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Toler started playing guitar at age 12, influenced by Johnny Smith, Chet Atkins, Lonnie Mack, and others. His [...]
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