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Godin’s A4 and A5 Ultra SA
Godin A4/A5 Ultra SA
Price: $1,395 (A4 Ultra SA fretted); $1,645 (A5 Ultra SA fretless)
Info: godinguitars.com.
For years, Godin Guitars has been finding creative ways to...
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
Slash and his rock and roll posse have released their third solo album with Alter Bridge vocalist Myles Kennedy. This is a mean, heart-resuscitating...
Boss DM1 Delay Machine
VG reader Danny Carr is a big fan of the Boss DM1 Delay Machine. “This bruiser hasn't left my pedal board since 1980,” he...
Dickerson Standard Lap Steel
Though today they are viewed as little more than curious relics of a lost era, during the Great Depression, “mother of toilet seat” Hawaiian...
Bill Frisell
It’s almost impossible to pigeonhole Bill Frisell, and his latest album will make it even harder.
The guitarist and his band reinterpret some of the...
Floyd Rose, Graph Tech Release New Tremolo
Floyd Rose and Graph Tech have combined to create the first Floyd Rose Tremolo System with Graph Tech’s Ghost saddles, which use custom-engineered piezo...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
One of the greatest blues guitarists of any era, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s recorded output with his band, Double Trouble, consisted of only five albums...
Martin Elegant, a.k.a. “Lula”
It’s an extraordinarily rare event to find a high-grade, historically significant mid-1800s guitar in a pawn shop, but that is indeed where this Martin...
Howard Glazer
Detroit’s rich musical heritage includes a blues scene that has thrived in the bars along the Detroit River and on the city’s East Side....
T-Rex Debuts ToneTrunk Pedalboards, Nitros Hypergain Distortion
T-Rex ToneTrunk pedalboards are made from aluminum with a two-tiered design for easier access to the back row, and have space for extension/patch cables...