Monthly Archives: February 2013
Seymour Duncan Offers Whole Lotta Humbucker
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GFS Pickups Introduces REDactive Pickup System
GFS Pickups' REDactives are low-impedance noiseless pickups with internal preamplifiers. Each is voiced for each position and each position has a custom-voiced preamp. The...
Morris “Magic Slim” Holt, Chicago Blues-Guitar Legend, Passes
Morris Holt, the blues singer and guitarist known onstage as Magic Slim, died February 21 at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 75 and...
Buddy Miller
Miller takes a number of risks here. First, he enlists six guest vocalists, not counting wife Julie, with whom he’s recorded a number of...
Framus, Warwick Carbon Neutral
Framus and Warwick have been determined to be carbon-neutral in production of their instruments. The term is based on the “CO2 footprint” concept, which...