Monthly Archives: February 2014
Tom Keifer
Tom Keifer is a tad young to be on the (very) long list of musicians inspired first and foremost by the Beatles’ “arrival” in...
Gibson GA-CB Custom Built
Gibson GA-CB
Preamp tubes: three 6SJ7, two SQ7, two Sj5
Output tubes: two 6L6
Rectifier: 5T4
Controls: Microphone Gain, Instrument Gain, tremolo Intensity and Frequency,...
Traynor Adds Small Block Bass Heads
Traynor’s Small Block bass amps are built with an all-metal chassis with front-mounted handles to protect the knobs and jacks, Speakon and ¼-inch out...
Jack Bruce Preps Studio Record Album
Pioneering bassist Jack Bruce, who rose to prominence as a member of Cream, is set to release his first studio album in a decade....
Squier offers 60th Anniversary Classic Vibe ‘50s Strat
Squier’s 60th Anniversary Classic Vibe ‘50s Stratocaster has a maple neck with a “modern C” profile, 9.5”-radius maple fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets,...
Gator Cases Adds LP, 335 Journeyman Models
Gator Cases has expanded its Journeyman series to include cases custom fit for Gibson Les Paul and 335 guitars. Constructed of plywood, each has...
Mick Ralphs
Guitarist Mick Ralphs, whose pulverizing riffs were first heard in the late ’60s in the original Mott the Hoople, has charged back into the...
Perri Ink Debuts Gypsy Model
Perri Ink Custom Guitars’ Gypsy model guitar is the company's first original design. It has a swamp ash body with ash pickguard, quartersawn maple...
Dinosaur Jr.
Though he introduced unabashed (and deafening) guitar heroics to the indie slacker nation, Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis is more often cast as an impossible...
Port City Prophets
The Prophets are a blues-rock bar band that brings around a lot of people to music they might not otherwise have heard. The PCPs...