Monthly Archives: January 2015
Fender Sells Ovation Guitars to Drum Workshop
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) announced today that its subsidiary KMC Music, Inc. has sold its Ovation guitar brand along with all of its percussion brands,...
Jean-Luc Katchoura with Michele Hyk-Farlow
Maybe it’s sour grapes, but it sometimes seems jazz guitarists – in comparison with pianists and horn players – never get the recognition they’re...
Movie Star, Rancher
In the years immediately after World War II, Americans were settling into a new way of life, and plunging headlong toward an economic prosperity...
Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, and the Kentuckians
Washington, D.C. and vicinity, known for forward-thinking bluegrass bands like the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene, also had staunch traditionalists, among them the...
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
In the early years of Dire Straits, Knopfler utilized a Morley volume pedal before switching to what became his mainstay, the venerable Ernie Ball...
’70s Electro-Harmonix Polyphase
VG reader Jesse Moreno has tried his share of phaser effects and says, “I’ve never really come across another quite like the ’70s Electro-Harmonix...
Guitarist Jeff Golub Passes
Jeff Golub, a multi-genre guitarist whose career included stints with Rod Stewart, Billy Squier, Sonny Landreth, Robben Ford, Marc Cohn, Tina Turner, and many...
Nili Brosh
Nili Brosh takes the phrase “playing like a girl” and turns it on its ear. This new album weaves the kind of muscular soloing,...
ToneVille Amplifiers Broadway
ToneVille Amplifiers Broadway
Price: $2,295
Contact: www.tonevilleamps.com
What is it that drives boutique amp builders to expend gallons of skull sweat striving for a more-perfect union between...