Monthly Archives: March 2015
SimakDialog
Hailing from Indonesia, SimakDialog is one of the best jazz-rock bands on the planet and this two-CD live set proves it. This performance features...
PureSalem Intros Gordo Model
PureSalem Guitars’ Gordo has a semi-hollow mahogany body, mahogany neck with binding, rosewood fretboard with block inlays, 24.75" scale, Grover tuners, Bigsby vibrato, two...
Celestial Effects Offers Aries Beast Distortion
The Celestial Effects Aries Beast Distortion stacks two gain stages in cascade or series mode. Its Gain control adjusts the first opamp gain stage,...
Trevor McShane
By day, Neville Johnson is an attorney who was voted by Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top 100 Power Lawyers, seven years running....
Jorgen Ingmann Passes
Jorgen Ingman, the Danish jazz and pop guitarist who scored an international hit in 1961 with a version of The Shadows instrumental “Apache,” died March 21....
George Fullerton’s Fender Jazzmaster
This Jazzmaster is an interesting example of what went on behind the scenes at the Fender factory with the research and development of body...
Orville Gibson A model
All carved-top guitars and mandolins trace their ancestry back to Orville Gibson of Kalamazoo, Michigan. However, as this A model mandolin illustrates, Orville’s designs...
Jamie Kime
When Jamie Kime isn’t intimidating guitarists at his Monday-night gig co-hosting the jam at the Baked Potato in Studio City, California, he’s a sideman...
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen is all about roots. He has mined his Texas upbringing to create a celebrated career playing Americana that’s ranged widely from...
Andy Fraser, Co-Founder of Free, Passes
Andy Fraser, founding member of the rock band Free, died March 16 at his home in Temecula, California. He was 62 and had at times battled...