Monthly Archives: September 2015
B.C. Rich Introduces NJ Retro Series
BC Rich Guitars’ NJ Retro Warlock, Mockingbird, and Bich have a maple neck-through design with mahogany wings. Their 24 5/8"-scale neck has a modern...
Marty Stuart
The latest record from Marty Stuart, Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions, is a tour de force of country music styles that celebrates the...
John Entwistle 1944-2002
John Entwistle
Ode to the Ox 1944-2002
By Ward Meeker
Pop music lovers – especially those with an ear tuned to gear and how it’s used –...
Chris Bishop
Riff rockers Crobot have been promoting their first album, Something Supernatural, with a live show offering full-bombast rock, contagious funk, and science fiction. The...
Mike Stern
Mike Stern made his name playing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis, and others, carving a notable solo career while constantly...
Bill Kirchen
There’s ample revisiting in Seeds and Stems, Telecaster slinger Bill Kirchen’s third album for Proper America. Five of the 13 songs hearken back to...
Mu-FX Tru-Tron 3X
The Mu-FX
Tru-Tron 3X
Price: $369.63
Contact: www.mu-fx.com.
Think funk. Think Bootsy Collins’ wacked-out Parliament Funkadelic Space Bass lines. Think Stevie Wonder’s wah’d Clavinet on his ’73 hit...
The Roland Space Echo
When Brian Setzer kickstarted the Stray Cats into action in 1979, his gear lineup was a hodgepodge of orthodox rockabilly ware along with the...
Sugarcane Jane
There are enough examples of married-couple acts imploding or having one spouse drag the other down that there probably ought to be a warning...
ScreaminFx Launches Two New Pedals
ScreaminFX has introduced two new pedals. The 1954 Fuzz is a transparent silicon fuzz that has an on/off buffer that enables players to use a wah...