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PRS Introduces Mark Holcomb Signature Model
The PRS Mark Holcomb signature model is based on the Custom 24, but has a 25.5”-scale maple neck with ebony fretboard and 20” radius,...
Yes
While Yes is still a working band, it’s mostly in name only. This three-CD set, taken from a 2004 Massachusetts concert, shows the classic...
Dunlop Fuzz Face Mini Distortion Pedals
Dunlop’s Fuzz Face Mini Distortion Pedals
Price: $129.99 (Germanium, street);$99.99 (Silicon and Jimi Hendrix, street)
Contact: www.jimdunlop.com.
When it comes to fuzz pedals, the one that comes...
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...