Monthly Archives: January 2016
Ruyter Suys
Nashville Pussy is fronted by the husband-and-wife team of Blaine Cartwright and Ruyter Suys. Its new album, Up The Dosage, is the band’s first...
John Basile
By many standards, this shouldn’t work: a group of songs by the Beatles done in jazz arrangements. Not only that, it’s one guitarist, using...
Effectrode Fire Bottle Magnetic Pickup Booster
The Effectrode Fire Bottle is a pedal that deviates from the norm and offers something fresh. Unlike a chorus, distortion, or phaser that delivers...
Country Music HoF Displays Bachman Gretsch Collection
A collection of vintage and rare Gretsch guitars owned by Randy Bachman is on display until July 10 at The Country Music Hall of Fame...
Ernie Ball to Offer 40th Ann “Old Smoothie” StingRay
Ernie Ball Music Man’ 40th Anniversary “Old Smoothie” StingRay bass has a 10-polepiece pickup and duplicates the body, headstock, pickguard shape, 34"-scale maple neck...
An Odd Gibson EH-150
Lap-steel guitars were the first commercially available electrics – ancestors of the guitars we plug in today, regardless of their shape. The popularity of...
Hull Amplifiers’ Model H5
Hull Amplifiers’ Model H5
Price: $3,199 (list)
Contact: www.hullamps.blogspot.com
A beat-up ol’ blackface amp can be a thing of beauty, like an old muscle car showing its...
The Life and Times of Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan and his battered 1953 Telecaster guitar got inside your head and grabbed you in the gut. He had eclectic musical tastes, an...
Andrew Watt
Andrew Watt’s star was rising on the New York club scene when bassist Glenn Hughes took his career up a notch. Hughes and drummer...
Delta Labs Concept 1
Preamp tubes: Two 6U8A, two 12FQ7, in addition to more-common types
Output tubes: eight 33JV6 horizontal-output tubes
Rectifier: solidstate
Controls: Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass, Resonance, Distortion; Echo...