This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fender Jazzmaster: Fender unveiled its Jazzmaster guitar in 1958, intending to score a one-two punch with an instrument that would be the company's top-of-the line successor to the Stratocaster guitar and appeal to serious jazz guitarists, a class of musician that had eluded Fender's widening reach. Although it succeeded on neither … [Read more...]
Joe Bonamassa Aged Les Paul Goldtop
Gibson has recently released several new guitars in their Inspired By series, including the Joe Bonamassa Aged Les Paul Goldtop. The guitar includes a carved maple top, 2-piece light mahogany back, cream binding, 1-piece mahogany neck, 1959 neck profile, Bonamassa Truss rod cover, and BurstBucker 2 and BurstBucker 3 pickups. The pictures of this guitar look fantastic. I can't … [Read more...]
Art Guitar
Are you in the market for a custom-painted guitar? Art Guitar is a company based out of Colorado that custom paints guitars. They also make custom-painted Guitar Hero controllers. Although at $399, the Guitar Hero controllers aren't cheap. They have KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, and Pantera Guitar Hero controller models. … [Read more...]
Parlor Guitars
I was discussing music and guitars with my friend Taylor the other day, and he reminded me of blues musician Mississippi John Hurt (a fantastic guitarist, by the way). Listening to Hurt reminded me of a guitar I had about 8-9 years ago, a Seagull Coastline Grand. The Coastline Grand is a parlor-sized guitar. If you're not familiar with parlor guitars, they have a much smaller … [Read more...]
New Addition to the Family
A couple of weeks ago, I welcomed a new addition to my guitar family. Meet Lucille: As you can see, Lucille is the Epiphone version of B.B. King's signature Gibson guitar called Lucille. I've always loved the tone that B.B. gets live and on record, and when I was looking for a new guitar, I wanted something a little different than a Strat or a Les Paul. A hollow-body … [Read more...]