One of the new guitars that Eastman announced at the NAMM show was the Romeo-SC: Romeo-SC is the first Eastman guitar to include a lipstick style pickup, via Seymour Duncan's Vintage Stack in the neck - in addition to a Seymour Duncan ’59 pickup in the bridge. This allows for an incredibly versatile range of tones that seduces the imagination from all genres. It’s also the … [Read more...]
Ampire: The Sound of Music
Ampire looks like it could be an interesting movie: Ampire is a feature length film which takes a fun peek into the evolution of ‘Sound’: the Amp and the ever changing voice it has given the guitar. Ampire is loaded with laughs, great behind the scenes stories, little known facts and even a few secrets. All new, never before seen interviews with artists and band members of … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Guitar Hoarder
Steve Housewright, a self-professed guitar hoarder, writing for minimalism.life: Guitar hoarding is still around. Social media is filled with people who share their latest instrument purchases. It’s an illness and they lovingly know it! People post photos of guitar collections that fill entire rooms. Once the guitar-collecting compulsion takes hold, you seldom can give it … [Read more...]
Hawaiian Classics and Hawaiian Favorites by Hal Leonard
Aloha! I’m back with Part 2 of my Hawaiian/Island-themed and I have a lovely collection of two books for your consideration: Hawaiian Favorites and Hawaiian Classics. Both books feature 8 songs each, standard notation and chord boxes (no TAB), and probably the best thing that can be offered for songs like these: Audio One of the biggest complaints I’ve run into … [Read more...]
MXR Dookie Drive v3
Last year, Dunlop/MXR collaborated with Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to create the Dookie Drive, which is meant to recreate the two Marshall sound from the Dookie album. At this year's NAMM show, MXR have announced the latest version of the pedal (v3) with updated artwork to reflect Green Day's upcoming Father of All... album: Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green … [Read more...]