The guitar was sold at a benefit auction held by U2’s The Edge at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe and according to Reuters brought in $400,000. Some other items that sold in the auction include former President Bill Clinton’s saxophone ($54,000) and a pair of John Lennon’s round, blue-tinted sunglasses.
The money was raised to help [...]

A big announcement at this year’s NAMM Show was that of the release of the Stratocaster VG, Fender’s first modeling guitar. After spending a few days researching Gibson’s digital guitar, I figured I might as well take a look at what Fender is offering.
The Guitar
This guitar starts off like any other American Stratocaster. It has [...]

I came across this demo video that someone recorded at NAMM this year. The Fender rep goes through all the functionality of the Stratocaster VG guitar pretty quick.

Essentially what we have here is a standard American Strat that also has digital modeling hardware built in. It runs off of 4 AA batteries. The guy in [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again and NAMM Show has come and gone…. and I missed again. It’s not like I missed the actual show, because I’m not a NAMM member, but I did miss all the fresh news about products and such.
For those of you not in the loop, NAMM used to stand [...]

I know this is a few months old but Popagadget has a post about the new digital internet enabled guitar by Fender and Intel.
Fender and Intel have partnered to create a concept of an internet-enabled super guitar. The new revisited Fender Telecaster will incorporate Intel Centrino mobile technology to allow Internet access on the go. [...]