My top 5 music passions – Response to IG’s Post

I was just going to post a comment on his blog, but I thought I’d just write a post on here in response to IG’s My top 5 music passions post. So here it is in reverse order:
5. Writing Music
I’m in the same boat as IG, I haven’t been blessed with the natural songwriters gene. [...]

Les Paul Classic Antique – Gibson Guitar of the Week #2

Gibson has released their second Guitar of the Week and man is it stunning. Gibson announced the Les Paul Classic Antique at this years NAMM Gibson has been making it for years. Look at the amazing finish on this guitar. Gibson calls it Fireburst and I think it is just freaking amazing.
Like I said the [...]

TubeFreaks.net – New Guitar Forum

Cary from Electric Guitar Review has just announced a new guitar forum that he is hosting called Tube Freaks. Cary says the forum is geared towards vintage guitar and equipment enthusiasts but stresses that all guitar and music lovers are welcome.
The great thing about getting into a forum early is you can take part in [...]

NAMM 2007 Has Come and Gone

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 [...]

New Guitar.com in Production

If you try and visit guitar.com right now you will see that the site is completely down while they do a redesign. I haven’t been to the site in quite a while and thought I’d visit it the other day when to my surprise I was greeted with the following message:
The new guitar.com is in [...]

How to use the Internet to Learn to Play the Guitar

We have all heard it a hundred times before: the Internet is a vast base of information. It is an unprecedented collection of professional and amateur documentation and advice. Chances are virtually every topic ever has been discussed in some form on the Internet. Well, lucky for us guitars are a very popular topic and [...]

Schecter C-7 Blackjack Guitar

The Schecter C-7 Blackjack is essentially a 7 string version of the Schecter C-1 Blackjack. The 7 string solid body guitar was originally introduced in 1990 by Steve Vai and Ibanez. Steve experimented with adding a high A string to the standard guitar, but ended up going with a low B as the A was [...]