Vintage Guitar
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Vintage GuitarGuitarsGlenn Tilbrook For more than 50 years, the British pop/new-wave band Squeeze has created superbly crafted songs like “Tempted” and “Hourglass,” written mostly by lead vocalist/lead guitarist Glenn Tilbrook and…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsCheck This Action: Speedy Sparks 1945-2025 Joe “King” Carrasco & El Molina, Texas Tornados, Sir Douglas Quintet, LeRoi Brothers, Texas Mavericks, Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys, Roky Erickson, James Hand, the Bizarros, the Nortons…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsGuild M-50 Standard Before the era of dreadnoughts and jumbos, guitar sizes were measured in zeros – 0, 00, and 000. A step up from the parlor guitar, the 0-sized concert guitar was designed to provide enough volume to…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsWings: The Story of a Band on the Run Fifty years ago, Paul McCartney & Wings was a huge act – six #1 singles and five #1 albums in the U.S., including 1976’s triple-live LP Wings Over America.
Vintage GuitarGuitarsPaul in the Family “I wanna be a musician!” The declaration – typically from an adolescent family member – purses the lips of parents hopeful the child’s future would be more about picket fences and 2.1 offspring than…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsBob Weir The word “icon” is overused, but Bob Weir was the genuine item. If Jerry Garcia became the face of the Grateful Dead, then Weir played Robin to his Batman – a rhythm guitarist with a boyish face…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsGallagher’s Guitars: The Rory Gallagher Collection The sight of Rory Gallagher’s worn ’61 Stratocaster is one of the most glorious sights in solidbody history.
Vintage GuitarGuitarsJoe Bonamassa When Joe Bonamassa terms B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 an “insanely ambitious project, rolled out in less than nine months,” it’s not hyperbole.
Vintage GuitarGuitarsTinsley Ellis Following the trajectory of 2024’s unplugged Naked Truth, Mr. Ellis returns with another self-produced/all-acoustic offering with equal parts passion, grace, and artistry.
Vintage GuitarGuitars“Buy That Guitar” podcast with special guest Brian Giampietro of Brian’s Guitars Season 04 Episode 07 “Inside the World of Collectible PRS Guitars” Episode 4.7 of “Buy That Guitar” features PRS dealer/authority Brian Giampietro.
Vintage GuitarGuitarsMarcus Deml Marcus Deml’s latest offering, Pure, is a milestone in guitar tone and sound design. Embedding a bluesy feel within prog-adjacent rock instrumentals, Deml enlists thoughtful note selection with…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsD’Addario Introduces Artist+ Carbon Capo and Updated Artist Capo with Patented FlexFit™ Technology D’Addario’s first carbon fiber capo joins the Artist family, bringing lightweight construction, precise tension control, and improved tuning stability D’Addario introduces the new Artist+ Carbon…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsTinsley Ellis For nearly 50 years, Florida-born Tinsley Ellis has been an electric-blues/rock specialist, running his guitars through a Marshall or his ’67 Super Reverb.
Vintage GuitarGuitarsTomas Janzon – jazz (tunes) duo With his ’59 Gibson L-7 plugged into his practice amp, Tomas Janzon shows us bits of two fresh compositions from his latest album, “Jazz Diary”; he starts with “All Neighbors” then slips into “Muddy…
Vintage GuitarGuitarsPink Floyd The 1975 space-rock opus cemented Pink Floyd’s status as FM royalty, its tracks still in radio rotation today.
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