September 6, 2008 – 4:01 pm
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Hendrix’s guitar sells for £280,000
5:23pm Friday 5th September 2008
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The first guitar set alight on stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix has been sold at auction for £280,000.
Hendrix torched the 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of his show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March [...]
September 3, 2008 – 10:13 am
Jerry Reed, 71, a Grammy Award-winning country guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a mischievous, good old boy sidekick to Burt Reynolds in “Smokey and the Bandit” and other movies, died Sept. 1 at his home in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood. He had emphysema.
Mr. Reed’s well known Georgia baritone drawl and relaxed manner in [...]
August 15, 2008 – 10:39 am
Air Guitar has been played by non guitar players for as long as electric guitars have been considered the ultimate instrument of expression for rock music through acting, as in, an actor, and not really being a guitar player. Like the guitar players we love and consider our idols. But what was previously a hobby [...]
August 8, 2008 – 10:23 am
How do you get rhythm and what is rhythm? You will know you have rhythm when you get it. It’s one of those guitar things we practice hard to get. It is one of the essential “spices’. It’s takes a lot of work to be extremely rhythmical.
That being said, rhythm came to me the first [...]
Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer, born on the 5th of August 1947, in Fort Recovery, Ohio, is an American guitarist, composer and entertainer is 61 years old today. It is a worthy birthday for the old rocker. He is best known for his composition of the songs “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo“, “Hang [...]
The SPC or “Strat Presence Control” is often called the ‘fat control’. For many players it is the most popular upgrade to perform. The original intent of the SPC was to turn the tone of a single-coil pickup into a dual-coil pickup. This is accomplished by boosting the gain in a broad mid-band fashion and [...]
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