Dec 4, 2017 | Guitar accessories, Guitar player gift ideas
If you’re looking for a cheap and affordable gift for a guitar player for Christmas or other occasion, a pick wallet can be a really cool thing to give. Sometimes as a musician you don’t know you need something until you see somebody else use it, or until...
Feb 17, 2016 | FAQ, Guitar accessories, Guitar Amps, Guitar player gift ideas, Guitar Reviews
I wanted to write this page of Guitar Player gifts – because people often ask me what to get a guitarist for Christmas. Not just for me, but people I know as well! I got the Guitar Center catalog the other day, and a lot of times I don’t see much, but they...
Feb 1, 2016 | Guitar Reviews, Washburn
This is my review of the Washburn X50 and X50 Pro FE guitars with the Buzz Feiten tuning system. Another manufacturer that I think is highly underrated is Washburn Guitars. For 100 years they have been making quality instruments, but since the 80’s Washburn has...
Feb 1, 2016 | Guitar Amps
The Crate TX50DBE Limo Combo Amplifier is battery-powered for outdoor gigs, or you can plug it in using the included adapter where there’s juice. Delivers 50W through a 10″ woofer with a piezo tweeter for full range sound. 2-channel operation with...
Jan 29, 2016 | Guitar accessories, Guitar Amps, Guitar player gift ideas, Practice guitar
To practice guitar quietly you need a “headphone guitar amp”. In the privacy of your own bedroom or basement you can have an entire Marshall stack between your ears! There are bunches of headphone guitar amps on the market right now, and many are just,...
Jan 14, 2016 | FAQ, Guitar accessories, Guitar Pedals, Robben Ford, Stevie Ray Vaughan
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal As long as I can remember I have wanted a Zendrive pedal. I don’t know why I never purchased one, it seems like guitars, amps, and other things have always taken precedence. For those of you that don’t know, the...
Nov 10, 2015 | Guitar Books
Recently I heard someone say that they had been listening to the Pete Townsend book “Who I Am” on their daily commute. Since my commute to work is a little over an hour, it sounded like something that might be interesting to me. I am always interested in...
Oct 12, 2014 | Guitar Reviews, Van Halen
This isn’t a review as much as it is they story of how I came to own my favorite and probably most played guitar of all time. My white EVH Wolfgang special. This is what it looked like the day it arrived in the mail. I had seen pictures of it online, but I had...
Jul 24, 2012 | FAQ, Guitar Amps
Seems like I end up hearing classic songs lately and wonder “what amp did they use on that?” That very thought came to my mind when playing “Any Way You Want It”, I wondered – what did Neal Schon use for those screaming lead solos on that...
May 18, 2012 | Guitar accessories, Guitar Reviews, Van Halen
It’s hard for me to say this (because I’m 48), but remember the (now) “vintage” 84 Kramer Baretta guitar? The Kramer Baretta was the famed hockey stick neck one pickup, one volume pot Floyd Rose masterpiece played by Eddie Van Halen. Remember...
