Oct 9, 2018 | Guitar Players, Guitar videos
I love the blues, and guitarist Robben Ford is one of my favorite blues guitar players. If you’ve ever read a guitar magazine, you’ve likely heard of him – but outside the blues and guitar communities he’s not well known. Then again outside of...
Sep 17, 2018 | Guitar Players
I now feel like I know a lot of secrets about the life of Johnny Cash. I always feel like this after I read the biography of a famous person. Well, rather – listen to a biography of them. I have nearly always commuted to work anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour...
Aug 6, 2018 | Guitar Players
Here’s a name that you might not have heard for a few years – Eric Gales. If you go back in time to the late Eighties there were tons of new guitar heroes coming out each and every day. Because of the influence of mainly EVH and SRV (and all the hair...
Apr 5, 2018 | Guitar Players
I want to tell you about the genius that is Steve Lukather. He doesn’t think he’s a genius, and he doesn’t even really thing he compares with what most of us would consider a “guitar hero”. He’s a pretty sensitive guy, although if...
Mar 26, 2018 | Guitar Reviews, Guitar videos, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin
In the Led Zeppelin Earls Court performance in 1975 video you’ll see that Jimmy Page plays a 1959 Danelectro on the song “In My Time of Dying”. This is kind of rare because Page is known for his love of Gibson guitars and particularly the Les Paul....
Mar 13, 2018 | Guitar Players, Guitar videos
I love Billy Gibbons! I’ve always liked ZZ Top, and to those of you that think this band is just “Sharp Dressed Man”, and “Legs” – you have no clue! ZZ Top has a catalogue of blistering blues songs like “Just Got Paid”,...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 28, 2011 | Guitar Players, Guitar Reviews
Seems like everyone and their brother has a “signature guitar” anymore. You seem them from time to time in Guitar Center or the latest Musician’s Friend catalog, but never all at once. The kind of seem to come and go. I decided to list my favorite...
