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...
Oct 6, 2018 | Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard
Caline makes a guitar pedal called the CP-14 English Man. There is an earlier version that was a lime green, and there is a newer version that looks like the British flag. This is a clone of the drive channel of the Carl Martin dual channel PlexiTone guitar pedal. The...
Oct 1, 2018 | Guitar Amps
The Laney GC-60 (sometimes called the GC 60 C) is a solid state guitar amp made in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s made in England and most commonly comes in a 2×10 combo. There is also a more powerful model called the GC120C as well which is double the...
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...
Sep 13, 2018 | FAQ, Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard
I had recently noticed an explosion of guitar pedal toppers on pedal boards recently. With the advent of social media and Facebook groups, many of us (53,000 as of last) subscribe to “Pedalboards of Doom. I suspect at first that group started out as a death...
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 25, 2018 | Guitar Reviews
Robin guitars have been around since the early 80’s and were manufactured until 2010. I remember seeing ads for Robin guitars in both Guitar Player and Guitar World in the 80’s, but hadn’t remembered them until recently when I saw one for sale on...
Apr 15, 2018 | Guitar songs
If you want to get schooled on Muddy Waters, aka McKinley Morganfield – The Chess Box collection is the way to get started. For a man that made blues music from 1941 to 1982 you’re certainly not going to capture it all in this three disc set, but you can...
Apr 14, 2018 | Epiphone, Guitar Reviews
The image shown is that of the Joe Bonamassa Epiphone Flying V (1958). Everyone who’s read my blog knows of my distaste for Epiphone guitars. Back in the 90’s and 2000’s the quality was so bad that you had to set them up one you bought one and...
Apr 13, 2018 | Guitar Books, Guitar videos
Here’s a really cool video of Jimi Hendrix on Fire. The dude created a portait of Hendrix using matchsticks, which looks really, really cool – but then he lit them of fire, and the whole thing goes up in flames. Found on YouTube, it’s really cool to...
