Sep 21st 09
Posted by in Featured Articles, Gibson, Guitar

This blog is here because of my love of guitars. For my day job I’m a photographer. I recently decided to combine the two and started taking pictures of guitars and offering fine art prints of my guitar images. Due to the positive response I’ve received about the images and prints and to commemorate the new images and print offer I decided to give away three prints.
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Sep 14th 09
Posted by in Featured Articles, Gear, Gibson, Guitar, Keeley, Videos, Vox

I was sitting around reading the latest issue Of Guitar Aficionado and there was an article about the Gibson Sunburst Les Paul from 1958-1960. In it, they write how Eric Clapton was the first to really popularize the guitar for a lot of the 60’s British guitarists. Jimmy Page was quoted as saying “Eric was the first one to evolve the sound with the Les Paul and Marshall amps”. In the article Guitar Aficionado write about how the John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers albums shows off what Clapton was doing with the Les Paul Sunburst, in particular the song Hide Away (a Freddie King remake).
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Sep 9th 09
Posted by in Featured Articles, Gear, Guitar, Reviews, Tascam

So far for all my recordings I’ve been using the Tascam GT-R1 and it’s built in microphone. I’ve been pretty happy with the quality, but that may just be because I haven’t tried any alternatives. I did just order a Shure SM57 microphone to see if that helps with recording quality.
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Sep 8th 09
Posted by in Dunlop, Featured Articles, Gear, Gibson, Guitar, Reviews, Vox

Being new to guitar I need to figure out my likes and dislikes. So far when making decisions on things like strings, picks, guitar setup, and just about any other decision that need to be made (outside of which guitar and amp to buy), I’ve always asked “what do you recommend” since I couldn’t really make an informed decision. But that’s a bad way to go about things. I need to figure out what **I** like. That’s why I like to do A/B comparrisons like this one and the one I did on my recent string comparison post. (more…)
Aug 31st 09
Posted by in Featured Articles, Gear, Gibson, Guitar, Keeley, Videos, Vox

If you watch HBO’s True Blood, then you know the opening song, Bad Things by Jace Everett. Actually, if it weren’t for True Blood, I wouldn’t know the song at all. I thought it was a cool sounding guitar song, so I thought I’d give it a try. I thought it might be a bit more advanced than my current level and I was right.
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