Articles from January 2010
January 30, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Let’s all ooh and ahh over Gibson’s latest 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Standard from the Custom Shop. This is a faithful recreation of the original 1960 model down to the smallest detail. Some details include the long-tenon neck joint, vintage angled headstock, and thin nitrocellulose finish. There will be three versions. Version 1 will [...]
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January 30, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
I stumbled upon this article about The Edge’s guitar delay because I had to cover a part of a U2 song a while ago. I was sitting with the song “Where the Streets Have No Name” and had to figure out the beginning for an introduction for a corporate event gig. I was really trying [...]
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January 29, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Wow folks….this little amp is a really far stretch from the original Fender Woody amps of the late ’40s! It is more than a digital amp in my opinion. It is more like a “computer” amp. Any of you guys following me know that I’m a pretty traditional type guitar player but I’m always curious [...]
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January 28, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Check this out. Rusty Anderson who is the guitar player for the one and only Sir Paul McCartney is playing a Voyage-Air VAOM-1C these days. Of all the acoustic guitars he could pick Rusty went with a Voyage-Air. After reviewing the Voyage-Air VAD-06 recently, I completely understand. They are great guitars never mind the fact [...]
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January 28, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Wes Lem is part of the sales team over at Voyage-Air guitars. As you all know I did a review of the Voyage-Air VAD-06 guitar a little while ago. Click here to read the review. Great guitar! Anyway, I “met” Wes through a series of emails and finally got to shake his hand at the [...]
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January 28, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
A while back I saw a post on one of the guitar blogs I frequent and the title was “Is Clapton Still Viable”? if I remember correctly. There were many comments left by guitar players and music fans alike. The post struck me kind of funny because so many people know the name Eric Clapton [...]
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January 27, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Ok folks here is my NAMM 2010 wrap-up article. It is rather lengthy and I did not mean for it to get so far out of control but I kept remembering all kinds of cool stuff to write about. I saw so many things in three 8 hour days and I feel like my head [...]
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January 26, 2010 | Posted by admin
Hey everybody, It’s Todd here, Billy’s Jack of all Tech, and I think this is a first: a real post on 300guitars! The only time you hear from me is if something goes wrong, but this time you are hearing from me because something went very right. For Billy, NAMM 2010 was the ultimate experience, [...]
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January 25, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
John Pirruccello talks about his new Hanson guitars and takes you through the 2010 lineup. These are excellent guitars and the necks on them are some of the best I felt. they are nice and light and John’s brother, Bo, designed the pickups. Nice!!!!
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January 25, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
Another great amp by Steve Carr! 8 watts and sounds unreal. The Mercury amp uses a single EL34 tube and you can dial it down to 1/10th of a watt. Has reverb as well….!
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January 25, 2010 | Posted by Billy Penn
These Luna guitars are cool. Very unique looking and they sounded nice. Yvonne deVilliers is a nice lady as well.
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