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Archive for February, 2008

Plug: The Tube Store

Posted in amps, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, tubes on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »

Want to replace tubes in your amp? Look no further. The Tube Store is THE place to go for tubes. They have great prices, and more importantly, have tons and tons of knowledge about tubes. What’s even more amazing is they also know how a particular tube will sound in a lot of different amps. [...]

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New Song: Praise The Lord My Soul

Posted in Studio/Recording, recording, songs, songwriting on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Praise the Lord My Soul
I wrote this song in mid-2006, but didn’t get around to recording it until this past week. It’s yet another praise song, but it’s a praise song with a twist. It’s written as a blues/funk piece. One wouldn’t normally equate funk/blues with contemporary Christian music, but all I can say is [...]

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Review: Fender® Champion 600

Posted in amps, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar gear, recording on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Fender® Champion 600
Price: $199 (street)
Summary: Great tone can come in small packages, and the Fender Champ is a great example of this. Simple and straight-forward, it’s easy to use, and even easier on the pocketbook. Not really meant to be used as something you’d gig with (though you could easily add an extension cabinet), it’s [...]

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Tone… It’s all in your hands…

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Read an interesting article by GuitarFlame (www.guitarflame.com) called: The science of playing the acoustic guitar where he talked about a very good shredder who picked up an acoustic guitar, and sounded… bad. That made me giggle a bit because I’ve seen the same thing with a lot of shredders. They sound horrible on acoustic guitars; [...]

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It’s a Groove Thang…

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitarists, performing, songwriting on February 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A couple of months ago, I was having a drink with an old-school, elderly jazz guitarist named Patrick before my weekly gig at the restaurant I play at. To this day, I still don’t know Patrick’s last name, but he’s played with great Black jazz greats like Ellis Marsalis, and that whole “N’ah-lens scene, bruh,” [...]

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Review: G&L Guitars Comanche

Posted in Guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

G & L Guitars Comanche Solid Body
Review Setup: Solid Swamp Ash Body, Hard Rock Maple Neck with Rosewood fretboard. Z-coil pickups.
Price as configured: $1700.00 (custom setups available)
Summary: I give this 4.5 Tone Bones! The G&L Comanche is an excellent, hand-made, versatile guitar from the shop Leo Fender and George Fullerton started after Leo sold the [...]

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Review: THD Yellow Jackets

Posted in Guitars, amps, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »

The THD web site says of the Yellow Jackets, “It’s like having a new amp…” and that’s an understatement! Pull your old tubes, pop in the converters, then plug in the EL-84’s and listen to your amp sing! Sometimes great things just come real easy! Read on….

If you follow this blog, you know that I [...]

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Introducing a New Gear Rating System!

Posted in Effects, Guitars, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

After I wrote my last review on the DigiTech Bad Monkey, I realized that I needed to change the format of my reviews, so readers could get an at-a-glance impression of the review, and choose to read the full review. As a professional web developer, “stickiness” is always a big issue, and especially with reviews, [...]

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On Yoda, the Force, and Playing Guitar

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, musicians on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you’re a fan of Star Wars like I am, I’m sure you’ll remember the following clip from the “Empire Strikes Back:”

Try not… Do or Do Not… There is no try…
I tell you, Yoda had it right. Of all the sayings I’ve heard in the hundreds of [...]

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Review: DigiTech Bad Monkey

Posted in Guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on February 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I’m at once sad and amazed right now. Sad because I’m retiring my TS-808 Tube Screamer (sort of - I’ll get into that later), but amazed that I actually replaced it with a $50 pedal, the Bad Monkey from DigiTech. This pedal was originally touted as a Tube Screamer-like pedal, but as I’ve found, it’s way, [...]

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