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I Love My ’58 Champ!

Posted in Guitars, tagged 1958, amp, champ, fender, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, Guitars, Music on November 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This morning, I was taking stock of gear that I hadn’t played in a awhile, and saw my little ’58 Fender Champ sitting on my workbench. I hadn’t played it for several months. So I hooked it up, and started playing. Now mind you, I’ve had some serious work done on it. I had to [...]

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Gear Review: The Rock Lock

Posted in GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, Guitars, Music, musicians, tagged alpha, barron wesley guitars, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar pedals, guitar reviews, guitarists, Music, musicians, rock lock on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Rock Lock Summary: After a year-long wait, the Rock Lock has finally hit the market! What started out as an ingenious idea to provide some gig security for your guitar is not finally a reality. Pros: Rubberized (or what appears to be rubberized) material around an obviously sturdy, metal locking “C” and attached to [...]

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New Gear: Gibson Firebird X “System”

Posted in Guitars, tagged firebird x, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gibson, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new gear on September 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Okay, boys and girls… After announcing this guitar over a year ago, Gibson has finally released the Firebird X er… system. Not just a guitar, this baby packs built-in effects, completely on/off switchable and coil-tapped pickups. It also includes a piezo pickup for getting an acoustic sound. But wait! There’s more! The pickups can be [...]

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Gear Review: Awesome Guitars TCP-T2 Telecaster Control Plate

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, guitar gear, gear, gear reviews, musicians, GAS, guitar gear reviews, TCP-T2, awesome guitars on September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Awesome Guitars TCP-T2 Telecaster Control Plate Summary: Want to expand the tonal possibilities of your Tele? This solderless control plate assembly will give you six distinct tones.Pros: Undoubtedly, the pros here are that you’re going to get tones that you’ve never heard from your Tele. Cons: Not quite as easy to install as advertised – [...]

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New Gear: Rock Solid Guitar Stands

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, guitar gear, gear, musicians, GAS, new gear, gear announcements on September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The other day, I was at my good friend Jeff Aragaki’s (of Aracom Amps fame) home/workshop and noticed his ProLine multi-guitar stand where he always keeps five or six guitars. I was thinking to myself that I could use one of these in my home studio, as I have at least five guitars and a [...]

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More: If it sounds good, then it’s right…

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, amps, guitar gear, gear, guitarists, musicians, GAS, amplifiers, amp, roland cube 60 on August 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »

At last night’s weekly gig at the restaurant I play at, I brought my trusty Roland Cube 60. I was in a rush, and just wanted a lightweight amp that I could easily set up. To be honest, I hadn’t played that amp for a long time, preferring to use my tube amp combos or [...]

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Gear Review: Jensen Jet Electric Lightning JC10-50EL 10″ Speaker

Posted in GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, Guitars, Music, musicians, tagged GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar pedals, guitar reviews, guitarists, jc10-50EL, Jensen jet electric lightning, Music, musicians on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Jensen Jet Electric Lightning JC10-50EL 10″ SpeakerSummary: A single 10″ speaker is NOT supposed to sound this big! Sure, Jensen may be marketing as a real “rocker” but this speaker will absolutely KILL with any style.Pros: Big, ferrite magnet produces a fat, bottom end that is absolutely to die for! No loss of definition, no [...]

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New Gear and Gig Report: Jensen Jet Electric Lightning JC10-50 10″ Speaker

Posted in Guitars, tagged electric lightning, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitarists, Guitars, jensen, jensen jet, jensen speakers, Music, musicians, new gear on July 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I know, I usually do a gig report AFTER I write a review of a product, but I used the speaker in a gig yesterday, and had to write about it. First though, let’s go over some general stuff… The Jet series from Jensen is a break from Jensen’s vintage roots to go after more [...]

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Monday Thought: The Fine Line Between Dreams and Reality

Posted in Guitars, tagged gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians on July 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Back in the early 1990′s, I got into all that personal development, personal power stuff similar to those Tony Robbins’ Personal Power seminars. I got through most of the training, but then realized that the person who ran the business wasn’t actually interested in people becoming personally powerful in the world; she devised her programs [...]

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