When you’ve got millions to spend, you can buy a lot of guitars, and that’s just what Fender is doing. The world’s top guitar maker announced yesterday they are acquiring Kaman Music, which owns the Ovation and Hamer guitar brands among other big names in musical equipment, for almost $120 million.
This is a pretty interesting [...]
(Awesome picture of Rocktimus Prime playing Guitar Hero from Joystiq.)
If you didn’t want to wait in the cold for the midnight release of Guitar Hero III last night and now your local big box store is either swamped and/or sold out of the game, you might want to try at your local Guitar Center.
According to [...]
If you happen to be in the UK and spot a clear colored Ibanez JS2k, you may want to the alert the authorities; there could be a reward in it for you.
According to the South Wales Echo newspaper in Wales, the rare Ibanez — only 10 are known to exist in the UK — was [...]
You might not think that India is the capital of guitar rock, but they’re trying to change that perception in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. This weekend kicks off the Shillong Autumn Festival where they hope to set a world record for the largest guitar ensemble.
Organizers are hoping that more 2,000 guitarists will show up [...]
Maybe because it’s Friday, I don’t know why, but I just felt like I needed a little vintage 90s Japanese punk rock. And there’s none better than Guitar Wolf. Here they are on some Japanese TV show; there’s a long interview at the beginning but when they get to the song it is well worth [...]
Without Chuck Berry and “Johnny B. Goode” who knows how long it would have taken for someone else to come up with that classic rock n’ roll guitar style. Thank goodness then that Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born this day back in 1926 and later recorded the opening riff that gave birth to a [...]
Random searching on the net will get you to some strange things. For example, a guitar made out of a mannequin.
Created by artist and luthier. More photos here.
Still truckin’ after all these years, guitarist Bob Weir turns 60-years old today. He, along with Jerry Garcia, helped make the San Francisco sound a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1960s and carried on through the next couple decades feeding the hunger of Grateful Dead fans everywhere. Here’s the band back in the day playing [...]
The Dean Girls are nice and girls in pink bunny suits with a matching guitar are okay, but sometimes you want something a little edgier, right? Like say girls playing guitar naked in the shower. Well everything is possible on the Internet and some enterprising individual has set up just such a web site.
WetRiffs (via [...]
If you happen to be in the UK and you like seeing armies of guitars, you may want to check out a performance this week of Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City at the Roundhouse in London. The symphonic piece is written for and performed by an orchestra with 100 electric guitar players. It is dissonant, jarring, [...]
