The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) is holding a celebrity auction next Friday to benefit its charitable MusiCares Foundation, which does all kinds of good work to help musicians struggling with addiction and other issues. There’s a lot of memorabilia up for bid — Jerry Lee Lewis’ blue jeans, a book report [...]
Fender is releasing a limited edition run of its famed ‘57 Stratocaster under the Masterbuilt banner in honor of the guitar’s 50th anniversary.
The George Fullerton ‘57 Strat features a two-tone sunburst finish and vintage single coil pickups, plus it is being sold as a combo with a Pro Junior tweed amp. Now that would make [...]
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 [...]
If you look around on Flickr long enough, you’re sure to find just about anything I guess, even a picture of Samantha Fox dressed like a Playboy bunny with a pink Stratocaster.
Back at the start of the year, Fender and Sanrio inked a deal to create a line of Hello Kitty guitars and other products. Now the guitar from Squire is obviously very cute and all, but I’m especially intrigued by the upright amplifier with the speaker at the top. That sort of kicks some ass, [...]
Okay, “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” isn’t the most famous Ventures song around, but I love this clip because it really shows off their guitars and backline. Part of what made The Ventures cool and stand out from the crowd was the fact that they played Mosrite guitars instead of Fender Stratocasters — the standard issue [...]
