Yesterday, November 28, 2008, marked the official debut of Fender’s Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster. Like the other Tribute Series guitars that Fender has done, this is a limited edition guitar that is based on the guitar that the artist is most known for. In Yngwie’s case, this is a scalloped-neck olympic white 1971 Fender [...]

When not playing guitar or working, I can often be found reading, and one of my favorite authors is Jonathan Kellerman. Many of Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series of novels mention the guitar, so it was no surprise to me to find out that Kellerman is an avid guitar collector. And, apparently he has a world-class [...]

Just a reminder that the Jimmy Herring Lifeboat CD giveaway ends this Saturday, November 15, 2008. All you have to do the enter is send me an e-mail via the contact form using the subject “Herring.” I’ll randomly select a winner from the entries. Currently, only one person has entered the contest, so you have [...]

Griffin Technology has released a free iPod/iPhone app called iTalk that let’s you use the microphone of the iPhone to make recordings:
iTalk Recorder lets you record, pause, resume and append to existing recordings, manage the list of your recordings, and add text notes, all on the touchscreen of your iPhone or iPod.

You can then sync [...]

Nashville-based writer and media producer Craig Havighurst (of String Theory Media) has recently written an article for the Washington Post about the opening of the B.B. King Musuem and Delta Interpretive Center in King’s hometown of Indianola, MS:
The B.B. King Museum took shape over the past five years as a biracial coalition raised private and [...]

The internal combustion guitar:
Your touch sends signal to a small amp (6 watts or less) or processor combo
The small amp sends the conditioned signal back to the Internal [...]

Fender has launched a mini-site for the release of the NOS and Relic David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocasters. The mini-site has a lot of great features, including a timeline of the guitar, details about the guitars, the story behind the guitars, and media from Gilmour’s recent Live at Gdansk DVD.

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Fender has recently introduced the Jim Adkins JA-90 Thinline Telecaster. Adkins is the guitarist and frontman for Jimmy Eat World. I’m not all that familiar with Jimmy Eat World, but this looks like a nice guitar! The guitar features P-90s, a semi-hollow Ash body, medium jumbo frets and comes in red or black.
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Editor’s note: Please indulge me in a quick off-topic post.

Last year, my wife Tiffany decided to make a career change. She decided to move out of IT and create her own company, where she creates handcrafted jewelry and purses. She has worked extremely hard over the past year developing a wide range of jewelry [...]

Justin Ouellette, the founder of Muxtape, recently posted an update detailing his past dealings with record labels trying to keep Muxtape running, as well as the future of the site after receiving notice from the RIAA:
Over the next week I learned a little more, mainly that the RIAA moves quite autonomously from their label parents [...]