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 [...]

Guitarist Jimmy Herring recently released his debut solo album, titled Lifeboat. Although this is Herring’s first solo album, he is already well-known in the guitar community. He’s played with some great bands, including The Allman Brothers, Col. Bruce Hamptons’ Aquarium Rescue Unit, the Dead, and Phil Lesh and Friends, and he is now the lead [...]

Last week, I met some friends at a local movie theater for a showing of David Gilmour’s Live at Gdansk DVD. I’ve been on a bit of a David Gilmour kick over the past few weeks, and I’ve recently watched Gilmour’s Remember That Night - Live at Royal Albert Hall and Pink Floyd’s Pulse. So, [...]

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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Modern Guitars has recently posted an interview with John Petrucci. The interview covers several topics, such as John’s time at Berklee, Dream Theater’s “Greatest Hit”, and the possibility of another Petrucci solo album:
Brian: Will you be preparing another solo CD, in the vein of Suspended Animation?
John: Yes, I will! That’s something I had a lot [...]

Bojam is:
…an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music

Bojam recently presented at TechCrunch50, discussing their online music service. Not only is Bojam a music collaboration engine, it’s also a music mixer, and a wiki-style editing platform, where musicians can edit song info, lyrics, and instrument [...]

The Black Strat, the book about David Gilmour’s legendary black Stratocaster by Gilmour’s long-time guitar tech Phil Taylor, is being released by Hal Leonard on Monday, September 22. The book has been expanded and revised for this second edition.
The release of the book is to coincide with the release of Gilmour’s new 2CD/2DVD set, Live [...]

I’m very excited to announce that the new design of Guitar Lifestyle has been launched! If you’re viewing this post in an RSS reader, please visit the site to see the new design.
My good friends at Purr Design did the redesign work, and I’m very happy with the result. They are very easy to work [...]