I recently found out on the forums on Joe Bonamassa’s Web site that Joe will be releasing his next album, titled The Ballad of John Henry, on February 24, 2009. I’m a big fan of Bonamassa’s, so I’m really looking forward to this upcoming album.
I had a chance to see Bonamassa live for the second [...]

Speaking of David Gilmour, I recently found a site called Gilmourish.com, which is a fan site written by Bjorn Riis and is devoted to all things David Gilmour. Bjorn claims that Glimourish is “the largest David Gilmour gear resource on the net” and I think he’s probably right. There is a ton of information about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 recently had the opportunity to play the John Mayer Stratocaster. I didn’t play the guitar for a long period of time, but during the short period of time I did play the guitar, I really liked it. It played and sounded great.
The neck of the John Mayer Strat is a thick “C” shape, which [...]

Duane Allman’s future looked blindingly bright in the fall of October 1971. The Allman Brothers Band had just seen the three years of hardcore touring pay off in fashion. Their third release, the live double album At Filmore East, had gone Gold, and both the band and Duane were being hailed as rock visionaries. Sessions [...]