2008 has been by far the best year ever for Guitar Lifestyle, and I’d like to thank each of you for stopping by and reading! It’s been a fun and exciting year with a lot of changes around here. I appreciate each of the comments and e-mails that I’ve received. I hope that you’ve enjoyed [...]

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 [...]

One of the most interesting things about John Mayer is that he changes things up every now and then. Early in his career, he was categorized as a pop artist, and then he switched things up by touring with Pino Palledino and Steve Jordan as the John Mayer Trio playing mostly blues-oriented music.
On his [...]

Solidbodies: The 50 Year Guitar War is a DVD by Guy Hornbuckle that chronicles the history of two of the earliest and most popular solidbody guitars: the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. The DVD features interviews with some of today’s top guitarists including Joe Bonamassa, Derek Trucks, Henry Garza, Gary Hoey, and some [...]

Gibson has recently posted a recap of their Summer Jam ‘08 event they held during the Summer NAMM show here in Nashville. The Summer Jam event included concerts, custom shop tours, guitar showcases, and more. Some artists that showed up included Slash, Johnny A., Johnny Winter, Kenny Olson, Jerry Cantrell, and many more.
I wish I’d [...]

Whilst reading my daily guitar rss feeds I came across a very interesting guitar over at Thumbrella by Italian guitar company Manne Guitars established in 1987 by Andrea Ballarin in Schio, in northeastern Italy. Manne guitars’ main shape is quite unique just check out the Taos to see what I mean. Well it turns out [...]

Albert Lee is the most successful English Country Music guitarist in history, with a string of awards including a Grammy and more album releases than you can shake a stick at! Albert has appeared with everyone from the late great Bo Diddley, to Eric Clapton to Dolly Parton. Albert was born in 1943 in Leominster, [...]

I really thought I’d seen it all in my quest to find the craziest most expensive guitars on the planet and then I receive a mysterious email alerting me about Precious Rebels Custom Guitars. Well ok it wasn’t completely mysterious, it turns out it was sent to me by one of the artists involved in [...]

I have just been loaned a Vox AmPlug AC30 by Rob from Dirt Loco so that I can review it for Guitar Noize, thanks Rob. The AmPlug is a very simple and clever idea, it simply plugs into your guitar where you would normally plug in your guitar lead from your amp, plug in a [...]

Whilst reviewing Infinite Guitar I watched a video lesson by instructor Rick Graham where he plays and breaks down a piece called “Andromeda” by Marco Sfogli. I hadn’t heard of Marco so I did a quick google search and discovered Marco Sfogli’s website which has details of his solo album “There’s hope” as well as [...]