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 [...]

I was looking on Eric Johnson’s Web site and noticed that he released a new live DVD, titled Anaheim Live, on November 11. The DVD was recorded at the Grove in Anaheim, CA on May 3, 2006.
The set list includes some of Johnson’s biggest hits as well as songs from his latest album, Bloom. There [...]

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 [...]

I’m a sucker for a good factory tour. I worked in a manufacturing plant throughout college and have always been fascinated by how products are made. As a guitarist, I’m especially interested in how guitars are made, so I was pleased to see that Premier Guitar magazine posted this past summer some videos of their [...]

Yahoo! Music has recently posted a performance by Buddy Guy in their Live Sets series. I finally got a chance to see Guy live a few years ago, and he puts on quite a show. I’m glad to see Yahoo! putting up one of his shows.
Guy plays a number of songs from his [...]

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 [...]

I first heard about the Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Artist Series Stratocaster several months ago, but didn’t hear much about it from Fender. However, I noticed today that Fender has information about the guitar on their Web site.
The guitar is based on Kenny’s own ‘61 Fender Strat and features custom-voiced Kenny Wayne Shepherd pickups, an [...]

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.
(via Electric Guitar [...]