Fret12 has recently released Mark Tremonti: The Sound and the Story, an instructional DVD featuring former Creed and current Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti. Thanks to Fret12, I’ve been watching the DVD over the past few weeks and highly recommend it.
Overview
The DVD is divided into three parts covering three hours of content. The first part [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]