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Friday, 31 October 2008 15:35 |
 Whether taking the stage with Zephyr, The James Gang, and Deep Purple or recording alongside jazz greats Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon, Tommy Bolin’s incendiary guitar playing broke stylistic and sonic boundaries. To this day, his musical legacy continues to influence and inspire.
With the assistance and cooperation of the Bolin family and estate, Hartman has recreated Tommy’s legendary fuzz tone. Beginning with an original model of Tommy’s go-to fuzz and refined against the original, isolated guitar tracks of Bolin master reels, the result is a 3-knob box of dynamite featuring a definitive palette of tones from deep within the Bolin zone.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 18:41 |
 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Fender and Jimmy Eat World guitarist/frontman Jim Adkins have collaborated to debut a remarkable new Fender model, the JA-90 Telecaster guitar.
Based on Fender’s distinctive double-cutaway TC-90 Thinline guitar, the JA-90 puts Adkins’ own personal spin on the classic model, resulting in a single-cutaway, semi-hollow ash-body instrument all its own. Features include a mahogany set neck with a 12”-radius rosewood fingerboard and 22 medium jumbo frets, Seymour Duncan® Custom SP90-3 and Vintage SP90-1 “soapbar” pickups with volume and tone controls for each and three-way switching, a three-ply black/white/black pickguard and an Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with stop tailpiece. It comes in Crimson Red and Ebony transparent finishes.
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:42 |
 The Starla, the newest addition in a line of retro inspired solid-body electrics from Paul Reed Smith Guitars, is being unveiled as part of the Experience PRS 2008 open house event. Similar in spirit to the double cutaway Mira model introduced at Experience PRS 2007, the single cutaway Starla has many vintage themed appointments and is PRS Guitars’ first solid-body electric guitar featuring a standard Bigsby B5 tail piece and a Grover Tune-O-Matic bridge. The guitar also includes exclusive double-screw Starla Treble and Bass pickups.
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Monday, 15 September 2008 21:46 |
 Paul Reed Smith Guitars is proud to welcome Frank De Fina and Jamie Mann as new members of the executive management team. The pair adds nearly 40 years of combined marketing, sales, management and organizational leadership experience to PRS as the company prepares to bring new product lines to market in 2009. PRS Guitars’ new state of the art manufacturing facility is scheduled to open early next year and will increase the current manufacturing and research and development footprint by five times. PRS is dedicated to finding new ways to incorporate cutting edge technology and even more old world craftsmanship while taking great care to ensure that customer satisfaction, innovation and quality remain at the forefront of every product bearing the PRS name.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 14:50 |
 For nearly twenty years Fender and modern blues sensation Kenny Wayne Shepherd have shared a stage and they are now officially announcing the September 2008 release of his new signature model, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster® guitar.
A sleekly elegant addition to Fender’s stable of artist Strat models, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster is based on Shepherd’s own ’61 instrument (which will soon be on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum) and welds vintage style to modern features. Most distinctively, Shepherd’s new signature model boasts a blueswailing voice of its own thanks to its three custom-voiced Kenny Wayne Shepherd pickups.
Other features include an alder-body, maple neck with 12”-radius rosewood fingerboard and 21 jumbo frets, vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge with Graph Tech® saddles and Fender vintage-style tuning machines. The guitar comes in three polyester finishes—a Black model with a three-ply black-white-black pickguard and racing stripe body graphic, and Three-color Sunburst and Arctic White models that each have a three-ply mint green pickguard (with cross graphic on the Arctic White model).
“It’s an honor to be a part of the Signature Series guitar line. My goal throughout the design process was to combine top notch quality with unique appearances and road proven components at an affordable price. These guitars will help a new generation of guitarists develop their own signature sound the way Fender has helped me to develop mine.
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 20:27 |
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 CE Distribution, LLC of Tempe, AZ and SICA Altoparlanti of Italy, the manufacturer of Jensen Musical Instrument Speakers, are announced their latest addition to the Jensen Jet series, the "Tornado", a modern speaker offering defined and articulate sound.
The Tornado produces crystal clear, clean tones accented by shimmering highs. When presented with overdrive distortion, the notes remain well defined with lots of bite. The 12" Jensen Tornado generates this defined and articulate sound with 100 watts of power and a neodymium magnet.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 12:22 |
(STEVENSVILLE, MD) - Paul Reed Smith Guitars is pleased to introduce the Mira Maple Top model; an instrument that combines the retro vibe of the PRS Mira with the figured maple tops that PRS customers have come to expect. This new model is an evolutionary instrument stemming from the increasingly popular Mira. The maple top provides the guitar both a distinctive visual and tonal identity.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 11:37 |
Montreal, Canada - With Summer NAMM fast approaching, Canadian based Godin Guitars prepares to introduce & exhibit some new products at the Nashville show.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 13:52 |
The much-anticipated and much-talked-about Moog Guitar will debut at Summer NAMM in Nashville. Moog Music Inc. will unveil The Moog Guitar at a press conference at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 21.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 05:43 |
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Many know Pat Donohue as the guitarist in The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on Public Radio's popular A Prairie Home Companion, an extraordinary picker who plays jazz, blues, swing and folk with equal flair and often blends all four in his music.
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