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The Razer guys are giving away a guitar.
Not just any guitar.  This is a custom Atomic Destiny guitar.  The very same guitar, in fact, that is custom-made for Razer guitarist, Jeromy Graves.  The guitar will have a custom paint job and Razer graphics.
Not only that, before the winner gets his or her clammy riff-digits on the guitar, it will be played on stage.  On April 28th, the guitar will be played during the last song of the evening at the famous BB King Blues Club and Grill at the Lucille …

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Here’s one for all you crazy youngsters with your YouTubes and your internets and whatnot.
Epiphone are offering the chance to win one of their, rather nice, Masterbuilt acoustic guitars. They’re all-solid, well put together and very, very handsome.
To be in with a chance to win, you need to video yourself playing something on an Epiphone acoustic, upload it to somewhere on the net and submit the link to Epiphone. They’ll scrutinise them and carefully adjudicate (i.e. laugh at them) and the best one will be published on Epiphone’s own site …

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Wanna win Hendrix’s entire back catalogue of music?
‘Course you do.
to mark the release of the Valleys Of Neptune album, Sony Music Ireland are giving away all of Jimi’s work.  Sweet.
To be in with a chance to win, pop off or Sony Ireland and answer the simple question asking when Jimi Hendrix was born (Wikipedia is your friend if you don’t know the answer).
Closing date is 12th of March so get your rocket-powered skates on.

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With the Experience Hendrix Tour getting ready to hit to roads in March, Fender have snaffled tickets for six of the nineteen shows and are giving them away, the crazy bastards.
If you feel you’d like to watch, Billy Cox, Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford, Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour- Double Trouble’s Chris Layton, Los Lobos, Susan Tedeschi, Sacred Steel and Hubert Sumlin all do Hendrixy stuff, you need to get yourself over to Fender and enter the competition.
Fender have two tickets for each …

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Two new Epiphone competitions for all you greedy, competition geeks to enter.
First up, pop over to Epiphone and register to be in with a chance to win one of their new SST hybrid acoustic/electric guitars (left).  A chambered mahogany body and a spruce top with electrics from Shadow.  This is the steel string one.  Nice.
To win the SST, go to Epiphone.

Next up, Epiphone, Krank Amplification and RAZER (you have to do it all in uppercase – it’s the law) have teamed up to present the Big Rig Givaway.
By going the RAZER …

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Line 6 are giving you the chance to win one of five XDR955 Wireless Microphone systems.
The XDR955 has all sorts of clever digital boffinry included to allow top-notch 24-bit sound and secure, interference-free transmission and it can be yours if you pop over to Line 6 and register for their competition.
Win one and you could have just saved yourself the RRP of US $859.99 (although we’ve seen them as low as $499).
The closing date for this competition is 5th February.  Learn a bit more about the system at Line 6.
Off …

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Epiphone, generous souls that they are, are giving away ten custom guitars in conjunction with AP Magazine.
The guitars have been customised with a special paint-job celebrating one of four bands:

Cartel
A Day To Remember
Third Eye Blind
Motion City Soundtrack.

To be in with a chance to win one of these, point your browsie-thing over here and fill in the relevant details.
That’s it (although I’m sure AP would appreciate it if you hung around and took a look at their site).

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We mentioned the launch of the, rather handsome, Epiphone Thunderbird PRO bass a while back.
Did you see?  Did you want?
Well, if you did want one, now’s your chance to win one.
Just pop off to Epiphone’s competition site, pop your email address in the email address field and you might just win a T-Bird Pro.
Not too shabby.
Closing date is 31st of January, 2010.

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Fancy a chance to see Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck perform in the O2 in London?  ‘Course you do.  You’re not mental, are you?
Well you can win one of two tickets to see Clapton and Beck as they play one of only two shows in London.  Enter the Lick Library competition and keep the 13th of February free just in case.
Wondering what body-part you’re going to have to lop off for this?  Actually, it’s far less gruesome (and a lot more fun).
To be in with a chance to win, all …

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If you pop over to Fender’s UK site, you can register to win a Squier Telecaster that has been signed by a whole crapload of musicians.
All you need to do is enter your details at Fender and this could be yours. The winner will be picked on 4th of January.
All of the autographers (yeah, we know it’s not a word) are members of bands who performed at this year’s Reading Festival.
And there’s a lot of them.  The guitar is signed by:

Alexisonfire
Atreyu
Bring Me The Horizon
Deftones
Enter Shikari
Fightstar
Frank Turner
Funeral For A Friend
Glasvegas
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Hockey
Kids In …