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Joe Bonamassa is a man close to my heart. Not only is he an incredibly talented guitarist; not only is he working tirelessly to deliver some great blues and rock; not only is he a total guitar-geek but he was also the guy I presented with the first of my Haze BC-1 model guitars (yes, I do have to work it in to every conversation).  Top it all off with the fact that he’s a genuinely nice guy and you’ve got the total package.
And, speaking of total packages, Joe has …

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You’ve read about the new Joe Bonamassa Les Paul from Epiphone. You’ve broken open your piggy-bank and counted all your pennies. Not enough, not enough. Maybe you could take on another paper-round? But, it’s a limited edition guitar. There’s no time. What can you do?
One thing you could try is winning one.
Over at Epiphone, you can enter a competition to possibly win yourself an Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul.
Why wouldn’t you enter?
Maybe that paper-round money can go towards an amp.

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You will, I’m sure have seen the Joe Bonamassa Les Paul from gibson. Quite nice, isn’t it? It’s also quite expensive.
But now, you can get the Joe Bonamassa experience from Epiphone. And it looks like it’s a well considered experience.
Based on the ’59 Les Paul, this Epi is constructed in the same manner. Solid mahogany and maple body with a long-tenon, glue in neck. Nice. It’s got the 50’s profile neck for Joe-friendly chunkiness.
Importantly, and very nicely, this Epiphone comes loaded with two Burstbucker pickups – a BB-2 …

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I AM NAVARRO. TREMBLE, MORTALS, FOR I BRING YOU ROCK – ALBEIT NOW IN A MORE ACOUSTICY, THINKING MAN’S STYLE – AND LEATHER PANTS, AND… ERM… KITTENS. YES, I BRING KITTEN PILLOWS.
FEAR NAVARRO, MORTALS. FEAR HIM GOOD.
So it seems that Dave Navarro has worked with Epiphone to come up with a signature acoustic guitar.
And here it is. Decked out in scary black with a scary, ‘dead branches with crows’ pickguard and some scary hexagram inlays, this guitar will terrify any kitten you wish (except perhaps an evil kitten). …

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The pickup boffins over at Epiphone are introducing their latest, and greatest, pickup. This is the ProBucker.
The ProBucker is Epiphone’s version of Gibson’s BurstBucker (which is Gibson’s take on Gibson’s much-hallowed PAF). The ProBucker is made with bobbins that have been manufactured to the BurstBucker’s specs and with Elektrisola magnet wire (the same as that used by Gibson). The pole-piece slugs and screws are also to Gibson spec as is the nickel-silver alloy used in the covers.
The magnets used are Alnico II and the coils are scatter wound like …

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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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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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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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Epiphone have announced a series of clinics, for January, in the UK and Ireland. There, you can see (ahem) Doctor Epiphone, and he’ll tell you a number of interesting things about Epiphone.
More importantly though, you might get some free swag – T-shirts, baseball caps and whatnot.  You might also win a guitar.
The dates and venues are below.  Maybe there’s a store near you…

January 19th – Hard Rock Cafe – Edinburgh, Scotland
January 20th – Dawson’s Music – Liverpool, England
January 21st – GigGear Ltd. – Harlow, England
January 22nd – Digital Village – …