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Want to win one of these, rather spiffy-looking, Michael Kelly guitars?
Well Thirty Seconds To Mars, in association with Mr. Kelly are giving away a guitar a day for 30 days. They started on 6th of October so a few have already gone. Plenty left though.
All you need to do is use your Twitter to tweet a message. That’s it. Well, that and be drawn out of the virtual hat.
Ok, so you’ll effectively be prostituting yourself to advertise something that you may not even care about but look – shiny new …
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Do you own a rock-themed, novelty restaurant with walls full of crazy, rock n’ roll memorabilia and a kitchen that throws out slightly sub-par burgers? If so, you can’t afford to miss the Stars Guitars auction in Dearborn, Michigan on the 24th October.
The event will auction off guitars signed by a relatively random selection of rock legends. Well, I say legends…
Nah, I’m being unfair. There are some interesting things in here, like the Les Paul opposite, signed by Les himself. That’s ok, isn’t it? There are a few other things …
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You’ve probably seen the Vox amPlug before. It’s a plug-in headphone amp for late night jamming or those other times when cranking your Marshall stack just isn’t feasible (oh, the horror). Well, Vox have recently added a number of options to the range. You can now have amPlug convenience in a number of additional sound-styles.
As well as the AC30, Classic Rock and Metal styles, you can now get the amPlug in Lead, Bass or Acoustic versions.
Lead is modelled on a US high-gain boutique amplifier. This amPlug has a digital delay …
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Well, not really, but this is quite cool in a ‘basic guitar anatomy’ sort of way.
You can step through, at a (very) basic level, the making of a Martin Guitar (or pretty much any acoustic guitar really). You get a wireframe diagram that is built up with extra bits as you move through each step in the process. At every stage, there are some photos and some information about what’s happening and why.
It’s interesting for those of you who wonder how many pounds of pressure an average acoustic guitar bridge …
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Here at Guitarless, we like parlour guitars. We like them a lot.
And this one looks like a beaut. This is the latest in Taylor’s 35th Anniversary series of special editions and it really does look special. This is the XXXV Parlor
What Taylor have given us is a Sitka spruce top and a rosewood back and sides. They tell us that the sides and back are Madagascar rosewood which is denser than Indian rosewood and can therefore be milled thinner. The Sitka top is specially selected from a slow-growing stock which …
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