Tag Archive 'Guitar'

i-tab electronic songbook

February 26th, 2010

I have to admit this is kind of cool. For those of you who play in a band and your learning other peoples songs, long gone are the days of lugging around large boxes with paper tab, now everything can be fitted on what looks like a mini iphone that connects to the headstock of [...]

J.B. Lenoir

February 24th, 2010

Now here is one classic blues player. Born in 1929, died in 1967 J.B Lenoir was very active in the chicago scene back in the 50s and 60s. It was his father who got him interested in guitar after playing him some blind lemon jefferson music. He worked growing up with artists like sonny boy [...]

Tonebug Distortion by T-Rex

February 10th, 2010

Back in the 1960s a lot of experimenting was going on with distortion and well it really changed music both in rock and the blues arena. There were numerous methods used by bands such as slitting the front of their amps to get that classic fuzz sound until people realized how to overdrive their main [...]

Yamaha FJ Jumbo Acoustics

November 13th, 2009

Seems Yamaha has come out with a new model of Jumbo acoustic guitar called the FJ Jumbo. Originally in 1960 they came out with the FG acoustic, now they have
FJX730SC – rosewood back and sidesFJX720SC – mahogany back and sidesBoth have Piezo  based system 55T pickups
All of which were highlighted at summer namm 2009
This is [...]