Speaking of podcasts, last November Bob Taylor was the featured guest on the Fretboard Journal podcast. Taylor seems to be focusing his efforts on wood conservation and responsible harvesting these days, and it's interesting to hear about guitar making from that perspective. Few people know as much as Taylor does about these topics, so I enjoyed hearing him talk about them on … [Read more...]
Matt Schofield on Everyone Loves Guitar Podcast
British guitarist Matt Schofield was recently the featured guest on Craig Garber's Everyone Loves Guitar podcast. Schofield is a great guitarist and he seems like a nice, thoughtful guy. It's a wide-ranging interview, with perhaps the most interesting part being where Matt talks about the struggles of a foreign-born musician playing in the U.S. There are apparently a lot of … [Read more...]
T-Shirt Survey
Hello, friends! I'm working on some t-shirt designs, and I could use your help. I'm trying to figure out some details before I get the shirts printed. If you could spare ~3 minutes to fill out a survey to help me determine common sizes to get printed print, colors, etc, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance! … [Read more...]
Rat Tail Distortion Cable
In one of the more curious announcements at NAMM, ProCo announced the Rat Tail Distortion cable. In short, it's a RAT pedal in a guitar cable. It features two distortion modes utilizing the same clipping diodes used in vintage RAT pedals. The distortion modes are selectable via the cable's connector. Yes, it even has a true bypass option. I guess if you really want the … [Read more...]
Hamilton: Ukulele Selections
By: Russ Aloha and welcome to a new series for ukulele instruction books! I know it’s going to be hard to surpass the quality of the last series (90s music), but I’m going to give it a shot: There are songs that seem to have been with us forever. Songs that we seem to be born knowing. They’re the songs that bring us directly to a different place mentally and have the … [Read more...]