Guitar Center’s King of the Blues grand finals will be held this year on September 2 at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA. Kenny Wayne Shepherd will host the event with Derek Trucks and Honeyboy Edwards performing.

TheGearPage.net forums have a nice collection of photographs of the gear that the guitarists on the Experience Hendrix tour were using. For example, there are photos of Eric Johnson’s rig, Brad Whitford’s rig, Mato Nanji’s rig, Bernard Allison’s rig, Eric Gales’s rig, Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s rig, Jonny Lang’s rig, Buddy Guy’s rig, and there are also pictures of some of the artists’ pedalboards.

Interestingly, the guitar techs were asked to tape over the Fender logos on the Fender amps because Gibson was sponsoring the show. Seems like a silly move to me. I’m sure that most people in the audience knew what kind of amps they were.

Check out the gear photos here.