I'm a sucker for a good factory tour. I worked in a manufacturing plant throughout college and have always been fascinated by how products are made. As a guitarist, I'm especially interested in how guitars are made, so I was pleased to see that Premier Guitar magazine posted this past summer some videos of their factory tour of Nazareth, Pennsylvania's Martin Guitars. Part I of … [Read more...]
Buddy Guy Live Set
Yahoo! Music has recently posted a performance by Buddy Guy in their Live Sets series. I finally got a chance to see Guy live a few years ago, and he puts on quite a show. I'm glad to see Yahoo! putting up one of his shows. Guy plays a number of songs from his recently released album Skin Deep, but he also plays some classics. Below is Guy's performance of one of my … [Read more...]
B.B. King Museum
Nashville-based writer and media producer Craig Havighurst (of String Theory Media) has recently written an article for the Washington Post about the opening of the B.B. King Musuem and Delta Interpretive Center in King's hometown of Indianola, MS: The B.B. King Museum took shape over the past five years as a biracial coalition raised private and state money with the aim of … [Read more...]
David Gilmour Live at Gdansk
Last week, I met some friends at a local movie theater for a showing of David Gilmour's Live at Gdansk DVD. I've been on a bit of a David Gilmour kick over the past few weeks, and I've recently watched Gilmour's Remember That Night - Live at Royal Albert Hall and Pink Floyd's Pulse. So, I was pretty pumped to see this new DVD. Much like the Live at Royal Albert Hall DVD, the … [Read more...]
Internal Combustion Guitar
The internal combustion guitar: Your touch sends signal to a small amp (6 watts or less) or processor combo The small amp sends the conditioned signal back to the Internal Combustion Guitar The Internal Combustion Guitar power driver reenergizes the now harmonically enriched and colored string … [Read more...]