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Eric Johnson participating in “Guitar Masters” Acoustic Tour

Published July 21, 2010 at 5:47 p.m.

This Fall Eric Johnson will be participating in an acoustic tour called “Guitar Masters,” which will also feature guitarists Andy McKee and Peppino D’Agostino. The tour will start on October 1 in Milwaukee, WI, and will last for several weeks and then pick up again early next year. The following tour dates are listed on [ ... ] ...

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20 Years of Tall Tales

Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:27 p.m.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Shake Your Money Maker, the Black Crowes’ debut album. To celebrate, the Crowes have arranged and recorded many of their classic songs as acoustic tracks and have released the tracks as part of the double album Croweology.As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, Chris Robinson is participating in [ ... ] ...

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Review: Feared’s debut album - Feared

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:34 p.m.

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One of my favourite pastimes is scouring YouTube for gear demos and one of my favourite channels is fearedse, run by a guitarist called Ola Englund from Stockholm in Sweden. Ola’s gear demos are not your traditional videos that show every knob and switch, instead Ola lays down brutal multitrack guitars over his own compositions. Ola demonstrates high gain amps as he is in a couple of very heavy metal bands, Feared and Scarpoint. I saw on his recent demo video above which is a track called

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Review: Lee Ritenour’s 6 String Theory

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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 4:58 p.m.

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“Maybe it was inspired by YouTube, the way you can spend an hour on there and see clips of every amazing guitar player under the sun ... it just occured to me how great it would be to be able to hear a whole bunch of today’s greatest guitarists doing their thing on one album.” - Lee Ritenour on the making of 6 String Theory ... I expect most people aren’t that impressed to hear that B.B. King, Joe Bonamassa and Guthrie Govan all guested on an album because these days that process can be

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Introducing the Recording King ROJ-26 Acoustic Guitar

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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 1:52 p.m.

If it’s good enough for Schoenberg, it definitely needs to be on Fretbase. While browsing through Schoenberg’s current inventory of new guitars (yes, we’ll use any excuse to pay a visit), we came across the Recording King ROJ-26. We were quite taken by its 000-size body, sunburst top and headstock shape – which reminds us [ ... ] ...

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Choosing Your First Acoustic Guitar

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Published May 26, 2010 at 8:21 a.m.

Guest article written by Corey Armed with genuine, useful information, choosing your first acoustic guitar does not have to be a difficult process. It can seem overwhelming with all the makes and models available. Some music stores are more helpful than others in helping beginners. However, much of the guesswork can be removed by considering [ ... ] ...

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New Taylor GC8 Acoustic Guitar Photos

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Published July 21, 2010 at 6:11 p.m.

Like a lot of you, I spend a lot of my time trolling for my next guitar in the used guitar market. And if there is one thing I have learned, it is that amateur photographers can be come incredible photographers when they are inspired to sell a guitar. Recently I was particularly taken by [ ... ] ...

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New Taylor Baritone 8 String Guitar Videos

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Published July 19, 2010 at 6:40 p.m.

Lately there has been a lot of activity on Facebook about the Taylor Baritone 8 String Acoustic-Electric guitar. We’re not sure exactly why – other than the fact that this guitar has 8 strings! But we thought that this made for as good an opportunity as any to remind our readers that Fretbase is building [ ... ] ...

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New Larrivee L-09-12 User Review

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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 3:19 p.m.

A guy walks into the guitar store looking for a Taylor or a Gibson and ends up walking out with a Larrivee L-09-12. Find out what he thought of it in our latest user review in which you can also learn what he thought about Larrivee’s customer service.Larrivee L-09-12 User ReviewLarrivee L-09-12 Acoustic 12 String ...

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New Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Modern Classic User Review

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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 5:24 p.m.

“Songwriter Player” was looking for a good acoustic guitar to accompany his male voice. He now owns a Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Modern Classic. Read his review to find out what he likes about the guitar and what modifications he made to it to make it even more to his taste. You can also find out [ ... ] ...

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