Vintage Fender Bassman Cranked up to 10

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of sitting down and cranking up a vintage Fender this video will be a treat. This is real rock and roll tone. I myself have a Bandmaster which sounds a little different but these old amps can do some serious growling. Check out the video, not only is the tone great, the playing is nice and tasty too. 

The only thing the video can’t capture is that punch in the chest feeling of all that air moving when this thing is searing like that.  Thanks to Tyler Grund for posting this on his YouTube channel. There are many more great videos there too so check them out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gamedojo

 

Mellinium Falcon Guitar

This guitar will do the kessel run in 12 parsecs. Talk about taking some serious initiative. Brian Fisk made a fully functional guitar out of a Star Wars toy. Being a guitar player and a Star Wars fan this thing is just about the coolest thing I've seen since the the Lego guitar gear from a few years ago. 

I always admire the individuals who have a vision for something out of the ordinary but still have the ability to make cool instead of cheesy. Nice job Brian.

Cry Baby The Pedal That Rocks the World premier

Crybaby The Pedal That Rocks The World is now available online in 4 parts. This documentary dives full steam ahead into the pedal that screams rock and roll.

Featuring all the usual suspects known for their use and abuse of the Wah pedal. From Kirk Hammet to Zakk Wylde to Buddy Guy, there is no shortage of commentary from those who know this pedal best. 

You can check out each of the four segments online. The entire movie will be available on March 11th

Check it out here

The evolution of guitar

Stringed instruments have been around for hundreds of years. The guitar has been in the forefront for quite sometime now but where is it going? The evolution of the guitar over the past couple of hundred years was slow. But in the 20th century it seemed to make leaps and bounds. Adolph Rickenbacker, Leo Fender, and Les Paul turned the guitar into a modern stringed instrument….then it stopped.

I’m not saying advances in guitar technology stopped altogether. Sure there were great improvements, new hardware, new shapes, but overall, the evolution of guitar seems to have reach it’s pinnacle. The guitars designed by Fender and Gibson back in the late forties and early fifties are still being produced today. The number of knockoffs and copies are countless. Companies like Jackson and Ibanez did take things to a new level to some extent in the eighties but those designs have too become antiquated. Or have they?

Is it possible that the guitar is what it is. I’m sure there will be small changes here or there but will there be anymore quantum steps forward in guitar technology?  More to the point, do we want any more from a guitar? Did Leo,Adolph,and Les get it right? They certainly did something right because we are all still buying their designs like there’s no tomorrow.

 I know we live in the digital age. I know there are modeling amps, guitar synthesizers, and modeling guitars like the Variax and the VG strat. The kicker is, these modern digital instruments are modeling and emulating the tried and true traditional stuff. I don’t know where the guitar will go in the next 20 years but if the past 20 years are any indication, I will probably still be playing my Les Paul when I’m 60.