Guitar Backing Track(.com)
While playing in a band is certainly the ultimate goal of many guitarists, getting to the point to where your confident enough in your abilities to go to that first audition takes lots of practice. And though playing along with a metronome is great for technique, it not always very inspiring. Backing tracks are songs […]
Affordable, custom PCB
DorkbotPDX is offering custom PCBs based on your own designs for a very reasonable $5 per square inch for 3 copies of your board. They say that the low price comes from creating large circuit boards with dozens of small boards ganged together. Great idea. The boards are 2-layer, with soldermask and silkscreening on both […]
Devo is Back(featuring the “Blue Potato”)
Here’s DEVO playing the single off their new album, the first in 20 years. It even features the famous “Blue Potato” Ibanez that guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh sold in the mid 80s for $250 to fuel his drug addiction. In the mid 90s he sobered up and regretting he sold his beloved potato he set off […]
Quick Rock Riff lesson
This comes from Dolphinstreet. There are many other free lessons and video reviews worth checking out there.
The Marauder Project: Part 1
The Gibson Marauder was sold from 1975-80. It was the “Norlin era”, considered by many to be a low point in the companies history. About 7,ooo were sold thanks in part, to the low price tag. Designed as an entry level guitar, it had a lot of Fender-type elements such as a bolt on neck […]