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Dave Grohl’s Film About Sound City Studios
Dave Grohl’s upcoming film about the legendary Sound City Studios looks to be pretty fascinating. The studio which opened in 1970, was responsible for countless hit records including albums by Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash…and the first album ever recorded there was Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush”. Sound City is also famous [...]
The Bigsby Files
Saying Deke Dickerson is obsessed with the creations of Paul A. Bigsby, would be an understatement. He has spent the last 20 years tracking down and documenting the very sketchy history of one of the modern electric guitar’s founding fathers. Most known for the iconic Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, which is still very popular today. But [...]
“Sleepwalk” – Swart AST amp – Eastwood Airline Tuxedo guitar
I’ve always liked this song, and this is a really nice solo guitar arrangement of it. I really like what Eastwood does, bringing back the cool funky guitars I’m always looking at on ebay. But I’ve had a chance to play two different models, an early Hi-Flyer and a hollow 12 string called the Classic [...]
Fender Pawnshop “Excelsior” & “Greta” Amps
Fender has been spewing out a staggering amount of new gear for NAMM. I’ve been trying to just hit the highlights so that Guitarify doesn’t start looking like “Fenderify”. But these new amps are just too cool to pass up. The Machete I posted a few days ago was pretty unexpected, but I think these [...]
Hocus Pocus by Focus
One of Guitarify’s readers sent me the link to this video. As a fellow Marauder owner, he had written to tell me how he enjoyed my articles about refinishing mine. He included this video due to the Marauder content. You don’t really see pro musicians using the Marauder on stage much.I know Kiss were official [...]