The Seagull S6 Original Q1: A Working Musician's Friend

http://bit.ly/ofJ47u If you are looking for a quality acoustic-electric that won't destroy your budget, look no further than the latest offering from Seagull Guitars. A couple of years ago, Seagull began to improve and supplement their already excellent line-up with re-designed guitars that featured compound curved tops and re-designed precision neck angles. The S6 Original Q1 represents the newest member of the Original Series.

With a solid cedar top and wild cherry sides and back, this guitar sounds vibrant, deeply warm, and altogether crisp. These woods are finished with a semi-gloss lacquer coat. The silver leaf maple neck has a rosewood fretboard, which looks great and reduces finger fatigue. The strings sit on a tusq nut and compensated saddle, and they run into machine heads that are in the in-line configuration that is characteristic of all Seagull guitars.

As for amplification goes, the S6 delivers. Housed within is a L.R. Baggs Acoustic Timbre pre-amp with an equalizer and a Godin Quantum 1 under-saddle ribbon transducer, thereby assuring that the same warmth and clarity that emanates from the unplugged instrument is translated into rich and resilient live sound perfect for any venue.

At an average price of around $530, this humble but brilliant guitar is something worth getting your hands on. And if you're like me and you value the way an instrument sounds and performs more than you value the hot fuss and hype that surrounds elite branding, this six-string is a no-brainer. Now go play one and be convinced.

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Gibson Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul

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Eric Clapton's original 1960 Les Paul Standard is legendary for not one, but several significant reasons. Clapton's playing on John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album of 1966 (forever after known as "The Beano Album" because Clapton himself was reading a Beano comic book in the LP's cover photo) is seminal blues-rock — searing, dynamic and ferocious. While anonymous street artists famously scrawled "Clapton is God" on the walls and train stations of London, the virtuosic ex-Yardbird brought the mighty sunburst Les Paul roaring back to popular music. One listen to the creamy, yet biting snarl of Clapton's playing on tracks like "Hideaway," "Double Crossin' Time," or "Key to Love," and countless guitarists the world over were instantly turned on to the power of this rare, and previously under-appreciated, Gibson solidbody electric guitar. Virtually overnight, the single-cutaway Les Paul (deleted from the Gibson catalog after 1960 and redesigned to the double-cutaway SG body shape) was a "must-have" for any serious guitarist who wanted to make their mark on music — leaving a lasting impact on the history of rock and blues.

That is the exalted side of the "Beano Burst" legend. The tragic side of the tale is that this groundbreaking instrument was stolen from the artist later in 1966, while Clapton was rehearsing with Cream for the band's first tour, and was never recovered. Now, for the first time ever, Gibson Custom and Eric Clapton have teamed up to revisit one of the most legendary Les Paul Standards, a guitar produced in honor of an iconic instrument lost to the public eye for nearly 45 years.

The Gibson Custom Shop Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul has been created with the close personal cooperation of the artist, and with painstaking reference to available photographs. Clearly there are special challenges in creating a guitar based on one that no longer exists, but this strictly Limited Edition instrument accurately represents what Eric Clapton personally feels his 1960 Les Paul should be. Every component in the build—including grain pattern and finish color, neck profile and feel, pickups, and more—has been personally approved by Clapton through several iterations from Gibson Custom so that, ultimately, this guitar comes as close as possible to recreating the hallowed '60 Burst as it exists today in the mind of this legendary artist.

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The Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul will be produced in extremely restricted numbers: 55 guitars will be hand-aged by renowned finishing expert Tom Murphy, and hand-signed by Clapton himself (with Clapton keeping the first 5 guitars). A further 95 guitars will be Murphy-aged, and 350 guitars will be finished with Gibson's Vintage Original Spec (VOS) treatment. All 500 guitars will display striking characteristics of the artist's original 1960 Les Paul Standard, including the subtly figured maple top with luscious Antiquity Burst finish, period-correct hardware (including Clapton's own upgrade to Grover tuners), and two of Gibson's finest reproduction PAF-style humbucking pickups.

In short, this is the closest we will ever come to recovering this long-lost rock legend, a cornerstone of blues-rock history. Surely one of the most collectible artist's guitars Gibson Custom has ever produced, the Limited Edition 1960 Eric Clapton Les Paul is bound to go fast, so secure yours now at your authorized Gibson Dealer.

Product Features:

• One-piece Mahogany back with carved maple top



• Thinner 'Clapton' neck profile



• Rosewood fingerboard with acrylic pearloid trapezoid inlays



• Custom-made Custom Bucker pickups for accurate tone and performance



• Nickel-plated Grover kidney button tuners

Gibson Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul

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Reverend Guitars Rick Vito Signature Electric Guitar

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Reverend Guitars announces the release of their latest signature model, designed in collaboration with Grammy-nominated rock and blues artist Rick Vito. Known for his tasteful and versatile chops, Rick is a former member of Fleetwood Mac and has worked with Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Todd Rundgren, John Fogerty, Bob Seger (that's Rick on the "Like A Rock" slide solo), Roger McGuinn, John Mayall, Hank Williams Jr., The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, and many others.

The Rick Vito Signature Guitar features include a Dual-Pro bridge pickup, ebony fretboard, pickup pan knob, locking "stairstep" tuners, and two-tone tapered case. The korina construction is warm and resonant, the ebony fretboard adds clarity and a slick feel. The neck P-90 has been moved slightly closer to the bridge for extra bite.

The biggest news is the Reverend Dual-Pro bridge pickup. Based on a mid 1960s SuproT pickup, it's a hot single coil with a second blade pole-piece in addition to the standard screw pole-pieces. Reverend describes the pickup saying, "Imagine a P-90 meets Tele with humbucker output... fat, raw and clear. And we managed to fit it all into a standard size humbucker cover, a first in the industry."

Available in Oceanside Green and Black. Visit www.reverendguitars.com for more information.


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Guitar Smashing Tips - How To Destroy Your Instrument

http://bit.ly/nEPEra You are true blue musician, a lover of all things sound related, and a consummate professional. Naturally, you’re going to want to destroy your guitar or instrument as part of your live show.

Smashing your instruments goes back to, at the very least, the sixties, although it’s more often thought of as a punk thing. Of course, most punk bands back in the day had the musicianship of a pack of rabid hyenas, so smashing their guitar made little to no difference in the quality of their sound.

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Truth be told, if you do it right, smashing your instruments can be the violent crescendo to an awesome show, and leave your fans thinking that it was the coolest thing ever, especially if your fans are testosterone tainted teenage boy or owners of demolition companies. But like anything, smashing your instruments is something that you shouldn’t head into willy nilly.

Bait and switch

The biggest problem facing most would be instrument annihilators is the fact that instruments actually cost money, something that musicians, on a whole, do not actually possess. If you smash your good instruments and aren’t making a bunch of money, you may find your band rapidly devolving into a barbershop quartet.

Fortunately you can have your guitar and smash it, too. What you need to do is buy some old, busted instruments that cost next to nothing or, in some cases, actually nothing, and then swap them out for your good instruments before the end of the show. This way you get the joy of destruction without the pain of regret.

Pick instruments you can destroy

This is important. If you are a piano player, you might have to give up your dream, because unless you can pick up a piano and hurl it or you carry a fire ax, you’re going to find it hard to smash.

Likewise, electric guitars tend to be shockingly durable, so if you have the upper body strength of a starved gerbil, you’re going to find it hard to destroy your instruments in a meaningful way. Make sure that the instrument you choose to destroy is one you actually can destroy. [Smash this guitar]

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Be aware of where you are

Once you’ve gotten to the point where you actually can destroy your instruments, you need to be aware of where you are. If you bring your guitar down like a lumberjack splitting wood, you’ll want to make sure that your bass player’s head isn’t in the way.

Yes, technically, drummers and bass players are instruments, but the police will probably take a dim view of you destroying them. You also want to try to avoid smashing your instrument into things that could potentially kill you, such as electric plugs, pyrotechnics or security members. There’s no point in destroying your instrument if you die before you can appreciate it.

If you follow these simple guidelines, you can be wrecking beautifully crafted instruments in no time flat and showering the rest of your band with splinters, and isn’t that what music is really all about?

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Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar Review

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The Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric guitar is a classic that has been around for generations. This guitar has the melodious sound of an acoustic that is paired with the power of an electric guitar, so you have the best of both worlds in your hands. Perfect for a live gig, the electric-acoustic guitar can give you a sound that reaches even the largest audience, without sacrificing the sound that fits your style best.

Features of the Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric

This Epiphone EJ-200CE acoustic-electric guitar has a classic body shape, with rounded corners, gold details, and a maple body. The maple body is combined with a rosewood fingerboard and a maple neck for a high quality guitar that you can play for years to come. The guitar is built on a 25-1/2 scale, and has a larger body than some other acoustic-electric guitars that you can find on the market today. The guitar also boasts studio-quality sound, thanks to the selection of tuners that are built into the guitar.

The Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric guitar has built in NanoFlex technology, which means that the guitar is more sensitive to your strumming than other guitars may be. The vibrations of the strings allow the pickups to pass the information onto the seven layers of sensors that lie under a super thin pickup. This technology ensures your audience hears a truer sound from your guitar every time that you play. The sensitivity of this guitar is one of its biggest advantages, but there are also other great features that make this an excellent acoustic-electric guitar.

Playing Your Epiphone Acoustic-Electric

The Epiphone EJ200-CE Acoustic-Electric guitar will show you exactly what you can expect from this guitar. The body is just a light as a traditional acoustic guitar, but the sound is just as powerful as an electric guitar. The controls on the guitar include a built in tuner that helps transition to electric smoothly, a preamp, and a chromatic tuner. The guitar can be played without plugging into an amp if you are playing for practice, and is designed to have the classic acoustic sound even when playing the guitar without amplification.
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This is an excellent guitar that gives you an acoustic-electric sound without the price tag that some other classical guitars have. Priced at around $450, the Epiphone EJ200-CE Acoustic-Electric guitar is definitely a guitar that can exceed your expectations without breaking the bank.

Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar

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