August 2008 Newsletter

OK. So while most of you have been lazing away the summer... we've been busy with some new stuff. 1) AIRLINE LAP STEEL (cool), 2) AIRLINE 2P LTD Metallic Margarita (cooler) 3) Eastwood BIG PICK Award (coolest).

It just never ends.... =) ... BTW, for those of you that have been hanging in for the past 6 years, raise a glass and toast yourselves - thanks for being a part of this with me!!!

And for those bargain hunters, a FEW deals still remain in the DEMO and B-Stock section, check them out now!

I have been playing guitar for 40 years. I have owned everything, from ES175 to a 58 Les Paul Std, 59 Strat, Travis Bean, Alembic, Cort, Samick, Guilds, G + Ls, you name it, I owned one. And you know what? If I see one more damn Les Paul, Strat or Tele I think I will vomit! Good lord, are they the most boring thing in the world or what? I love guitars that are different, I do NOT want to see another guy walking down the street playing the same guitar as me.

People who aren't hooked on guitars are probably not aware of the medical fact that guitar lovers can be highly susceptible to whiplash. I still get a pain in my neck when I remember the first time I saw this Sekova Grecian calling to me from the back of the rack at MusicCity in Newark, NJ, like some sensuous, mythical Siren. You're walking by glancing at the wall of guitars and your head snaps around as you yell, "What the hell?"

Possibly no other single event inspired the creation of more garage bands than the first Ed Sullivan show featuring the Beatles. And likewise, probably no single company furnished more of the guitars and amps for young musicians than the Sears & Roebuck Company. While most of us would rather have started out with the Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Hofner, Vox and Ludwig gear we saw the Fab Four using, due to price and availability, it was the Sears catalog that supplied our first six-string.

Class A tube guitar amps. Everyone's heard the term. It's generally associated with higher-end amps in support of an amp maker's claim that their product sounds "better". I'll leave the debate as to which is better to others. What I want to discuss is what Class A really means and, from the pet peeve perspective, to debunk many amp manufacturers' claims that their products are Class A when clearly they're not!

Here is another interesting look at how notes conveniently line themselves up in standard/dropped D for slide. I've played this in D, but these positions exist for any other chord. They may jog themselves into new octaves, but these double stops belong to all keys. If you think of a minor key as an inverted major key (Am is to C), then you can apply them to minor keys too.

OK folks. This time it is for REAL. The camera simply does not give this guitar its due. OMG it is FANTASTIC!!!! Once they are gone, don't come crawling to me asking for more....

You already own an AIRLINE Guitar. You love it. It looks awesome. How about making it look even better? We now have AIRLINE Custom Color LEATHER Straps. Get one to match your guitar! We've added Vintage Cream and Seafoam Green to the lineup. GET YOURS TODAY.

I'm not a surfer kinda guy. Although I've sat on the beach at the NJ shore watching the "surfer dudes" who hang out at the Point Pleasant Beach Surf Taco chatting about the east coast waves actually giving them a pretty decent ride. Okay, so it was when a hurricane was looming offshore but they can dream can't they?

The blues guitar scales are really based off of the pentatonic scales with one extra note added. We call that extra note the "blue note" because it gives the pentatonic scale its obvious "bluesyness." The only real difference between the scales on the guitar and the same scales on any other instrument is the fact that there is more than one way to play them on a guitar.