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A huge selection of Bizarre Vintage Guitars and Bass
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used in-store demo guitars at great discount
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Top seller: U.K.'s TOTAL Guitar Magazine gives the
Ovation Ultra-GP tribute a rare 5 STAR rating last month.
Check it out!
Ovation
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Coming in January: Our latest re-issue. A masterpiece.
We've done some major backflips to pull this one off, the HOPF
Saturn from 1963. Destined to become a collectors piece all
over again!
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NEW in Stock: Eastwood's first custom design. Mix all
your favorite 1960's guitars together and what do you get?
ICHIBAN!
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This is issue 12. You can find a link at the top of the
home page to revisit the prior years worth of
newsletter.
Newsletter
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We have a bunch of lefties on stock, ICHIBAN, Hi-Flyer
(standard and RAMONES version), DELTA 6, Airlines in 2 and 3
pup version (with optional BIGSBY!) and more on the horizon.
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The new SATURN '63 is shipping TODAY. A few lucky
customers will have them in their hands by the end of the
week!
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We are looking for good quality vintage guitars for
trade-ins towards a new Eastwood guitar. If you are bored with
your old one, upgrade to a new axe!
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March 2006 |
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This month's newsletter is bigger and better than ever! The new website is coming along nicely, and we've had a
number of interesting LOGO submissions for the contest. Keep
them coming, contest ends soon. Enter
here
Please take a moment to read this months submissions from
Dave Love and Joey Leone. These guys are a WEALTH of
knowledge, and their contributions are invaluable. David
Love follows up his 12-string tips with setup tips and Joey Leone kicks it up another knotch with some killer guitar/amp combos that can't be beat. Thanks
guys, awesome stuff!
As many of you have noticed (thank you) this newsletter
requires a lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears on my part,
(cheesy segue) so we decided to offer an interview with Mike Stern written by Larry Payne. Some may
think certain guitars are best left in the basement, but Michael Wright, The
Different Strummer takes a moment to drag the ALAMO
Fiesta up from the cellar. We'll revisit some insightful
commentary from Kirk
Lorange, on Getting Your Own Sound .
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by David Love
This month's column focuses on my pet peeves and some very
important and yet overlooked aspects of guitar playing and
your enjoyment of your guitar - tuning and set-ups. Everybody
deserves to have a guitar that plays well, stays in tune, and
is in tune with itself. This is not just the privilege of
globetrotting superstars, but everyone who owns a decent
instrument.
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By Michael Wright, The Different Strummer
It's not often you see a guitar than looks like a squashed
Strat, one that got run over by a truck! On purpose, no less!
Or maybe a better description is a guitar that came right off
the set of the '90s Kitsch, campy classic, Pee Wee's
Playhouse. You remember Pee Wee Herman, so fond of Rube
Goldberg machinery, dancing to Tequila on the biker bar, on a
fateful quest to find his stolen bicycle that led him to the
Alamo. It may not have been pursuit of stolen goods that
brought me to discover Alamo guitars, but it may well have
been fate!
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 Joey Says...
by Joey Leone
One thing I have noticed over the thirty years I have been
playing guitar is that guitars have their own sound no doubt,
but amplifiers do "reproduce" the sound of the electric
guitars differently. Case in point, the Les Paul guitar coming
out of a vintage Marshall an amp with plenty of treble, sounds
fat yet cuts through nicely. I believe the same thing for a
Les Paul running through a blackface Super Reverb, it cuts
beautifully. Put that same Paul through say a Tweed Pro or a
first run Ampeg Reverberocket and it sounds muddy and has
trouble cutting through especially using the neck pickup. IMHO
a sure test of a good Paul is does the neck pickup have some
bite to it?
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Figuring IT All Out
The question is ridiculously simple, but players throughout
modern musical history have found it nearly impossible to
answer: What kind of guitarist are you? If we're not asking
ourselves this kind of thing, we're expecting others to answer
it for us. Apparently, for a guitarist it's best to have an
affiliation. If you're a jazzer or a blueser, then you're no
longer a danger to yourself and others.
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by Kirk Lorange
One of my students was around the other night and pointed
out that even when I was playing his guitar (a beautiful
Strat), I still sounded like me. It's true - no matter what
guitar or amp I plug into, I always sound like me. After 38
years of playing, it would be impossible for me not to. For a
long time this bugged me. I guess because I was so used to "my
sound", I started to think it was pretty ordinary, and over
the years I've made the odd attempt to change it. I can't
anymore.
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Well folks, the best laid plans... We had a technical booboo with the recent CAPTION contest. We
managed to capture the names of all the people who entered,
but thanks to our lack of computer skills, most of the "words"
they submitted were lost in cyberspace. So, impossible to have
a "caption" contest with no "captions". Therefore, we
have decided to simply pull a name from the hat for the winner
of the guitar, and leave Mister Guitar Head without a
caption for the next few months. We will announce the
winner of the guitar in two weeks in our next EMAIL
message. Thanks for your support!
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