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Ty Tabor’s Early and Latest Gear (Part 1)

Posted by admin in Friday, August 28th 2009   
Topics: Lab Series, Strat, Ty Tabor    
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If you don’t know who Ty Tabor is, or haven’t heard King’s X’s music, please do your ears a favor and buy every King’s X CD right now. Seriously.
At the risk of sounding like an uber-fan, King’s X is one of the best American rock bands ever. And although it seems like there’s some sort [...]

Get To Know Doyle Bramhall II

Posted by admin in Wednesday, February 25th 2009   
Topics: Doug Pinnick, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Gales, Marshall, Strat    
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Doyle Bramhall II is one of the best blues guitarists walking around planet Earth. He can play old-school blues and newer-school stuff a la SRV, but to my ears he also does the amazing, which is take this loose, cool, Strat-inflected, semi-psychedelic style and inject it with an original blues-rock, vocal-delivery thing, much like — [...]

X and X Live

Posted by admin in Tuesday, August 5th 2008   
Topics: Egnater, Extreme, King's X, Nuno Bettencourt, Slash, Ty Tabor, Washburn/Randall    
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I was fortunate that a friend got tix to last night’s King’s X/Extreme (in that order) show at NYC’s Fillmore Irving Plaza. Follow is my “review” — just my experience, really — but the bottom line was that both bands were very good.
King’s X opened and they were awesome as usual. What a great, musical, [...]

Pinnick’s WoodyTone

Posted by admin in Wednesday, May 28th 2008   
Topics: Doug Pinnick, King's X    Tags: ,
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You might be way ahead of me here, but I gotta say it: The new King’s X album is out! One of the world’s best bands. Can’t wait to see them again. If you didn’t know, they’re opening (I believe) for a reunited Extreme this year.
Hear clips from the new disc by going to the [...]