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Howard Leese’s Golden Eagle PRS Worth $500,000?

Posted by admin in Wednesday, June 3rd 2009   
Topics: Howard Leese, Les Paul, PRS    
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It’s generally accepted that, rock star-owned guitars possibly excepted, the priciest guitars in the world are 1959 ‘burst Gibson Les Pauls. Apparently they sound great, feel great, play great, and they’re old and rare – all amounting to guitars worth a few hundred thousand dollars each.
At times I’ve seen prices quoted in the half-mil range [...]

Derek Trucks Tone Info and Arcane Tone Secrets

Posted by admin in Monday, June 1st 2009   
Topics: Derek Trucks, Marshall, PRS, SG, Super Reverb    
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Leaving the Allmans Soon?
Lots of slide typically doesn’t do a whole lot for me. But I do love what Duane Allman, Sonny Landreth, Derek Trucks and a few others can do with a slide. They are truly expressing themselves, not just playing the guitar. And they’ve got TONE – of a Woody nature, of course.
The [...]

Warren Haynes’ Current Gear

Posted by admin in Monday, May 18th 2009   
Topics: Caesar Diaz, Celestion speakers, Firebird, Les Paul, Marshall, PRS, SG, Soldano, Speakers, Warren Haynes    
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No Les Paul for the Dead
Gibson.com continues to make every effort to do justice to musicians who play their instruments, the latest being an interview with Warren Haynes. Warren, as we all know, is a player’s player – meaning a working musician with lots of talent, a thirst for playing and an ear for WoodyTone.
Did [...]

Alex Lifeson on Going Back to Les Pauls

Posted by admin in Monday, April 6th 2009   
Topics: Alex Lifeson, Les Paul, PRS, Telecaster    
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The folks at PremierGuitar.com recently had a good interview with Alex Lifeson, who after using Les Pauls back in the early days of Rush (Alex is a huge Jimmy Page fan), went to Gibson ES-355s, then did the super strat thing for a while, then played PRSs and now is sporting a sweet-looking Les Paul [...]

Best NAMM Vids So Far

Posted by admin in Tuesday, January 20th 2009   
Topics: Fender, Ibanez, Johnny Hiland, PRS, Paul Gilbert, Picking Technique, Steve Vai, Wizard amps, Yngwie Malmsteen    
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Yours truly scrolled through all 700+ Winter 2009 NAMM show YouTube vidoes (and a few others) to find the best vids uploaded so far – WoodyTone-wise, that is – and they are below, in no particular order.
Tone-wise, my favorites are the Wizard amps – I believe Wizards are made by Angus Young’s roadie and are [...]

Gettin’ Betta

Posted by admin in Monday, December 8th 2008   
Topics: Gibson, Marshall, Nuno Bettencourt, PRS, Pat Travers, Paul Gilbert    
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Hear a Pat Travers tune on the internet radio recently, one I hadn’t hear in a long while: Gettin’ Betta. Awesome tune (YouTube links to it below).
Reminds me a lot of Extreme, so Nuno Bettencourt obviously borrowed liberally from Pat.
Back in the day Pat used a Gibson Melody Maker with full-size Gibson humbuckers. In an [...]