Artist Update
Congrats to our good buddy Lyle Workman (Little ’59 for Tele®) who just got the call to play with Sting at Live Aid II on July 2 in a stripped down, four piece band: just Sting, two guitars—Lyle and Dominic Miller—and Josh Freese on drums. God, Guns & Money (Long Overdue Recordings) is the latest release from Funky Meters’ guitarist Brian Stoltz (JB Model and Pearly Gates Humbucker). Kirby Johnson (Live Wire Metal Humbuckers) and the rest of Himsa are now in the studio recording their upcoming new album Hail Horror with producer Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Extol). The album will see a September release date on Prosthetic. But before that, they will be leading the Dirty Black Summer Tour in June and July. Dates can be found at www.himsa.org. Mastodon with Bill Kelliher (Duncan Distortion Humbucker) are set to release a “Festival Edition” of their latest album Leviathan overseas on June 27th through Relapse. Former Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery’s (Custom Custom Humbucker) new band Dark New Day will have a new album out June 14th through Warner. GIGANTOUR, the brainchild of Megadeth frontman/guitarist Dave Mustaine (JB Model), is set to launch in late July. GIGANTOUR is a six-week festival trek
co-headlined by Megadeth and Dream Theater, who’ll be accompanied by other mainstage acts Fear Factory, Dillinger Escape Plan and Nevermore. The Sounds of the Underground tour will be hitting the US and Canada this summer, featuring Lamb of God with Mark Morton (Invader and ’59 Model Humbucker) and Will Adler (Invader and Live Wire Metal Humbucker), Opeth with Martin Mendez, Peter Lindgren and Mikael Akerfeldt (Full Shred Humbucker) and Michael Derks (Distortion Trembucker) with Gwar.
Welcome New Artists: Nuno Bettencourt of Population 1 (Stack Plus for Strat); Lamb of God’s Will Adler (Invader and LiveWire Metal Humbucker); Silvertide’s Nick Perri (Seymourized Mini-Humbucker); Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Mikey Way(JBs for all!) in My Chemical Romance; Sugarcult’s Airin Older (Vintage for J- and P-Bass); Chris Levesque (Duncan Custom) and Trevor Reilly (Invader Humbucker) of A Wilhelm Scream; The Bravery’s Sam Endicott, Mike Hindert (Quarter Pound for P-Bass) and Michael Zakarin (’59 Model Humbucker); Brett Petrusek and Jamie Hardin of 57 Stitch (Pearly Gates and JB Model Humbuckers); A Thorn For Every Heart’s Jeff Harber; Butch Walker Band’s Michael Guy Chislett (’59 Model Humbucker); Scott Campbell from Every New Day; Fireball Ministry’s James Rota; Misfits’ Dez Cadena; Killswitch of Three Sixes (Dimebucker, Duncan Custom, ’59 and Jazz Model Humbuckers); Fernando Vallin with Mana; Quetzal’s Camilo Landau; Adrian Legg (Pickup Booster Pedal); Michael O’Neill (Classic LiveWire™ Humbucker and Classic for Strat LiveWire™) with George Benson; Kat Dyson from Prince and Cyndi Lauper (Custom Custom™ Humbucker); Juice Newton (Lipstick Tube Replacement Pickups for Danelectro®); Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher (Duncan Distortion Humbucker); Scott McGill of McGill Manring Stevens (Jazz and JB Model Humbuckers); Only Crime’s Doni Blair (Replacement Pickup for Music Man®, Quarter-Pound™ for Jazz Bass®), Zach Blair (Hot Rails™ and Little ‘59™ for Tele, JB) and Aaron Dalbec; Taking Back Sunday’s Fred Mascherino (Duncan Distortion and Screamin’ Demon Humbuckers), Eddie Reyes (Pearly Gates and JB) and Matt Rubano (Passive Single Coil Pickups for 5-String Jazz Bass); Steve Edmondson from Paradise Lost; Justin Crane (Hot Rails™ for Tele) of Right Turn Clyde; Mikey Fry (Duncan Custom and Seth Lover Humbuckers) and Daniel Pugsley (Replacement Pickup for Music Man) from Skindred; Carmine D’Amico (Benedetto S-6, Jazz and JB Model Humbuckers, Vintage Rails for Strat); Doug Stapp (Screamin’ Demon and Alnico II Pro Humbucker); Michelle Rangel of Go Betty Go; Zachary Smith of The Crabb Family (Vintage Mini-Humbucker, Hot Stack for Strat); Damian Genuardi (Quarter Pound for P-Bass®), Matt Hock, Dave Walsh (Pickup Booster Pedal, Antiquity P90 Dog Ear) and Chris Gonzales (Vintage Mini-Humbucker) of The Explosion; The Matches’ Justin San Souci and Jon Devoto (Invader, JB Model and Jazz Model Humbuckers); and Marc Bonilla of Toy Matinee (’59, JB and Duncan Custom Model Humbuckers).
Welcome New D-TAR Artists: David Lindley (Solstice); The Backsliders’ Dom Turner (Solstice, Twin SoundSpot XL);
Jeff Peterson (Solstice) from The Clint Black Band; Men at Work’s Colin Hay (Solstice); and Scott Ainslie.
 Nuno Bettencourt (New Stack Plus for Strat®) |
 Blues Saraceno (demos the new Tweak Fuzz at NAMM) |
 NIck Perri of Silvertide (Seymourized Mini-Humbucker) with artist relations reps Jessica Sonquist (left) and Kellie Stoelting (right) |
Artists: send your press releases to kellies@seymourduncan.com.
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