Monthly Archives: September 2011

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After a long hiatus, the unique stylings of Primus has returned with the release of “Green Naugahyde”. In support of the album, Primus will go back on tour starting September 23rd, in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has announced that they will be playing two sets during their tour and the US portion will conclude with an all…

Contributors and visitors of Vintage Guitar magazine have nominated Seymour Duncan as a candidate for the Vintage Guitar Hall of Fame Innovator. Previous winners include Leo Fender, Les Paul, Orville Gibson, Seth Lover and others. Registration is required in order to vote and those who vote get a chance to win an Egnater head and…

Face it: at the outer edges of high performance, we’ve come to expect specialists. We don’t expect the hoops star who can slam dunk from the free-throw line to be able to return a 120 mile per hour tennis serve. We don’t expect the racecar that does zero-to-sixty under four seconds to get 40 miles…

Taka Hirose began playing bass at the age of 14 and played in several jazz and metal bands during his school years. Taka moved to Tokyo and worked for guitar manufacturing specialists ESP and played music at night. After performing for Tokyo Yakuza bosses, Taka moved to London where he joined a new band, which…

When we made the decision to create a new blog that would cover a host of tone oriented topics, we knew that it would all come down to finding the right individual to take on the task. We found that in Joe Gore, an individual who has played for Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, Les Claypool,…