Outside of the mainstream of rock and roll musicians, there are virtuosos. Their music doesn’t get played on iHeart or on the jukeboxes in bars, but they’ll pack an arena. Their talent is undeniable, but it is technical, and they lack the catchy choruses required of mainstream music success. For …
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I was in the market for an empty 2×12 cabinet. Think of all the brands around who’d offer such things, and you’d probably think of Marshall, and probably Laney, maybe Orange too. I was specifically looking for something cheap and cheerful because it was for a project. If you’re a …
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I can’t remember the specifics of what first attracted me to . Realistically, I probably just thought they looked cool. I know I’d been thinking about getting one, then I read that Suede and Foo Fighters had been using them in the studio, and I think that swayed me a …
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No matter how traditional a guitarist wants to be, companies keep coming out with weird and wonderful tech for us to at least try, and no more than literally everything else, that increasingly means our phone will be involved. I know what I like: valve amps, analog pedals, mahogany bodies …
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It must have been the mid-nineties when I first got into . You can chalk that up to old age, it’s been that long. I’m still using them, and they’re the first brand I’ll look at when I’m buying new strings. I’ll look at other brands to see if there …
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