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| | WHAT THEYRE SAYING ABOUT US
The senior editors of Guitar Player put the microscope to the new Custom Shop Jimmy Page Les Paul and the new Epiphone Masterbilt acoustics in the brand new (not online yet) July issue, and they liked what they saw. Art Thompson described the replication of Pages Number One guitar as a Herculean effort, as he chronicled the story behind the guitar in detail. Page also contributes his thoughts on the guitar.
In the Gear section, Andy Ellis checked out four Masterbilt flat tops from Epis new line of solid-wood models. The new guitars revive the vintage Epi headstock with the offset dip, along with the Masterbilt trademark that Epi used when it first challenged Gibson for supremacy in the guitar world in the early 1930s. Ellis favorite was the AJ-500RE rosewood dreadnought. From the first strum, I bonded with this light, responsive guitar, he said, and he gave it the Editors Pick award.
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| | New York News
In Gibsons New York showroom, the question of the day was, Banjo or Beyonce? A moustachioed Steve Martin chose banjo, leaving his co-star Beyonce on the set of The Pink Panther while he visited Gibsons New York showroom for an impromptu banjo concert. If its not already obvious that the man has a thing for banjos, consider that he owns four Gibson five-strings...
Ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn taped an interview with Pete Fornatale, host of Mixed Bag Radio...
Singer/songwriter Josh Kelly got in a happy mood before a show at the Bowery Ballroom as he picked a Country & Western. Josh recently snagged a vintage Gibson LG-2 flat top that hes named Seabiscuit...
The lights were low at Edison Recording Studios, but we didnt want to spoil the mood as Lenny Kravitz returned to the studio where he recorded his latest album, Baptism. He played his signature Flying V and also strapped on a Les Paul Acoustic in a private show for winners of a KROCK contest.
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| | Alvin Lee in Tennessee
Alvin Lee of Ten Years After fame has joined with former Elvis bandmates guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer D.J. Fontana for a new CD of rockabilly and blues. Just released on Rainman Records, Alvin Lee in Tennessee is Lees 25th album. Children of the 60s remember Lees blistering guitar solo on Goin Home, played on his peace-sign adorned ES-335, as a highlight of the film Woodstock.
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| | Mick Jones Surrounds Nashville
We caught up with Foreigners Mick Jones in Nashville checking out the latest in Surround Sound technology at an event hosted by the Recording Academys Producers & Engineers wing. The seminar and trade show at Nashvilles Loews Vanderbilt Plaza on May 19 was hosted by producer Phil Ramone and drew a crowd of top producers and engineers. Mick said he was there to show support for the Alliance and for progress in music. Technology may move forward, but Micks not planning on changing guitars any time soon. Im still playing the same old black '58 Gibson Les Paul, he said.
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| | Claptons ES-335 for the Crossroads Centre
Eric Clapton and friends have donated a spectacular group of guitars for Christies to auction in New York on June 24, to benefit the Crossroads Centre Antigua, the international addiction treatment center Clapton founded in 1998. Yeah, yeah, we know about Claptons affiliations with those other guitar companies, and yes, the auction catalog has Blackie on the cover, but there are plenty of Gibsons to covet, including the cherry 1964 ES-335 Clapton has used throughout his career. For auction details and photos of great guitars, go here.
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| | Rockin Big in Louisville
The Hard Rock Caf hoisted a 35-foot neon Gibson ES-335 atop its new restaurant and store in Louisville on May 20, just in time for a grand opening on Memorial Day. The guitar, which was shipped to Louisville from Tampa, FL, on a flatbed truck, will be a landmark of the new Fourth Street Live project, a $70 million redevelopment of the former Louisville Galleria to include restaurants and entertainment outlets a la Bourbon Street or Beale Street.
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