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Store The Official Vintage Guitar® Price Guide Back Issues Apparel VG for Retailers Subscriptions New Renew Gift VG Starter Pack Change Address Delivery Problems Media Family Artists Approved Gear Classic Instruments Classifieds Giveaway Greg Martin Hit List Lessons Newswire The New Gear Yearbook 2019 Podcasts Readers’ Choice Special Features Team Josie Videos Overdrive Guitar Shows Advertising Archives Enter FAQ Home By Vintage Guitar 0 Trending Now Tommy Emmanuel Sets Live-Stream Performance PRS Guitars Hosting Virtual “Experience PRS 2020” SCHECTER GUITAR RESEARCH brings you the PT Fastback Wrembel Plays Django, Live Levy’s Hemp Straps Artists Bobby Black -- Steel Before and After Commander Cody When he got the invitation, Bobby Black wasn’t sure. The pedal-steel virtuoso, a 20-plus-year veteran of San Francisco’s music scene, had just been asked to join the long-hairs in Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. It was the fall of 1971, and Black was in a comfortable situation – he owned a recording studio … Read more by Rich Kienzle VG Approved Gear D’Angelico Premier Bob Weir SS Touch of Grey When Bob Weir introduced his D’Angelico Premier SS at NAMM last January, he performed a set of Grateful Dead and solo tunes for a select audience with backing from an all-star band including Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, steel guitarist Robert Randolph, and others. Weir was … Michael Dregni Music Gary Burton Something’s Coming!/The Groovy Sound of Music/The Time Machine Larry Coryell, Hank Garland, Pat Metheny, Buddy Emmons, Chet Atkins, Mick Goodrick, Jerry Hahn, Ralph Towner, Eric Gale, Sam Brown, John Scofield, Russell Malone, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Joe Beck, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Kevin Eubanks, Julian Lage, and even B.B. King. All of these guitarists have recorded with Gary Burton, the genre-embracing jazz vibraphonist and educator. And with … Dan Forte Classic Instruments The Fender Master Series Dan Smith had an idea – a solidbody guitar with routed chambers that would provide unique resonant tonal characteristics. And he knew the shape he wanted. In the early ’80s, Fender became interested in building instruments that would be viewed as high-quality alternatives to Gibson. Not copies, but highly playable guitars with versatile electronics and … Gary Koehler Special Features 25 Most Valuable Basses Vintage Guitar is marking 25 years of publication with a year full of features. This month, using data compiled for The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide 2011, we continue the celebration with a list of the 25 most valuable basses. 1. 1960-’62 Fender Jazz Bass ($25,000 to $38,000 in custom-color finish) The holiest of Fender … Peter Stuart Kohman Artists Eric Gales Makin’ Good The wild and crazy life of Eric Gales has been well documented, but through it all, his guiding light has been a passion for music. From humble beginnings as a child prodigy and talent-show winner in his hometown of Memphis to performing with Billy Cox on the Experience Hendrix tour, his desire has been unshakable. … Oscar Jordan Classic Instruments Three Small Tweeds Fender Princeton, Deluxe, and Tremolux From 1954 through ’59, the Fender Electric Instrument Mfg. Co. built guitar amplifiers with controls mounted atop using “chickenhead” knobs that go to 12, and covered with “the finest airplane luggage linen.” This line represents the company’s classic “tweed era,” and from the diminutive Champ to the mighty Twin, it remained virtually unchanged throughout the … Baker Rorick VG Approved Gear The Preston Thompson 12-Fret 000 Old Soul Until 1928 the largest and loudest guitar in C. F. Martin’s catalog was their 12-fret 000-sized guitar. Until the OM premiered in 1929, the 12-fret body was also the standard shape for all Martin flattops. The late Charles Sawtelle, guitarist in the Colorado bluegrass band Hot Rize, was an avid vintage guitar collector. One of … Steven Stone VG Approved Gear Worland Prairie Built For Speed Worland Prairie Price: $1,950 Info: www.worlandguitars.com. It’s been well-documented how car-crazy vets and teens in postwar America reimagined the American automobile. Some shaved, sprayed, and slammed contemporary two-door sedans, creating the custom car. Others invented the hot rod when they stripped prewar coupes and roadsters to their bare essentials, stroked and bored their Flathead mills, … Dennis Pernu Artists Earl Slick Zig Zag Back to the Top Earl Slick landed his dream gig back in 1974, when a friend referred him for a gig with David Bowie, replacing Mick Ronson. During this period, Slick recorded three monumental albums – David Live At The Tower Philadelphia (1974), Young Americans (1975), and Station To Station (1976). He went on to collaborate with other major … Lisa Sharken Guitar Show Photos Winter NAMM 2017 Experience Winter NAMM 2017 with James Patrick Regan (1 of 42). Experience Winter NAMM 2017 with James Patrick Regan Experience Winter NAMM 2017 with James Patrick Regan Experience Winter NAMM 2017 with James Patrick Regan Tom Feldmann live demo of a new Waterloo by Collings Guitars and Mandolins. #NAMM2017 Cool happenings at the John Page … Vintage Guitar VG Approved Gear Carvin’s GH24 Greg Howe Signature Super Unleaded After decades of jumping from one guitar manufacturer to another, Greg Howe recently began working with Carvin (more specifically, Kiesel) on a signature guitar. Carvin passed manufacture and sale of its guitars and basses to Kiesel Guitars. The reason for the change isn’t immediately obvious, though it makes more sense if you know that Carvin … Oscar Jordan Music Various Artists Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan and Dominic Miller Bill Frisell is a living jazz icon, famed for his ethereal tone and snaking post-bop lines. Here, he partners with Thomas Morgan for a live set – just guitar and standup bass – cut at the Village Vanguard in New York. It’s intimate and beautiful, as you’d expect from ECM. “It Should Have Happened A … Pete Prown Artists Ty Tabor On a Roll King’s X guitarist Ty Tabor is on a roll. Despite the band being on hiatus due to bassist Dug Pinnick’s health issues, Tabor stays busy with side projects like Jelly Jam, with Rod Morgenstein and John Myung. He operates a commercial audio mastering facility, and his new solo album, Nobody Wins When Nobody Plays, showcases … Oscar Jordan Music Joe Goldmark Blue Steel Along with his work with Jim Campilongo and others, San Francisco-based pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark has produced eight solo CDs (and three earlier vinyl albums) covering broad swaths of popular music, among them collections of ’60s rock and Beatles tunes. This latest follows a similar path, as Goldmark navigates a blend of original instrumentals … Rich Kienzle Artists Billy Squier Recollections, Guitar Collection Much has been written and said about Billy Squier and how his 1981 album, Don’t Say No, provided the spark in the gap between 1970s hard rock and ’80s heavy metal. Indeed, when he rose to fame in the early 1980s on the strength of “The Stroke,” his mega-hit ode to glad-handing record executives, Squier … Ward Meeker Classic Instruments Horray For Hollywood The Guitars and Amps of Jersey Boys Movies made in the 1950s and ’60s that included rock-and-roll music acts typically showed them performing in segments using their own equipment (Little Richard and others in ...