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Home Vintage Guitar - May 15, 2016 0 Trending Now Summer School Electronics Reunites the Old and New with the Class Reunion. Fender Announces Lincoln Brewster Signature Stratocaster STEVE PURCELL : NEW SINGLE RELEASE : Vola Guitars and Micheal Keene of The Faceless release his first ever Made In Japan Signature Model Gibson Announces Jimmy Page 1969 EDS-1275 Doubleneck Collector’s Edition Previous article Giveaway Winners Next article Readers’ Choice Awards Vintage Guitar Trending Now Summer School Electronics Reunites the Old and New with the Class Reunion. Fender Announces Lincoln Brewster Signature Stratocaster STEVE PURCELL : NEW SINGLE RELEASE : Vola Guitars and Micheal Keene of The Faceless release his first ever Made In Japan Signature Model Gibson Announces Jimmy Page 1969 EDS-1275 Doubleneck Collector’s Edition Artists Monster Mike WelchFrom Phenom To Blues Veteran Twenty-seven years after his debut album at age 17, Monster Mike Welch delivers perhaps his best disc yet with Nothing But Time. Co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Kid Andersen, it features bass legend Jerry Jemmott, who worked with Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, and countless others. A commanding guitarist and music scholar, Welch flirts with heroes from Magic […] Read more by Dan Forte Artists Dave Gant’s Amp CollectionKey Collection: Nashville pro Dave Gant fosters an impressive gathering of amps Dave Gant grew up in Ada, Oklahoma, and while the city of 17,000 will never be confused with Memphis or Nashville in terms of musical impact, it is the birthplace of a handful of noteworthy personalities including country singer Blake Shelton, NFL tight end Jeremy Shockey, and Gant, who when he’s not serving as musical […] Read more by Ward Meeker Spotify 2024 May Issue on SpotifyThis month we feature Gary Clark, Jr., The Beatles, Deep Purple, Johnny A, Scott Hebderson, Kinga Glyk, D.K. Harrell, Frank BiBussolo, and more! Spotify is free or available without ads via a paid subscription. Go to www.spotify.com and search Vintage Guitar magazine,” or if you already have an account Listen to the complete list HERE. […] Read more by Vintage Guitar Classic Instruments First ’BurstIn May of 1958, a worker at the Gibson factory pulled two Les Paul guitars – serial numbers 8 3087 and 8 3096 – off the line and sprayed their bodies yellow in the center, bordered in red. The result of months of experimentation, Chicago Musical Instrument Company (Gibson’s parent) hoped the look would imply […] Read more by Walter Carter Artists Between Gibbons and Holdsworth John Ziegler Of Volto! John Ziegler’s band, Volto!, emerged from L.A.’s fusion scene with bassist Lance Morrison and drummer Danny Carey, who’s primary gig is with Tool. After cutting its teeth playing ZZ Top and Allman Brothers covers, Ziegler began to write songs, motivated by Carey’s playing. He’s such a stylized drummer,” said Ziegler. The originals kind of squirted […] Oscar Jordan Artists Rose Sinclair Swings on a Stringmaster D-8! Steel Guitar Beyond Country on Secret Love” Rose Sinclair used her ’61 Fender Stringmaster D-8 to play this exclusive piece of Secret Love,” from her new album, Wave.” She calls the EP, …a mix of ‘cocktail steel’ with my small combo playing big-band swing and bossanovas.” Fans of those styles (and jazz) will dig its […] Vintage Guitar Artists Todd Rundgren Rock’s True Renaissance Man For 50 years, Todd Rundgren has been compiling one the most eclectic and impressive resumés in music. From forming the Nazz in 1967 to stints with Utopia, Runt, The New Cars, and a successful solo career, his accomplishments as a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, engineer, and record producer are rarely equaled by even his most-distinguished contemporaries. After also establishing […] Elliot Stephen Cohen VG Approved Gear Demeter FZO-1 Fuzzy Octavulator Fuzz Flavors James Demeter has a long history in the amp and effects biz. His project-boxed/Dymo-labeled Tremulator pedal pre-dates the ’90s boutique pedal explosion by more than a decade. During his 30 years of 100-percent analog designs, Demeter has produced everything from studio-quality rack effects and multichannel tube amps to a wide variety of first-class vintage-flavored stompboxes […] Zac Childs Music Lari Basilio Your Love Lari Basilio’s latest recording is a melodic and shred-tastic, yet compassionate, antidote to the effects of lockdown. The Brazilian phenom plays with spellbinding authority, feel, and subtextual themes, reminding listeners that God loves them. Fearless” is an upbeat lick fest with a positive groove, hip use of double-stops, and major-key Nashville-style vocal. Basilio’s strengths are […] Oscar Jordan Artists Steve Dawson and his Tricone, Singin’ the Blues” Roots Artists Expands the Genren The wildly talented Steve Dawson uses a modern National Tricone for this take on Singin’ the Blues,” then offers a look at his Celtic Cross Weissenborn and Strat used on the new album, Eyes Closed, Dreaming.” He’s playing through the ’53 Fender Deluxe behind him. Fans of slide guitar will […] Vintage Guitar Music Coco Montoya Hard Truth It’s been awhile since Coco Montoya’s last studio effort, but he comes out firing here. From the Albert King-style blast that kicks off the opener, Before The Bullets Fly,” to the loud, raucous blues rock of the closer, Truth Be Told,” He is spot on. The tunes here cover a lot of ground. I Want […] John HeidtClassic Instruments Gibson’s Crest Models Gibson has produced two guitars bearing the Crest” name. While both designs date to the 1960s, they’re very different instruments. The first incarnation was a single-cutaway with design ties to the L-5CT, while the second looked more like a fancy ES-335 with a shortened neck. In almost every way – size, construction materials, appointments, and […] George Gruhn and Staff VG Approved Gear Jam Pedals’ Delay Llama & Wahcko Wah What’s In A Name? Positioning its sonic M.O. squarely in the 1960s and ’70s, Jam Pedals strives to create a distinct line of effects. Beyond their fun graphics and tongue-in-cheek names, Jam’s stompboxes are set apart in the way they achieve their objective. Hand-made in Greece, Jam Pedals are wired for true-bypass functionality and use NOS chips, transistors, and […] Oscar Jordan Artists Steve Cropper An MGs/Rascals Soul Summit Before they were called Booker T. & The MGs, the first song the house band for Memphis’ Stax label cut on their own was the instrumental Green Onions” – which went to number one on the R&B chart and number three on Pop in 1963. Since then, Tele man Steve Cropper has become perhaps the […] Dan Forte Artists Mike Keneally Uncommon Knowledge For 35 years, Mike Keneally has been a go-to sideman for icons like Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani, as well as a noted solo artist deploying monster chops on guitar, keyboards, and vocals. Keneally has just released The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat, featuring guitar guests like Vai and Devin Townsend. This feels […] Pete Prown Music Andy Brown Quartet and Brian Bromberg Direct Call...