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Six String Bliss Releases “The British Are Coming”

Press Release for May 9th, 2011 Worldwide Launch – Monday, May 9th, 2011 Six String Bliss is many things: it’s a website, it’s the longest-running guitar podcast on the internet, and it’s a community. What started out as a one-off idea, putting out an album of listener-submitted Christmas songs in December 2007(A Blissful Christmas, Episode 92), became a more ambitious undertaking in November 2008 with the release of Stay Tuned (Episode 125), when the decision was made to release a…

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The world’s eyes turn to Britain for Friday’s main event

Excitement is mounting around the globe and the newswires hum in the lead up to Friday’s much anticipated big event. Six String Bliss will announce that is only ten days until the release of the first volume of the seminal listener contributed triple album “The British Are Coming”! Volume One will air on a special episode hosted by Alicia and Clint Searcy and will be available to download on 9 May. Volumes Two and Three will follow on 12 May…

Six String Bliss Gives 2 Weeks Notice

Podcast makes somber announcement Having just aired their 230th Episode, Six String Bliss, the longest-running guitar-centric Podcast on the Internet has announced that there are only two more weeks – until the deadline for submissions to the next upcoming album project (tentatively titled The British Are Coming). As with all previous Album Projects, this will be a collaborative effort by members of their listening community. The theme of this album is the “anything British”, and we welcome covers of songs…

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of February 11th 2011

PT and guest host Jerrod break down all the week’s best guitar news.

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of February 4th, 2011

PT and guest host Doug Darrell break down all the week’s best guitar news.

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of January 28th 2011

PT and KJ break down all the week’s best guitar news.

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of January 20th 2011

PT and Pappy break down all the week’s best guitar news!

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of January 7th 2011

PT and guest host Steve Benford breakdown all the week’s best guitar news. Check out www.benfordguitars.com and get yourself a nice new guitar!

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of December 31st 2010

Pipes and PT breakdown all this week’s guitar news!

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of December 24th 2010

PT and special guest host KJ breakdown the best guitar news of the week. Sponsored by Satellite Amps. Check them out at http://www.satelliteamps.com/

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of December 16th 2010

Pipes and guest host Skinny Jim breakdown all the greatest guitar news stories of the week. Sponsored by Benford Guitars. www.benfordguitars.com

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of December 10th 2010

PT and guest host Pipes break down all the week’s best guitar news! Sponsored by Chicago Music Exchange.  Check them out at www.chicagomusicexchange.com and win a Chicago Music Exchange t-shirt in this very episode!

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of December 3rd 2010

PT and guest host Alfie break down all this week’s best guitar news stories! Sponsored by Shanghai Music and Sound. Check them out at www.shanghai-guitars.com

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of November 25th 2010

Pipes and guest host Clint Searcy break down all this week’s best guitar news stories! Sponsored by Satellite Amplification!  Check them out at www.satelliteamps.com

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Guitar News Podcast for the Week of November 19th 2010

Sponsored by ProTone Pedals It’s here! The premier episode of the www.guitarnewsdaily.com weekly wrapup podcast. PT is joined by guest host, Guitar News Dailys chief contributor Dave Mac. Sponsored by ProTone pedals. Find them at www.protonepedals.com

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Hendrix’ Favorite Guitar for Sale

Now this is something that won’t come along again. It’s the favorite guitar of Jimi Hendrix. Voted by everyone from Rolling Stone to Time as the best guitar player ever, Hendrix favorite guitar was this vintage Epiphone FT79 and was “used for almost everything he composed” whilst he was in the United States. Given to a friend just before he died, it was subsequently on numerous recordings and film soundtracks including those by Dusty Springfield, Walker Brothers, Blue Mink, Paul…

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Metallica plan more “Big Four” dates and new album

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has revealed that the band are set to record a new album next year. He said the group were looking forward to starting work on the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Death Magnetic’. “There’s a bunch of balls in the air for 2011, but I think the main one is we really want to get back to writing again. We haven’t really written since, what, ’06, ’07, and we want to get back to kind of just being…

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Police Search for Man Who Hit Host with Guitar

Police are looking for the man who hit his host on the head with a guitar while leaving a house party in Sioux Falls Friday night. There was a small gathering at the home of the 26-year-old victim on the 900 block of South Phillips Avenue when the assault occurred, police spokesman Sam Clemens said. Sometime before 3 a.m., the intoxicated suspect began to get belligerent, Clemens said, kicking and breaking the victim’s acoustic guitar. He then grabbed his own…

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Punch a pick

The Pick Punch is a great gadget for guitarists, and banjo players too for that matter. It’s a heavy duty spring loaded punch, that will allow you to create your own unique guitar picks from stuff you probably have lying around your house. Pop in an old credit card, or something similar and it punches out that familiar guitar pick shape which is also called the 351 or Fender shape. The picks it produces are 1-3/16″ (30mm) tall by 1-1/16″…

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John Lennon appears on new £5 coin

A commemorative £5 John Lennon coin has gone on sale only weeks after what would have been his 70th birthday. Lennon won the Royal Mint’s public vote for the next “Great Briton” to be immortalised on a limited edition coin. Other names on the shortlist were Jane Austen and John Logie Baird. The Beatles singer, assassinated in 1980, now joins William Shakespeare, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale in the series. The coin is priced at £44.99. Lennon…

Play Les Paul’s Guitar

Posted 11 Oct 2011 in Artist News,Gear News
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The Mahwah Museum in New Jersey is offering an opportunity for you to play one of Les Paul’s own guitars, as part of their on-going Les Paul exhibit. A 45 minute session will cost $25 per person. The only dates available are 26th Oct, 9th Nov and 7th December. All sessions are by appointment only. You can make a reservation at the museum’s website. Source: Patch

Ampeg guitar amps are back

Posted 06 Oct 2011 in Gear News,Press Releases
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Ampeg are making a return to the world of top-end guitar amplification with the launch of their new GVT series. From the press release: Ampeg re-enters the world of premium guitar amplification and announces their GVT Series Guitar Amps are now shipping in North America. Each head, cab and combo offers all-tube guitar tone in a sleek design inspired by classic Ampeg guitar amps from the ‘70s. “We’ve been touring around all summer with our GVT amps,” remarks Ampeg’s Director…

Folk legend, Bert Jansch, dies aged 67

Posted 05 Oct 2011 in Artist News

Seminal Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, a founding member of the band Pentangle, has died at the age of 67. He died in the early hours of Wednesday morning at a hospice in Hampstead, north London. Born in Glasgow in 1943, the musician recorded his first album in 1965 and his last, The Black Swan, in 2006. He was a member of Pentangle between 1967 and 1973 and was there when they reformed in 2008. In 2007 Pentange received a…

Eastwood announce the Airline ’59 Coronado

Posted 22 Sep 2011 in Gear News,Press Releases
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Eastwood Guitars have announced a new member of the ’59 Custom family; the rather delightful looking Airline ’59 Coronado.Here’s what their press release has to say about it. The ’59 Coronado has a striking white body with black rubber binding, offset with white binding on a black headstock – a tribute to the vintage Supro® model used by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. This is a stylish guitar with a zero fret for super fast low action and a…

Martone live webcast on 25th Sept

Posted 21 Sep 2011 in Artist News

On Sunday September 25, 2011 at 3 PM EDT, Dave Martone and Glen Drover will take part in a performance that will be webcast worldwide as part of the “Live At Metalworks” series from Mississauga, Canada. The webcast can be seen at live.magnacarta.net.

Fender launch Cobain signature Jaguar

Posted 07 Sep 2011 in Gear News
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Fender have announced the launch of a Kurt Cobain signature Jaguar. Here’s what Fender.com have to say about it: “Fender introduces one of its most distinctive signature models ever, the Kurt Cobain Jaguar®-meticulously modeled on the battered and highly unusual 1965 Jaguar that Cobain wielded during the heady early-’90s era when Nirvana ruled rock and led a musically stunning and culturally subversive movement. Fender craftsmen have reproduced Cobain’s battle-hardened left-handed Jaguar down to the last unusual detail, including its worn…

Honeyboy Edwards dies at the age of 96

Posted 30 Aug 2011 in General News
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Last of the great pre-war bluesmen, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, has died at home in Chicago at the age of 96. In 2008 he won a Grammy and was honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2010. He had performed with and was a friend of Robert Johnson. He was there when Johnson drank the poisoned whisky that killed him and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson’s death. Honeyboy used to say, “The world don’t owe me…

Sheryl Crow auctions Guitar and vintage Mercedes for Joplin Relief effort

Posted 27 Aug 2011 in Artist News

Sheryl Crow has raised $143,000 for Joplin Schools Recovery Fund of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks by auctioning off her beautiful white 1959 Mercedes Benz 190SL, like the car pictured below. The auction also included a signature Gibson acoustic, a replica of the 1962 Gibson Country Western, and two backstage passes to one of her gigs. Source: Joplin Independent

Guitar News Daily decide not to publish Gibson story

Posted 27 Aug 2011 in Industry Insights
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You may well have seen the reports about the recent raids on Gibson’s Nashville and Memphis sites by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Perhaps you’ve even read or listened to Henry Juszkiewicz’s carefully crafted statement. Published and verified facts are somewhat thin on the ground and so the Guitar News Daily editorial team have taken the decision not to publish a story on the matter and to wait until there is something informative to report. Should you be in…

Shred Academy launch “String Insanity” Guitar Competition

Posted 26 Aug 2011 in Press Releases

The Shred Academy have launched a worldwide competition to unearth unknown guitar stars across the globe. There will be $3,000 worth of prizes on offer for the ten best submissions. All that is required is for you to check out the competition details at String Insanity, and then upload a 60 video of you playing an original piece of music as a response to the video below. Direct Link Source: Press Release