Celebrities including Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller will be getting tongues – and tails – wagging, as they lend their support to PUP AID 2010. The event which aims to raise awareness of the cruel puppy farming industry, is the UK’s first-ever charity boutique music festival and celebrity-judged dog. It will take place at the picturesque Stanmer House, in über-dog-friendly Brighton, on Sunday 19th September. In addition to the celebrity-judged dog show and boutique music festival a classic Epiphone Casino…

Rock star and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent was fined $1,750 today in Yuba County Superior Court after pleading no contest to baiting deer on his hunting show “Spirit of the Wild.” Yuba City attorney Jack Kopp, representing Theodore Anthony Nugent, 61, entered a no contest plea to Department of Fish and Game charges of baiting deer and not having a deer tag “countersigned” at the closest possible location, said Deputy District Attorney John Vacek. Baiting deer is legal in…

A New York street musician known as the Naked Cowboy has accused a rival busker of violating his trademark. Robert Burck, who performs in Times Square in white underpants, boots and cowboy hat, says “Naked Cowgirl” Sandy Kane is profiting from his brand. “The Naked Cowboy has standards of quality that have to be followed,” his attorney Joey Jackson said. Ms Kane wears a similar outfit when performing as the Naked Cowgirl but says she owes Mr Burck nothing. Mr…

From the Taunton Daily Gazette: MIDDLEBORO — A rock star on a high-end Italian motorcycle gets rear-ended, and Middleboro becomes the momentary center of the media universe. Police scrambled to field phone calls Thursday afternoon, after word spread that Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry had been sent to the hospital after a fender-bender at the intersection of routes 44 and 105. The phone rang off the hook at the police station, and at least one Boston TV station sent a news…

**STEVE VAI – SIGNED IBANEZ and CUSTOM STAGE CLOTHES** **BASS-MONSTER BLASKO from OZZY Signed ERNIE BALL BASS**   NEWLY ADDED TO ON-GOING EBAY AUCTION FOR Humanity Thru Music – In Benefit of Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary   EBAY AUCTION NOW!! HOLLYWOOD, CA – (July 5, 2010) – Signed guitar and custom stage clothes from the legendary STEVE VAI and monster bassist BLASKO of OZZY OSBOURNE has been added to the eBay auction Besides the love of music, rockstars have…

According to the Times of India… LONDON: Pop superstar Prince believes playing the electric guitar his entire life has stopped him from going bald. The 52-year-old pop legend, who can play 27 different instruments, is convinced the electricity that flows through a guitar when he strums it is the reason he still has luscious locks, Daily Mirror online reported. “Playing electric guitar your whole life does something to you. I’m convinced all that electricity racing through your body made me…

Chad Warrix’s guitar is back in Nashville. Heidi Merritt and Garett Olson couldn’t be happier. You might remember the kerfuffle last week when country musician Warrix was separated from his beloved Silverburst Les Paul guitar — reported by the show’s tour manager to be “worth more than a lot of people’s cars” — during a gig with singer Randy Houser at Grandma’s Sports Garden in Duluth. That was June 23, and by the next morning Warrix and his bandmates were…

Guitarist Ronnie Montrose actually stopped a show in mid-song, had the house lights turned on, and scoured the theater when his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard was stolen right off the stage. Montrose, a San Franciscan, hasn’t seen his guitar (which he bought from J. Geils) since that night on Oct. 10, 1972 when he played Dudley, Mass. with the Edgar Winter Band … until now. The San Francisco musician — who has played with Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison and…

Jeff Beck completed his latest album Emotion & Commotion with just three fingers on his left hand – after he sliced through one in a kitchen accident. The guitar great cut off a fingertip in the incident and had to tightly tape the damaged digit to another to allow the tip to reconnect with his finger. He tells Gibson.com, “I had to finish up the album, I had to play two or three tracks without that finger. Over the Rainbow…

Buenos Aires, May 19 (IANS/EFE) An Argentine has set a new Guinness record of playing guitar for over 100 hours non-stop, almost double the earlier longest solo performance by Indian guitarist Sebastian Joseph. Sebastian Joseph , 41-year-old guitarist from Thrissur in Kerala, entered the select club of Guinness world record holders after his marathon guitar performance lasting 55.30 hours at a concert in his home state in October 2008. Guillermo Terraza continued to play the instrument for 100 hours while…