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Gibson CEO picks fight with lenders after alienating retailers and employees
Here's a random photo of my Les Paul's headstock. It has nothing to do with this blog entry. Enjoy! As I wrote in a recent post, I get e-mails coming at me from across the universe, nonstop. I took...
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I’ll be at Iridium Jazz Club tonight watching Jeff Beck’s Les Paul tribute
I'll be at this show tonight -- sort of. Well, sort of. I'll actually be at Ellen's Stardust Diner, the restaurant upstairs from Iridium Jazz Club, watching the show as it unfolds -- via closed-circuit...
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Review of Jeff Beck at Iridium Jazz Club, June 8, 2010
Jeff Beck at Iridium Jazz Club, June 8, 2010. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. I made the trek into NYC last night (Tuesday) to see Jeff Beck's Les Paul tribute show at Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway...
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The rest of Jeff Beck’s June 8 Iridium set list
Brian Setzer arrives at Iridium, June 8. Photo by Cindy Moorhead, Vista High School, Class of '87! In my last blog post, I started writing a song-by-song account of Jeff Beck's set at Iridium Jazz Club...
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It must be nice to be Tom Petty & Co.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in OK, so like I said in yesterday's awesome blog post, MOJO, the new album by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, came out Tuesday, June 15. Musically, it's all still...
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An ode to RotoSound strings
RotoSound 10's: I love these things. Hi there. This is just a brief note to say that RotoSound 10's (in that attractive yellow cardboard box) are some dynamic, lean, lanky and awesome electric guitar...
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Abbey Road — and Gretsch guitars — will be On the River this weekend
The Gretsch 6128T Silver Jet w/Bigsby. One of my bands, The Blue Meanies, is performing this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Abbey Road on the River in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside of Washington,...
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Why I sold my Gretsch Duo Jet for beer money
Portrait of the artist as a young NAMM: me and my Duo Jet in 2004. I used to own a Gretsch Duo Jet, the Dynasonic- and Bigsby-equipped variety made to look like George Harrison's merely semi-famous and...
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Let’s all register to bid on a 1960 Les Paul!
Do thy bidding! Someone out there -- besides PSE&G and Verizon -- thinks I'm rich. Waiting for me in yesterday's mail was an invitation to bid on pricey vintage guitars as part of an online auction...
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Jeff Beck ties Lady Gaga with three Grammys
Jeff Beck, seen here looking a lot like the guy on the cover of BLOW BY BLOW, won three Grammys last night in Los Angeles. Jeff Beck's late-career resurgence -- which began the night he and bassist Tal...
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