Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Casey breaks out his blue Fender electric guitar for Gavin DeGraw's I Don't Want to Be. It's not the best vocal performance of the song this show has seen -- sort of Texas roadhouse rock version of the song -- but he's clearly a serious picker. And if this performance is about anything, really, it's about establishing him as a guitar force to be reckoned with. If his guitar connects with the ...
More here: Casey James turns into a triple threat with Gavin DeGraw and his guitar (USA Today)
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
A major break in the church arson case came from a friend who turned Bourque and McAllister in to authorities.
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EXCLUSIVE: Church arson tipster torn about turning in suspects (KLTV 7 Tyler)
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
NASHVILLE, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Gibson Guitar Corp. denied it had colluded with other U.S. manufacturers, a trade association and a retail outlet to fix prices on its musical instruments.
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Gibson Guitar denies price fixing (UPI)
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Lyons resident Alice McKim was just curious about what the old gold and silver coins she had stored away for years were really worth. She came to the Treasure Hunter's Road Show on Wednesday at the Roy Clark Building -- at Humprheys Park in Linton -- just to see what she had.
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Lyons woman satisfies her curiosity at Treasure Hunter's Road Show (Greene County Daily World)
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
At 65, Jeff Beck remains the greatest guitarist that millions of people have never heard of, but he has resisted making concessions that would allow him to be heard more widely.
More here: A Guitar Hero Won’t Play the Game (New York Times)
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
A tour of the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, Penn., is a glimpse into the rarefied world of craftsmanship and artistry behind some of the century’s most groundbreaking and enduring music. The company’s coveted acoustic guitars — played by music’s crème de la crème — are still made largely by hand, just as they were back in 1833 when German immigrant Christian Frederick “C.F.” Martin first ...
Continue here: Martin and Other Guitar Makers Go Green (GOOD)
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
The Temper Trap have had us singing along to "Sweet Disposition" ever since it was featured in one of our favorite 2009 movies, (500) Days of Summer . They've made one of those songs that just never gets old, and same goes for the entire album, Conditions . So we were thrilled when they announced these North American tour dates , including a stop at Coachella - pinch us, seriously. To celebrate ...
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Contests : Win a Fender® Standard Stratocaster® Guitar and Prize Pack from The Temper Trap! (Filter Magazine)
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
The perfect outlet for people who think "Rock Band" requires too many real guitar skills finally has arrived in our beloved city.
Continue here: The emperor's new Fender (Las Vegas Sun)
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Pink leotards, silent auction items, collection buckets and several other items provided a clear reminder of breast cancer’s impact in day-to-day life Saturday at the MSU gymnastics team’s fourth annual Jan Howard Flip for a Cure Breast Cancer Awareness Meet.
More here: Embracing a cause (The State News)
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
As guitarists became iconic, so too did their guitars (take for example Jimi Hendrix’s Fender Stratocaster). While this idolatry of guitarists began mid-twentieth century, idolatry of guitars began considerably later.
More here: Kitschy or Cool? (The Cornell Daily Sun)
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