Custom Guitars

So check out Rick Toone` guitar luthiery here. Rick fuses the history and tradition og guitar luthiery with contemporary knowledge, physics science and materials. Check out Ricks site because it is a highly informative resource for anyone interested in how guitars actually work and how they could be improved. Rick has taken this thinking forward to pioneer such ideas as:

Totem Guitars

Today though I`m going to take a look at design that`s got just as much art in it but feels more like a pair of family boots – handmade, well worn, exquisitely crafted from quality materials, but earthy, individual and unique in every way. Here they are Spalt Totem Guitars – I `ll take three of each please cause I just can`t dance. Yeah!

Beautiful Guitars

I`m always looking for a sweet guitar machine and here are soem completely indulgent guitars from Teye. These beauties start out at a surprisingly lightweight three and a half grand U.S. dollars! Lucky. These guitars are hand made to varying degrees in Austin, Texas. If you want to look like a killer mayangypsy guitar god then these are definitely the cup of tea you wanna be pouring! Yeah!

Hammond Leslie Cabinet Amplifier for guitar

Back in the 90`s, as they say , I used to jam with Dylan and Kenny Jones (of The Who, The Faces, and Small Faces). I virtually lived at their studio for a few years and Dylan and I enjoyed alot guinness. Kenny Jones could play the drums like nobodies business, in any style – he was seriously world class. I think his favourite drummer was Kenny Clarke when he was a young boy. Anyway one of the benefits of hangig out with these guys apart from the exposure to great, great musicians, was the equipment laying about. Drumkits from The Who were readily available as well the original SMall Faces Hammond Organ and art Deco Style Leslie Cabinet.

Resonator guitars

The stunning resonator guitars featured in the pictures above are of handmade resonators made right here in Aotearoa, New Zealand by Russ Mattsen. For over 10 years Luthier Russ Mattsen has been handcrafting Resonator Guitars, built to inspire the playing of the Blues. With design options across materials such as brass, copper and nickel or innovative or traditional body style options these resonators are absolutely amazing to play and there is one currently available at Mojo SOund in Wellington.

Terry Robb – updated

No description, introduction or eulogy required. Terry Robb is a blues guitarist occupying a unique position in the guitar pantheon as an exponent of American Primitivism a style pioneered by John Fahey and derived from the country blues and string band music of the 20’s and 30’s. If you own a gramophone and are familiar […]

Guitar Players

I`ve been to plenty of great gigs since back in the day and I`ve seen some hot guitar players – Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Carlos Santana, Jeff Healy, Johnny Winter, Jennifer Batten, The Edge, Joe Satriani, Ron Wood (with Bob Dylan), Keith Richards (with The Rolling Stones), Pete Townshend with The Who, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Joe Satriani, John MacLaughlin, Jack White