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Guitar Nuts

Nothing to do with squirrels; this post is intended to help you make the correct choice when replacing your guitar’s nut. If you like to play play a tremelo arm or w…

Andres Segovia & modern classical guitar

For today’s post we’re going to take a quick look at the classical guitar and a few key players thereof. If you’re interested in taking a a quick tour through the gu…

John Martyn – fuzz box folk

Today we’re going to have a look at English guitarist and musician John Martyn – an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk…

Acoustic amplifiers 1

I know that a lot of you out there are acoustic guitar players and there is definitely a growing market of affordable, portable acoustic amplifiers available for tho…

Expensive guitar cases

If you can remember the 70`s then you’ll remember a time when Eric Clapton used to wear faded jeans and black waistcoat. He was still smoking, drinking and crashing…

Guitar Straps

Now, it might not sound like the most important decision you make in your life but if you spend any length of time standing up and playing your guitar then picking t…

Hendrix Mosrite Strawberry Alarm Clock Centrefold

Back in the late 60`s things were so psychedelic even the guitars freaked out on Dr. Ugs. Here’s Bakersfield California based company Mosrite proving that they too h…

RIP Les Paul

R.I.P Les Paul without whom most of us wouldn’t have a raison d’etre. Paul pioneered the development of the electric guitar (at around the same time as Leo Fender) a…

John Fahey, Guitar Frank and American Primitivism

If you ever find yourself in a learning plateau when it comes to guitar you just have to plug into your imagination or maybe buy some John Fahey records… If there wa…

Hendrix

Obviously, in the world of guitar legend one man stands alone, head and shoulders above his peers; distorting time and space whilst achieving transcendental oneness…

Moog guitars, magnetics and other mad craziness

Kind of Fresh!Hello Jamorama people – today we’re going to look at some rather exceptional developments in the world of string theory. If you’re a proponent of holog…

Guitar Materials & Innovation – Resonators and Hole Heads

In May I mentioned the awesome talent invested in Mattsen resonators after having tried one out at Mojo Sound in Wellington. Mattsen are made in Neslon, Aotearoa, Ne…