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Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88. Scruggs’ son Gary said his father died of natural causes Wednesday morning at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital. Earl Scruggs was an innovator [...]
Kirk Hammett Talks About His Love Of The Flying V
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett on His First Flying V and Why He Loves the Wah Anne Erickson | 03.21.2012 Almost 30 years have passed since Kirk Hammett joined what was to become one of the biggest, most influential metal bands of all time. As the lead guitarist for Metallica, Hammett developed a unique six-string proficiency that [...]
George Martin Talks about the Beatles Fame/Guitars
From Me To You’, released on April 11, 1963 was, technically speaking, The Beatles’ first U.K. number one single. The second in a sequence of four, devastating body blows to the British pop scene in 1963 (the others being ‘Please Please Me’/'She Loves You’/'I Want To Hold Your Hand’), ‘From Me To You’ raced up the charts upon its release, knocking ‘How Do You Do It?’ (a song the Beatles had rejected) off the top spot.
The single cemented the group’s claim to the title as the Kings of British pop. Its fresh originality, bluesy feel, catchy melody and surprising chord changes became a backdrop to the group’s blitzkrieg of Britain’s media, and the general population throughout the summer of 1963. Incredibly however, like ‘Please Please Me’ before it, but for the intervention of EMI
Happy Birthday Tony Iommi: Gibson Celebrates 40 Years of Black Sabbath
Ted Drozdowski | 02.13.2012 Black Sabbath and the band’s creative lynchpin Tony Iommi, who turns 64 on February 19, were on a creative and commercial high in the early 1970s. When the group returned to the studio in February 1971 to start working on their third album, the smash Paranoid was under their belts. [...]
Tennessee lawmakers plan to introduce a bill aimed at protecting instrument owners
Tennessee lawmakers alarmed over a recent federal raid on Gibson Guitar factories in their state plan to introduce a bill aimed at protecting instrument owners from being punished under the same law that snared the legendary company. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., on Thursday plan to introduce a proposal to amend the [...]
***Update Gibson’s Problems Getting Wood- Gibson Makes Agreement To Be Sole Buyer Of Sustainably Harvested “Fiji Pure Mahogany”
Two weeks ago, Gibson Guitar abruptly canceled plans for what was to have been a major business announcement: the launch of a partnership with Fiji to become the island nation’s exclusive buyer of mahogany to make the Nashville company’s high-end guitars…
Fretboards and the Woods That Make Them
By Patrick Keegan Axvault Exclusive I’ve been pretty curious about this for a while now and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information out there on this subject, so I thought I would do some research and write an article about it. I am aware that you can make a fretboard out of [...]
The Gibson Buckethead Les Paul Studio
The Gibson Buckethead Les Paul Studio By Patrick Keegan After seeing Buckethead and his custom Gibson Les Paul the other night I thought, “I should share this with everyone at Axvault.” So, even though I haven’t played it, here goes: Bucketheads signature Les Paul Studio is ridiculous. To produce a better low-end the chambered body [...]