Posts from July 2012

If you're in a band and you play out right now, it's most likely true you try but ultimately fail to sell anything at shows.

Above is the cover of the . I bought the mag back when new for one reason and one reason only - Tony Iommi was on the cover.

Every guitar player at some point experiences guitar buyer's remorse, and smarter players learn from it.

There are many answers to this question. Here are some of them.

I've played enough electric guitars to know what's true and what isn't, and this is my top 5 list of electric guitar myths - as in things a lot of players believe to be true but aren't.

You'll notice I purposely put electric guitar in the title of this blog and not just guitar on its own. The reason for that is because when it comes to acoustic guitars, the woods chosen in the build absolutely matter.

The most used scale lengths and what companies use them.

You have probably heard many guitar players say that a certain brand and model of guitar is their "go-to instrument" for every type of music they do.

Some guitars that exist where the day after you buy them, you know you've made a mistake.

If you ever wondered why you just can't get your guitar to sound like it's supposed to when recording a YouTube video, the answer is simple. It's an answer that many guitar players absolutely refuse to accept as true, but it is true.

If you buy enough electric guitars, at some point you run into that "played and sounded great in the store, but then played and sounded like crap when I got it home" scenario. This happens to a lot of guitar buyers, and yes I've had it happen to me a few times. And remember, this […]

When I was a kid just starting out on guitar in the very-early 1990s, was the guitar. None of the guitar stores ever featured at the time. You never saw them in the glass case that some guitar stores had. Most of the time, all you ever saw there were premium American Stratocaster guitars.

(1988) is one of those movies where I seriously cannot remember whether I saw it in the theater, rented it or saw it on TV. Part of my brain thinks I actually saw this in the theater; another says no, I must have rented this (I did sometimes rent movies I ordinarily never would just […]