How come there isn't more surf music?
As far as I know, there is no popular music genre that ever truly dies. For any genre you can think of, there are fans of it even if it's not the popular music of the moment.
Was I ever a gamer? Yes. Back in the 2000s I did spend a lot of money on one particular game, Counter-Strike.
If you can believe it, I never played a guitar with a Bigsby vibrato system on it until today. Also, before today I never played a Gretsch guitar before either.
Today I headed out to Sam Ash and while there I tried out two guitars. One was a Fender and the other a Gretsch. I'm writing about the Fender first.
This is not about the first movie, Airplane! It's about the second one, Airplane II: The Sequel.
I own a 1989 Squier II Stratocaster. It's my first guitar and now 25 years old. That's vintage. Today, you don't need vintage to get vintage tone as Squier makes brand new guitars like these that totally capture what vintage Strats are supposed to sound like.
Back in October 2013 I bought the above ZOOM R8 you see, have been recording with it off and on for the past few months, and this is the update on how it's fared out so far.
The new model in the barn from the Squier camp for early 2014 is the Squier 60th Anniversary Classic Vibe Stratocaster.
When you use Netflix with a web browser, there's a lot more ability to sort through what you want, and part of that includes the ability not only to sort by genre, but also by subgenre, and then year released from newest to oldest.
While I'm not a Les Paul player, I was happy to see Gibson dropping their prices for several USA models for 2014. In this article I'm concentrating on the first 6 of them from lowest-to-highest in price.
