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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Peavey and Antares Annouce Auto-Tuning Guitar At Winter NAMM. AMAZING.
Peavey
January 19, 2012
Revolutionary Guitar Provides Perfect Pitch & Intonation,
Forever Changing the Way Guitars Are Played & Recorded
ANAHEIM, Calif. (NAMM Exhibit 5740, Hall B) — Music and audio innovator Peavey Electronics® has partnered with Antares Audio Technologies, the creator of world-renowned Auto-Tune® pitch-correction technology, to announce the dawn of the new guitar revolution: the Peavey AT-200™ guitar featuring Auto-Tune for Guitar, a new musical instrument that electronically self tunes and intonates continuously as you play.
With the simple push of a button on the Peavey AT-200, guitar players can now create music in perfect tune and pitch. The Peavey AT-200 utilizes Antares Auto-Tune for Guitar, a DSP technology that works behind the scenes to bring the clarity of perfect pitch to a quality instrument in an unobtrusive manner. No bulky, unattractive hardware weighs down the playing experience—the Peavey AT-200 looks, plays and sounds just like a conventional guitar, exactly the way it should.
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January 19, 2012
Revolutionary Guitar Provides Perfect Pitch & Intonation,
Forever Changing the Way Guitars Are Played & Recorded
ANAHEIM, Calif. (NAMM Exhibit 5740, Hall B) — Music and audio innovator Peavey Electronics® has partnered with Antares Audio Technologies, the creator of world-renowned Auto-Tune® pitch-correction technology, to announce the dawn of the new guitar revolution: the Peavey AT-200™ guitar featuring Auto-Tune for Guitar, a new musical instrument that electronically self tunes and intonates continuously as you play.
With the simple push of a button on the Peavey AT-200, guitar players can now create music in perfect tune and pitch. The Peavey AT-200 utilizes Antares Auto-Tune for Guitar, a DSP technology that works behind the scenes to bring the clarity of perfect pitch to a quality instrument in an unobtrusive manner. No bulky, unattractive hardware weighs down the playing experience—the Peavey AT-200 looks, plays and sounds just like a conventional guitar, exactly the way it should.
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King Of Guitar Marketing Bonamassa Adds To His Ridiculously Long List Of Endorsements
Joe Bonamassa
SacBee
January 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning blues-rock sensation Joe Bonamassa is driving sales for the guitar industry and keeping the guitar alive. Bonamassa, currently the hottest new Guitar Blues Rock star on the scene, is helping great companies like Guitar Center, Gibson, Epiphone, Ernie Ball, Dunlop, Clear Sonics and Klotz Cables, all of whom have signature products with the Guitar phenom; and other companies soon to be announced. Bonamassa's style of guitar has breathed new life and excitement back into the guitar as legions of new fans are becoming familiar again with the great sound of guitar-based rock music. Over the last year, Bonamassa has become the hottest ticket around the world, selling out the greatest concert halls in America and worldwide like the Chicago Theatre, NYC's Beacon Theatre and Amsterdam's Carre Theatre.
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SacBee
January 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning blues-rock sensation Joe Bonamassa is driving sales for the guitar industry and keeping the guitar alive. Bonamassa, currently the hottest new Guitar Blues Rock star on the scene, is helping great companies like Guitar Center, Gibson, Epiphone, Ernie Ball, Dunlop, Clear Sonics and Klotz Cables, all of whom have signature products with the Guitar phenom; and other companies soon to be announced. Bonamassa's style of guitar has breathed new life and excitement back into the guitar as legions of new fans are becoming familiar again with the great sound of guitar-based rock music. Over the last year, Bonamassa has become the hottest ticket around the world, selling out the greatest concert halls in America and worldwide like the Chicago Theatre, NYC's Beacon Theatre and Amsterdam's Carre Theatre.
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John Mayer Introduces Over-Priced "John Mayer" Guitar At Winter NAMM, Hints At Cowboy Album On The Way
Steve Baltin
Rolling Stone
January 19, 2012
John Mayer has been understandably silent since his diagnosis with vocal problems last September. The vocal issues forced him to cancel concert dates and delay his new album, Born And Raised. But the singer/songwriter/guitarist appeared yesterday at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Conference in Anaheim, Calif., to introduce his new custom guitar with Martin, the 00-45SC John Mayer Edition.
Very few people will ever get to play the instrument. Only 25 were made – 23 of which will be sold exclusively to dealers. Mayer gets to keep two – "One to play, one to store" – he said at a press conference. The guitars retail for $14,000, according to a Martin rep. Mayer referred to the appeal of the very limited edition guitar, which he designed the concept for, as being "about a collector mindset."
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Rolling Stone
January 19, 2012
John Mayer has been understandably silent since his diagnosis with vocal problems last September. The vocal issues forced him to cancel concert dates and delay his new album, Born And Raised. But the singer/songwriter/guitarist appeared yesterday at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Conference in Anaheim, Calif., to introduce his new custom guitar with Martin, the 00-45SC John Mayer Edition.
Very few people will ever get to play the instrument. Only 25 were made – 23 of which will be sold exclusively to dealers. Mayer gets to keep two – "One to play, one to store" – he said at a press conference. The guitars retail for $14,000, according to a Martin rep. Mayer referred to the appeal of the very limited edition guitar, which he designed the concept for, as being "about a collector mindset."
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KISS' Ace Frehley Debuts Budokan Guitar At Winter NAMM
Blabbermouth
January 19, 2012
When KISS hit the stage at Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1977 with guitarist Ace Frehley behind a Cherry Sunburst, three-pickup Les Paul Custom, the entire package — band, guitarist, guitar — embodied the height of glam-rock excess and success for the '70s. This was the ultimate marriage of pop and heavy rock, driven to meteoric heights by the record industry marketing machine, and ultimately attaining that otherworldly presence that great stadium rock should achieve: unbridled fantasy and party-hard reality rolled into one glorious explosion.
In celebration of Ace Frehley's unquestionable status as a rock icon, and the epitome of glam-rock stardom that KISS represented at this crystalline moment in time in 1977, Gibson Custom proudly announces the release of the Ace Frehley "Budokan" Les Paul Custom, produced in a strictly limited edition of 50 hand-aged guitars signed by the artist, with a further 100 hand-aged guitars, and 150 guitars treated in Gibson Custom's VOS process. Offering everything you've come to expect from Gibson Custom's artist replica guitars, the Ace Frehley "Budokan" Les Paul Custom is a painstaking recreation of Frehley's modified Les Paul Custom, based on intimate examination of the instrument's current condition.
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January 19, 2012
When KISS hit the stage at Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1977 with guitarist Ace Frehley behind a Cherry Sunburst, three-pickup Les Paul Custom, the entire package — band, guitarist, guitar — embodied the height of glam-rock excess and success for the '70s. This was the ultimate marriage of pop and heavy rock, driven to meteoric heights by the record industry marketing machine, and ultimately attaining that otherworldly presence that great stadium rock should achieve: unbridled fantasy and party-hard reality rolled into one glorious explosion.
In celebration of Ace Frehley's unquestionable status as a rock icon, and the epitome of glam-rock stardom that KISS represented at this crystalline moment in time in 1977, Gibson Custom proudly announces the release of the Ace Frehley "Budokan" Les Paul Custom, produced in a strictly limited edition of 50 hand-aged guitars signed by the artist, with a further 100 hand-aged guitars, and 150 guitars treated in Gibson Custom's VOS process. Offering everything you've come to expect from Gibson Custom's artist replica guitars, the Ace Frehley "Budokan" Les Paul Custom is a painstaking recreation of Frehley's modified Les Paul Custom, based on intimate examination of the instrument's current condition.
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George Harrison Of Beatles Fame Has Ipad App On The Way Featuring His Guitars
Chris Junior
Ultimate Classic Rock
January 19, 2012
Throughout his career, George Harrison played a variety of guitars, among them a psychedelic-looking Fender Stratocaster, a “fireglo” Rickenbacker 360 12-string and a black Gretsch Duo Jet (which he considered to be his first real decent guitar).
Those particular instruments — and many more — are part of a new Harrison guitar app for the iPad that will be available via the Apple iTunes store starting Feb. 23.
The Guitar Collection: George Harrison’ is a joint project from the estate of the late Beatles legend and Bandwith Publishing. The app, which will cost $9.99, features 360-degree imaging by photographer Steven Sebring that allows users to see each item from the private collection in great detail. The stories behind each guitar — the circumstances of their acquisition and the significance of the modifications Harrison made — are well documented.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
January 19, 2012
Throughout his career, George Harrison played a variety of guitars, among them a psychedelic-looking Fender Stratocaster, a “fireglo” Rickenbacker 360 12-string and a black Gretsch Duo Jet (which he considered to be his first real decent guitar).
Those particular instruments — and many more — are part of a new Harrison guitar app for the iPad that will be available via the Apple iTunes store starting Feb. 23.
The Guitar Collection: George Harrison’ is a joint project from the estate of the late Beatles legend and Bandwith Publishing. The app, which will cost $9.99, features 360-degree imaging by photographer Steven Sebring that allows users to see each item from the private collection in great detail. The stories behind each guitar — the circumstances of their acquisition and the significance of the modifications Harrison made — are well documented.
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North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un A Huge Fan Of Eric Clapton
Natalie Evans
Mirror
January 19, 2012
Not content with taking on a new role as dictator of North Korea, it seems Kim Jong-Un fancies trying his hand at being a musician.
The youngest son and successor of the late Kim Jong-Il strummed a few notes on a guitar during a visit to an army unit in Pyongyang.
Perhaps the new leader has inherited more than his title from his father – Kim Jong-Il was believed to be a huge fan of guitar legend Eric Clapton.
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Mirror
January 19, 2012
Not content with taking on a new role as dictator of North Korea, it seems Kim Jong-Un fancies trying his hand at being a musician.
The youngest son and successor of the late Kim Jong-Il strummed a few notes on a guitar during a visit to an army unit in Pyongyang.
Perhaps the new leader has inherited more than his title from his father – Kim Jong-Il was believed to be a huge fan of guitar legend Eric Clapton.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To LA California Schools
Rolling Stone
January 18, 2012
In a collaboration with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 guitars to L.A.-area schools. "Music education and families are dealing with the economic times," said the guitarist in a statement, "and I wanted to help them."
Playing music has provided a good life for him, said Van Halen, and he hopes to pass along that gift. "Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me," he said. The guitars came from Van Halen's personal collection.
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January 18, 2012
In a collaboration with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 guitars to L.A.-area schools. "Music education and families are dealing with the economic times," said the guitarist in a statement, "and I wanted to help them."
Playing music has provided a good life for him, said Van Halen, and he hopes to pass along that gift. "Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me," he said. The guitars came from Van Halen's personal collection.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Some Iphone guitar apps are great, others not so much. Check this one out. You decide.
by Mike Schramm
TUAW
January 17, 2012
We got to sit down for a quick chat with Smule's own Dr. Ge Wang at CES in Las Vegas last week, and the result is the video below. Not only is the co-founder overseeing Smule's musical experiences for mobile devices (and its recent merger with Khush, another musical developer), but he's also an assistant professor at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
And, as you can see, he's a mean Magic Guitar player as well. Those gloves he's wearing are Altec Lansing speakers sewn onto some gloves (with the fingertips cut off) for the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. Wang was actually in Vegas to accept the Kids at Play Interactive's Emerging Pioneer award, which is an impressive achievement as well.
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TUAW
January 17, 2012
We got to sit down for a quick chat with Smule's own Dr. Ge Wang at CES in Las Vegas last week, and the result is the video below. Not only is the co-founder overseeing Smule's musical experiences for mobile devices (and its recent merger with Khush, another musical developer), but he's also an assistant professor at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
And, as you can see, he's a mean Magic Guitar player as well. Those gloves he's wearing are Altec Lansing speakers sewn onto some gloves (with the fingertips cut off) for the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. Wang was actually in Vegas to accept the Kids at Play Interactive's Emerging Pioneer award, which is an impressive achievement as well.
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Van Halen leaves fans out in the cold at remarkable Cafe Wha performance
JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
New York Times
January 17, 2012
When the band Van Halen played in a cramped basement club in Greenwich Village on Thursday, a couple dozen fans clustered around the back door, listening to the slightly muffled strains of hard-rock songs like “Panama” and “Hot for Teacher” like children eavesdropping on an adult conversation in the next room.
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New York Times
January 17, 2012
When the band Van Halen played in a cramped basement club in Greenwich Village on Thursday, a couple dozen fans clustered around the back door, listening to the slightly muffled strains of hard-rock songs like “Panama” and “Hot for Teacher” like children eavesdropping on an adult conversation in the next room.
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International Guitar Night: Adrien Legg to perform in Michigan
Kevin Ransom
AnnArbor.com
January 17, 2012
Brian Gore, the founder and organizer of International Guitar Night, spent the first eight years of his life in Ann Arbor. And he attended his first concert at The Ark—in its first location, in the house on Hill Street, back in the 1960s.
So, needless to say, he’s looking forward to returning to Ann Arbor when the IGN comes to The Ark on Saturday.
“When I was 8 years old, my mother became ill, and I moved out to California, to live with some aunts, and I never returned,” says Gore, who later learned he has two half-sisters and a half-brother in Ann Arbor, who he just re-connected with last year.
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AnnArbor.com
January 17, 2012
Brian Gore, the founder and organizer of International Guitar Night, spent the first eight years of his life in Ann Arbor. And he attended his first concert at The Ark—in its first location, in the house on Hill Street, back in the 1960s.
So, needless to say, he’s looking forward to returning to Ann Arbor when the IGN comes to The Ark on Saturday.
“When I was 8 years old, my mother became ill, and I moved out to California, to live with some aunts, and I never returned,” says Gore, who later learned he has two half-sisters and a half-brother in Ann Arbor, who he just re-connected with last year.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Black Sabbath Guitarist Tony Iommi Diagnosed With Cancer During Black Sabbath Reunion
Blabbermouth
Legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphocytes, a type of cell that forms part of the immune system.
Iommi, 63, is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan and remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery.
This comes as BLACK SABBATH — Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums) — are writing and recording their first album in 33 years in Los Angeles (still set for release this fall) with producer Rick Rubin. They will now go to the U.K. to continue to work with Tony.
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Legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphocytes, a type of cell that forms part of the immune system.
Iommi, 63, is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan and remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery.
This comes as BLACK SABBATH — Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums) — are writing and recording their first album in 33 years in Los Angeles (still set for release this fall) with producer Rick Rubin. They will now go to the U.K. to continue to work with Tony.
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Jimi Hendrix 's last night alive recalled by Rolling Stones Ron Wood
Dave Swanson
Ultimate Classic Rock
January 16, 2012
Guitarist Ron Wood recently recalled his friendship with the late, great Jimi Hendrix. Speaking on their friendship recently on his show on Absolute Radio UK, Wood said “Jimi was a really sweet, well-mannered boy, and I’m very honored to have shared a little space of time with him back in the late 1960s.”
Wood and Hendrix were actually roommates at one point, both men establishing themselves in the world of rock and roll: Hendrix as a transplanted American impressing all of swinging London with his extraordinary guitar playing , and Wood, first as guitarist with the raunchy Mod band The Birds and later, as bassist with The Jeff Beck Group.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
January 16, 2012
Guitarist Ron Wood recently recalled his friendship with the late, great Jimi Hendrix. Speaking on their friendship recently on his show on Absolute Radio UK, Wood said “Jimi was a really sweet, well-mannered boy, and I’m very honored to have shared a little space of time with him back in the late 1960s.”
Wood and Hendrix were actually roommates at one point, both men establishing themselves in the world of rock and roll: Hendrix as a transplanted American impressing all of swinging London with his extraordinary guitar playing , and Wood, first as guitarist with the raunchy Mod band The Birds and later, as bassist with The Jeff Beck Group.
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World Cafe Talks with Les Paul, Peter Frampton and Jeff Beck
January 16, 2012
NPR World Cafe
Over the years, World Cafe has seen its share of guitar gods. Today's session revisits three of these astounding artists: Les Paul, a pioneer in the electric guitar; Peter Frampton, celebrated for his innovation with the guitar talk box; and Jeff Beck (one of our favorites), known as the "guitarist's guitarist." Starting with Paul, today's World Cafe examines some of the instrument's greatest innovators.
Les Paul started modifying the guitar by age 8. He began professionally recording in the 1930s, then constructed "The Log," the granddaddy to solid-body electric guitars and pioneered the use of multi-tracking on records. In this 1992 session, Paul recounts his first glimpse of Jimi Hendrix and the process of making the first electric guitar. Later, guitarist and songwriter Steve Miller reflects on Paul's legacy.
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NPR World Cafe
Over the years, World Cafe has seen its share of guitar gods. Today's session revisits three of these astounding artists: Les Paul, a pioneer in the electric guitar; Peter Frampton, celebrated for his innovation with the guitar talk box; and Jeff Beck (one of our favorites), known as the "guitarist's guitarist." Starting with Paul, today's World Cafe examines some of the instrument's greatest innovators.
Les Paul started modifying the guitar by age 8. He began professionally recording in the 1930s, then constructed "The Log," the granddaddy to solid-body electric guitars and pioneered the use of multi-tracking on records. In this 1992 session, Paul recounts his first glimpse of Jimi Hendrix and the process of making the first electric guitar. Later, guitarist and songwriter Steve Miller reflects on Paul's legacy.
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Japanese Guitarist Breaks World Record For Most Students Taught At One Time - Donates Proceeds To Red Cross
January 17, 2012
Japan Times
A "shred guitar" lesson given by Fumiyoshi Kamo in April 2011 was the world's largest, attracting 8,776 "students" who viewed the online performance, according to the website of Guinness World Records.
On April 2, Kamo, 37, gave a lesson on shred guitar — a genre to which he has devoted his life — on the video-sharing website Nico Nico Live. The performance broke the previous record of 4,455 participants held by his favorite American guitarist, Steve Vai, whose success served as Kamo's inspiration for learning guitar at the age of 19.
Read the complete story at Japan Times
Japan Times
A "shred guitar" lesson given by Fumiyoshi Kamo in April 2011 was the world's largest, attracting 8,776 "students" who viewed the online performance, according to the website of Guinness World Records.
On April 2, Kamo, 37, gave a lesson on shred guitar — a genre to which he has devoted his life — on the video-sharing website Nico Nico Live. The performance broke the previous record of 4,455 participants held by his favorite American guitarist, Steve Vai, whose success served as Kamo's inspiration for learning guitar at the age of 19.
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Wide Variety Of Sounds Heard At New York Guitar Festival
By JON PARELES
New York Times
January 15, 2012
Standard guitars weren’t the only stringed things heard on opening night of the Alternative Guitar Festival, a three-night series that started Friday at Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side as part of the New York Guitar Festival. It was a concert that posited instrument as inspiration: the physicality of the instruments was at the heart of the music.
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New York Times
January 15, 2012
Standard guitars weren’t the only stringed things heard on opening night of the Alternative Guitar Festival, a three-night series that started Friday at Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side as part of the New York Guitar Festival. It was a concert that posited instrument as inspiration: the physicality of the instruments was at the heart of the music.
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Philadelphia Guitarist Goes From Guitar Shop To Television
By Kathy Boccella
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 2012
Danny Gold is a baby boomer following his big dream of a midlife career change, and he's hoping you'll watch him on Wednesday nights to see how it works out.
In baggy shirts and with a beard flecked with what Jerry Garcia would have called "a touch of gray," the loquacious proprietor of Danny's Guitar Shop - the name of both his TV show and his quirky little store in Narberth - is aiming to do for guitars what Anthony Bourdain has done for weird foreign food or Mike Rowe for the art of cleaning septic tanks.
"These days, it's a do-it-yourself world, and if you have a vision and come with up with something that clicks, you can make it work," said Gold, who walked away from a steady gig selling Fender guitars to run his own small guitar shop while he pursued his ambition of a TV series for music lovers.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 2012
Danny Gold is a baby boomer following his big dream of a midlife career change, and he's hoping you'll watch him on Wednesday nights to see how it works out.
In baggy shirts and with a beard flecked with what Jerry Garcia would have called "a touch of gray," the loquacious proprietor of Danny's Guitar Shop - the name of both his TV show and his quirky little store in Narberth - is aiming to do for guitars what Anthony Bourdain has done for weird foreign food or Mike Rowe for the art of cleaning septic tanks.
"These days, it's a do-it-yourself world, and if you have a vision and come with up with something that clicks, you can make it work," said Gold, who walked away from a steady gig selling Fender guitars to run his own small guitar shop while he pursued his ambition of a TV series for music lovers.
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