by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Dec 15, 2017 | News Articles
At the ripe age of 87, retired nurse Mary Collins has finished mastering her second instrument and her videos demonstrating her newfound talents receive thousands of views daily with many of those viewers stopping her in the street to talk about them. This attention...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Dec 12, 2017 | News Articles
Dr Z has collaborated with Eagles legend Joe Walsh on the Z-Plus amp, based on Walsh’s single-ended Tweed tones from his James Gang days. The Z-Plus is a Class A, 15W combo with two 6V6 power tubes run in parallel for increased clean headroom. A half-power switch is...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Dec 6, 2017 | News Articles
“It is still the most flexible instrument,” insisted legendary guitarist, Eric Clapton. “You can improvise on it. You have such freedom. I don’t think there is a limit to it.” Where previously, against a gloomy backdrop of declining...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Dec 4, 2017 | News Articles
Blues guitar great Joe Bonamassa didn’t just melt faces last week in Evansville, he also shopped at local guitar shops. The 40-year old musician has an affinity for vintage music gear. Like he’s done in the past, he stopped by a local guitar shop called...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Dec 1, 2017 | News Articles
When Nicole Pompa’s guitars were reported stolen in a 1994 Skokie residential burglary, she lost her zeal for music but always kept her eye out for the stolen instruments. “I hit up all the pawn shops in Chicago until the 2000s,” she said....
