Tag Archives: Fender Stratocaster
Guitar Shop TV Episode 11: Holiday Gift Guide
Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s Holiday Season again and what a year it’s been for amazing guitar gear. There’s a dazzling array of great new guitars, amps, and effects to recommend for holiday giving, and it’s hard to know where to begin.
That said, we held our Guitar Shop TV Staff’s collective feet to the Yuletide fire and asked them to come up with five great gift ideas across categories, which… Read More
Shop Spotlight: Rudy’s Music – New York
Rudy Pensa, the owner of Rudy’s Music, talks with Guitar Shop TV about the vintage guitar market from his new Soho store on Broome Street in downtown Manhattan. Pensa discusses the buying opportunities created by the recession and when he expects to see the vintage guitar market recover. Pensa also shows off his “new love,” a blond ash Fender Stratocaster from 1959.
Rudy’s Music has been an institution on New York’s 48th Street block of music stores since he… Read More
Gear Profile: The Jimi Hendrix Setup Experience
In the narration for the film Jimi Plays Monterey, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas said, “the incredible thing was, you could watch him like a hawk, but you could not figure out how he did it.” It’s true that the innovative guitar god may have taken many of his trade secrets with him to his grave. But one thing we are fortunate to have been left with is a fairly accurate picture of the gear setup he used.
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Shop Spotlight: Chelsea Guitars – New York
Chelsea Guitars owner Dan Courtenay shows Guitar Shop TV the store’s collection of vintage and “affordable” guitars. As he says, “I don’t consider myself a ‘vintage’ guitar dealer; I consider myself a ‘used’ guitar dealer.”
This small, unpretentious store adjacent to the famous Chelsea Hotel is a rock-star hangout for artists like Billy Corgan and The Hives, who come for… Read More
GSTV Featured Artist : The Oz Noy Trio – Artist Showcase
Fusion guitarist Oz Noy chats with Guitar Shop TV backstage at The Bitter End in New York. Noy talks about his melodic approach to improvising, along with his interest in jazz guitarists who experiment with their tones to give them “the presence of a saxophone.” Afterwards, The Oz Noy Trio delivers a smokin’ live performance!
The Israeli-born NYC resident is a tasteful virtuoso who is receiving growing acclaim in jazz circles. He brings fresh energy to Read More
Shop Spotlight: Gruhn’s Guitars – Nashville
To call George Gruhn a mere guitar expert would be to understate the depth and breadth of his vast knowledge. He is a true guitar intellectual, and a walking encyclopedia of detailed information about the history, physics, and the taxonomy of electric and acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, and related instruments.
Educated in Biology, Zoology, and English Literature at Vanderbilt and The Read More
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