New Vintage Music Group recording artist Gregory Brock has announced details of the official release single off of his upcoming album, set for an October 10th release. "She" will be available for purc...
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"A fantastic voice!"........Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber
"I'm just the warm up for Elvis Shmelvis!"........Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
"I thought I heard Elvis Presley singing, then I walked arou...
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Jimi Hendrix never took formal lessons, learned to read music, or cracked open a guitar instruction book. Yet in the course of a few years beginning in 1966, he established himself as rock’s greatest ...
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Speaking of his Vintage V4VW bass, Dave says "It's fantastic – I wasn't expecting the pickups to have such power and punch being passive, but the tones from these Wilkinson WPB's are fantastic, and ab...
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"Intense, infectious and emotive ShoeGroove-Pop; influenced by the tales of Cocker, the rapport of the Beatles and the vision of Dahl. They twist tales of confusion, competition and cards. Their tempo...
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I used to have a dreadnaught… but it was just too big for me, I could barely get my arms around it. My Vintage V300 which I have affectionately named Gracie (Oh come on?! Who doesn’t name their guitar...
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Between September 12th and 23rd, Fret-King® went out on the road across the UK to showcase guitar guru Trev Wilkinson's contribution to the world of the electric guitar. Trev joined Jerry Donahue and ...
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On July 23, 1978, Van Halen and AC/DC opened the show for the Pat Travers Band, Foreigner, and Aerosmith at the Day on the Green concert at the Oakland Coliseum. Van Halen was midway through their fir...
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Sylvester Weaver and Sara Martin
During the early 1920s, OKeh Records called him “The Man with the Talking Guitar” and claimed “he certainly plays ’em strong on his big mean, blue guitar.” Meet Sylves...
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Charlie Christian's ES-250. Click twice to supersize photo.
In 2002, Lynn Wheelwright was flipping through an issue of Vintage Guitar magazine, hoping to improve his database of descriptions and ...
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When he was 16, Barney Kessel jammed with his hero, Charlie Christian. The year was 1940, and the venue was the Oklahoma Club in Christian’s hometown. Kessel, still in high school, was playing electri...
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Even if Leslie West had never sang or played another note after the summer of 1970, his place in rock history would have been assured. The summer before, he’d stunned everyone who saw or heard him wit...
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An under-sung hero of the blues, Jimmy Rogers played an essential role in creating the electrified, band-oriented postwar Chicago sound. He was best known for playing guitar in Muddy Waters’ lineups d...
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Iconic singer/songwriter Midge Ure OBE has become the latest high profile player to be charmed by the Vintage guitar brands no nonsense tones and playability.
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To outsiders, Eddie Van Halen seemed to be sitting on top of the world in December 1979. The first two Van Halen albums had gone platinum, the band had just wrapped up a massive world tour, and he’d b...
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To outsiders, Eddie Van Halen seemed to be sitting on top of the world in December 1979. The first two Van Halen albums had gone platinum, the band had just wrapped up a massive world tour, and he’d b...
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To outsiders, Eddie Van Halen seemed to be sitting on top of the world in December 1979. The first two Van Halen albums had gone platinum, the band had just wrapped up a massive world tour, and he’d b...
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Decades ago, a fellow blues enthusiast sent me a package of official papers related to the life of Fulton Allen, who recorded as Blind Boy Fuller. Written during the 1930s by government officials, soc...
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