The Greatest Guitar Booster Effect of all Time!

Some pedals offer you the sun, the moon and earth - All in one package. This pedal will boost your distortion, decrease noise, increase sustain, give shimmering highs, distinct mid range, dark thick lows while operating by battery, AC, and solar power. It's components are all Pre-CBS! Its better than thick or thin picks, vintage batteries, uni-directional guitar (leads) cords, new Tubes and it's hand wired to bolster this already robust unit. Buying this pedal will increase your talent a minimum of 10x. You can turn down the EGO knob in order to increase your TALENT, decreasing your TALENT knob will allow maximum CHOPS and all of these adjustments work independently. TALENT is adjustable from "garage to stadium," EGO settings range from "minimum to huge," CHOPS can be set from "wank to shred," Tone allows adjustment from "suck to scream," - No doubt the TALENT BOOSTER PEDAL rocks!

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Joe Bonamassa PAF Pickups

Answer: One can never have too many guitars!

In collaboration with Seymour Duncan, Joe Bonnamassa has endorsed some pretty hot new pickups. The pickups are modeled after Joe's 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard and are called Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Joe Bonamassa Signature pickups. I've tested these pickups on my Les Paul that utilizes vintage cloth wiring, CTS pots, and Bumble bee capacitors and I tell you they sound sweet. I used the following amplification: Marshall 2203, Mesa Boogie Mark I, Mesa Boogie Lone Star special and a VHT Special 6. Unfortunately, I don't have adequate audio equipment that could provide evidence of the miraculous change in tone. Besides tone, these pickups are signed by Seymour Duncan and Joe Bonamassa - nice addition!

These pickups are not cheap but neither are EVH Signature pickups but you get what you pay for these days. These are indeed well rounded pickups. I recommend using top quality parts for your entire guitar. Also, if you don't know what you are doing, have an experienced Luthier do this upgrade for you. I've seen far too many botched jobs where the pickups are ruined and the guitar is scratch during the installation process. You cannot return pickups that are broken unless you can prove it to be a factory defect. With pickups this expensive it is prudent to have a profession do the job rather than hack away your favorite guitar. Use well made proper ohm'd CTS pots, vintage wire, and Bumble bee capacitors. Use eye protection while soldering and work in a well ventilated area.

Warren Haynes

I have been listening to brother Haynes for a number of years. I've watched his meteoric rise among guitarists to the top of the heap. Warren Haynes played with David Allen Coe when he was 20 years old which helped him get his feet wet learning about the road and touring. Something must have clicked because where so many musicians bow to the excessive nature of the music industry, Warren stayed the course and constantly evolved.

Here he is with Derek Trucks playing "old friend," from The Allman Brothers Bank - Live at the Beacon theater.

While other musicians seem to loath the road, Warren is more often on the road than home. I don't know who is in charge of his traveling logistics but I think it would be safe to say that whoever books his travel must have the patience of an angel. If you hit Warren Haynes web page you can witness about a third of what he has going on in regards to events. Keep in mind, Warren plays in his own Warren Haynes band, Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, and Phil Lesh's - The Dead. However short that list is seen, he is also know to show up for The Great Southern Band, Dave Matthews, and David Allen Coe. Does this guy ever rest?

This song played by Joe Bonamassa was written by Warren Haynes - If heartache was nickels.....

Warren is a first rate picker. At home with an acoustic or electric guitar. Most often seen with one of three Gibson guitars - Les Paul (signature model and Standard 58 reissue), Fire-bird III, ES 335 (1967 & 1989 '59 reissue). He also uses a D'Angelico Vestax New Yorker and he's been seen using an occasional Fender here and there. With the versatility that Warren exudes; it would be safe to assume that any guitar Warren picks up will immediately sound like Warren Haynes.

Here is a link to Warren's biography - well worth reading if you like his music!

This is a link to Warren's gear - from the horses mouth to you!

I digress, why do people come to shows to talk? That is sort of a pet peeve of mine. Nobody I am with will talk unless there is a break. However, people pay good money to talk at shows which is a waste of their money and rude to others who aren't interested in hearing background noise during a public event. Off my soap box!


If you don't own a Gov't Mule album or at the very minimum Warren Haynes at Bonneroo - Live at Bonnaroo - Buy it here!!!!!!!!!!! 

You cannot learn about playing the guitar without learning who Warren Haynes is and what he is about! Check him out and you will not be sorry!!

Lastly, if you aren't an Allman Brothers fan - become one! Warren is epic!

Guitar Playing Technique Snobbery

One can't be a musician without learning to play a particular instrument, subjecting one's fingers to the discipline of frets or keys. The power of expression is founded upon a prior obedience; her musical agency is build up from an ongoing submission. To what? To her teacher, perhaps, but this is incidental rather than primary - there is such a thing as the self-taught musician. Her obedience rather is to the mechanical realities of her instrument, which in turn answer to the certain natural necessities of music that can be expressed mathematically. For example, halving the length of a string a given tension raises it's pitch by an octave. These facts do not arise from the human will, and there is no altering them. I believe the example of the musician sheds light on the basic character of human agency, namely, that it arises only within the concrete limits that are not of our making.

These limits need not be physical; the important thing is rather they are external to the self.[1]

1) From: Shop Class as a soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford

Stay home and practice or just stay home. Musical genius is born from a fundamental familiarity with her instrument.

GuitarPlayer: 10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Steve Morse

Hopefully you know of Steve Morse. Steve Morse is a former member of the Dixie Dregs, commercial airline pilot, monster guitar player and all around guitar hero. Steve also tours as the guitar slinger for a little band called DEEP PURPLE and they are in your town you might want to check them out. There's a song that they play, I think it's called, "Smoke on the water," that some people have heard and evidently the song appears to be somewhat timeless thus spanning at least two generations at this point.

Nevertheless; here is a link to and article on how to play like Steve Morse that is provided by one of the best and longest running guitar publications in the industry - Guitar Player Magazine. With no further adieu...

GuitarPlayer: 10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Steve Morse

Evertune Bridge as explained by Gary Brawer

As technology evolves so will the music. A nice little video where Gary Brawer explains the fundamental effect of the Evertune Bridge.

Click here for a link - if you cannot view this flash video

Music related quotes

Stay at home and practice or just stay at home - Joe Davis

Next song, "Let's play the sheep herders lament, 'all the things you are,' by Jerome Kern." - Joe Davis

Composers shouldn't think too much - It interferes with their plagiarism - Howard Dietz

Don't fear mistakes - There are none - Miles Davis

Don't play what is there, play what is not there - Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself - Miles Davis

You can play a shoestring if you are sincere - John Coltrane

The more you know, the less you know, I feel like I don't know shit anymore but I love it - Mike Stern,

Learn all that you can and then forget it - Jack Conway