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My Guitar Rig

This is what gets the job done for me. Different boards and Amps for different situations. The Amps sound great in stereo as well! The Amps are an Oldfield Marquis 36, and an Oldfield Honky Tonk D’luxe. www.oldfieldtubeamps.com

My guitar gear

Recent Entries

Lessons Learned

Lessons learned for 2009: It is really about the music.

Guitar tone 103

Last night, I got together with a friend and guitar student. We hung out for awhile and got to playing… His main question was how to get from the “theoretical” side of music (scales, chords, etc) to the “creative” side. Great question.
We thought of a couple of analogies that I [...]

Guitar tone 103

Pedals!
This is the fun part. The choices in pedal land are RIDICULOUS!!! There are more Overdrive pedals than ever, all with there own take. It is easy to get sucked into this world, and forget to play your guitar! I have been there, and I think of the hours I have [...]

Recovered!!

My L6 was returned!! 1 week after it’s theft, to the same hallway it was stolen from. Weird, but cool. New dings! and an even cooler story. Thanks everyone for your extra eyes!
Keep practicing!

My Stolen Gibson Guitar L6s

OK everyone. My main electric guitar, and 1974 or ‘75 Gibson L6s was stolen on Friday night 10/16/09 at 1:50am (saturday morning) in downtown Charlotte from the back hallway of a club. Please, if you have any info regarding this guitar, contact me immediately.
There are several distinguishing things about this guitar. [...]

Guitar tone 102

OK, it has been a bit since I posted anything, but I have been doing a bunch of traveling. Costa Rica in June, then Portugal in August, as well as many out of town dates in between.
Guitar tone 102:
So, hopefully you have been practicing and getting used to the different sounds you [...]

Guitar Tone 101

I am going to start a series of posts on guitar tone. As a guitar teacher, I am asked regularly on what pedals, amps, and guitars to buy that sound good, and also how to set everything up… These will eventually lead to some type of workshop, but for now the thoughts will [...]

Cool experience

I wanted to spread the word on an awesome company that builds really cool gig bags.
www.flyigig.com
I ordered a guitar bag, and I can’t wait for its arrival! Miko was really cool and made sure I will receive my bag before I fly to Costa Rica next week. This should be a [...]

Dan’s Blog Test

Just checking out the new blog! I like the new interface and I am looking forward to using this…