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  • The Perfect Shade of Lipstick Pickups
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  • Does the Boss Nextone Change the Classic Transistor vs. Tube Debate?

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The Sunday Papers is a weekly offering by Riff City Guitar. Our single goal with this feature is to provide a good morning read over coffee, each and every Sunday. What you won’t find in The Sunday Papers is a sales pitch or product recommendations. We’ve asked Andy Perrin—one of the industry’s best writers on guitar gear and culture—to pen short weekly editorials that tell the tales of how we got to where are in the music industry and the players and builders that helped us along the way. In short, The Sunday Papers are about conversations, stories, histories, and experiences with the guitar.

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The Perfect Shade of Lipstick Pickups

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Andy Perrin 18 Views 0 Comments

Back in the late 1950s, if you walked into Sears and asked where you could pick up some lipstick, chances

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The Boss ME-5 and the Multi-Effects (R)Evolution

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Andy Perrin 474 Views 2 Comments

When most of us think of Boss effects, the image that comes to mind is the brilliantly flexible and sonically

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The Strings that Broke the Brand: The Squier Saga

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 Andy Perrin 981 Views 1 Comment

Today, Squier is the bold, brilliant, bargain younger brother of Fender. While the tales of these two brands has blended

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The Preamp You Holster Beltside? The Boss FA-1

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Andy Perrin 124 Views 0 Comments

At a time where rack effects reigned supreme and compact pedals were but a small band of bold rebels inching

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What’s in a Name? The Evolution of the Marshall JCM800

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Andy Perrin 167 Views 0 Comments

It’s tough to pin down the top amps in the historic Marshall lineup. You could go old school and pick

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Sleeper Pedals in the Ibanez 10 Series

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 Andy Perrin 200 Views 0 Comments

It’s arguably one of the most ambitious and extensive effect pedal lineups of the 1980s. In the days of the

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PAF 101: What Made Seth Lover’s Pickup Design So Innovative?

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Andy Perrin 911 Views 0 Comments

P-A-F, three little letters that signify what is arguably one of the furthest reaching guitar innovations of modern gear. So

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Old School Gear to Ring in the New Year

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018 Andy Perrin 888 Views 0 Comments

With Christmas behind and New Year’s ahead, radio stations are slowly swapping out carols and holiday tunes for countdown tracks

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Deck Your Board with Red & Green Pedals

December 21, 2018 Andy Perrin 597 Views 0 Comments

There are boundless debates that arise of the Christmas holidays. Real tree versus fake tree? Is Die Harda Christmas movie? Legit

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Vintage Roland Gear that Blurs the Bounds between Guitar and Synth

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Andy Perrin 522 Views 1 Comment

It’s a guitar! It’s a keyboard! Wait, it’s a keytar! Well, actually, this hybrid hero is the Roland Axis, but

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