Rockers Turned Kids’ Book Authors?
You’ve probably noticed Jack White looks a little different lately. As he made the rounds on late night shows playing
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The Sunday Papers
The Sunday Papers is brand spanking new 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 our new feature 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.
The Short Story on a Huge Effect: The Leslie Cab
My guess is that unless you’re used to toting a baby grand piano to your gig on Friday night, if
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The Art & Craft of Guitar Looping
During my brief teenage career in busking, I remember contending for a street corner with one guy who had it
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A Guitar for Gospel and Metal? Meet the Gibson SG
Maybe it’s that unmistakable dark cherry stain and those one-of-a-kind curled cutaways, but for me, the Gibson SG will always
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Hollywood Gear
I love watching movies and TV with an eye for gear. In general, producers don’t seem to go cheap on
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Stranger Things about Seven Strings
When I think of seven-string guitars, an army of guitarists wielding Ibanez instruments come to mind. To be sure, when
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Danelectro Relics from Decades Past
Danelectro’s design philosophy has always been about breaking with the contemporary by connecting with the classic. In both form and
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Fender’s Stompbox Story
It wouldn’t be unfair to say that, over the years, Fender has struggled to find their footing in the pedal
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The Rise of the Rectifier: The Mesa/Boogie Chronicles
It was the year 2000. Not only did the world not collapse due to a now fabled potential bank-coding fiasco
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The John Suhr Story (In Short)
He’s become one of the great American guitar builders of recent gear history. John Suhr has decades of guitar building
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