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Riffs: Guitar Love, Purdue Guitar Workshop, Metal Loving Friar

A Guitar Love Story from The Independent Take a look at this piece by a British writer about his relationship with the guitar and guitar music. It''s a great love story,

A Guitar Love Story

from The Independent


Take a look at this piece by a British writer about his relationship with the guitar and guitar music. It''s a great love story, though we were a little wistful when he said, "The guitar is 100 percent snobbery-proof." If only...

Purdue Guitar Workshop

from The Exponent

The 2008 Purdue Guitar Manufacturing Workshop took place last week over five twelve hour days. Taylor Guitars, Seymour Duncan, Fender, Stewart MacDonald, Cole Hardwood and Irwin Industrial Tools sponsored the workshop and supplied equipment. Instructors included Tim Shaw, principal engineer at Fender Guitars, and Kevin Beller, vice president of Seymour Duncan. Check out the story here.


Heavy Metal Monk

from BBC News


"At first glance, Cesare Bonizzi looks like the archetypal Capuchin monk - round-faced, stout, with twinkling eyes and a long flowing white beard. But beneath his robes beats a heart of metal." Read the scoop on this metal-loving friar here.