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GALLERY: Cheap Trick Touring Gear 2012

"If you look closely, you can see where a previous owner had installed and removed a vibrato (likely a Maestro) on this vintage Gibson Explorer now owned by Rick Nielsen. "

Keep the giveaways rolling! Enter Stompboxtober Day 22 for your chance to win a pedal from Walrus Audio!

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Once a musician, always a musician. At 71, jazz guitarist Mike Stern is still jetsetting to perform around the world.

Photo by Sandrine Lee

The jazz-guitar virtuoso’s new record Echoes and Other Songs shines bright amidst some major—and challenging—turning points in his life.

It was around 8 p.m. and, after enduring a severely delayed flight from Europe, Mike Stern had finally arrived home to New York City. He was overseas for a run of marathon three-and-a-half-hour shows in Munich and Budapest, where he shared the stage with fellow guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola on the Mandoki Soulmates’ A Memory of Our Future album release concert.

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Tools for the Task: Flavors of Fuzz
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These six dirt-blasters are cooked up to satisfy all tastes.

Whether you've got a refined, selective palette or you're a "more is better" type, these tasty fuzzes will tickle your ear's tastebuds.

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PRS announces two new limited-edition models in the CE Family: the PRS CE 24-08 Black Limba Limited Edition and the PRS CE 24-08 Swamp Ash Limited Edition.

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