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NY Amp Show '11 - 3 Monkeys Amps Virgil & Grease Monkey GM II Demos

PG's Shawn Hammond is On Location at the 2011 NY Amp Show where he visits the 3 Monkeys Amps room. In this segment, we get to see and hear demos of 3 Monkeys' newest amps -- the Virgil and Grease Monkey GM II.



PG's Shawn Hammond is On Location at the 2011 NY Amp Show where he visits the 3 Monkeys Amps room. In this segment, we get to see and hear demos of 3 Monkeys' newest amps -- the Virgil and Grease Monkey GM II.

The Brian May Gibson SJ-200 12-string in the hands of the artist himself.

Despite a recent health scare, guitarist Brian May cannot be stopped. With the Queen reissue project, heā€™s celebrating his legacy, and with his new SJ-200ā€”a limited edition signature Gibson acoustic guitarā€”he looks to the future.

Long lasting instrumental relationships are something we love to root for. Neil Young and Old Black, Willie Nelson and Triggerā€”those are inseparable pairings of artist and instrument where, over the course of long careers, those guitars have been shaped, excessively in both cases, by the hands that play them. Eddie Van Halen went steps beyond with Frankenstein, assembling the guitar to his needs from the get-go. But few rock ā€™nā€™ roll relationships imbue the kind of warm-and-fuzzy feelings as the story of Brian May and his dad building Red Special, the very instrument that hung around his neck for his rise to superstardom and beyond.

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The National New Yorker lived at the forefront of the emerging electric guitar industry, and in Memphis Minnieā€™s hands, it came alive.

This National electric is just the tip of the iceberg of electric guitar history.

On a summer day in 1897, a girl named Lizzie Douglas was born on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, the first of 13 siblings. When she was seven, her family moved closer to Memphis, Tennessee, and little Lizzie took up the banjo. Banjo led to guitar, guitar led to gigs, and gigs led to dreams. She was a prodigious talent, and ā€œKidā€ Douglas ran away from home to play for tips on Beale Street when she was just a teenager. She began touring around the South, adopted the moniker Memphis Minnie, and eventually joined the circus for a few years.

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With authentic stage-class Katana amp sounds, wireless music streaming, and advanced spatial technology, the KATANA:GO is designed to offer a premium sound experience without the need for amps or pedals.

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In our third installment with Santa Cruz Guitar Company founder Richard Hoover, the master luthier shows PG's John Bohlinger how his team of builders assemble and construct guitars like a chef preparing food pairings. Hoover explains that the finer details like binding, headstock size and shape, internal bracing, and adhesives are critical players in shaping an instrument's sound. Finally, Richard explains how SCGC uses every inch of wood for making acoustic guitars or outside ventures like surfboards and art.