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Riffs: Bong Guitar, $4K Plectrums, Tele Relic

Smoke Out While Rockin'' Out from GearFuse Former High Times publisher Mike Edison demos the ChroniCaster, a guitar with a bong built right in! Bonus #1: the guitar is


Smoke Out While Rockin'' Out

from GearFuse


Former High Times publisher Mike Edison demos the ChroniCaster, a guitar with a bong built right in! Bonus #1: the guitar is built by Joe Naylor of Reverend Guitars fame. Bonus #2: the leopard print fez. Bonus #3: realizing that the whole video is a thinly veiled plug for his book.

For the Guitarist Who Has Everything

from Most-Expensive.net


It''s that guy''s birthday again. You know, that guy who plays his ''59 Les Paul in his chinchilla-fur underwear in his garage surrounded by his Italian sports cars. This year you''re prepared with $4000 picks made from meteorite. Except that you''d have to be that guy to afford them in the first place. Shit. Well, at least you know they exist.

The Tele Relic Experiment

from Electric Guitar Review


The Electric Guitar Review guys bought a Tele off of eBay to tear apart and refinish with a homebrewed relic job. The update posts are funny, and keep you waiting for the next one, though they''re slightly sporadic. We like the warning that reminds us that it is not a DIY guide -- they have no idea if this is going to become a disaster or not. Word.

Adding to the company’s line of premium guitar strapsand accessories, Fairfield Guitar Co. has introduced a new deluxe leather strapdesigned in collaboration with Angela Petrilli.

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This legendary vintage rack unit will inspire you to think about effects with a new perspective.

When guitarists think of effects, we usually jump straight to stompboxes—they’re part of the culture! And besides, footswitches have real benefits when your hands are otherwise occupied. But real-time toggling isn’t always important. In the recording studio, where we’re often crafting sounds for each section of a song individually, there’s little reason to avoid rack gear and its possibilities. Enter the iconic Eventide H3000 (and its massive creative potential).

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A live editor and browser for customizing Tone Models and presets.

IK Multimedia is pleased to release the TONEX Editor, a free update for TONEX Pedal and TONEX ONE users, available today through the IK Product Manager. This standalone application organizes the hardware library and enables real-time edits to Tone Models and presets with a connected TONEX pedal.

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Valerie June’s songs, thanks to her distinctive vocal timbre and phrasing, and the cosmology of her lyrics, are part of her desire to ā€œco-create a beautiful lifeā€ with the world at large.

Photo by Travys Owen

The world-traveling cosmic roots rocker calls herself a homebody, but her open-hearted singing and songwriting––in rich display on her new album Owls, Omens, and Oracles––welcomes and embraces inspiration from everything … including the muskrat in her yard.

I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun in an interview as I did speaking with roots-rock artist Valerie June about her new release, Owls, Omens, and Oracles. At the end of our conversation, after going over schedule by about 15 minutes, her publicist curbed us with a gentle reminder. In fairness, maybe we did spend a bit too much time talking about non-musical things, such as Seinfeld, spirituality, and the fauna around her home in Humboldt, Tennessee.

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