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Riffs: Heineken Amp, Richard Wright Dies, Fastest List, Lost Rickenbacker

Heineken Joins Boutique Elite? from Gearfuse.com While most rock stars polish off and then leave the Heineken backstage, here''s a reason to keep those empty cans. If recycling or

Heineken Joins Boutique Elite?

from Gearfuse.com


While most rock stars polish off and then leave the Heineken backstage, here''s a reason to keep those empty cans. If recycling or collecting the deposit isn''t enough motivation, eBay seller k_hessler is auctioning off a Heineken mini-keg, 20W amplifier for $119.99. We wonder if he''s slamming the Heineken just to build these amps?!

Pink Floyd''s Richard Wright Dies at 65

from BBC.com


Pink Floyd keyboard player and founding member Richard Wright has died from cancer. Wright appeared on the group''s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. .

A List of Shredders

from Gibson.com


Hopefully, the folks can at Gibson can put an end to the ongoing debate here at PG - who are the best shredders to ever pick up the instrument? Then again, their list might add fuel to the fire. Either way, it''s fun going through their "8 of the Fastest Shredders" list, which has corresponding videos for each guitarist.

R.E.M. Should Join Screaming Stone

from Helsingin Sanomat


After playing at Finnair Stadium in Helsinki, Finland, R.E.M.''s Peter Buck had his Rickenbacker stolen right from the stage. While we feel Peter''s pain, as the guitar has been a loyal member of the band for over 25 years, we can only suggest he should join the Screaming Stone network featured in October''s "Hot Links." Screaming Stone is a social networking site for the music community created to help relocate lost and stolen instruments.

Gator Cases offers custom cases for Flying V and Explorer style guitars in their Traditional Deluxe Series.

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Guitarist Brandon Seabrook, architect of fretboard chaos, and his trusty HMT Tele.

Photo by Reuben Radding

With a modified and well-worn heavy metal Tele, a Jerry Jones 12-string, a couple banjos, some tape sounds, and a mountain of fast-picking chops, New York’s master of guitar mayhem delivers Object of Unknown Function.

“It’s like time travel,” says Brandon Seabrook, reflecting on the sonic whiplash of “Object of Unknown Function.” The piece, which opens the composer’s solo album of the same name, journeys jarringly from aggressive “early banjo stuff” up through “more 21st-century classical music,” combined with electronic found sounds from a TASCAM 4-track cassette recorder. The end result approaches the disorientation of musique concréte.

“The structure is kind of like hopping centuries or epochs,” he adds. “I [wanted] all these different worlds to collide. It’s like a choose-your-own-adventure.”

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The Fearless Flyers' Cory Wong & Mark Lettieri Rig Rundown
- YouTube

Cory Wong and his Flyers comrade Mark Lettieri do a little show-and-tell at their summer camp.


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EarthQuaker Devices introduces Gary, a versatile fuzz and overdrive pedal designed by Lee Kiernan of Idles.

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