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Riffs: Major League Guitarist, Gear at Best Buy?, Cape Town Jazz Festival

Baseball Player/Guitarist from MLB.com Major League baseball pitcher and guitarist Brandon Medders (Arizona Diamondbacks) compares playing a field and playing a stage. The 28-year-old relief pitcher for last year''s

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Brandon Medders 

Baseball Player/Guitarist

from MLB.com


Major League baseball pitcher and guitarist Brandon Medders (Arizona Diamondbacks) compares playing a field and playing a stage. The 28-year-old relief pitcher for last year''s National League West champions said his electric guitar and amplifier travel to games with him. We could very easily make a joke about pitch, but won''t go there.
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Guitar Center vs Best Buy

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Best Buy is opening more gear-centered stores to compete with area Guitar Centers. One Twin Cities Guitar Center manager had this to say about the stores, “You know, whatever. It’s a Best Buy carrying (musical) gear. All we sell is gear.” SLAM!
PG question: Would you ever buy a guitar from Best Buy?
2008 Cape Town Festival Flyer 

2008 Cape Town International Jazz Festival


With guitarists like Lee Ritenour and Lionel Loueke playing, this year''s 2008 Cape Town International Jazz Festival is being called "Festival of the Guitars." The big event is happening on March 28 and 29.
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