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SNAMM '16 - Journey Instruments the Overhead Demo

This guitar-on-the-go is purportedly impervious to the elements and designed for easy stowing on a plane.

Ted Drozdowski
By Ted DrozdowskiJul 19, 2016
Ted Drozdowski

Editorial director Ted Drozdowski is an award-winning journalist and music historian, and a musician, songwriter, producer, and film consultant. He’s a maniac for slide and psychedelic guitar, and has toured and taught workshops internationally. Ted is also the proprietor of Coyote Motel, his psych-roots band, who star in the film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South. Connect with him at ted@premierguitar.com.

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