Grisha Performing in L.A.
If you’re in Southern California, you can catch Grisha this Sunday in Glendale. For more info go to ..
Any Pleas For Modern Construction Methods?
I’m going to go ahead and guess that the folks who make guitars using these more modern methods, whi..
A Plea For Traditional Construction
I thought we’d follow up last week’s post of Marcelo Kayath’s article on the current state of guitar..
Picasso Guitars at MoMA
From the MoMA website: “Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) made a..
Jason Becker's 'Not Dead Yet' Concert
Check this out – and our friend Ben Woods will be performing here, too, with Flametal.From the press..
Moscow Report, Part 2
In Moscow I got to see some friends I hadn’t seen in a really long time, and one of those was guitar..
Salar Nadir, Homayoan Sakhi, Abbos Kosimov and Alfredo Cáceres
My friend Alfredo Cáceres has been collaborating with these guys. I’m embarrassed to admit that I do..
Cigar Box Guitars
According to the L.A. Times these are making a comeback. And you can have a luthier-made cigar box g..
More Yuri Nugmanov
I wanted to share some more of Yuri Nugmanov’s stuff – Yuri was one of our hosts in Moscow and we ha..
"Reflections On The Guitar" by Marcelo Kayath
Here’s an article written by Marcelo Kayath, who in the early 80’s was considered one of the great u..
New Guitars From Bernd Martin
I’ve known Bernd Martin since the mid-nineties when I lived in Granada, and he was making great guit..
Moscow Report, Part 1
So, as I mentioned, David Collett and I visited Moscow last week. Here are his impressions and a few..
Paul Galbraith - Albeniz' 'Bajo La Palmera'
Since Paul Galbraith is coming to L.A. for the LMU guitar festival (and since I still don’t know the..
Yuri Nugmanov
So David Collett and I went on this crazy trip to Moscow where we hung out with some great guitarist..