The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music

Strawberry Alarm Clock's surfboard-inspired Mosrites

eBay: 1967 Mosrite Vintage Strawberry Alarm Clock Guitars
(item 120026471951 end time Sep-14-06 12:30:00 PDT)

Blimey! The now legendary trio of unique Mosrite guitars as used by Strawberry Alarm Clock are up for sale on eBay! One of my very first posts on this blog was about these very guitars. (Thanks to Music Thing for the heads up.)

Local guitar makers put great care into their craft: Article about the Mexican town of Paracho, where everyone is a luthier. (Via Fretboard Journal)

Epiphone Offers a Wide Range of SG Guitars: something for everyone! Even 13-year old goth girls.

Patent bomb-jammer inspired by Jimi Hendrix! Jimi Hendrix turned feedback into an art form – sticking his guitar close to a speaker so that it picked up its own sound and generated deafening shrieks. Now a US inventor is patenting a way to defeat remote-controlled explosives using the same trick. A series of transmitters would create a self-sustaining bubble of radio frequency noise to prevent terrorists from sending a trigger signal to a hidden bomb. (More...)

Solving the mystery of the Web guitarist: Who was that masked man?

The Pikasso 42-String Guitar Even Intimidates Jimmy Page

Pat Metheny's eye-boggling multi-stringed Pikasso guitar has been featured in lots of blogs recently. I originally blogged about it almost 4 years ago! (Some people take a long time to catch up, don't they?) Anyway, if you can't imagine how on earth he'd play it, see this YouTube clip of Pat Metheny playing this beast (although it appears to have lost the upper headstock):