Today we remember Clash frontman Joe Strummer, born John Graham Mellor on 8/21/52 in Turkey. He would have turned 60.
check out our new favorite video - ‘oh love’ from Green Day. the video premiered on MTV and globally earlier this week, and we can’t get enough. lust.guitars.models.GIBSON!
Video of the day: The Gaslight Anthem unplugs for NPR Music with Gibson Acoustic! Watch a Jersey Rocker get personal…
Happy Birthday to the legendary Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, born Michael Philip Jagger in Dartford, Kent, England, on July 26, 1943!
Today in Music History, 5/30/92: The Black Crowes reach #1 With ‘Southern Harmony And Musical Companion’
Today in Music History, 5/29/67: Happy B-day Noel Gallagher, former Oasis guitarist/songwriter, born in Manchester UK. Check out his solo work, Noel Gallagher and the High Flying Birds: http://www.last.fm/music/Noel+Gallagher%27s+High+Flying+Birds
today in music history 5/18/80: we remember Ian Curtis, Joy Division frontman, who committed suicide at 23 years old.
Cool fact on the new Sheryl Crow Southern Jumbo: each transducer on the new Sheryl Crow SJ is hand-placed on the bridge plate in order to capture the best of both the treble and bass response of the guitar. Placing them too close together, too far apart, too far forward on the bridge plate or too far back affects the reproductive tone quality of the guitar. In order to find the sweet spot Gibson Acoustic’s Custom Shop experimented for “more than a month on a multitude of guitars,” according to our go-to guy Jason.
