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On day three of NAMM, team photographer, Bill Towner and I had the joy of sitting down with San Francisco bay area based, professional musician and 3G Guitar designer and manufacturer, Jon Mulvey, to talk about his beautiful instruments and the technology behind them that makes them so unique. Jon’s “Performer” takes design, sound and performance […]
One of the funniest and most creative booths this year at NAMM was Ukulele Ray’s. It was both colorful and interesting and had some very cool and all unique instruments. I don’t believe I could do this man justice in a write up but we all know that when you look up Ukulele ray in […]
Long live the Tube amp! If you want a real tube amp don’t look any further than the BC Audio system. According to their website which states: “I build amps for people who appreciate things that aren’t meant to be something for everyone, but everything to someone.” Over a decade, Bruce Clement (BC audio Founder, […]
We spotted Stevie Salas at the Framus Guitar Booth and grabbed him for a short look into his signature model Idolmaker guitar and some interesting insights into his guitars growing up in SoCal. But first a short segment from their website: “The Framus Idolmaker came to fruition through a closer partnership between Stevie Salas and […]
One of the coolest things for me this year was a company called “OMB Guitars” and we had to stop by and see the product for ourselves. The OMB is a MIDI-compatible, app-connected attachment for your guitar that allows guitarists to make our guitars sound like any instrument we choose. It also has a backing track […]
Visiting Bobby Fernandez (Bassist for Symbolic) at the Dingwall guitar booth with some very fine examples of their Bass line. The Basses are both beautiful, seductive and mesmerizing. Dingwall does have a simple goal: “They want to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up every time you play a Dingwall.” Here […]
Trans-Siberian Orchestra sold out two shows of their arena-rock opera, “Ghosts of Christmas Eve” in Dallas, Texas on December 22nd, 2017 and I was lucky enough to witness the show with some of my family. The tour is dedicated to the memory of Paul O’Neill, the founder of TSO, who recently died from an unexpected reaction […]
It just wouldn’t be Christmas if Gary Hoey wasn’t running amok around the U.S. entertaining us with his Ho Ho Hoey tour! Now in its 22nd year, Gary Hoey and his band continues to make the season bright! On December 15th, his sleigh made a stop at the infamous, Coach House in San Juan Capistrano […]
Beautiful evening for a concert and Pat Travers proved tonight that he is “here to kick your ass.” The band whose songs were a large part of my life growing up would be performing tonight as a three piece band. Last time I saw Pat as a three piece band he was playing keyboards, guitar […]
The legendary Blues Traveler opened to a sold-out crowd, at the San Diego House of Blues and the BackStage360 team showed up early to question the empty sidewalks outside the downtown 6th Avenue concert venue…but in a blink of an eye the restaurant was unable to seat walk-ins for hours, the bar was merely a […]