One month away: The @jhspedals Germanium Chef takes place August 25 on the @fretboardsummit main stage. This year, it’ll be @keeleyelectronics vs. @godsmomdotcom as they attempt to build the ultimate fuzz in an hour. (Think: Iron Chef but with stomp boxes.)
Register to watch the spectacle: fretboardsummit.org
Trophy build & 📷: the brilliant mind of @littlehcollective
Jontavious Willis - "Boll Weevil"
Grammy nominated blues artist Jontavious Willis revisits "Boll Weevil," a tune popularized by Lead Belly.
Podcast 336: Tod Nelson
**Support unique guitar storytelling and this podcast via our brand new Fretboard Journal Patreon page. It's a great way to support all the free digital content we put out on a weekly basis and help us grow.** Tod Nelson was one of the first ten employees at Amazon. He started out packing books and, by the late 1990s, served as "punk rock editor" during the launch of that site's music store. After five years of working for the quickly growing company, he left and started a family on California's Central Coast. He'd eventually serve as the first executive director of Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Beyond his work life, Tod has been a lifelong guitarist and guitar collector with a passion for all-things-Gibson. He's also a survivor: In recent years, he's had not one but two lung transplants. Tod's love for music and musical instruments has helped carry him through his recovery, culminating in his most recent project: A Song A Day for Acoustic Guitar. He's teaching himself one new song a day for the entire year... and he's looking for suggestions on what tracks he should attempt next (his current repertoire is available as a Spotify playlist here). Feel free to shoot me suggestions for Tod via [email protected]. I've known Tod for over 20 years, but until this conversation, I had no idea just how important the guitar was to him or his recovery. I hope you enjoy this chat. It's unlike any other we've done to date. I hope you enjoy it. The Fretboard Journal's 48th issue is now available. Click here to read up on it and start your subscription. Don't forget, we now host an entire family of podcasts, about everything from lutherie to home recording: Luthier on Luthier; The Truth About Vintage Amps; The Truth About Recording & Mixing;Acoustic Voices; and Sweep the Floor. This episode is sponsored by Mono Cases, Folkway Music and Retrofret Vintage Guitars. Extra thanks to Calton Cases and Martin Guitars for sponsoring all that we do.
Ep. 77: "Helen Reddy"
It's the 77th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons makes pizza on english muffins, crushes the dreams of young blues aficionados and fields your questions on all things tube amp. This week's episode is sponsored by Jupiter Condenser Co., Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars. Some of the topics discussed this week: :23 Skip has no electricity 3:52 Jason does a video shoot with David Grisman 4:17 The “Amigo SoCal” vintage guitar show (August 28-29, 2021); a Massey amp with reverb and tremolo 6:06 Alamo Paragon Special 8:01 Skip's tips: Vintage guitar show wheeling & dealing 10:23 Grez Guitars 12:10 Amplified Parts, ProCo guitar cords 12:57 Jupiter Caps: Bumblebees, Red Astrons, Cosmos caps 20:45 The TAVA Patreon page 25:17 The TAVA Index on Tableau!, Goldentone Amp book 28:51 Cleaning the crusty corrosion on a Fender silverface faceplate 31:34 Making a lower-power Vox clone? 35:21 Grid bias vs cathode bias on a pre-amp tube 38:50 Why does Skip have an oscilloscope and why doesn’t he raise his prices? 41:14 Can you use a field coil speaker to drive speaker-driven reverb; voicecoils on a field coil speaker 45:07 Will the bigger vintage Fender amps ever go up in value? 49:32 Pinpointing note-triggered noise / rumble in an amp cabinet 52:55 A Lab Series L3 goes to a good home; Robert Moog; English muffin pizzas 55:12 What’s up with the Fender Tremolux Model 6G9 with EL84 power tubes? Aspen Pittman's 'The Tube Amp' book (Amazon link) 58:15 A 1955 Montgomery Ward-branded amp with a wire from the speaker frame to the chassis 1:01:14 A one-way speaker mismatch on solid state amps? 1:02:54 Water kefir (recipe here) 1:04:30 Replacing the multi-cap can on a Fender Bassman 20 1:06:54 Using a pressure cooker for dried beans or potatoes 1:08:40 Poking a hole instead of solder wick 1:09:01 Vintage pencil sharpeners; Nelson Riddle 1:11:32 Any grads from the Red Wing Electronic Music Technology cla
Todd Albright - "Rising River Blues" | Fretboard Journal
A little country blues to kick off the weekend... via Todd Albright. 12-string guitar by Todd Cambio / Fraulini Guitar Co.
The Fretboard Journal's Vintage Guitar Workshop at Wintergrass
A glimpse at some of the old guitar magic at the FJ's 2018 Wintergrass Vintage Instrument Workshop. Kenny Smith and Eli West sings & plays perform "Cherokee Shuffle" on a pair of '30s Washburns...
Into vintage acoustics? Watch over an hour of the workshop here: https://www.fretboardjournal.com/video/wintergrass-2018-vintage-guitar-workshop/
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the Fretboard Journal
ICYMI: Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn stop by the Fretboard Journal magazine to perform “My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains,” a tune found on their 2017 album Echo in the Valley.
Billy Strings plays a Pre-war Guitars Co Model D
We're happy to announce that the winner of our Pre-war Guitars Co. Model D giveaway is Will S. of Madison, Wisconsin. We hope you love the instrument, Will. We sure did!
Look for another Fretboard Journal instrument giveaway very soon on fretboardjournal.com.
A peek at our 40th issue. Available now at finer newsstands, guitar shops and at fretboardjournal.com.
Amy Helm – "Didn't It Rain"
Here's a little teaser of "Didn't It Rain" from Amy Helm's visit this afternoon... more to come, soon!
A tour through Heritage Guitar's Kalamazoo factory.
A modern-day Kalamazoo Gal at 225 Parsons St. and Heritage Guitar Inc..
April Verch Live at Marsh Gibbon Farm - Fretboard Journal Live...
We're live again from Marsh Gibbon Farm with April Verch! Enjoy the show...
April Verch at Marsh Gibbon Farm - Fretboard Journal Live Stream
We're live from Marsh Gibbon Farm with April Verch! Enjoy the show...
