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The Gear Page (TGP), started in 2002, now combines its 59,000+ members' forums with a webzine. Some articles of potential interest are listed below. Of course, our primary focus is on our forums, which can be reached by clicking on "TGP Forums" in the navigation bar above. Please make sure to read our Rules of Conduct for the forums. To read any of the full articles listed below, click on the image.
Current Featured Gear Reviews:
Dig that warm, clear, vintage amp tone? Do you like an amp that really responds to your hands and guitar volume knob? Are you into amps that include iconic features from amps of the 50s and 60s, like spring reverb, tremolo and pitch-shifting vibrato? Do you love lightweight, portable little amps…but only if they sound really big? If any of those qualities appeal to you, you’re going to absolutely love the Juke Coda..........For full article click on image!
"Emotion is an important part of playing"
Current Artist Feature:
Jack Pearson's versatility and skill on guitar have led to an incredible career as a “1st call” musician for artists ranging from blues, jazz, rock and country. Although most people probably associate him with the Allman Brothers Band , whom Pearson played with from 1997-1999, my first experience listening to his work came in 1996 when I purchased a CD by Jimmy Hall (ex-vocalist with the southern band Wet Willie) titled “Rendezvous With the Blues”. It turned out to be one of the best CD purchases I ever made. The music was top-notch from beginning to end, but the thing that kept capturing my attention in tune after tune was the incredible guitar playing. I looked at the insert to find out who was on guitar and saw the name “Jack Pearson”. Who?.......................For full article click on image!
Current Article Feature:
Understanding Gain Structure
No doubt there’s tons of very cool stuff hiding in any guitar/amp rig, some of it very hard to find for all but the initiated, so IMHO it really helps to know a little bit about how your rig thinks in order to find it all. By learning how amps and guitars think in general, a lot of those knobs on the front and rear panels will make gobs more sense and will greatly increase your power to sculpt tone before you ever touch an effect. So this article is the first in a series designed to show you, sans screwdriver, how to do just that with gain structure.
Current Featured Member CD:
Ed Degenaro: Less Is Seldom More
........Parts of the album have a way of making you feel the way you might have felt the first time you listened to some of the pioneers of progressive guitar-oriented music - early Zappa with Vai comes to mind at one point - but unlike those albums, this music is so creative & inspired that it will appeal to non-players as well as musicians. For example, during the playing of Joe Z, my eastern-asian-world-music-loving wife looked at me suddenly and asked, "What's the title of this song???" The appeal will really be across cultural boundaries. How this was accomplished is truly beyond me ... I've just never heard an album that jumps so effortlessly between genres...........
Click on image for full review!
Roving TGP Reporter:
TGP has an affiliation this year with the Montreal Guitar Show, which is part of the Montreal Jazz Festival. We sent one of our moderators, "Chiba", to cover the show and festival. He has sent daily reports....and sometimes more than one report per day....in his role as the "TGP representative". Many of us who know Chiba (Wes Fleming) can only imagine the impact our moderator might be having in Montreal. Wes is a big guy, with plenty of tatoo art! Click on the image to the left to read his coverage of both the Montreal Jazz Festival and Guitar Show.
