PAL Overlord

As you can see, the CBS-era Stratocaster's (below)headstock was noticeably larger and featured a more pronounced logo.  Alone among Fender electric instruments, the Stratocaster has two different headstocks. Same shape, basically (but not precisely), but two sizes—the original smaller design and a larger one, which came a decade later. Both coexist today more or less peacefully. Just the Strat. Not the...

  Counting Crows Release Underwater Sunshine Track Free       The Counting Crows are jumping on the free music bandwagon by giving away the single from their soon to be released Underwater Sunshine, set to come out on April 9th. The album will be released on the Crows’ own record label Cooking Vinyl. This will be the bands sixth...

The new V75, 55 and 35 ship in RF2 mode.  You cannot use RF2 mode in the presence of any older Line 6 2.4G wireless (including Relay).  If you try you will likely get failures in both the old and new units.  Just say no! You must either flash older models to the newer V2.o firmware (and you must have...

New Album and Tour Plans from Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros live The second album from Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros is set to be released on May 29th. The album is entitled “Here” and the band has announced tour plans to accompany the new album release. Currently they are finishing up...

Guitarist Ronnie Montrose died this past Saturday after a long battle with prostate cancer. He is best known for his work with his band “Montrose”, formed in 1973, which featured a young Sammy Hagar on vocals. Montrose’s first breakthrough came when he appeared on Van Morrison’s 1971 Tupelo Honey album. He went onto make appearances on records by Boz Scaggs...