The Vortex Keytar
Vortex
USB/MIDI Keytar Controller with Accelerometer
The Vortex includes even more features never before found on any keytar: both traditional MIDI and USB MIDI are onboard, empowering you to use the Vortex with all of your software instruments and synths on Mac, PC, and iPad*. You’ll have a virtually unlimited palette of sounds, ready to command with one of the most exciting keytar controllers ever. Read More..
Only to be surpassed by the e-hooter (with commercial rights to “The Hooters” well in hand)..
Via BoingBoing/Rob Beschizza via Alesis
Courtesy Gregg Roth (via NPR)
Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was destroyed in a plane crash … or so he thought.
The story begins in 1970, when Frampton and his old band Humble Pie scored a gig playing two sets a night at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Frampton says the first night was a rough go: The guitar he was using fed back at loud volumes and made soloing a chore. After the show, an audience member approached him and offered to help.
How To Buy A Vintage Guitar – Expert Shares Secrets
Guitars are hot, guitars are sexy – and guitars can be worth big bucks.
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Courtesy of our good friends at Rumble Seat Music, located in beautiful downtown Ithaca, NY, comes this striking 60′s era vintage guitar. The Gold Sparkle Classic will make the perfect addition to anyone’s collection. The Italian-made COMET has the ultra-retro vibe and it’s anxious to find a new home with a GearHead. Enter now! Read more
So you’ve been looking for that extra-something special for the person who has everything and we mean……….everything. This is something quirky, affordable and just ‘left-of’ center’ enough to make it unique and appreciated by the guitarist in your life, be they, the boss, the husband, the co-worker, the father-in-law – errr…you get the idea.
This clever little gadget will turn any bit of your favorite material into a pick. It’s as simple as a hole punch. Now I just need to get ahold of someone’s Amex Black card..
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Mojave Picker's Wallet
As a 9th level wallet reductionist I’m always looking out for ways to get more “function” out of less “form”. Right now that “form” is a blue rubber band, but when I finally get on Survivor I’m really going to try to avoid using coastal woods on my strings, so this bit of leather from Whipping Post might just be my Wallet 3.0:
Imagine cruising down the street with your Baby by your side – heading for the beach or maybe for a fly-by in the mountains. Either way, you can play to your hearts content, with your new Baby Taylor – well, that is, should you be the very lucky GearHead to win this lovely little portable, traveling, Baby Taylor. Courtesy of our Good Friends at Chicago Music Exchange, this Baby Taylor is ready and waiting for a new home – and be sure to check out CME’s Gbase Store, just filled with goodies also looking for a new residence!!
Time to get a little atmospheric tone for your signal chain. Courtesy of the kind folks over at The Guitar Broker, we’re putting the classic Dunlop Roto-vibe up from grabs. Read more
Our good friends over at Tanglewood Guitars will be awarding some lucky Gearhead with a Tanglewood TW-45-FLR-B - a solid cedar top, solid rosewood back/sides Florentine cutaway complete with a B Band pickup, with a most attractive retail price of $1350. Read more
