A guitar reported to have been smashed by Pete Townshend at the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival will be on display in July at the Hard Rock Cafe in London. The guitar in question is a Gibson SG Special, similar to the one shown at left. Although most news sites are reporting this guitar as [...]

As reported in March here at Guitarbalooga, the historic Manny’s Music in New York City is closing its doors forever. One of the cool things about Manny’s was that the walls were lined with signed photographs containing messages to Manny Goldrich, who died in 1968, and his son Henry, who took over the store and [...]

Perhaps I’m a little behind-the-times, but I just discovered the website ReverbNation.com, which allows you to post music and easily share it on, oh, I don’t know, say a BLOG. I’ve posted a bunch of my tunes there, which are now accesible from the Guitarbalooga About Page, for anyone who is interested.

Paul from PositivelyCleveland.com dropped me a note to point me towards a cool interactive Adobe Flash website named Rock Immortal, built by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor the 2009 inductees. Upload your own vids, pics, and stories in honor of your favorite inductee by clicking the ghostly guitar pick. To read what others [...]

John Cuniberti is a well known producer/engineer who has been doing his thing since the 70′s. His work with Joe Satriani on 6 of Joe’s CDs has awarded him platinum and gold records. He’s mastered over 1000 CDs for various record labels. In short, he knows what he’s doing. But what’s really cool is that [...]

The guitar you see to the left at first looks like what might happen if I tried my hand at fretting a neck, but it’s actually a picture of a guitar fitted with a True Temperament Fretting System. Most guitarists are aware (at least on some level) that you can’t ever really acheive a perfectly [...]

Whether or not you have kids, you must go see a Gustafer Yellowgold concert. Illustrator/Songwriter Morgan Taylor created Gustafer: Gustafer is a friendly creature who came to Earth from the sun and has an unusual magnetism for making friends with some of Earth’s odder creatures. His best friend is Forrest Applecrumbie the flightless Pterodactyl. Gustafer [...]

Have you been looking for a way to send the message to your co-workers that you’re hardcore? That you’re about much, much more than your cubicle and mad Excel-pivot-table skillz? That The Man hasn’t crushed your spirit and killed the kid who used to wear an AC/DC jean jacket and smoke cigarettes in the high-school [...]

WolframTones is an addictive website inspired by concepts thought up by scientist Stephan Wolfram, who wrote a groundbreaking book, A New Kind of Science. In this book, Wolfram argues (correctly) that complexity often arises from sets of simple rules or programs. Not to get all mathematical on everyone here, but fractal images are a good [...]

I just stumbled across a site I can’t believe I’ve never seen before:  JazzImprov.tv. It seems to be from some combination of Jazz Improv Magazine and guitar-lesson site TrueFire.com. They’ve got “channels” devoted to jazz performances, lessons, etc. At the moment, I’m only able to get a couple of the videos.