Not many people think of Prince as a guitar player, but he is. And a damn good one. Here he is playing Dreamer, Hendrix-style: Great performance. But did you catch what happened at the very end? The last 1 second or so? A guy cuts in front of the camera taking back the guitar Prince [...]

Holy mother of all YouTube mashups. Plenty of guitar to go around in this vid of perhaps 10,000,000,000 YouTube music videos into one kick ass funk tune: Phew. I told you, right? That was incredible. Here’s the website of the guy, girl, or sentient alien light-being that did it: http://thru-you.com.

I passed the teenager audio test, and here’s the little banner to prove it: Jeez, you would have thought all those years of guitar would have kind of put the kibosh on hearing super-high frequencies. Guess not.

In order to celebrate my birthday, I wanted to post some cool tidbit of rock-trivia information, such as: “Today in rock history, Eddie Van Halen bought his first guitar.” Or maybe: “Today in rock history, The Who destroyed their first hotel room.” Unfortunately, I came a skosh short of that. So, um, this tune reached [...]

On Friday the 13th, Japanese composer, Otomo Yoshihide put on an unusual show at Columbia’s Miller Theater in NYC called “Listening In, Feeding Back.” Otomo set up two Fender Twin Reverb amplifiers and two guitars, one hollowbody and one semi-hollowbody (can’t find out what kind–as if it matters), plugged in through volume pedals. Then, he [...]

So, dear reader, I realize that a post about eccentric actor Joaquin Phoenix has, at best, a tenuous connection to the world of Guitarbalooga, but don’t forget: he was nominated for an Oscar for playing a guy who played a guitar sometimes when he sang… Anyway, there has been much speculation as of late as [...]

In the spring of 1996, David Soldier, in collaboration with artists “Komar and Melamid” (who came up with a way to produce the most-wanted and most-unwanted paintings), posted an online poll to gather data on people’s musical tastes. With 500 responses, he and lyricist Nina Mankin attempted to compose the most-wanted and mos-unwanted song. The [...]

YouTube user MysteryGuitarMan spent a few bazillion hours splicing together bits and pieces of himself playing The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. Over 1000 cuts. 6 hours of guitar tabbing. 1 hour of shooting. God knows how much editing. I know. I was bored. (via Neatorama.com)

Here’s a useless bit of trivia on this slow guitar-news day. Believe it or not, the world’s most valuable guitar is the Stratocaster to the left. The reason? This guitar was… …signed by a host of music legends [and] fetched US$2.7 million (then £1.57 million) at a charity auction for Reach Out To Asia at [...]

Okay, so they’re attached to the body, but I couldn’t resist quoting Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movie. Anyway, Eugene Cheong has designed a device named “Maestro” that you attach to your guitar that lights up frets via lasers on the fretboard in time with Mp3s stored on an SD card. This via YankoDesign.com. [...]

Here’s an interesting one that’s making its way through the tubes today: did Bruce Springsteen plagiarize Kiss? Here’s a mash-up of Springsteen’s “Outlaw Pete” from his new CD, Working on a Dream, and Kiss’s I Was Made for Loving You from their 1979 album Dynasty. Guitarbalooga reports. You decide.

And so was Cello Scrotum. This from a bizaare news story over at ABC News. The Murphys think the “guitar nipple” letter was also a prank. “The following Christmas we sent a card to Dr. Curtis of guitar nipple fame, only to discover that he knew nothing about it — another joke we suspect,” the [...]

Here’s some footage of Ed talking about his new EVH, designed partly during a heavy-duty year of touring and partly from over 3-decades worth of tinkering with his guitars: I’m happy to see that Ed is still looking good. Update: Jan. 21, 2009 Here’ s some footage from NAMM of Nick Bowcott and Chip Ellis [...]

If you just happen to be someone lucky enough to have a job that requires you to attend the Sundance Film Festival, you’re probably going to want to check out the Gibson Lodge: The Gibson Lodge will be open from Friday, Jan. 16 – Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. The “By Invitation Only” events will be [...]

Ron Wood proved he’s a rock star last week: Ronnie Wood has apparently splashed out on a vintage guitar played by Jimi Hendrix for his girlfriend. The Rolling Stone, who paid a reported £13,000 for the instrument, is giving Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova music lessons. Well, at least he had the decency to leave his [...]