The Chop Shop is the first radio show dedicated totally…100%…to the guitar. The Chop Shop also publishes a great web site, and a guitarist “Hall of Fame” with beautiful high-resolution renditions of legendary guitar players that you can download for free.

I downloaded all of them and rotate them as background images on my computer. Just call me a six-string geek!

The Chop Shop show invites listeners to hear the songs they know and love from different perspectives, while occasionally introducing them to some gems they may have missed.

This weeks show will feature Metallica, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Whitesnake and many other bands and single artists. Check out the web site more more information…including an affiliate schedule of where and when you can tune in to listen.

While you are on the web site, be sure to check out the “Hall of Fame” and download your favorite guitarist images. Clapton, SRV, Gilmore, May, Van Halen, Vai, Beck, Page, Hendrix, Slash, Blackmore, Satriani, Dimebag, Perry, Zappa and Townsend…they are all there. Best of all…it’s totally cool and totally free!

Hot off the Paul Reed Smith News Line: After nearly four years of close collaboration with master amp designer Doug Sewell, PRS Guitars has introduced the highly anticipated PRS tube amp line.

“I met Doug Sewell at the Dallas International Guitar Show several years ago and needed an amp for that evening’s performance, so I borrowed one of his and was floored,” said Paul Smith. “We started working on this series and tried every conceivable component and circuit combination. Derek Trucks, David Grissom and several other known amp tone artists are now using this new amplifier line both live and in the studio. We’re pleased to be working with Doug and to have him leading the PRS amp team.”

Guitarists seeking classic British and American tones with what Doug Sewell calls “Texas attitude” will likely latch on to the Blue Sierra. With gain structured for equally great cleans to medium gain overdrive tones, the Blue Sierra works well with both single coils and humbuckers. Medium gain settings allow aggressive cleans to crunch easily and are controllable with pick attack.

Recalling ‘50’s American amps but with very wide gain structure, the Original Sewell model PRS amp provides expressive tone centering in the medium to medium high range. Tones are warm and harmonically rich giving an expressive quality to lead work. Smoothness is emphasized with sweet highs and tight lows surrounding a fat, warm midrange.

Austin, Texas, guitar ace and longtime Fender signature artist Eric Johnson is an A-list guitar hero, earning critical raves, commercial success and continuing slack-jawed audience astonishment.

Check out the blistering 25-minute concert Eric gave at NAMM 2009 to the few…lucky…attendees who crammed into the Fender booth…