The Marshall Fridge

Marshall Amps just got a whole lot cooler!

Introducing the brand new Marshall Fridge!

The Marshall Fridge “Web Store” will be opening soon.

According to the site, they are busy preparing to take (what is likely to be) an onslaught of orders very soon at the special introductory price of $299.00 USD.

The estimated ship date for the product is October 01, 2012.

Visit the Marshall Fridge Web Site for more info and to get in line…

I gotta say, this is one of the COOLEST things I have EVER seen!

I am in line for mine!

-GuitarDaddy

Here is what some famous players had to say about the guitar:

“My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”
- Joan Jett

“If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
- Keith Richards

“So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.”
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”
- Andre Segovia

“I went to my friend’s house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I’m in love.”
- Ace Frehley

“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.”
- Stevie Nicks

“I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”
- James Taylor

“I don’t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.”
- Jeff Beck

“I’m singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That’s what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.”
- John Mayer

“I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.”
- Eric Clapton

“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.”
- Jimi Hendrix

“I’m not good enough to be playin’ much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.”
- Johnny Winter

“I’ve looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I’m in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.”
- Neil Diamond

“I’m pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don’t use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.”
- Brian May

“As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It’s not a style that’s difficult to pick up. It’s purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.”
- Boz Scaggs

“Recording is God’s way of telling you that you suck.”
- Bob Brozman

“Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women.”
- Glenn Frey

Amen, Glenn!
-GuitarDaddy

Seymour Duncan's Secret Room

The Secret Room is a website where players will have access to a vast repository of tips, tricks, and techniques — the kind of “secrets” that some musicians jealously protect. But before being admitted to this password-protected site, visitors must contribute one of their own tone secrets — the kind of hard-won musical wisdom that is almost too good to share.

Once players submit a secret, they get access to all the other exclusive secrets. They can also comment on the secrets and rate them.

Click the link below to submit your tone secret and to discover a world of the best kept secrets:

Take me to “The Secret Room”…

Fender Guitars

Fender Musical Instruments Corp., the maker of legendary guitars strummed by the likes of Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, filed papers Thursday for a $200 million initial public offering.

Founded in 1946 by Leo Fender, the company created the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars in the 1950s.

The “Strat,” a favorite of Hendrix and scores of others, went on sale in 1954. It had a sturdy, all-wood body that could stand up to repeated abuse, making it popular in the rock and roll world.

“The Fender brand in particular is closely associated with the birth of rock `n roll and has a strong legacy in music and in popular culture,” the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In its filing with the SEC, Fender said it’s the country’s biggest seller of electric, acoustic and bass guitars. It also makes amplifiers and other instruments including banjos, ukuleles and mandolins, and sells instruments under other brands such as Squier, Jackson, Guild, Ovation and Latin Percussion.

The classic Strat and Telecaster models are still made today, with prices ranging from a couple hundred dollars for a basic model to several thousand dollars for high-end and custom versions.

Fender went through several owners before making its push to the public markets. In 1965, Leo Fender sold the company to broadcaster CBS Inc., which sold it to an investor group 20 years later.

Private equity firm Weston Presidio now owns 43 percent of Fender. Fender’s distributor in Japan, Yamano Music, holds the No. 2 stake with 14 percent of the company.

Launching the IPO will help Fender pay down its debt load of $246.2 million. Fender said it plans to use about $100 million of the IPO’s proceeds to repay debt, with money left over for working capital.

With sales in 85 countries, Fender said revenue could get a boost from growing interest in guitar-based music from emerging markets like China, India and Indonesia. But it warned that increasing popularity of other types of music, such as rap or house, could hurt demand for its guitars.

Guitars and amps make up nearly three-quarters of its sales.

In recent years, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company’s guitars have been used by musicians from Bruno Mars to Shakira.

The company plans to trade the shares under the “FNDR” symbol on the Nasdaq, but didn’t say when. It did not lay out how many shares the company and its shareholders intend to sell or set a price target on its stock. The final offering may differ from the $200 million in Thursday’s filing as the IPO’s bankers gauge investor demand for Fender shares.

With the overall stock market now trending up, the conditions for an IPO are improving and investors are looking upon the offerings more favorably. In recent weeks, several companies, mostly in the technology and Internet sector, have made splashes in their Wall Street debuts.

Fender said it posted net income attributable to common stockholders of $3.2 million in 2011, from a net loss of $17.3 million the year before. Revenue grew 13 percent to $700.6 million from $617.8 million.

J.P. Morgan and William Blair are managing the IPO.

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Valentine Guitar Duet MousePad

It’s. Simple.

It’s inexpensive.

You can click on the picture and order one.

Give your Valentine Guitar Player a gift they will see, and use, every day.

The Valentine Duet MousePad is available from Zazzle.com.

In the age of the Internet, if you can dream it or imagine it…you will probably find it online!

I’m sure you do too.

One magazine I look forward to receiving is “Fretboard Journal“. It’s not your traditional axe-stuff… there’s no tab, no CD or DVD reviews, no stomp-box wiring layouts, very minimal advertising and rarely anything that would appeal to a metal-head or cover band.

Yet, I look forward to receiving it…(and I thank my in-laws for the holiday gift-subscription!)

Recently, Fretboard Journal published the ultimate guitar player’s “Bucket-List”. What’s a “Bucket List?” Well, without seeing the movie… it’s that list of things you absolutely have to do before you kick the bucket… The list includes ninety-nine things that the staff of the Fretboard Journal thought every guitarist should do before they die.

I will re-publish 10 of the items (below) and link to the FULL LIST HERE.

1. Play a real ’59 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
2. Join an online guitar forum.
3. Get into an argument with someone on an online guitar forum.
4. Get invited upstairs at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee to see the good stuff.
5. Fire a drummer.
6. Take a factory tour at C.F. Martin & Co in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
7. Have at least two quotes from This is Spinal Tap committed to memory.
8. Attend Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival.
9. Host a house concert.
10. Play “Eight Miles High” on a Rickenbacker 12-string

 
So… How many of these have you done? And what do you think is missing from the full list?

The NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) is an annual trade show in sunny California. The show is attended by invitation only and I have been invited as a member of the press to cover the event and new product announcements.

Hundreds, make that thousands, of music manufacturers will be represented promoting their current and new products.

While the show is all about music, including all instruments in all genres… guitars always seem to dominate the floor space. I’m all about that! Of course, I won’t be able to tweet them all but I will tweet what I believe are the cool “BUZZ-worthy” stories and products that you may want to check out.

You can follow me at http://Twitter.com/TheGuitarBuzz.

Slash Made in Stoke CD-DVD Holiday Giveaway

Congratulationsto the following people who made comments about Slash and were entered into the CD/DVD Giveaway contest!

THE WINNERS ARE:

The winners of SLASH “Made in Stoke” CD’s are:

1) David Vaughan
2) Greg Bodish
3) Andrew

THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the SLASH “Made in Stoke” Deluxe Edition CD/DVD:

* Luke *

The above winners will be contacted at the email address associated with their comment to provide mailing address information. Thanks to everyone who made a comment in the contest and Happy Holidays to all readers of TheGuitarBuzz.com!

Happy Holidays from TheGuitarBuzz.com!

Wishing everyone a wonderful Holiday Season and a prosperous 2012!

May all of your Guitar-Related Goals, Dreams and Desires come true in the coming NEW YEAR!

-GuitarDaddy