The Year Two Thousand and ???
Happy New Year!  Still waiting for the world to catch up? 2009 has become VERY 'last decade.'  Gone and largely forgotten.  Making 2010 a good one. - Gary

20 Tips
20 Tips For Better Phrasing. This article is only a tap into topic of phrasing. I will mention some of the options you have, and go deeper into them with other articles. [Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com]

Gibson Launches New Angus Young Signature SG

The Gibson Custom Shop is now offering its reproduction of one of the world’s most renowned SGs in the form of the Angus Young SG, a Limited Edition that captures the tone, look, and feel of this rare specimen among a classic breed, but which updates this legendary guitar with custom modifications requested by Angus himself. 

http://www.guitarworld.com/gibson_new_angus_young_signature_sg_line

Modal Pentatonics 101
Mood:  chillin'
Modal Pentatonics 101. Making the most of what you probably already know about pentatonic scales.

[Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com]

Ritchie Blackmore
The History Of: Ritchie Blackmore. A detailed look at the life of iconic rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as of 2009. [Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com]

Guitar Knowledge

Guitar crack.

Guitar chord progression generator.

Guitar chord charts. Have fun!

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So Let's Talk Vibrato
How To Get A Killer Vibrato. At some point we all ask ourselves: " Okay, I'm playing the same notes as this guitar player, but why does he sound so much better than me?! " Well, most people I think would assume that he sounds better because of all his expensive equipment, but this is not truth. [Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com]

Tube City
Inside Electro-Harmonix.

 

The 2009 Edition
Now Playing: The Rock

I'm rehabilitating an Alvarez acoustic guitar that a friend gave to me.  It now has a home and will sing again.  This year is coming to a close and many of us are now dreaming of the not-too-distant future. 

G.S. Guitar and Music has infequent posts, but it doesn't take much to have the RSS subscription active in a newsreader for updates.  It also transfers data through to Soulcircuit.

Mediaburn gets more traffic of course.  There's something about its e-zine sensibility that I love.  The early web style reflects a time of incredible growth, freedom, expression and optimism on the internet.  Many of the digital era's promises have yet to be fulfilled.  Something great has been preserved in the Mediaburn.net DIY aesthetic. Is it the notion of "Promise"?

There will be a redesigned Mediaburn.net site down the road, but I think our scrappy design which heralded and brought widespread change will also continue to run on the web for a while.

What has been called "Web 2.0" in recent years brought us a little closer to the dream. We will have to travel onward because I'm not totally satisfied.  And yes, perhaps 2009 will actually have more "music" on this site, called, uh... G.S. Guitar and Music!   It's been a long but very enjoyable road so far.  See you in '09.