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Yngwie’s Seymour Duncan Pickup Arrives
Gawp! A week ahead of Winter NAMM 2010, a page has gone live on the Seymour Duncan website presenting Yngwie Malmsteen’s new pickup — his first with the company, after 25 years with its only major...
View ArticleYngwie Charity Pickups Reach eBay
A set of pickups wound by Yngwie Malmsteen on a post-NAMM visit to Seymour Duncan have been placed on eBay by the company, with the proceeds going to charity. These three true single coils are not to...
View ArticleThe Tone in your Head
On my travels I bumped into an article from Premier Guitar magazine, The Psychology of Tone. Though not, at this stage (this is the first of three parts) hugely revelatory, it’s worthy in its attempt...
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Amber Malmsteen Naked. Exclamation mark.
You know, I never thought a headline here would have ‘naked’ in it, but the world is an unpredictable place. Testament to that, the woman who accused Yngwie Malmsteen of being a sexual sadist now works...
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Gary Moore Gone
News this morning of Gary Moore’s death in a Spanish hotel room gave me a jolt. His simple, sequential, yet heart-wrenching riff for Parisienne Walkways was the first coherent, recognizable tune I was...
View ArticleJim Marshall Dies
News isn’t normally the Pick Roar thing. But to wake up and learn that Jim Marshall has died today, aged 88, seems so relevant to the tone-chasing and larger guitar world that it could not go by...
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Troy Grady is back to save or rob us
When I first encountered Troy Grady, he was putting together a guitar technique tutorial DVD unlike any other. Aided by a fretboard-mounted slow-motion camera and a keen eye for minutiae, he had...
View ArticlePick Attack: The Guitar Podcast
Hear myself and shred nut Steve Whoriskey ramble on about various guitar-related topics in Pick Roar’s sister podcast, Pick Attack. Let us know if you could stomach another one.
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