Recent Blogs

The Return Of The King

Posted By: dustin hinz

Jul 1, 2009

Guitar Center is pleased to announce the return of King of the Blues, the nationwide search for the next great undiscovered blues guitar player. With sign-ups launching today, July 1, Guitar Center’s King of the Blues will feature competitions in over 200 Guitar Center locations across the country, culminating with the Grand Finals in Los [...]

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Dinner With Hubert Sumlin

Posted By: Norman Hajjar

Jun 29, 2009

Last Friday night, Dustin Hinz and I had a wonderful dinner with blues legend, 77 year-old Hubert Sumlin, and his manager Toni Ann Mamary. Hubert was the grinding, burning force behind Howlin’ Wolf’s band for decades, playing on all their seminal Chess recordings like Back Door Man, I Ain’t Superstitious, Killing Floor, Red Rooster, Smokestack [...]

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Zacky and Synyster’s Twin-Guitar Alchemy

Posted By: dustin hinz

Jun 19, 2009

On an ordinary night, this quiet guitar-lined space would be the acoustic room at Guitar Center Fountain Valley, deep in the heart of Southern California’s fabled Orange County. But tonight this is “Bat Country“, and the room indisputably belongs to two dark-haired, tattooed guitar slingers known to their legion of adoring fans as Synyster Gates [...]

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The Axesmith: Adjusting your Truss Rod

Posted By: Sammy Moir

Jun 9, 2009

Someone once asked me… “What’s that little hole on your headstock for?” I replied in my best mysterious ghost story voice, “Well you see… guitars play best when finely tuned like formula one race cars. They have all sorts of screws and parts to adjust… and THAT little hole is where you make the scariest [...]

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