2010

August 2010
8/6/10 Modifying Guitars ~ A Survey
8/13/10 Survey Says ... !
8/20/10 Paul McCartney Still Rocks!

July 2010
7/9/10 More Than Meets the Eye
7/16/10 An Interesting Week
7/23/10 A Sweet Time to be Alive
7/30/10 Bucky Pizzarelli

June 2010
6/4/10 Gone Fishin'
6/11/10 Delivery vs. Content
6/18/10 That Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
6/25/10 Mistakes on Records

May 2010
5/7/10 Left-Handed vs. Right-Handed
5/20/10 Benefits of Playing the Guitar
5/27/10 Happy Memorial Day

April 2010
4/2/10 Guitar Modifications and the Gibson ES-295
4/9/10 Folk Singers Turned Rock-n-Rollers
4/16/10 Leiber & Stoller, and Songwriter Royalties
4/23/10
Miscellaneous Miscellany.
Emails to the Email.
Rambling Fever...
4/30/10 Dressing The Part

March 2010
3/5/10 Retroactive Naming
3/12/10 More on Retroactive Naming
3/19/10 A Good Time to be Alive

February 2010
2/5/10 More From NAMM
2/12/10 What a Week!
2/19/10 What I Have Learned From TV
2/26/10 Catching Up on Things

January 2010
1/8/10 Welcome to Twenty-Ten
1/15/10 Reflections on a Gretsch Tennessean
1/22/10 Coincidences in the New Year
1/29/10 The NAMM Show, and a Shoot Out!

 

 

2009

December `09
12/4/09 The Gibson "Thin-Line" Series
12/11/09 Big Bands, Brass Bands, and Songs of the Seasons
12/18/09 End-of-the-Year Wrap Up

November `09
11/13/09 Every Day is Like Christmas!
11/20/09 The Fender Antiguas!
11/25/09 Happy Thanksgiving and Weekend Specials

October `09
10/2/09 The strangest thing that ever happened to me...
10/9/09 The Fender No-caster
10/16/09 Dancing, Billy Preston, and PA Columns
10/23/09 Peaches & Herb ~ The Internet and The Box

September `09
9/4/09 Hit Records, Old & New
09/11/09 Gibson's 100% 3/4 Size Guitars
9/18/09 Catching Up on Loose Ends
9/25/09 The Love Hope Strength Foundation

August `09
8/7/09 Catalog Company Guitars
8/14/09 Les Paul
8/21/09 Pre-WWII Electric Guitars
8/28/09 "Junior" Guitars

July `09
7/2/09 Reel-to-Reel Tapes
7/17/09 Time
7/24/09 Modified Guitars, and Gravel
7/31/09 Summer NAMM

June `09
6/5/09 Big Beatle Show Pictures & The Meaning of Life
6/12/09 Building Vocabulary Through Music
6/19/09 Excess Inventory
6/26/09 12-String Electrics... Tom Petty... and Last Week's Email

May `09
5/1/09 Pittsburgh Guitars Strings, Hagstom Guitars, and Our 30th Anniversary!
5/8/09 Tenor Guitars
5/15/2009 Rock & Roll and British Invasion Bands
5/21/2009 Gibson Electric Basses
5/29/2009 ~ Big Beatle Show #6 and The Pittsburgh Guitars Theme Song!

April `09
4/3/09 Tax Time (and "The Village Green Preservation Society")
4/10/09 An Interesting Week
4/17/09 Songs We Know
4/24/09 More Songs We Know

March `09
3/6/09 A Contest!
3/13/09 The Answers!
3/20/09 A Phone Call From Iceland
3/27/09 The Hofner Club Guitar

February `09
2/6/09 Paul A. Bigsby
2/13/09 Ukuleles & Our 30th Anniversary
2/20/09 Cover Songs
2/27/09 We Get Letters

January `09
1/9/09 Early Electric/Acoustics
1/16/09 Danelectro Basses & NRBQ!
1/23/09 Musings on The NAMM Show, The Yardbirds, & Why We're Here...
1./30/09 Relic'd Guitars and The Fender Body Guard
 

 

2008

December `08
12/05/08 The Outsiders
12/12/08 The Baldwin Virginian!
12/19/08 Merry Christmas!

 November `08
11/07/08 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
11/14/08 The Fender Jaguar
11/21/08 Pictures of Unusual Guitars

October `08
10/3/08 Guitars & Amps From The Same Manufacturer
10/10/08 Rock & Roll Bands
10/17/08 Gibson Melody Maker
10/24/08 Otis, My Man!
10/31/08 A Halloween Video!

September `08
9/5/08 A Pittsburgh Guitars Theme Song!
9/12/08 Sound Waves and Modeling Amps
9/19/08 Discontinued Island
9/26/08 Kustom Amps

August `08
8/1/08 The 1966 Gibson Catalog
8/8/08 A Mystery Solved!
8/15/22 Logo Cover-Ups
8/22/08 I'm A Believer
8/29/08 Songwriters
 

July `08
7/11/08 Fast Singing Songs
7/18/08 More On Fast Songs
7/25/08 What Model Is That Guitar In The Window?

 June `08
6/6/08 Guitar Relations
6/13/08 Predicting The Future
6/20/08 The Golf Outing
6/27/08 Golfing, Vince Gill, and The NAMM Show

May `08
5/2/08 It's Never Too Late to Learn How to Play the Guitar!
5/9/08 Martin Electric Guitars
5/16/08 Our 29th Anniversary!
5/22/08 Happy Memorial Day!
5/29/08 Organizing Your Records

April `08
4/4/08 Contest Entries
4/11/08 The Futurama vs. The Duo Jet
4/18/08 1979... and the L6-S
4/25/08 1974... and How We Got Here

March `08
3/7/08 Switches
3/14 Rock & Roll
3/21/08 Guitars-From-
My-Favorite-Pittsburgh-
Musicians Closet
3/28/08 Rickenbacker's 5th Knob

Feburary `08
2/1/08 New Stuff From NAMM, By Carl
2/8/08 Learning As You Go
2/15/08 Beatles-Related Tidbits
2/22/08 Rickenbackers
2/29/08 "That Thing You Do!"

January `08
1/4/08 Rockin' New Year's Eve
1/15/08 The Johnny Cash TV Show
1/25/08 The NAMM Show
 

 

2007

December '07
12/2/07 Last Year's Favor & Humidifiers
12/14/07 Friends & Family
12/21/07 Merry Christmas

November '07
11/2/07 Night of theSinging Dead
11/9/07 Guitars on TV
11/21/07 How Stephen Colbert Ruined My Birthday

October '07
10/5/07 Baritone Guitars, Night of the Singing Dead, and a new idea
10/12/07 The Launch of Carl's Guitar Corner!
10/19/07 The Lap Steel
10/26/07 Night of the SingingDead!

September `07
9/7/07 The "Old-Guys-Rock Show"
9/14/07 Broken Headstocks
9/21/07 Hagstrom Guitars
9/28/07 Coincidences

August '07
8/3/07 GRTIBs
8/10/07 The Gibson SG
8/17/07 Feedback
8/24/07 Hofner Basses, Old and New
8/30/2007 ~ The new Hofner Contemporary Bass

July '07
7/6/07 "Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay"
7/20/07 Plastic Case Hinges

June '07
6/1/07 The Fender Pbass
6/8/07 New Zealand, and Things Made in China
6/15/07 Father's Day
6/22/07 The Gretsch Bikini Bass
6/29/07 Traveling

May '07
5/18/07 The Big Beatles Show and Anniversary Plans
5/24/07 "You don't know what you don't know."

April '07
4/6/07 Grand Opening Weekend
4/13/07 Steve Martin, King Tut, and the Gretsch Duo Jet
4/20/07 Hit Songs Inspired by Other Hit Songs
4/27/07 Gibson Archtop Guitars

March '07
3/2/07 Vox Amps
3/9/07 Guild Guitars
3/16/07 "Mistakes" in Songs
3/30/07 Things I Grew Up With

February '07
2/2/07 NAMM Part 2
2/9/07 One-Pickup Guitars
2/16/07 Pickup Construction

January '07
1/5/07 Micro Frets Guitars
1/12/07 Chet Atkins and Gretsch Guitars
1/19/07 Army of Anyone, and Pittsburgh Guitars on YouTube
1/24/07 NAMM Part 1
 

 

2006

December '06
12/1/06 The new building
12/4/06 New building specials
12/8/06 More new building specials
12/15/06 The red ceiling

November '06
11/3/06 Tell folks we're moving!
11/10/06 The Flea Bass, Eric Clapton Strat and Martin
11/21/06 We're moving, plus Big Beatle Show #2

October '06
10/6/06 Jet and Falsetto
10/13/06 "The Girl Can't Help It"
10/20/06 Sitcom Garage Bands
10/27/06 Night Of The Singing Dead, Part 14

September '06
9/8/06 Two Epiphone archtops from 1951
9/15/06 Mark Chatfield, The Godz & Bob Seger
9/22/06 More From Iceland
9/29/06 A joke

August '06
8/4/06 Myspace
8/11/06 Vox Super Beatles
8/18/06 12-strings and folk music
8/25/06 Fleetwood Mac, The Vogues and More

July '06
7/7/06 Les Pauls in the 1950s
7/14/06 Kenny Aronoff, Marty Stuart and Korel
7/21/06 Great bass songs, great driving songs, great turn it up loud songs
7/28/06 More!

June '06
6/2/06 The Antigua Pickguard Story
6/9/06 More of The Antigua Pickguard Story
6/16/06 Iceland
6/23/06 Richard Starkey & The Martin Clinic

May '06
5/12/06 Radio, the Coral Sitar & Vinnie Bell

April '06
4/7/06 Famous bands with Replacement Members
4/21/06 Memories
4/28/06 Martin and The Dreadnought

March `06
3/3/06 "You Are My Sunshine"
3/10/06 TV Commercial
3/17/06 Neco Case, Tenor banjos, Tenor Guitars
3/24/06 Stephen Colbert Plays Guitar
3/31/06 Guitars I Wish I had Back

February `06
2/4/06 NAMM
2/17/06 New from NAMM!

January `06
1/9/06 CBGBs
1/13/06 12-strings, the Fender Maverick & Custom
1/20/06 Guitars on TV need a gig bag!
1/28/06 Little Richard "Keep A Knockin'"
 

 

2005

December 2005
12/2/05 House too dry
12/16/05 New for Christmas

November 2005
11/4/50 Les Paul Junior
11/11/05 Satellite Radio
11/18/05 Guitars on the Country Music Awards

October 2005
10/7/05 Gibson bases, EB0, EB1, EB2, EB3
10/14/05 Modifying old guitars... before they were old
10/21/05 Dreaming of a Les Paul Sunburst
10/28/05 Night Of The Singing Dead, Part XIII

September 2005
9/2/05 Bending the index card signs
9/9/05 Hofner switches
9/16/05 Subtlety
9/23/05 "Original" Telecaster, free advice
9/30/05 Pronunciations, free advice part 2

August 2005
8/5/05 New from Fender, Martin, Gretsch, & Hofner
8/12/05 Duke Kramer & Gretsch
8/19/05 Beach Boys & old amps
8/26/05 The Rolling Stones leave out the bass in the first verse

July 2005
7/1/05 Song lyrics, Dave Clark Five, Kinks Van Hallen, quiz
7/8/05 Martins from the 1800s, quiz answer
7/15/05 Childhood inspiration
7/22/05 Don't rule out inexpensive guitars

June 2005
6/3/07 A letter from Martin, vintage paperwork
6/17/05 Hammer & nails

May 2005
5/20/05 Math question: What happened to the extra $1?
5/25/05 Should we buy a Martin archtop?

April 2005
4/1/05 Guitars on VH-1
4/15/05 Contract riders
4/22/05 Email recaps, Danelectro, Steppenwolf, Hofner
4/29/05 Times have changed

March 2005
3/4/05 Donovan, "Barabajagal," non-word titles
3/11/05 More non-word titles, "Radio Ga Ga"
3/18/05 Drum machines & the G-Dec
3/25/05 Leave some holes in the music

February 2005
2/4/05 Small companies, Gruven stands
2/11/05 Listening to music makes you feel better
2/18/05 Guitars on the Grammys

January 2005
1/7/05 Silvertone/Danelectro
1/14/05 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
1/21/05 Fire = good / dry guitar = bad
1/28/05 NAMM 2005 report & Mosrite Reissues
 

 

2004

December 2004
12/3/04 Maple necks, rosewood fingerboards, and the Vox Apollo bass
12/17/04 Click tracks and extraneous band members

November 2004
11/5/04 Distinctive playing styles and a contest
11/12/07 Contest results
11/19/04 Entertainment Weekly and rap music

October 2004
10/1/04 Bud Ross and Kustom amps
10/8/04 Album artwork, the EB-2
10/15/04 Changes
10/22/2004 ~ Mysterious coincidences
10/29/04 What's my guitar worth?

September 2004

August 2004

July 2004

 

We're still working on titles for the rest of the archives.... there are a lot of them!
 

 

2003

November 2003

October 2003

September 2003

August 2003

July 2003

June 2003

May 2003

April 2003

March 2003

February 2003

January 2003
 

 

2002

December 2002

November 2002

October 2002

September 2002

August 2002

July 2002

June 2002

May 2002

April 2002

March 2002

February 2002

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2001

December 2001

November 2001

October 2001

September 2001

August 2001

July 2001

February 2001

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2000

December Y2K

November Y2K

October Y2K

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1999

May 1999

April 1999

 

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