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Valentine’s Day Interesting news on Valentine’s Day this year provided the perfect cue, to finally kick off a blog post again. Italian car maker Lancia unveiled its new electric “Ypsilon” model. It’s great to have Lancia, a brand steeped in … Continued
“Honey, I shrunk the guitar amp!” It wouldn’t really have surprised me if someone would have said that, when I first checked out this little Italian guitar amp. It reminded me a lot of a miniature version of the Gretsch … Continued
What’s your first association with the name Gretsch? Maybe the Stray Cats megahit “Rock this Town”? Or a Gretsch-slinging guitar hero, like Chet Atkins or Malcolm Young? Iconic axes like the White Falcon or the 6120 Western Orange? Lots of … Continued
Classic Cars At the moment, I am living a life without classic cars. Turned to guitars and amplifiers instead. Except that… I am still a frantic watcher of TV programs like Fantomworks, Wheeler Dealers and Chasing Classic Cars! They allow … Continued
Who’s looking better now? We go way back, me and the little superstrat. It has been more than 25 years that we met each other… we both look different now. Although it would be tempting to tell you that … Continued
A Harley Benton® GA15 in the spotlights? It seems like a bit of a mistake: our previous posts dealt with cool 1960s amplifiers and guitars, made in the USA or Italy. How on earth does a dirt-cheap Chinese made … Continued
Image credit: Reynolds Buick GMC Isuzu, West Covina, California. What’s in a name? Ah the Gibson Skylark… could there be a guitar amplifier with a sweeter name? It conjures images of songbirds, flying in blue skies above green meadows; … Continued
The guitar shop It was love at first sight. A romantic weekend in one of my favorite cities in the North of the Netherlands, strolling through little downtown streets with no other aim than just casually strolling through them. … Continued