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The Story Behind The Epiphone Left Handed Guitars

February 11, 2010 by Chris

Epiphone left hand guitars have been for many years a way musicians start their music career. These LH guitars are a great value for many reasons. The workmanship is great and the quality rivals that of the original Gibson models. The price is attainable for just about any music lover.

Founded in 1873 by Greek luthier Anastasios Stathopoulos, the Epiphone guitar Company was manufacturing guitars for a while before succumbing to economic pressures during World War 2. Gibson at that time, was able to simply acquire the fledgling company. Today, Gibson still manufactures instruments under the name Epiphone.

Epiphone and Gibson

Prior to the acquisition by Gibson, Epiphone left and right guitars were a rival to Gibson. The sound quality was magnificent, the materials were the same and the electronics were just as superior. If Epiphone had not been absorbed by Gibson, I am sure the company would have either rivaled or bypassed Gibson eventually.

A good instrument can be hard to find, when it comes to a guitar lefty. Only more affordable in many cases, Epiphone left hand guitars are every bit as good as a Gibson. The controls and knobs to be oriented the same for a right hand guitar which is important. Epiphone LH guitars provide this detail nicely. So if you are a left hand player you dont need to use a right hand guitar with the strings and bridge reversed and the controls backwards.

Casino Hollow Body

One of the most famous Epiphone left hand guitars is the left handed Casino hollow body. This beauty looks like a Gretsch and was responsible for the Beatles famous sound in the 1960’s. The Beatles bought three Casinos and used them to record and play live shows as they toured. Obviously, the Epiphone left hand guitar was good enough for Paul McCartney.

I personally own an Epiphone Les Paul and it gives me great  pleasure to play live and in astudio. This is another well known Epiphone left hand guitar. I can used it for jazz, blues and even classical tracks. Besides that, I can crank the volume on the pickups and jam away with the metal heads.

Epiphone left hand guitars are an investment that you can  trust. There is a  web site that focuses on guitar lefty players. These folks know left hand guitars and left hand electric guitars. The site has a selection of instruments available and you can look up their different left hand instruments.

So if you are looking for an Epiphone left handed guitar, get on over to lefthandedguitarmall  as soon as possible. You will not find a more guitar lefty focused site anywhere and they really care about left hand players finding the right guitar. An Epiphone left hand guitar is the way to start off that career, especially for those on a budget and can’t quite afford that Gold Top LP just yet. Epiphone means quality and quality means a happy player.




Filed Under: Guitars, Instruments, Music Tagged With: Acoustic left, Acoustic left handed, electric guitar left, epiphone le, left bass guitar, Les paul left

I agree with a few of the Grammy awards, but others – not so much

February 3, 2010 by Chris

This years’ Grammy Awards were ok I guess, if your into that kinda thing. I did not watch or tape this event so I’m not sure how it went. The awards going to Neil Young and Leonard Cohen was nice to see though.

The one person who did not make an appearance was none other then Kanye West. What that guy did last year at the VMA awards was truly unbelievable. Imagine what was going through Taylor Swift’s mind when that happened. Not that I am a fan of her music, but still I really feel for her! I don’t mind a little bit of today’s modern country music, I’m more from the old school guy. Acts like Johnny cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are more to my liking!

Kings of Leon, won the album of the year with Use Somebody. These guys, I like. Funk Joint by Marcus Miller should have won Best Pop Instrumental Performance, that tune is great! Besame Mucho by Herb Alpert was 2nd on my list for this category.

I really like the winner for Best Pop Instrumental Album. It went to Booker T. Jones Potato Hole! You can’t go wrong with anything that a keyboardist using a Hammond B-3 with a Leslie amp does. Actually everyone that was nominated for this award was worthy of it. Chris Botti, Hiroshima, The Rippingtons Featuring Russ Freeman and my favorite instrumental band for 20 years or more Spyro Gyra!

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance went to Bruce Springsteen. I saw this guy in Toronto a couple of years ago with my favorite brother in law Steve and I just didn’t enjoy the band. Sure some of his classic tunes will be around forever, but the only aspect of the band/show that earned my respect was the drummer! He literally ran the whole band, if it wasn’t for him that night I think the band would of been completely lost.

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals had lots of talent to choose from! Ultimately it went to Kings of Leon. What did you think about this one?

In the category of Best Hard Rock Performance, ACDC walked away with it. There wasn’t all that much there that interested me. Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit older now and tired of Hard Rock bands that would rather blow your head off then entertain me. Did I really write that down?!

Judas Priest, a favorite band my buddies Steve and Johnny from Gemini, took control of the Best Metal Performance class of 2010. Lamb of God should have honourable mention here kidz! I realize that Lamb of God is a loud band, but they’re really neat to listen to.

As for the rest of the awards, most are not all that appealing to me. Anyone out there feeling the same as I do?

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Entertainment, Music, Musicians, Television, Video Tagged With: 2010, 2010 grammy awards, ACDC, Album of the year, Best Hard Rock, Best Pop Instrumental, Best Rock Performance, Best Solo Rock Vocal, Booker T Jones, country, grammy awards, hard rock, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Leonard Cohen, neil young, pop, Springsteen, Taylor Swift

The Fender Phone from T-Mobile, that’s what I’m calling it!

January 24, 2010 by Chris

I found the new T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Phone quite the novelty item. Hum, not sure though if I’d go running out there to get one. I realize that it is a limited edition (I’m sure they’ll make more) but if I was a real super fan of Eric Clapton then I’d bite.

We were watching the final episode of The Tonight show with Conan O’Brien that we taped on our PVR (TVO) last night and this ad came up talking about this product. With Eric Clapton and a wall of Fender Stratocasters behind him, hell ya, that got my attention real fast!

The thing that honestly grabbed my curiosity was an application for the phone showing the strings of a Fender guitar, I assume, and Eric strumming it, ha genius!

For the life of me I don’t know what you’d use this for? Is this app created just for it’s novelty or is it intended for tuning your guitar if the battery on your guitar tuner is dead? If so then they might be onto something here folks.

Fender will also be coming up with it’s own apps for it later on. If anyone out there knows of any apps for phones that Fender has done in the past then please tell us! I don’t have a phone that uses apps, I use it for calling people that’s it!

The look of it fascinates me. The Faux Wood’s fiery grain pattern to it, just like the one that a vintage Fender guitar has is always a smart way to go for that classy appearance. It comes loaded with some of Eric Clapton’s tunes on it, which ones I can’t say. The phone holds a 16GB microSD card in it as well. Just like in the past I can hear some people saying what the hell do you need a 16GB card in a cell phone for anyway?! That’s similar to what Bill Gates said about 4 MB of RAM that came installed in the early 80’s computers I believe?

So has anyone out there picked one of these bad boys up? If you do have one these phones then what other apps come with it and which other ones did you but to use that is guitar oriented?

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Electronics, Entertainment, Technology, Web and Technology Tagged With: 3G, cell phone, Conan OBrien, eric clapton, myTouch, t mobile, The Tonight show

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