AmpliTube Fender® guitar amp emulating software

Kahuna Kawentzmann – Official iLike Page

Model Airplane Filming San Onofre

Danelectro Hornets and Longhorn

Vincent Bell Designs at Danelectro

Today I googled for Vincent Bell’s name because I couldn’t believe Danelectro didn’t mention him in their promo for the Coral Hornet re-issue now called Dead-On-67. He designed those in the sixties along with several other classic and unique models like the Bellzouki (first electric 12-string) and the Coral Sitar (electric guitar with 12 bordun strings and a sitar bridge). Anyway, so I came across this great page by Moe Thomas for the first time. He says he’s a long time friend of Mr. Bell and when he visited the legendary guitar player’s basement he took pictures of the sheer mass of historic and unique guitars and prototypes – many built by Vinnie himself. He’s a very inventive guy thinking up things like the first wahwah or his trademark underwater sound as heard on Moon Gas and apparently various practices and machinery used in guitar manufacturing – all while making a living as one of the east coast’s busiest studio session men.

Here are links to some highlights of the collection:

• photo of Sitar prototypes
• the sitar-shaped Bellzouki as portrayed on the back of Joe Harnell’s Bossa Now! album
• Vinnie Bell’s personal 6-string bass (who knows how many records we have heard this one on?!!!)
• one of a kind Coral Scorpio-style 12-string Sitar (a dream instrument of mine)
• Vinnie Bell model Stratocaster as presented to him by Fender Musical Instruments (note straight bridge pick-up)
• the banjo he played on Louis Armstrong’s recording Hello Dolly
• the mandolin Bell played on The Godfather-soundtracks

also visit www.vinniebell.com

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Deke Dickerson’s Guitar Geek Festival

David Lee Roth With The Songsmith

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Famed Malibu beach is disappearing under rising sea

budget surfguitar / jazzmaster-copy

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• How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll
  An Alternative History of American Popular Music, by Elijah Wald
  (tags: Book Music Pop 1960s)
• No Holiday for Guitars Radio Show
  (tags: bell caiola groove guitar lounge mottola radio)
• The Shag Pile
  (tags: art easy exotica lo-bro lounge shag tiki)
• exotica – Twithority Search

1. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Let’s Go Trippin’
2. Beloved Invaders Movie
3. Marlow Stewart & The Illusions
4. Jon and the Nightriders – The Wedge
5. The Beatles – Cayenne
6. Los Siderals – Virgenes del Sol
7. Bob Denver – Ho Daddy!
8. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Spanish Kiss
9. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Misirlou
10. Glasgow Tiki Shakers – He Never Came Back
11. The Beach Boys – Surfin’
12. Kevin Strange – Lonely Surfer
13. Los Belkings – La Playa
14. Los Termits – Juarez
15. Meshugga Beach Party – Hava Nagila / Miserlou
16. Southern Culture On The Skids – Meximelt
17. The Del-Reys – Paradise Lost
18. The Renegades – Kahuna
19. Sharon Marie – Summertime
20. Summer 1964 Vintage Home Movie
21. The Astronauts – Firewater
22. The Atlantics – The Crusher
23. The Boardwalkers – Vasquez Rocks Again
24. The Surfites – Surfville
25. The Rockers – Pipeline