THE SOUND OF SURPRISE: TOMORROWS GUITARS & AMPS ON TODAYS PAGES AT YESTERDAYS PRICES
Once a year all the people who make and sell guitars, amplifiers, and related musical equipment get together to display their product lines, engage in a bit of communal chit-chat, and, hopefully, take a few orders. This year's NAMM Expo at Houston's Astrodome is no exception.
THE SOUND OF SURPRISE: TOMORROWS GUITARS & AMPS ON TODAYS PAGES AT YESTERDAYS PRICES
A Musicians Guide
PLAY IT LOUD
Guitar Arnie
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Once a year all the people who make and sell guitars, amplifiers, and related musical equipment get together to display their product lines, engage in a bit of communal chit-chat, and, hopefully, take a few orders. This year's NAMM Expo at Houston's Astrodome is no exception. To celebrate the ongoing business of guitars and amps, whichis so much a part of the business of rock music, this month's column is more of a minisupplement, a progress report on some of the new products that the manufacturers are unveiling in Houston and recent products 'which are already on their way to your local music store.
Fender (Fender Musical Instruments, 1300 East Valencia Drive, Fullerton, California, 92631) often seems to get slighted when folks start talking about musical instruments. Everyone remembers their fine electric guitars, electric basses, guitar and bass amplifiers, and even their strings. But their accessories! One is a new fuzz-wah pedal which offers an amazing variety of sounds with the controls set so that wah, volume, and fuzz attack are continuously variable.