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Robert Plant's guitar up for grabs

Try, Try Again: A Guitarist's Second Time Around: Glenn Kurtz returns to the guitar years after quitting and documents his progress in a new book.

The top 10 guitar solos: John Perry, guitarist of The Only Ones, discusses what makes a good guitar solo and chooses his own top 10 favourites solos. Full marks for originality and not going for the obvious!

Godin Improve Guitar Tone: High-Definition Revoicer to be included in selected guitars. The system is said to be like having two sets of pickups in one Godin guitar.

As a big fan of the TV series American Chopper featuring the custom bike builders of Orange County Choppers, I was excited to hear that the Teutul family and the OCC crew have teamed up with Peavey to produce this curious offspring - the Peavey limited edition Orange County Choppers guitar - of which there will be just 100 built.

OCC in turn have built a Peavey-themed bike, featuring an on-board guitar amp, which will be the subject of two forthcoming episodes of the TV series.

Actually, this will not be the first bike with integrated musical gear that we've seen in American Chopper. I'm thinking of the "joke" moped that Mikey unveiled for Billy Joel who was expecting to see his dream motorcycle. It featured hideous piano-key graphics and had an old Casio keyboard attached to the handlebars, and a mic so he could sing along whilst riding!

This exceedingly ugly guitar, a one-off from the ESP Custom Shop (known for their, quite frankly, barking designs) belonging to Japanese actor/musician Kyomoto Masaki includes the ultimate guitarist's accessory, for cunningly concealed within the guitar's body lies a samurai sword! Just what every guitarist needs! Why he couldn't be satisfied with a couple of Allen keys, I'll never know.
(Via Guitar Noize)

Van Halen reunite with Dave Lee Roth