By David Gedge
THE "YAR" GUITAR
goal by incorporating Johnny's tattoos onto
the guitars was truly to make this not only a
piece of art, but a great guitar in the
Duesenberg tradition. Ingo Renner and
Dieter Gölsdorf (co-owners Duesenberg
Hanover Germany), had the task of building
and designing an iconic guitar for one of the
most recognizable actors in the world – with
the key being to build a
guitar we all would want
to play - and we feel that
we have done just that."
Material specs and
pricing were not available
at press time, but expect
both price and finish to be
in the "upper bracket."
www.duesenbergusa.com
HAL LEONARD
History of Marshall:
The First Fifty Years
DUSENBERG USA GUITARS
Johnny Depp Signature Guitar
German-born
(with
US
offices)
Duesenberg USA Guitars will release their
limited Johnny Depp Signature guitar this
month with only 52 of the hand- signed guitars available worldwide. The award winning
actor, who has made his name playing Jack
Sparrow in Pirates Of The Carribean and John
Dillinger in Public Enemies, will receive this
collectors guitar with the specs and sound
which Duesenberg is famous for , most
notably with its current Joe Walsh (Eagles)
guitar and its Mike Campbell (Tom Petty)
guitars, as well as a number of features which
are new to the Duesenberg tradition.
A Depp production version will be
released later this year for civilian guitarists
on more modest budgets, with a portion of
the proceeds going to Johnny's charities.
In a company press release Nathan
Fawley of Duesenberg told the press: "In
working with Johnny on this project, which
took over one full year, we wanted to do
something that was about Johnny on a personal level, and if there's anything that tells
Johnny's life story, it's his tattoos. Each one
symbolizes a significant event in his life. Our
Twenty years after
Michael Doyle’s last
Marshall book, The History
Of Marshall, published
(1993), Hal Leonard has
released The First Fifty
Years, an updated and
revised edition that comes
with the additional insight and deep
Marshall knowledge of co-author Nick
Bowcott.
From its humble origins in the back of a
small music store in London, Marshall
Amplification grew to become the gear company that has defined the sound of rock for
generations of guitarists. The History of
Marshall: The First Fifty Years tells the story of
Jim Marshall’s remarkable life and documents the many innovations of Marshall
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