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Los Straitjackets, America’s #1 Instrumental Combo has become known as frequent collaborators, recording Sing Along With Los Straitjackets with a number of different artists. They were nominated for a Grammy Award for their collaboration with blues singer Eddy Clearwater, Rock ‘N’ Roll City. As time goes on, their stage shows have become more elaborate. Shows frequently feature choreography, guest vocalists such as Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Kaiser George of the Scottish band the Kaisers, Big Sandy, and burlesque dancing troupe The World Famous Pontani Sisters.

Jimmy Vivino here with Chris DiPinto. The Vivino Brothers, being well known by Late Night With Conan O’Brien fans as integral members of the Max Weinberg 7, front one of the most in-demand session bands in blues today.

Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950′s. Not the ’60′s as is commonly believed. He was given the title “King of the Surf Guitar” by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. Dick Dale is best known for writing the ultimate Surf guitar song “Miserlou” back in 1962 which was also used in the soundtrack of the movie Pulp Fiction. Nowadays the Godfather of Surf is still touring worldwide with his band and is still pleasing millions of fans.

DiPinto Guitars has created a new guitar for Rick Nielsen, the lead guitarist of the classic power pop/rock band CHEAP TRICK; a DiPINTO BELVEDERE Jr. with a graphic of late night TV host, STEVEN COLBERT on the front! Rick Nielsen and Chris DiPinto, owner of DiPinto Guitars, have worked together in the past. When it came time to make another guitar for Rick, Chris wanted to make something that fit the quiver of wild axes that Rick tours with. Since Cheap Trick wrote the theme song for Steven Colbert’s TV show The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, it seemed like the perfect image to affix to DiPintos latest model, the Belvedere Jr. Adding an image to a guitar is … [Read more here]

Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC’s late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and future host of The Tonight Show (2009)

Hip-hop star Li’l Wayne with his DiPinto Belvedere Deluxe guitar. The DiPinto seems to be his go-to guitar and he can be seen slinging it atop a semi converted into a limo in his hit video “Lick Me Like a Lollipop”.

Artist, Producer, Innovator, Performer, Arranger AND world class bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Roy Ayers, Erika Badu, Lauren Hill)

Bruce Gaitsch (born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is best known for working with notable musicians such as Chicago, Peter Cetera, Madonna, Agnetha Fältskog and many others as a session musician and songwriter. Gaitsch co-wrote the Madonna song “La Isla Bonita”, a single that reached number one on many international charts and earned Gaitsch an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1987.

Packing more rock savvy than most members of the alterna-rock Boy’s Club and more melody than her Riot Grrrl counterparts, the rhythms and riffs of Palmyra Delran’s songs stand out in the punk rock landscape. Wielding her guitar like a carving knife and using her voice as the most potent of spices, she sprinkles her music liberally with powerful rhythms and textures, garnishing it with sugary melodies and acerbic lyrics.

Noisettes (occasionally written as NOISEttes) are an indie rock band from London comprising singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith, and drummer Jamie Morrison.The band formed in 2003 when guitarist Smith and singer Shoniwa of the band Sonarfly began playing and writing together more often. The two met drummer Morrison (formerly of Living With Eating Disorders, Willis, Six Toes, Jaywalk Buzz and others) in December 2003 and played a number of gigs across London over the winter.They recorded their debut EP Three Moods of the Noisettes during this time, which was released in April 2005 on London indie label Side Salad Records. This led to signing internationally with Universal Music Group, who released the EP in the US on the Low Altitude imprint. Their next single, “Iwe” was released via the Transgressive label, followed by “Scratch Your Name” on Mercury/Side Salad Records; since then all releases have been on the Vertigo Records label.

Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3, Spectrum, and Experimental Audio Research (EAR). Pictured with his Galaxie 4 made in 2002 at our store on his 2009 US tour. More info on Peter Kember on

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