In June OPorto Sound Shock will once again be opening the doors for their music market in Portugal. Sound Shock is an event where musicians and music lovers can acquire, promote or trade musical matter & material. It happens inside an old market at Oporto’s historic city center. Music can be explored in different ways and one will always find something inspiring to take home.
Pedals With A Cause is the world´s first fundraising community for pedal manufacturers from all over the world, coming together and donating pedals for great causes. And Vintage & Rare is so proud to be a part of this!
The first auction being held, is a fundraiser for blues guitarist Walter Trout who is in urgent need of a liver transplant. We are very sad to hear about the condition of our dear friend and have decided to be a part of the Pedal With A Cause eBay auction, to raise funds for Walter in this critical time.
With the support of 17 pedal manufacturers from all over the world, we have now gathered 20 amazing pedals. All 20 pedals are being listed as one single auction! So here is your chance to grab 20 incredible pedals in one go and support a great cause.
Wow! Have you guys been planning your next holiday? Cause we here at Vintage & Rare sure have! We are going to Umeå. The university town in northern Sweden, has become the home of one of the world’s finest vintage guitar collections. The Museum house a live venue, a music store, a recording studio, a photo studio and a restaurant. Behind the great idea is brothers Samuel and Michael Åhdén. They have been collecting one of the world’s finest privately owned collection of guitars since the 1960’s. And now the whole world has a chance to see it. Go check out the exhibition of electric guitars, basses, amps and music accessories at ‘Guitars The Museum’in Umeå. We here at Vintage & Rare are definitely going to pay it a visit very soon!
In January 2014 we had the pleasure of shooting 2 performances with Rocco DeLuca at the house/studio of Daniel Lanois in Los Angeles, exclusively for VintageandRare.com
On the first video Rocco is performing his song “Through Fire”. On the 2nd video Rocco performs “Congregate”. Both songs are from Rocco´s forthcoming album.
Both performances was done on a very unique baritone lap steel (Rocco Deluca prototype) built by CA based masterluthier and V&R partner, Pavel Maslowiec aka Pavel Guitars.
Hi everybody, it has come to our attention that one of our friends was faced with a theft of instruments. If you come across them make sure to contact Vintage and Rare or Jean-Do Sallaberry at jean-do(at)jdsallaberry(dot)com or 59goldtop(at)orange(dot)fr.
You can also connect with him on www.jdsallaberry.com or www.myspace.com/jeandosallaberry
The stolen instruments are:
– GIBSON HUMMINGBIRD 1972
Finition sunburst
Serial 968928
Recently re-fretted
With system Fishman Ellipse Matrix Blend
in Ritter black and grey bag
+ Effect pedals
– Booster KLON KTR, red, serial 163 inside
– Overdrive BEARFOOT Honey Bee, orange
– Delay LOVEPEDAL Echophonic Jr,, black
– Tuner PETERSON Strobostomp, blue
We recently stumbled across this great documentary, Everybody Here Wants You, about the life of Jeff Buckley. It was made by BBC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1pO9d1uPJc
Born in Anaheim, California, Jeff Buckley was raised around music, his mother being a professional cellist and pianist.
He was introduced to bands such as Queen and Led Zeppelin by his stepfather. At age 12 he decided to become a musician and he received his first professional guitar. He spent years afterwards playing many styles in different bands until he was contacted by his father’s former manager with an offer to help him record his first demo of original songs. Thus he recorded his only studio album: Grace.
The next 2 years he toured to promote his album and in 1996 he stopped at some point, planning to record his second album. The album was never finished as he died on the 29th of May 1997, drowning in Wolf Rive Harbour after a spontaneous swim.
Vintage & Rare had the opportunity of making a transaction possible together with Chelsea Guitars, for Jeff Buckley’s Fender Telecaster from 1983, so this documentary means a lot to us, especially because that guitar is featured in it.
Here is a Video about the guitar:
Our friends over at Guitar World recently made this great video with Metallica frontman James Hetfield visiting Guitar Center in San Francisco. At Vintage and Rare we are Metallica fans, so it was a great experience for us to hear James sharing his stories. We hope it will be the same for you.
James Hetfield shared a lot of stories, varying from his first cover band, first professional instrument, all the way to his decision to become a musician and his career with all its consequences.
He also talks about his new ESP Iron Cross signature model, getting quite deep into its technical details and also plays a few riffs during the video.
For more details about his New ESP signature model please go to espguitars.com.
For more videos from Guitar Center visit their YouTube Channel.
We made a little video tutorial for you, on how to install a Buzz Stop on your Fender Jazzmaster/ Jaguar bridge.
We stopped by the cool workshop of Guitar Service, aka Dubré Guitars, and they helped us doing this video. You will see that it’s very easy to add a Buzz Stop, and it can really improve your Jazzmaster or Jaguar sustain characteristics. You can find a Buzz Stop on Martin’s Musik-Kiste‘s profile on Vintage&Rare.
“We ask for your vigilance and assistance to assure that you are not the innocent receiver of stolen property. If you have any information on the criminals responsible for this theft please contact us. Any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) will be rewarded.”
If you find any of these instruments for sale anywhere, do not hesitate to contact debra(at)frettedamericana(dot)com or the V&R team at info(at)vintageandrare(dot)com
Below you can find the complete list of the stolen instruments:
