Pete Prown
Pete Prown is a noted guitarist and co-author of such books as Legends of Rock Guitar, Shred!, and Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends. You can hear his music at www.guitargarden.net.
Walter Carter
Walter Carter is the former historian for Gibson Guitar and the author of books on Gibson, Epiphone, Martin and Ovation, plus three books co-authored with George Gruhn. He plays mandola in the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble.
Richard Bruné
Richard began making guitars in 1966 and is a former professional flamenco guitarist. He has written extensively for the Guild of American Luthiers for over 20 years, and has lectured at many festivals and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His work has been displayed by many museums, including the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C., and his clients include such diverse artists as Andrés Segovia, The Romeros, and Earl Klugh. For many years he has been a collector and dealer of fine-quality gut and nylon-strung guitars. He is currently at work on a book about classical guitarmakers. You can write to him at 800 Greenwood Street, Evanston, IL 60201.
Michael was born in the U.S., grew up in Europe, married a cowgirl from Montana, and has two children. His chief fascination is with the music of Django Reinhardt and the other French Gypsy guitarists such as Baro, Sarane, Matelo, and Challain Ferret, Tchan-Tchou Vidal, Patotte Bousquet, etc. Michael plays and collects French jazz guitars made by luthiers such as Busato, Favino, DiMauro, Patenotte, etc. He also has a small collection of National resonator guitars and early Fender electrics.
Seymour Duncan grew up in southern New Jersey in the early to mid '60s listening to guitarists and groups like Duane Eddy, The Ventures, The Fireballs, Santo & Johnny, Roy Buchanan, James Burton, Lonnie Mack, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. From the time he was 13, he was always working on guitars, and wound his first pickups at age 16, using a modified record player as his first coil machine. In 1972 he moved to London and began working at the Fender Soundhouse, doing guitar repairs and modifications. There, he built Jeff Beck's "Tele-Gib" guitar, used on Blow By Blow. Seymour returned to the States and in 1976 moved to Santa Barbara, California where he began working for Jensen Music and doing guitar repairs and modifications, doing custom rewinds and fabricating various vintage pickups. There he started searching out various vendors and suppliers for materials that would allow him to hand-fabricate each pickup. His company has built and fabricated just about every type of pickup manufactured. They make many single-coil and humbucking pickups. He has contributed articles and photographs to many publications. Seymour enjoys making custom guitar parts using engraving machines, marking machines, stencil machines, hot stamping and enjoys restoring old machinery. He collects guitars, guitar books, photo books, Navy patches, number stamps, and baseball cards, and enjoys 4 wheeling and ham radio.
Dan Erlewine has been repairing guitars for over 40 years. He is the author of three books and dozens of magazine articles, and has produced instructional videotapes and DVDs on the subject of guitar repair. Since 1986, Erlewine has lived and worked in Athens, Ohio, as part of the R&D team for Stewart-MacDonald's Guitar Shop Supply. He continues to repair guitars in his home shop.
George Gruhn has been part of the Nashville music scene for more than 30 years. He moved to Nashville in 1969 after getting his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Chicago and doing graduate work at Duke University and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1970 he established Gruhn Guitars, Inc., now one of the largest dealers of vintage and used instruments in the world. He has been a featured columnist for Pickin', Frets, Bluegrass Unlimited,Vintage Gallery, and Guitar Player. He and co-author Walter Carter wrote Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars, Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instruments, A Photographic History, and Electric Guitars and Basses, a Photographic History, all published by Miller Freeman Publishing.
Dan Forte
Dan Forte grew up in Northern California, listening to his father's Chet Atkins and Barney Kessel albums, along with his older brothers' 45s of Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly. Duane Eddy and the Ventures were his earliest inspirations on guitar, which he took up at age 12. By the time he graduated from Stanford University, he was already freelancing for Guitar Player magazine and joined its editorial staff in 1976. In 1983 he toured with the original Ventures, subbing for Don Wilson on rhythm guitar for two weeks. An ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award winner for excellence in music journalism, Dan has interviewed such legends as Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton, Buck Owens, Jimmy Reed, George Harrison, James Jamerson, and Carlos Santana for Rolling Stone, Musician, and numerous other publications, and annotated albums by Eddy, Tony Rice, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tommy Tedesco, and Albert Collins, among others. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Tom Guerra leads East Coast rockers Mambo Sons and has been writing and playing blues, rock and roll, and R&B guitar for more than 25 years. He has recorded or played with Rick Derringer, The Dirty Bones Band, Max Weinberg, Charles Calmese, Jaimoe, Guitar Shorty, Adolph Jacobs, and The Delrays. Tom is an avid collector of vintage electric guitars and amps.
Wolf Marshall is the founder and original editor-in-chief of GuitarOne magazine, and a respected author who has been influential in contemporary music education since the early 1980s. His latest releases include 101 Must-Know Rock Licks, B.B. King: The Definitive Collection, and the lauded Best of Jazz Guitar. Wolf's list of credits can be found at http://www.wolfmarshall.com.
John lives in suburban Minneapolis with his wife, Lori, son, Dylan, and their two dogs. He is an afternoon news anchor on AM-1500(KSTP-AM www.am1500.com) , and spends most of his free time listening to CDs, watching review videos, and playing one of what his wife calls "too many guitars.
Gil Hembree is a market analyst for Vintage Guitar and co-author of The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide. He recently retired from General Motors after 30 years in the company's financial administration and internal control departments. He maintains a collection of guitars and amps that range from a 1948 Martin D-28 to a 1997 Parker Fly Classic. He lives with his wife, Janie, in Austin, Texas.
WILLIE G. MOSELEY has been writing for Vintage Guitar magazine since 1989. He presently does interviews, profiles, and his monthly "Bass Space" column. He says that his guitar-collecting propensities these days are oriented towards basses and custom-made instruments. Moseley is also the News Editor and photographer for The Tallassee Tribune, and is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is HEART OF DIXIE: Everyman Observations from a Transitional South. He resides in what he termed "Hank Williams territory" with his wife Gail and their daughter Elizabeth.
Tony Nobles
Tony Nobles works at Precision Guitarworks, Austin, Texas, where he builds custom guitars and does repairs and guitar refins. Send questions, comments and other correspondence to Precision Guitarworks, 14 Brookside Drive, Waverly, TX 78676.
Lisa Sharken
Lisa Sharken is a freelance writer and guitar tech based in New York City. Her talks with superstar players like Eric Clapton, Joe Perry, Slash, Robin Trower, Tony Iommi, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and others have graced the pages of VG since 1996. She also contributes to other music-related publications.
Eric Shoaf has been a contributing writer at VG since 1991, and his wide range of material covers profiles, book and music reviews, interviews, DVD reviews, and new product testing. Eric is particularly fond of pre-war Gibson and Rickenbacker lap steels.
Steven Stone has been a professional writer and photographer since 1981. He attended Boston University's School of Communications, where he majored in Photo-Journalism. After college he pursued a course of post-graduate studies at Image Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Steven has been a contributing editor to Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, was a contributing editor to Stereophile, and writer for The Absolute Sound. He's also a monthly acoustic instrument columnist and feature writer for Vintage Guitar magazine. His editorial photography has appeared in Business Week, The New York Times, Newsweek, Boston Magazine, W, and many other publications. His personal photography is in the collections of the Library of Congress, Biblioteque National of France, and many private collections. He is also a recording engineer who specializes in symphony orchestras using purist recording techniques. He currently has 24 instruments he caresses regularly, including a 1944 Martin D-18, 1946 Martin D-8, and a 1937 Gibson L-5.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright is a professional writer, historian, musician, and guitar collector who has been involved with the guitar since he began playing the ukulele in 1952. He has performed and taught a variety of acoustic and electric music, including classical guitar, and spent many years programming and hosting the all-guitar radio show, "Guitaromania" in Milwaukee and Philadelphia. He is ABD in Victorian English literature (with a minor in the History of Science) from the University of Wisconsin, and makes his living as an advertising creative. Michael's interest in guitars is eclectic and tends to focus on subjects generally ignored by other writers and collectors, including obscure brands and aspects of guitar history that have had little authoritative research. His series of histories of "cool guitars" are found in Guitar Stories, Volume 1 (1995) and Guitar Stories, Volume 2 (2000), both published by Vintage Guitar Books. He is the author of the histories contained in the authoritative The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide, and is a member of the Guitar Foundation of America, the Galpin Society, and the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society. He also served as a consultant to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts guitar design exhibit, "Dangerous Curves," which included numerous instruments from Michael's collection.
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