| HD-35 Nancy Wilson "Heart" Signature Edition Guitar
Much of the credit for the beauty and tone of the Martin HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition guitar goes to Wilson herself, who collaborated closely with Martin on the design. A rare combination of premium solid tonewoods gives the HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition distinctive tonal character. The top of beautiful Engelmann spruce - a tree that grows in the Northwest, where Heart got its start - combines with forward-shifted scalloped braces for full, powerful tone. The sides and the three-piece back wings are East Indian rosewood, while the center wedge is "heart" bubinga, a beautiful and unusually hard African tonewood that provides outstanding projection. A Pisces fish Yin Yang design is inlaid in rare pink heart abalone, mother of pearl and red composite beneath the Old Style "C.F.
Reverb | concerts in review
Doug Martsch's penetrating voice and squirrely guitar work were on shining display at his band's Monday-night Fox Theatre show, proving why he's influenced at least as many current musicians as such indie-rock icons as Lou Barlow, Bob Pollard and Steve Malkmus. The difference, of course, is that Martsch's main band is still together, and it's producing some of the best music around. Improving on its recent appearances in Colorado, Built to Spill barely stopped between songs to tune its instruments. The sold-out set, the first of a two-night stint, bristled with hipster energy as the band tore through tracks from its recent album, "You in Reverse." Martsch's voice sounded clean and strong, and his Neil Young-style guitar jams on "Goin' Against Your Mind" were part of a hypnotic jam that the band pulled off flawlessly.
Dirty Dan revs his rock engine
The Boyzz From Illinoizz ruled the late 1970s Chicagoland rock clubs with an outrageous live performance that included twin lead guitar assaults, a rolling (literally!) upright piano and lead singer who pole vaulted across stage using his microphone stand.A biker band, The Boyzz were certainly one of the more outrageous rock 'n' boogie bands ever to hail from the Midwest and remain firmly engraved in the minds of anyone fortunate enough to have seen them perform. Fronting The Boyzz was the charismatic Dirty Dan Buck, whose razor blades and whiskey voice was the perfect vehicle for the bluesy hard rock songs like "Back to Kansas," "Hoochie Coochie," "Destined to Die" and "Good Life Shuffle" that filled up their 1979 debut album for Epic Records, "Too Wild To Tame."Most of those first album songs are part of the live set performed by the still vibrant and energetic Buck and the members of his new self-named group."We always do the first two Boyzz singles 'Shake It Up, Wake It Up' and 'Shady Lady' and of course we couldn't leave without doing 'Too Wild to Tame,'" said Buck.Tonight's Hobart Jayceefest performance will be Buck's first headline concert performance in Northwest Indiana in two decades."We opened for Cheap Trick at the Star Plaza a couple of years ago and we were part of the Katrina Hurricane Benefit at the Star Plaza last year, but I really haven't rocked Indiana in a long, long time, so I'm really pumped up about this concert.
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