| 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.
Massive 'Mount Rockmore' Sand Sculpture Highlights Groundbreaking of Hard Rock Park, the World's First Rock 'n' Roll
Construction officially began today on Hard Rock Park, the single largest tourism investment in South Carolina's history and the first new major theme park to be built in the U.S. in nearly a decade. The $400 million park is scheduled to open in the spring of 2008. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060713/CLTH048) To celebrate the occasion, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, park management and other gathered dignitaries scooped out ivory-toned Myrtle Beach sand at the site with customized multi-colored electric "guitar shovels" specially designed for the occasion to unveil a massive, 250-ton sand sculpture interpretation of Mount Rushmore at the site. In true Hard Rock fashion, instead of U.S. presidents, 'Mount Rockmore' as it was dubbed, featured the countenances of rock legends Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix.
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