| 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.
Blue Ridge Overhauls Milk Campaign
Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. has chosen 16-year-old Britney Christian of Southern California to be the face of the new Milk Rocks! marketing campaign. Christian, a rising star in the pop/rock music world, has a debut album, All or Nothing, which will be released in August.
Milk Rocks! is a multifaceted campaign promoting the benefits of milk as a healthy alternative to sugar-based drinks. It stresses the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle and self-esteem and incorporates positive life principles throughout the campaign. Milk Rocks! will officially launch next month when school resumes throughout much of the country.
Game company Baffle Gab and premier guitar manufacturer, Epiphone, are sponsorship partners in the campaign. .
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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