14.01.20
Yamaha artist Matteo Mancuso’s musicianship and unique fingerpicking technique impress all who witness his playing. Often described as a virtuoso, the jazz/fusion guitarist from Sicily has amassed millions of YouTube views. Recently, Mancuso collaborated with our Los Angeles custom shop to design a Revstar personalized to his preferences in taste and tone. |
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02.01.20
A recent addition to the Yamaha Guitars family playing a STORIA I guitar, we talked to singer-songwriter Alli Walker about her journey as a musician, her ‘Mindful Music’ and ‘Conscious Country’ initiative, and why her STORIA I is the perfect fit for her.
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18.11.19
Artist, pianist, and guitarist and songwriter for instrumental math-rock band Covet, Yvette Young shares how teaching herself to play guitar empowered her, explains how she developed her playing technique, and tells us why she brings her THR30II Wireless with her on tour. |
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11.11.19
Following the release of his latest album “Next Episode Starts in 15 Seconds”, we visited UK Singer-Songwriter Johnny Lloyd out on his UK tour. As well as catching a great performance, we spent some time with the FG artist, learning about his background, the writing process he follows, and what is important to him in a guitar. |
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15.10.19
We recently spoke to The Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder about the band’s most recent tour, his new project Night Dreamer, and his experience with the new THR30II Wireless amplifier. |
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19.08.19
Out of the Yamaha Artist Services in LA, our Senior Guitar Designer and Luthier Pat Campolattano recently built a special custom model for bass legend and longtime Yamaha artist Nathan East. A story which starts with a call from John Patitucci… |
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24.07.19
ACTORS’ frontman and guitarist Jason Corbett has recently joined the Yamaha Guitars family, playing Revstar RS620 and RS502T guitars. Jason took some time out from the band’s European tour to chat with us about his influences, the story of his first guitar, and what he looks for in a guitar now. |
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24.07.19
Artist, songwriter, and producer Butch Walker welcomed us into his Santa Monica studio RubyRed Productions, where along with his own records, he has produced music by the likes of Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Taylor Swift, The Struts, P!NK, and Brian Fallon. As well as giving us an insight into his world of producing, we take a look at his treasure-trove of Yamaha Guitars-ranging from vintage FG to the latest BB. |
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25.04.19
Today as we launch the new FG and FS Red Label guitars, here's a look back at the history of the Yamaha Folk Guitar. |
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24.04.19
Yamaha artist Jacob Berry plays guitar and keys for indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club. We talk to him about his inspirations as a guitarist, what he looks for in a guitar, and his experiences with the band. |
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07.03.19
Happy International Women’s Day! The theme this year is #BalanceforBetter, so to celebrate we’d like to encourage and enable more women to start playing guitar or bass with our #WithHerGuitar campaign. Find out how to take part to win a Revstar RS320, APX600 or BB234... |
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01.03.19
Bass legend and long time Yamaha artist Billy Sheehan has played bass on dozens of records and toured all over the world for many decades, his unique and original style of playing has been celebrated and documented everywhere. Read about how we customized one of Billy's signature Attitude Limited 3 basses for him out of our Artist Services Facility in LA. |
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14.02.19
For NAMM 2019, our Senior Guitar Designer and Luthier Pat Campolattano worked his magic on a range of unique, one-off design concept guitars, based on Revstar and Pacifica models. Find out the details... |
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08.02.19
Yamaha artists Travis Vance and Nathan Whitney together perform in Pop - Country star Thomas Rhett’s band, playing to fans in stadiums worldwide.
We sat down with the guitarist and bassist to talk about what they look for in their gear, musicians who inspire them, and how it feels to play on stage in front of tens of thousands of people. |
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16.01.19
Custom shop chat with guitarist, producer, songwriter, synthesist and one quarter of hardcore punk revivalists AFI (A Fire Inside) Jade Puget, and Yamaha Guitar Designer and Luthier Pat Campolattano. Find out the story on Jade's new custom Revstar... |
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19.11.18
"I believe that every guitar has a soul, not quite a consciousness but pretty close to it." In the midst of the debut Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers album release excitement, we were lucky enough to get some of guitarist, songwriter, front-woman and transgender rights activist Laura's rare free time to chat about her inspirations, her relationship with her guitars and how her albums can be seen as snap shots of times in her life. |
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12.11.18
A new addition to the Yamaha Guitars family, 24 year old singer songwriter Freya Ridings took some time to talk with us about her journey, what she looks for in a guitar, and how it feels to have a crowd sing her words back to her. |
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02.10.18
Colombian singer-songwriter and Grammy winner Shakira was looking for a solid gold guitar to match fit the theme of her El Dorado tour. With a Revstar already in her rig, we took up the challenge from our Yamaha Artist Services LA. |
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05.09.18
"You’ll be seeing this guitar on stage every night. And really - that’s the ultimate testament." Custom shop chat with Rival Sons' Scott Holiday and Yamaha Guitars designer and luthier Pat Campolattano about Scott's new hollowbody Revstar he's nicknamed the "Big Daddy" Revstar... |
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13.08.18
"My career comes with a lot of hyphens." - Australian-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Yamaha Artist, Katie Cole took some time to talk to us about her musical beginnings, inspirations and playing with The Smashing Pumpkins. |
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23.04.18
We celebrated this year's Record Store Day by finding out which records were influential to a number of Yamaha artists and why. |
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15.03.18
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2018 we invited some of our female artists to take over control of our Instagram for the day, with zero idea of what they would get up to. Find out what went down… |
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13.02.18
You may have heard about some uniquely beautiful custom Yamaha Revstar models doing the rounds at this year's NAMM Show. These creations were imagined and realised by our very own guitar luthier Pat Campolattano out of our Calabasas facility. After witnessing such a great reception to these models we sat down with Pat to get some details on these to share with the Guitar World. |
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09.02.18
In the Californian sunshine, away from the chaos of this year’s NAMM Show we invited some artists to hang out for some jams and to check out our latest gear. |
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10.11.17
Iconic Tattoo Artist Tokyo Hiro on his Japanese heritage, perfecting his craft & his first (and maybe last!) experience "tattooing" a guitar... |
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27.10.17
UK Alternative Pop trio Flawes also joined Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival with 4 great shows across the weekend in German's second city. We crashed some of Guitarist Freddie's brief down time to talk his Revstar RS720B, making BBC Introducing's 'Track of the Day' & being snapped up by Red Bull Records. |
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23.10.17
"All of it was done in a very creative space without having any outside opinions to contend with. It was just four guys making music. That’s a real luxury to have."
We talk with long time Yamaha BB artist Tony Kanal about his new band DREAMCAR & his stunning new custom bass to match their debut album. |
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23.10.17
Yamaha Artist Noa Lachmi travelled to the legendary part of Hamburg’s St. Pauli district from Denmark with her band Velvet Volume for their first international show (…and second… and third. In 3 days…) at the Reeperbahn Festival.
Noa squeezed us in to her busy schedule to chat Revstars, playing in a band with her sisters and recording the theme for an iconic cartoon series… |
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21.07.17
"It doesn’t sound like any other, it’s almost got an uprighty sound. The necks are so awesome and super easy to play. They got the long scale and they just sound amazing and they fit exactly where you want them to fit in the mix too.” Eagles of Death Metal, Masters of reality, Mojave lords, earthlings? & Gnarltones guitarist and iconic Rancho De La Luna studio host Dave Catching talks his magic Yamaha Bass, life at his studio and his wisdom on recording. |
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22.04.17
Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac spills on which records have a special meaning to him, and dishes out some recommendations on this Record Store Day… |
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22.04.17
Following a recent Revstar shoot with The Killers' Dave Keuning, we hit Lou's Records for a little shopping spree... |
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22.04.17
On this Record Store Day we chat with Misfit Doyle about releases & recommendations. |
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03.11.16
Before The Winery Dogs' touring cycle in support of their second album "Hot Streak," Billy asked us to build him an Attitude LTD3 that looked like a deep dark red glass of wine and for it to be infused with LED lights. And it needed to talk...ok, that's not true, but this wasn't going to be an easy task. |
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09.06.16
The world's largest collection of Yamaha's FG guitars recently went on display in Japan for fans to get hands-on with history! |
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04.04.16
A few weeks ago our friend Tony Kanal reached out to see if we could get some of his Yamaha BB’s studio-ready to start recording with his new project, which features fellow No Doubt members Tom Dumont and Adrian Young as well as A.F.I. singer Davey Havok. |
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05.02.16
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20.01.16
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12.11.15
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06.10.15
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25.09.15
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16.09.15
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10.09.15
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30.07.15
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23.07.15
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05.03.15
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30.09.14
The good news for Robby Takac's bass tech is that no time is wasted cleaning instruments... |
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10.06.14
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