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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30.09.14
The good news for Robby Takac's bass tech is that no time is wasted cleaning instruments... |
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