Hendrix 'left army after gay lie': Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay so he would be discharged from the army, according to a new biography.

Harmony Central's Summer NAMM 2005 Coverage: press releases are being added daily at the moment. There's a whole bunch of guitar product news, but nothing that sets the world alight, to be honest.

Franz Ferdinand's Drummer Becomes Their Third Guitarist

Korn name new guitarist, confine him backstage: very very odd.

Guitars Once Owned by Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Others to Be Auctioned: click here for further info and photos! (I'm just amazed that they keep finding these old Hendrix guitars. There can't be any more left, surely?)

While my guitar gently creaks: the middle-aged are dusting off their guitars and playing again, says this article from the Telegraph.

Plaque for Clash legend Strummer

Blues star Long John Baldry dies

New Brian Setzer Black Phoenix Model from Gretsch: that's one cool looking guitar and I bet it sounds amazing too, but wow, it costs a pretty penny!

I found this story over on Music thing: Man builds two-string bass inspired by aliens. I must admit, it puts me in mind of Strawberry Alarm Clock's Mosrite guitars.

Katie Melua talks to Epiphone

Meet the New Kids on the Block! Fender introduces the Big Block series of guitars in the UK and Europe. Lots of black and chrome and block fingerboard inlays!

The original guitar god: The Guardian talks to Davy Graham.

Music event claims world record: A music festival in Surrey is claiming to have set a new world record for the biggest ever "air guitar ensemble". How cringingly embarrassing.

Tanglewood Guitars to Debut Premiere Series at Summer NAMM: Tanglewood announce a new line of mid-priced acoustic guitars and basses all featuring solid tops and Grover machine heads.

Pink Floyd guitarist writes opera: Roger Waters has completed his first opera after 16 years in the making. (I know he was the bassist, I'm just repeating the BBC headline).

Chet's guitars speak again in tribute by Knopfler

Flamenco to fire up Dundee guitar festival

The £1million guitar: Seventies' pop star Alvin Stardust faces a tough decision.

New Moral White Line from Oscar Schmidt

Marshall Ships Handwired Plexi Stack Reissue

Stones guitarist Richards joining Depp on Pirates set: Johnny Depp has persuaded Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards to play a cameo role in the sequels to "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Priceless guitars rescued from blaze at Hard Rock Cafe in London

Crazy J

Plenty of other blogs have recently been featuring Crazy J, guitar-playing robotic creation of the Georgia Institute of Technology. I feel it's time to remind you all of some previous guitar-robots that I've listed on this blog, namely GuitarBot (watch the videos of that thing in action - it's quite impressive) and the similarly-named but altogether more scary GTRBOT of Captured by Robots.

Led Zeppelin voted 'ideal supergroup'

Show must go on for Ravi Shankardespite two of his treasured sitars being broken during a flight from Lebanon.

The return of Frankie 2

I was never happy with this project as it was. The left-handed neck wasn't really working for me and the roller nut I'd installed made the action too high at the head end of the neck. Tonight, I replaced the neck for a more ordinary Stratocaster neck - a Squier Strat neck with 22-fret rosewood fingerbaord. I also removed the tremolo bridge, the springs, etc, and have installed one of these fab Hot Rod hardtail bridges from Custom Shop Parts. It now plays beautifully!

As for the parts that I removed, I may keep them for a future project or else I might have a clear out and sell them on eBay.

(Click on the photo to enlarge it).

Register now for a chance to win an autographed Tony Iommi signature Epiphone G-400 electric guitar!

Kona Adds Jazz Style Electric to Guitar Lineup

Alex Gregory's prototype Fender Stratocaster 7-string is on eBay: unlike modern 7-stringers this originally featured an extra high string rather than a low B.

Caption contest: Machine gun bass guitar over on Engadget

At 90, guitarist Les Paul plays on

Pulp Fiction intro with a mixer and a guitar: two non-guitarists figure out how to play the Pulp Fiction theme (Dick Dale's "Miserlou") with a guitar and a food mixer!

Those Live 8 "Africa" guitars: I've yet to see a close-up picture of one. The only glimpse I got from Saturday's Live 8 concert in London was when Joss Stone's guitarist used one for one song. Have you signed the petition, by the way?

Georgian musician plays guitar for over 14 hours to set world record

Bidding has ended for this item: So, none of you fancied shelling out three quarter of a million dollars for an ex-Hendrix 1965 Strat?

Revealed at last! It's the James Bond theme guitar!

World's biggest guitar sign on display: It's that sign again!

Pop stars auction tsunami guitar: another more contemporary signed guitar.

Alvin Stardust's £600,000 guitar! Over the years it's been signed by The Beatles, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly amongst others.

Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton explains legendary twin-axe attack

Gibson Announces Eric Clapton Crossroads 335 Model