I can’t believe the Live Music Capital of the world doesn’t have a guitar museum?. This is what I heard a tourist say walking down South Congress in Austin. Why isn’t there a proper guitar museum dedicated to music and the instruments used to make it? Austin, Texas is known the world over as the place where live music and the idea of a band still exists. From South By Southwest to Austin City Limits from Stevie to Willie, Austin is a bonafide music destination, I think its time for a museum to exist that could serve a multitude of functions from entertainment to revenue generation for a possible  non-profit music fund. This website is currently NOT a non-profit but my intentions are altruistic toward the plight of keeping musicians doing what they should be doing as stress free as possible…playing, writing , recording music.  At this ...

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Several months ago I was walking my german shepherd when I spotted something rather familiar sticking out of the dumpster at my apartment complex. It was the headstock of a guitar I recall from over 20 years ago when I was in high school. Instantly I was transported to 1985 to Farrington music at the Seaview Square mall in New Jersey where I remember checking out a very similar guitar. I even recal that I thought it was nice ,  felt solid and well built. The reason I didnt buy it was two-fold; On one hand I thought it was a bit too expensive for what it was competing with in the market at the time. And on the other hand it was too expensive for what it was competing with in my mind, which was Angus Young and a wine red 1962 Gibson sg, with a side order of Marshalls ...

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