Pete Prown

Editor at Vintage Guitar Magazine

Pete Prown is an American oil painter, specializing in rural landscapes and buildings.

Featured in: Favicon

vintageguitar.com Favicon

flipboard.com Favicon

newsbreak.com Favicon

libraryjournal.com

Articles

Jubu Smith | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

Produced by Hunter, Jubu features 10 tasty instrumental tracks that harken to the soul-guitar stylings of Cornell Dupree, David Williams, black gospel, and the new wave of ’90s smooth R&B. Jubu kicks it off with the toe-tapping “Hamster Wheel,” featuring drummer Calvin Napper and Hunter on hybrid guitar.
Freddie King | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

On Getting Ready, King dodges sugary arrangements to deliver smoldering licks on “Same Old Blues,” and turns the heat up for a remake of his classic “I’m Tore Down.” “Palace of the King” has burnin’ guitar – Jeff Beck was surely listening. Speaking of, Jeff swiftly covered King’s “Goin’ Down” and gleaned extensive FM airplay, but Freddie’s version here is definitive, blurring the lines between electric blues and heavy rock.
Grace Bowers | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

Grace can rip on her Gibson, but also lay back, as on “Tell Me Why U Do That,” trading licks with co-guitarist Prince Parker. “Madame President” finds a Stax sweet spot, the kind of hands-in-the-air gospel so hard to capture on tape. Another part of the vibe is fine vocalist Esther Okai-Tetteh, and the whole band singing backups, reminiscent of Sly & the Family Stone.
Boss Katana Gen 3

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

On the surface, this Katana looks much like its predecessors – a clean black box with top-mounted effects for easy access (especially if you put it on a stand). There are 12 amp types with tones ranging from shimmer clean to saturated crunch, and an Acoustic setting for your acoustic/electric guitar.
Danelectro Doubleneck

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

The Doubleneck uses a modified Shorthorn body shape with a spruce frame, hardboard top, and a center block to defeat feedback. It’s semi-hollow design keeps the weight in check (roughly 10.75 pounds – essentially the same as a ’70s Les Paul Custom). Its bolt-on necks are maple with 21-fret rosewood boards, each with 14″ radii carved into likable C shapes. Scale on both is 25″. For electronics, look for four Danelectro Lipstick pickups controlled by stacked Volume and Tone knobs.
McKinley James | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

What’s it like to be in a band with your dad on drums? Pops and I connect on a lot of levels, personally and musically. When we play live or are recording in the studio, it’s always an easy flow. We set up close together in one room. Which guitar players inspired you? I listen to all styles, especially living in Nashville, where I’m exposed to a lot of killer players. But to narrow it down I’d say Magic Sam, Steve Cropper, Eddie Taylor, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed.
John Mayall | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

“Still absorbing what John Mayall… did! He brought such hidden talents to the music world. Some of the greatest guitar players in the world would come out of his and my home country, England.
Jerry Miller | Vintage Guitar® magazine

4 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

On lead guitar, Jerry Miller – who died on July 20 at age 81 – proved a notch above many Bay Area players, his blues licks sounding more akin to British hotshots than oft-noodly locals. Miller’s pre-Grape adventures found him working with singer Bobby Fuller (cutting an early version of “I Fought the Law”), The Frantics, and jamming in jazz-organ trios with his trademark Gibson L-5 archtop, which he dubbed Beulah.
Grace Bowers | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 month ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

How did your career get going at such a young age? I really got my start when I moved to Nashville at 14 or 15. Back then, I was playing out nearly every night with all sorts of musicians. It didn’t matter what genre it was – I put myself into every situation you can think of, which turned out to be a great way to learn. I’ve always felt like it was dozens of little moments building up, plus I’ve gotten some great opportunities. The album has a very live vibe. Did you cut the rhythm section live?
Pigtronix Philosopher’s Tone 2

1 month ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

A compressor is useful for everything from taming aggressive volume fluctuations to adding sustain or a professional sheen to one’s sounds. The Philosopher’s Tone 2 is a straightforward design that gives essential functions including Volume, Sustain (the threshold, or degree of compression), Treble (to brighten the sometimes-dulling effect of compression), and Blend between colored and uncolored tones.