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Booker King is an extremely accomplished and highly sought after bassist and composer who has toured the world laying down thunderous grooves across multiple genres of music, has now joined forces with Corey Glover, Mike Orlando, and Taykwuan Jackson in Sonic Universe.

Booker King, an extremely accomplished and highly sought after bassist and composer who has toured the world laying down thunderous grooves across multiple genres of music, has now joined forces with Corey Glover (Living Colour), Mike Orlando (Adrenaline Mob), and Taykwuan Jackson to form Sonic Universe.

The analog echo, ae-1, creates a warm, clean, and smooth analog delay effect using a pure analog signal path. Dial in your sound with the time, mix, and repeat controls.

Tone City, established in 2014, are a professional R&D and manufacturing company specializing in high quality effect pedals for electric guitar. Tone City creates their designs using analog technology and is dedicated to producing superior quality effect pedals. Tone City offers a range of mini and full-size effect pedals that accurately recreates the tone of more expensive, hard to find, and out of production pedals.

Sid Griffin is teaching a songwriting and performance guitar workshop this May 26 to June 1 in beautiful Tuscany, Italy. Sid will focus on Long Ryders songs and you will not, want to miss out.

"I did a huge concert series yesterday for the city of Greenville NC. The town used Benson Pro Audio, who is one of the biggest and best sound companies in the south! I took my red GP200. While we were doing line checks for the guitar, the owner walked over to me and said, 'I don't normally like digital modeling units, they just all miss something! But that thing you're using sounds good!' So you guys (Valeton) are doing something right to win him over!"

As lead guitarist for pioneering 60’s garage and psychedelic band The Electric Prunes, it’s up to Steve Kara to reproduce the far out sounds of those early studio records as well as pushing the envelope on more current releases.

Swirl founder Duane T Jones was born in Iowa and raised in Alaska. "DT" began his musical journey on the violin, but made the switch to guitar after being introduced to the music of KISS. He cites Jake E. Lee, Warren DeMartini, George Lynch, Carlos Cavazo and Matthias Jabs as some of his strongest influences.

Yes, that's right. Vashon Johnson. Vashon is the bass player responsible for holding down the low-end in some of the top acts today. In addition to the top earner Miley Cyrus, Vashon has just added The Jacksons to his ever expanding "Who's Who" of the music industry.

Jellybean Johnson, best known as the drummer for The Time, is also an accomplished guitarist playing for his own band The Jellybean Experience, fDeluxe, and many other groups including Ronnie Baker Brooks.

Steve Jenkins is part of the new wave of modern electric bass players. In addition to his mind-blowing technical prowess, his musicianship has allowed him to fit into a diverse range of musical situations that have run the gamut from face-melting prog-metal to experimental microtonal jazz-funk to dubbed-out electronica bass lines to classic sounding r&b grooves--sometimes all within the framework of one song.

Andy Irvine is an internationally known bassist, author, educator and band leader. His playing is recognized by driving bass grooves, a huge tone, ferocious soloing, diverse song writing and producing skills. Currently he resides in the high mountains of Colorado.

Walter Ino is a Los Angeles based stage and studio multi-instrumentalist with decades of touring and recording experience. Currently, he’s the lead guitar player for Eagles of Death Metal.

Marco Vitali plays lead guitar and uses Pickboy guitar picks

Chicago session ace bassist recently was hired by DEACON BLUES, they’re America’s premier Steely Dan tribute experience. The group began when eleven Chicago-area studio and stage musicians agreed to form a jazz-rock vehicle to honor the music of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

"I love Pickboy picks." -Ricky Horton

Based in New York City, Italian born Gennaro Esposito (a.k.a. Genny or Jenny Esposito), was introduced to the guitar during his adolescence and regularly played gospel and soul rhythms on the electric guitar for his church starting at the ripe age of 10.

The Gaslight Anthem has always been hard; with GET HURT, the New Jersey-based rock ‘n’ roll band get heavy. Since coming together in 2007, the band has joyfully injected aspects of rock’s most universal languages – arena rock and barroom blues, folk and pure pop – into punk’s round hole, ultimately forging its own powerful, populist sound.