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		<title>2008 Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach, Part 2</title>
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 Julius Borges, who started the Newport Guitar Festival and produced two of them before passing it along to Henry Lowenstein, was there with two guitars. One was a fancy style 45 and the other was this, a rather austere mahogany OM. The mahogany OM had the wonderful dry, crackling ...</description>
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		<title>One of the country&#8217;s biggest guitar dealers goes to court&#8230;</title>
		<description>but can't get inside. -JV </description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/05/02/one-of-the-countrys-biggest-guitar-dealers-goes-to-court/</link>
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		<title>2008 Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach</title>
		<description>From April 11 to April 13, Jason and I attended the new Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach. We got meet plenty of readers and play a bunch of great guitars. My one complaint was that I was tied to our table much of the time so I didn't get ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/04/22/2008-newport-guitar-festival-in-miami-beach/</link>
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		<title>The Cartoon Beatles Discuss Tax Policy</title>
		<description>In honor of Tax Day, at least that's what we're celebrating here in the US today, here's a clip from the old Beatles cartoon where they discuss tax policy with Robin Hood. Well, they don't discuss tax policy as much as run around in a poorly animated fashion while "Taxman" ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/04/15/the-cartoon-beatles-discuss-tax-policy/</link>
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		<title>Strictly for the Collings Guitars completists &#8230;</title>
		<description>At the Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach last weekend, Bill Collings regaled us with tales from his latest hobby--Spec Miata racing. Here's the video proof. At around :09, your favorite guitar builder is seen passing the car with the built-in camera. At around :22, Collings makes a mistake and ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/04/15/strictly-for-the-collings-guitars-completists/</link>
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		<title>The First Ever Gathering of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company Tribe</title>
		<description>I wrote about Tom Walzem's great surf band, The Neptunes, back in issue 5. Apparently his musical life extends beyond twangy reverb-laden tones and includes an appreciation of mellower acoustic sounds because he's putting together the first ever gathering of Santa Cruz Guitar Company instrument owners at Noon on April ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/04/09/the-first-ever-gathering-of-the-santa-cruz-guitar-company-tribe/</link>
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		<title>Update for Issue 9: Richard Thompson</title>
		<description>Here's a great clip from 1984 of Richard Thompson, our Spring Issue cover boy, talking about his '55/57 Strat. Or, as the interviewer called it, a Frender Stratocaster. The clip was forwarded to us by Allen St. John, who wrote the Thompson story for us. St. John is the author ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/03/25/update-for-issue-9-richard-thompson/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Good To Have a Backup Plan</title>
		<description>Warren Buffet shows that if the whole billionaire investor thing doesn't work out, he can always get a gig as a rhythm uke player in a western swing band. It's important to have a good backup plan.-MJS
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3t_SrHgblE[/youtube] </description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/03/24/its-good-to-have-a-backup-plan/</link>
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		<title>Sign of the Times</title>
		<description>I pass by this sign almost every day and today I happened to have a camera with me. The building it's on is in Palo Alto and it used to be a gallery that sold Jerry Garcia's artwork. The gallery went out of business a few months ago and, as ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/03/21/sign-of-the-times/</link>
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		<title>How to Start a Magazine</title>
		<description>Just about every time I meet one of our readers, I’m asked how Jason and I came up with the idea to start The Fretboard Journal. The short answer is that we wanted to produce a magazine devoted to the musicians that performed the music we loved and the luthiers ...</description>
		<link>http://fretboardjournal.com/blog/2008/03/20/how-to-start-a-magazine/</link>
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