Hi! I’m doing a site redesign over the next few weeks, so if you suddenly notice the site’s not working properly or something, don’t worry, it’s all just me struggling up a very steep learning curve and it’ll be fixed as soon as possible. But no matter what happens and how catastrophically I mess things up while trying to get everything working right, you can always find me on Twitter at Twitter.com/iheartguitar and I’ll try to minimize any little hiccups. When the redesign’s finished all the same content will still be there but I’m planning some additional features, so if I happen to not post as much as usual this month don’t worry, I’m just setting stuff up for a freaking huge 2010.

Cheers!
Peter.

We (me, Mrs I Heart Guitar and our rambunctious 3-year-old) arrived in LA this morning for a 3-week Californian adventure. Blog updates will continue, especially from NAMM where I’ll be meeting with some big names and checking out a lot of cool gear – as well as meeting some awesome folks I’ve found via Twitter. I expect blogging will get back into swing tomorrow: I have some pre-NAMM press releases and more NAMM appearances to post.

If you’d like me to cover a particular product at NAMM (say, you wanna see what new 8-Strings are being released by whom, or you wanna know if that John Mayer Relic Strat is coming out this year), just email me and I’ll do my best to write a post on it from right there at NAMM.

And because images are fun, here’s a geeky tourist moment from today:

Happy new year, everyone! Hope you all have a great year full of lots of shredding, headbanging, living, loving, laughing, eating, drinking, and all that fun stuff.

Got some cool things coming up on the site this year, starting with coverage from NAMM in a few weeks. If there’s a piece of gear you’d like me to cover, just email me and I’ll go to their booth, take some photos, get some info and write a post for you (and feel free to link to it on any forums you visit).

Also this year I’m going to become more active on YouTube, with more video reviews and hopefully artist interviews. A few people are encouraging me to do face-to-face artist interviews on camera where both the artist and me have guitars in hand, which could be very cool but hard to organise, but I’ll do my best.

There will also be more giveaways this year, and some cool I Heart Guitar merch.

Anyway, hope you have a good one, and here’s to another year of rockin’.

Hi! I’m just testing the BlogPress app so I can do all sorts of live bloggage from NAMM in a few weeks. If there’s a product you’d like me to investigate for you at NAMM, let me know at iheartguitarblog@gmail.com and I’ll write a post about it from right there at the booth.

Oh and here’s a photo so I can test that too:

Just a little post about a few cool site developments recently. The first is that I Heart Guitar has been selected by the National Library of Australia in Canberra for permanent archiving. This especially tops out my Awesome Meter because my grandma on my dad’s side (I was too young to remember her when she passed away) used to work at the National Library. To access the archived version of I Heart Guitar, go HERE (although there’s really no need to right now since it’s all here on the site too – but it might be fun to look back on in a few years to see how things have changed).

Also, I Heart Guitar (and Guitar Noize) have been included in the Jemsite community’s new list of recommended sites. http://jemsite.com/topsites – head on over to vote for your favourites!