WoodyTone Review

WoodyTone, an on-line site for guitar "tone-freaks", posted a review of the store which you can read here. Or just check out their web site home page and work from there if you are at all interested in finding out more about great guitar tone.

Paul Reed Smith

We really couldn't be more pleased. We are announcing that Paul Reed Smith guitars and amps are now at Ludlow Guitars. This prestigous American company has been making top-quality guitars for almost 25 years and is among the top few of the most respected musical instrument manufacturers in the world. If you need any incentive, do go to the PRS web site and find out all about them.

Ludlow Woodshop

These guys make built-in storage units, bookshelves and cabinets, designed to make the most of NYC spaces.

For more than ten years Ludlow Woodshop has existed as a resource for designers, architects, small business owners and private individuals, doing high quality, affordable cabinet work to meet specific needs. They have decades of combined experience working in New York City, from the tenements of the Lower East Side to some of the city's most luxurious addresses. They are just up the road from us here at the store and we can recommend them based on work that they have done for us.

Check out their website here.

Red Witch

On Friday 24th July we had Ben Fulton, the owner and designer at Red Witch, visit the store. He demonstrated his exceptional pedal line for us. Now we know what all those knobs and switches are for. Ben is a super-nice guy with a clear passion for his product, which is evident in the quality of the pedals that he produces. They really are as good as they get. We have all the Red Witch pedals in stock and you can try them out any time.

McGuitars

Recorded at the end of last year, there's a McDonald's ad just started to be shown in this area. It is promoting their wraps, I think a relatively new line for them. It was long enough ago that I had forgotten about it but I saw the ad the other day and noticed that there were guitars in the background, a guitar shop I thought. Then as I watched more closely I realized that it was our guitar shop. I'm lovin' it. Watch out for it on a TV near you.

Heavy Leather Straps

We are pleased to be carrying Heavy Leather straps. These are finest quality leather straps, made locally in Brooklyn. Check out their web site here.

Jeff Beck

We would like to thank Fender® and our Fender rep, Dave Waters, who got us tickets to see Jeff Beck at Irving Plaza here in New York on 10th April: what a guitar player and what a great band. The show was not long on chat, the single microphone to the side of the stage was a bystander for almost the whole night, but the music spoke powerfully enough by itself. In addition to Jeff's own compositions, The Beatles' A Day in the Life was stunningly interpreted and the old standard The Peter Gunn Theme was given a whole new life.

The New Ludlow Guitars Web Site

Well, after years of not getting round to getting ourselves a new web site, about ten years since the old one was created, the new all-singing, all-dancing version is upon us. There is no news here, just a celebration of the achievement and an expression of hope that this will be one step in the right direction in getting the business moving again in these very hard times.

I would like to take say thanks to everyone who helped get us here: friends, family, customers, passersby and inspirations. In no particular order: Stan Howell, Jenny Yu, Adam Roth, Charlie Roth, Stan Manel, Arun Pandian, Jim Kimball, Jeff Johnson, Rob Stewart, The Lone Groover, Brendan Macwade, Richard Steel, the great John Peel, Steve Zodiac, Wallace, Gromit, and Bob Gary.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC opened at the end of 2008 in the heart of SoHo. It  is a small but intense 90 minute experience of almost overwhelming sensory images from the golden age of rock and roll, when recorded music was pressed into vinyl and if you wanted to see your favorite band, chances are the only way to do it was to wait for them to come by on tour. And then there was MTV.. And then there was You Tube...

Packed into 2,325 square metres in a basement on Mercer Street (two blocks south of Houston, one block west of Broadway) beneath an Old Navy store are six galleries. Visitors, up to 100 at a time, move through them at 15-minute intervals. High-tech audio equipment senses where you're standing and kicks in with appropriate music through the state-of-the-art earphones. Part of the exhibition, the "New York Rocks" gallery features the entrance to the notorious CBGB punk club on the Bowery (with Joey Ramone's leather jacket on a hanger) and the beat-up phone booth where all kinds of non-phone and non-music related things went on.

If you needed an excuse to visit New York City, here it is. Ludlow Guitars is within comfortable walking distance of the show via Little Italy. You can even walk by the old CBGBs place on the way.