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MYSTERIOUS: Spector - What They Never Told You

“Don’t play, or even look at, this bass if you’ve got a hangover”: The biggest bass guitar launches this month

From genre-defining signature basses to an unconventional take on a Fender classic, here’s the lowdown on August’s biggest new bass gear releases

Guitar World

“My favorite bass needs to be retired, but it plays so good and has this unmistakable sound. So I gave it to Spector and said, ‘Let’s get close to that’”: How Rex Brown’s new signature bass channels his punchiest Pantera era

The metal icon explains how his labor-of-love Euro4 bass – painted to imitate a desert sunset – bottles his pummelling Far Beyond Driven period

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“So common that it is depicted as a generic electric guitar in a dictionary”: When Fender went to court and lost – the 2009 court ruling that failed to trademark the Stratocaster

In 2009, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied trademark protections to the Strat, Tele and P-Bass. How did it arrive at its judgement? And what’s different this time?

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“I couldn’t be happier to come back after all these years”: Pantera’s Rex Brown rejoins Spector’s artist ranks – less than a year after dropping his first Epiphone signature

Brown relied on his Spector basses for the band’s final three albums, and took his stash on the road after Pantera reformed in 2022

Guitar World

“We don’t want to use guitar solos as a crutch. You know – ‘after the bridge, solo!’ When I do play a solo, I want it to stand out”: Following mega-tours with Muse and Royal Blood, sister act The Warning are riff rock’s next big success story

From Metallica covers to U.S. network television and a searing third album powered by the creative heat of fuzz and distortion, Daniela and Alejandra Villarreal Vélez are going places fast, and hungry for more

Guitar World

“Vibrant new color options, tonewoods, and the classic Spector growl”: Spector unveils three new basses – featuring fresh tonewood and finish options and a gnarly preamp created with Darkglass

The Euro CST and LX models – offering through and bolt-on necks – add variety to its bass range while underscoring the “classic Spector growl”

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“I’m able to pick these instruments up for the first time and play them like I’ve already had them for years”: Spector unveils two new Doug Wimbish USA Custom Series basses, including a replica of the Living Colour bassist's iconic 1987 5-string

With signature EMG pickups and an era-specific headstock design, Spector's new basses promise to deliver “the sound and feel that inspired Doug Wimbish's signature style”

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‘Don’t say: what if we did this reggae style?’ The huge yet humble lives of unofficial band members

From Manic Street Preachers to Simple Minds, few bands are complete without their full-time touring players. They discuss the peaks and practicalities of life on the sidelines

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NAMM 2024: “We like to build special basses just for NAMM that show off what we're capable of. What we love to do”: Spector’s USA Custom Shop is here to inspire your own custom bass build – and, as they tell us, “we love new challenges”

Check out some of the Custom Shop candy available from Spector’s top US luthiers

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Dark web crypto-drug traffickers 'can try to hide in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department will find you'

With a fentanyl epidemic on its hands, the US Department of Justice has just made its biggest bust yet targeting the dark web.

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