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It’s time for the Six-String Bliss community to party like it’s 1987! 13 tracks of pure 80s awesomeness.
It’s time for the Six-String Bliss community to party like it’s 1987! 13 tracks of pure 80s awesomeness. Download the album here! Download the album episode here!
Jan Carlo DeFan of the band ELAN sits down to discuss guitar, being an A&R rep for Warner Bros. Records, taking advice from bass players, and much, much more. Plus, a review of the Taylor GS Mini, and the greatest super group of all time. Download here!
The guys discuss their dream gear, string etiquette, Ronnie Montrose and so much more! Download here!
It’s all the best moments from Pappy’s two years with the Bliss. We will miss you, sir! Download here!
Whether it is a pedal, a pedalboard, or a song, there is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment you get from building your own. The guys discuss this and so much more. Download here!
Pipes and PT talk NAMM, wedding rings, lost picks and put-down songs. Bliss off! Download here!
Hosted by Clint Searcy, In The Meantime is intended to be an interim show released in between regular Six String Bliss Episodes. Instead of a long conversation between friends about guitars In The Meantime will be short segments that revolve largely around the Six String Bliss community that has been established over the last six years. The pilot episode includes an interview with Eric Sardinas and the very first “This Guitar” segment featuring a key member of the Bliss. The…
Your Bliss Army General Alicia Searcy announces the theme for album #9 based on the Six String Bliss FaceBook poll votes and plays several songs for the Guilty Pleasures album that didn’t quite make the deadline. Download here!
Pappy, PT and Pipes rundown their top albums and top gear of the year. See what made our list! Plus, the General announces the nominated themes for the next Bliss album! Vote on Facebook. Download here!
The latest album from the Six-String Bliss community will melt your brain from first track to last. Nothing to feel guilty about, but tons of pleasure to be had by all. Download the album here!
PT and Pappy review Reason 6 and Amplitube Fender. Plus, a review of the TC Electronic G-Major 2 by Alfie! Download here!
Pipes, PT and Pappy discuss collaboration (with a little help from their friends). We’ve got a Mod Kits DIY amp review, a Parker Fly review, a review of the Podcaster guitar and a special segment on the Bliss community collaboration, “Hey You”. Download here!
In this surprise event-themed episode, PT, Clint Searcy, and Matt and Derrick from Gear for Guitar discuss the Nashville Amp Expo. Plus reviews of the Taylor Find Your Fit event, the Taylor 616ce and the Taylor 12-Fret CE. Download here!
Pipes, PT and Pappy are back with a whole bunch of their friends! This month, the guys take a look at some of the best stuff under fifty bucks, including the Boss DS-1, Blue Chip Picks, the Jake Blade, Smokey Amps and more! Download here!
Upcoming episodes of Six-String Bliss will feature a new voice: yours! As we move to a monthly format, we are going to select a theme for each episode. We are inviting listeners to submit reviews based on the topic for the month. The reviews can be audio, video or even written. Just don’t submit your review in letters clipped out of magazines ransom-note style. That’s just creepy. At least one audio review will be included in each episode of Six-String…
Pipes shirt this week is provided by Searcy String Works! The shirt is almost as great as the pick-ups! What shirt will Pipes next week? If you have a tee you would like Pipes to wear, email him at pipes@sixstringbliss.com Yep, he is that shameless.
A wah review, a ton of great wah tips, a wah-tastic outro track and a funkadelic GoW. Plus an announcement about the future of the Bliss. This one is jam-packed! Download here!
There is nothing more fun than shopping for a new guitar, even it is a theoretical experience. Pappy leads Pipes and PT through the wilds of selecting a Gretsch guitar, including talk of features, models and calling a dealer for a price quote. Download here!
Pipes visits the south, PT and Pipes visit a defunct guitar museum and all three guys discuss the guitar museum of their dreams. Download here!
Pappy and PT discuss some cool gear news and play a listener submitted acoustic amp review. Download here!
Pipes and PT share clips from Blisstock. Hear the good times and the guitar talk, including Clint Searcy’s Blisstock pickup winding demo. Download here!
Recorded live from Blisstock 2011! Join the guys and tons of great guests as they discuss their dream guitar companies and try to lure potential sponsors. Plus, a live outro track, and the guys give away a book, three pedals, an amp and a guitar! Download here!
He’s one of the finest blues-rock guitarists of all time, and he’s here to talk guitar! ‘Nuff said! Download here!
It’s the final installment of the British Are Coming! As Pipes would say, dig it! Download here!
It’s volume two of the epic Bliss album The British Are Coming! Clint and Alicia hit us with the album track by track! Download here!
It’s here! The hot new triple album of British-birthed tunes from the Six-String Bliss community. It’s our biggest and best album yet. Download Volume One here! Download Volume Two here! Download Volume Three here!
It’s volume one of the epic Bliss community album, The British Are Coming! Download here!
Pipes and PT lay down a quick one, just taking some time to discuss the Blisstock itinerary and a GoW Pipes loves. Download here!
Pappy reviews Amplitube 3.5 and their brand spanking new Custom Shop a la carte option and the book Guitar Lessons by Bob Taylor. Let’s all check it out! Download here!
The guys wonder how much of guitar care should be done by a guitarist themselves? Are you less of a guitarist if you don’t change your own strings? Plus Pipes needs a semi-major guitar repair. Should he attempt it himself? Download here!
The joys of Drop D tuning, plus Pipes gives away a Morley Wah pedal! Download here!
The guys discuss guitar news, Batman and a GoW who is all about the swamp blues. Download here!
Pipes reviews the Mini Morley Wah pedal. Plus, he wants you to review it. Find out how you can get your hands on this pedal AND get your review of it on Six-String Bliss. Download here!
Pappy reviews a cable from Armor, Pipes becomes a housewife and the boys get down low with the Guitarist of the Week. Download here!
Pipes and PT countdown their top 4 favorite weird guitars by major manufacturers. Plus a Guitarist of the Week, revisited and Pipes and PT fight about the merits of the straplock. Download here!
Wanna hang out with Blisteners from around the world? Wanna watch Clint Searcy wind a pickup? Wanna be at a live recording of a Six-String Bliss episode? It will all be happening at casa de Searcy in Nashville, TN this Memorial Day weekend for BliSStock 2011! To reserve your spot at this guitar-tastic event, email alicia@sixstringbliss.com today.
PT talks to the developer of the new guitar learning app, Rock Prodigy. Plus, this week’s album picks and another Tech Talk segment. Download here!
Pappy reviews the Normandy Archtop Guitar and the Pick Punch. Plus, Pipes shows the love for a lesser known British punk outfit. Download here!
PT and Pappy share their signature sounds. Plus they open the phone lines and talk to some Blisteners. Download here!
It’s the pedalboard episode! Pipes reviews a Leprechaun Pedalboard, PT reviews the Sanyo Pedal Juice and the guys cover a guitarist of the week who uses a ton of fuzz and reverb. Download here!
The boys bid a belated goodbye to the year of the fuzz with Pipes’ review of the 8-Bit Fuzz from fxdoctor.com Download here!
Pappy review the Orange TH30 amp and a Parker Fly guitar. Plus a GoW who really knows how to downstroke. Download here!
Pipes, PT and Pappy all share what they are excited about at the upcoming NAMM Show. It’s time to get psyched for new gear! Plus PT review Amplitube for iPad. Download here!
Pipes, Pappy and PT countdown their top 5 albums of the 2010. Find out what made the list! Plus, the guys then hand out the first annual Stainless Steel Bliss Stack Awards. Download here!
Pipes, Pappy, PT and Alicia each select some tracks from the Six-String Bliss albums and play them to brighten up your holidays. Check out these sweet tracks! Download here!
Pipes reviews the ‘guitar dictionary on steriods’, Guy’s Grids. Check out this cool new book and how it influenced the way Pipes thinks about guitar playing. Plus journalist Craig Havighurst sits joins down with PT to discuss his article from the December 2010 issue of Premier Guitar magazine, ‘Shape of Things’. Craig discusses the history of the legal battles around guitar shapes and what it means for the future of guitar. Download here!
Musician and record producer John Kurzweg sits down to discuss working with Creed, home recording and what to look for in a producer. Plus, Guitarist of the Week Doc Watson! Download here!
PT interviews Gig-FX founder and CEO Jeff Purchon about pedals, Peter Frampton and True Bypass. Plus a Naked Raygun GoW and much more! Download here!
Pipes reviews the Rocktron Guitar Silencer pedal plus Pipes and PT tackle the Grateful Dead!. Download here!
Pappy takes a look at an interesting and original pedal design, the VOD pedal from Gig-FX at www.gig-fx.com. Complete with soundclips! Plus Pipes may be a Cylon. Download here!
PT plays a song, Pappy reviews a DVD about Sun Records and Pipes loves the Guitarist of the Week, all on this eclectic episode of Six-String Bliss. Download here!
PT reviews the recently re-tooled Budwah from Budda Amplification. Plus Psychobilly, sound clips and more! Download here!
PT gives Pipes a blind taste test of Elixir Cables vs some other cables to hear whether Pipes can tell the difference. Put your own ears to the test to see what you think! Plus Retro Rags and a Guitar News Weekly Update. Download here!
It’s here at last! The highly anticipated Trans Genred album project makes it’s debut on the airwaves. Pipes, PT, and Pappy turn over hosting duties to Bliss Army General Alicia Searcy and the Bliss’ Black Ops Specialist Clint Searcy for almost two hours worth of music and commentary. This project, with eighteen songs from nine countries, breaks all kinds of records for SSB albums and is sure to have Blissners talking about the contributions for some time to come! Listren…
What do we do when our favorite bands change direction? Do we dare to follow? Can a band change direction without leaving their fans behind? The boys discuss. Plus, Tad Kubler as GoW! Download here!
Pipes ponders whether he might in fact be The Man, the boys get a dispatch from Pappy and get a little freaky with the GoW. Download here!
Pipes and PT hit www.guitarnewsdaily.com to share some of the best guitar stories from the last month or so. Be sure to check out www.guitarnewsdaily.com to stay up to date on all your guitar news. Download here!
Pipes, PT and Pappy (virtually) count down their top five simple riffs. See if your favorites made the cut and send us your list! This episode is sponsored by Dave’s Guitar Shop. Check them out at davesguitar.com Download here!
Matt Stevens is a guitarist who has gotten a ton of internet buzz over the lost couple years with his great albums Echo and Ghost. He talks to PT about looping, guitar playing and the new album in the works. Be sure to check out his site: http://mattstevensguitar.com/ and pick up the albums! Download here!
Pappy reviews the Eastwood Airline ’59 Customer 3P guitar. Check out what Pappy thought of this crazy-cool guitar. Here’s a hint: The guitar wins the first ever Bliss Pick award. Plus, Pipes, PT and Pappy all review the behind the scenes documentary Tom Anderson Guitarworks by Music PRO Media. Download here!
Blissner Rhettro checks in with a great segment of the top 5 Metal Riffs you need to know about. Our hosts are so inspired they decided to share 5 top riffs from some of their own favorite genres. Download here!
It’s Boutique Bliss! This time, Larry talks to Eric Stets, creator of the Stetsbar trem. Listen to hear the hows and whys of his invention and why you’ll want to check it out. Plus, Pipes and PT chat about BlissStock, Rory Gallagher and more! Download here!
There are so many quality independent builders out there, that it is impossible for the best of us to have tried them all. Pipes, PT and Pappy share the top independent guitars they are dying to try. Plus the guys discuss a lawsuit against NAMM and Guitar Center and the merits of Minimum Advertised Pricing. Download here!
Break out the beer and the party hats, cause it’s episode 200! And it’s time to go… Behind the Bliss. Download here!
Reviews of the DeLisle Fuzz Pedal, the DIY Mod Kit Piledriver and lots more good stuff! Download here!
Larry sits down with Joe of Blackbird Guitars to discuss how carbon fiber is used to make travel guitars you’ll want to stay home with and much more! Plus, rock bios and album picks. Download here!
IK Multimedia has released an app version of their great Amplitube for the iPhone and iPad, and we are here to review it! Plus a review of the Castiv Guitar Sidekick and a $500 gear mod challenge. Download here!
Episode 195: Horsepower! Horsepower! with Skinny Jim Pipes and Pappy dig into the ‘album of the month’, Horsepower! Horsepower! by Skinny Jim and the Number 9 Blacktops. But they are not alone. Rockabilly maniac Skinny Jim joins the conversation with the inside scoop. Download Here!
Pipes, PT and Pappy talk gear lust, guitar dreams and the new Six String Bliss website. Download the episode here!
Here’s how listener Martin gets his Bliss on. Send a picture of how you Bliss to pt@sixstringbliss.com.
Break out the bowling shirts and the pomade, cause it’s an entire episode all about Gretsch! We talk to Joe Carducci of Gretsch, explore the history of the company and feature TWO Gretsch-playing GoWs. Download the episode here.
SIX STRING BLISS FEATURED IN THE JULY 2010 PREMIER GUITAR If you are not reading Premier Guitar, you should be. They are always the first magazine with the cool scoops. In their July issue, they featured a full page article about the Six-String Bliss community and the albums we have released. Very cool stuff! www.premierguitar.com
Episode 192: The Case of the Singing Host Download the episode here. [mp3player width=350 height=100 config=fmp_jw_widget_config.xml file=http://media.libsyn.com/media/sixstringbliss/6SB-192.mp3] Pipes wakes up the neighbors. Six String-Bliss is featured in Premier Guitar: http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201007_1#pg44 Pappy wrote a song… and he is here to perform it! Pappy unveils a new design on www.fifthfret.org The boys enjoy a little Summer NAMM discussion. GoW: Steve Morse www.stevemorse.com Guitar News from www.guitarnewsdaily.com: Neil Young album adapted into Graphic Novel Blues Brothers endorsed by the Vatican Bliss Army Outro Track:…
It’s time for the Six-String Bliss community to party like it’s 1987! 13 tracks of pure 80s awesomeness.
Jan Carlo DeFan of the band ELAN sits down to discuss guitar, being an A&R rep for Warner Bros. Records, taking advice from bass players, and much, much more. Plus, a review of the Taylor GS Mini, and the greatest super group of all time. Download here!
The guys discuss their dream gear, string etiquette, Ronnie Montrose and so much more! Download here!
It’s all the best moments from Pappy’s two years with the Bliss. We will miss you, sir! Download here!
Whether it is a pedal, a pedalboard, or a song, there is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment you get from building your own. The guys discuss this and so much more. Download here!
PRS And Their GutsBy Pappy I love PRS as a company. I admire the fact that they rose at a pretty quick pace to match or surpass the respect given to companies that have been around for far longer and have much more heritage to call on in their models. PRS just came on and stuck to their guns, doing what they wanted to do and they succeeded. It’s the American dream. That takes guts. What also takes guts is…
The Guitar Magazine DatabaseBy PTNerds love lists. Put a random set of objects in front of a true-blue nerd, give him (or her) five minutes, and the nerd will have the objects categorized, prioritized, and itemized. They will also have created a top five list of their favorite objects, complete with detailed, passionate arguments backing each item. In this way, I am about as nerdy as they come. In high school not only did I have my entire comic book…
Goading By Pappy When I was growing up my brother and I would always get into fights and we would always be separated, and then the person who started the fight, threw the first punch or whatever, would be punished. So the trick (obviously) is to get the other to throw the first punch – to INSPIRE them – and you do this by goading them into it. You insult them, mock them, take what they hold dear…
Chicken Picks Review By Pappy I love boutique picks. See, boutique picks usually originate from one player being unsatisfied with the offerings given by bigger producers so they go out, make their own and then possibly offer this pick that was made specifically for this one player, to the public for consumption. Because of this, the picks are special because they aren’t made for everyone or the broadest base possible, not unless the producer decides he wants to start offering…
The Contagion FactorBy PT Since Pappy wrote about a Tesla-inspired pedal on Monday and a Mad Scientist-inspired stage show on Wednesday, I think it is safe to unofficially declare this Science Week here on the Fret. I thought this would be a good time to delve into a scientific problem that has been bugging me for a while now. How much of the gear I love and long to aquire is simply a result of the Contagion Factor? This idea…





