Tour of Drum Workshop

From the lead Dragon, Guy Ragland:

I flew out to the Drum Workshop factory in Oxnard, CA on Sunday and we had a day-long event on Monday. It included a tour through the factory where we saw the entire production process for building handmade drums. We got to build our own drum shell as a souvenir and we checked out the new finishes on the DW Performance Series Kits.

They had Terry Bozzio and Thomas Lang there to demo the gear. They are both nationally known drummers. We spent an hour and a half giving them feedback on their product and the business in general. Lots of food and some great music from local artists.

DW is a custom shop and they can build virtually anything you can imagine including exotic woods and custom graphics. They’re a great company and very attentive to the needs of the customer and their dealer network. 

And yes, we carry them at Dancing Dragon Music, 4220 North May Avenue, Oklahoma City!

Guy

September 21 Dancing Dragon Special: Ovation!

Going beyond our everyday affordable prices, this special is exceptional.  Today only! 

Ovation 1861AX5 Standard Balladeer
Retail:  $999

Dancing Dragon special, today only:  $399!

You save $600!

Ovation guitars are well known for their durability and exceptional sound.  Here are just a few specs on this guitar!

This Standard Balladeer features a hand-selected, deluxe AA solid-spruce top with scalloped bracing, and a Super-Shallow composite body. Its slim bowl is preferred by many stage performers and amplified acoustic guitarists because it feels similar to an electric, yet it retains all the benefits and acoustic properties of Ovation’s proven roundback design. A cutaway offers full access to the satin-finished, 5-piece mahogany/maple neck, and a traditional center soundhole is inlaid with an oak-leaf rosette and adorned with mother-of-pearl. The Balladeer’s OP-Pro preamp and OCP-1K pickup produce uncompromising plugged-in performance.

The special is for today only, September 21.


4220 North May Avenue, Oklahoma City.

September 20th Daily Special! Breedlove...

If you've played one, you "know."  If you haven't, you need to.  Breedlove guitars are one of the finest-made guitars in the country and our special for you today, is...

Breedlove Studio C250 - case included
Englemann spruce top
Ovangkol back/sides
Retail is $1,129

Dancing Dragon Music Price:  Only $545.  That is for today, September 20, 2011 only!  You'd better come to 4220 North May Avenue quickly.

Charvel Introduces Desolation Series Guitars

Yes, and we some at Dancing Dragon Music.  From Premier Guitar.com:

Scottsdale, AZ  – Charvel is proud to introduce its new Desolation series guitars. These are entirely new instrument designs not previously seen in the high-performance guitar maker’s 30-year history, offering more tonal and stylistic options for discerning players everywhere and bringing a long-acclaimed tradition of high performance to more guitarists now than ever before.

There are 10 new guitars in the “first wave” of the Charvel Desolation series—four single-cutaway “DS” models, three double-cutaway “DC” models and three highly distinctive Skatecaster “SK” models loosely based on the Charvel Surfcaster of the early 1990s. All feature mahogany bodies and necks, dual humbucking pickup configurations with three-way toggle switching, solid and transparent finishes (with flame maple veneer on trans finishes) and black nickel hardware. Most feature compound-radius (12”-16”) rosewood fingerboards with 24 jumbo frets in a variety of neck-through, set-neck and bolt-on configurations; Charvel bridges specially designed for compound-radius fingerboards (except DS-3 ST Floyd Rose-equipped models); and three-on-a-side locking Charvel tuners (except DS-3 ST and Floyd Rose-equipped models, which have non-locking three-on-a-side tuners).

Charvel Desolation “DS” single-cutaway models and features are:
• DS-1 ST: Carved top, neck-through-body design, bound neck with scalloped heel, abalone position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, dual Seymour Duncan Blackout active humbucking pickups, matching headstocks
• DS-1 FR: Carved top, neck-through-body design, bound neck with scalloped heel, abalone position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, dual Seymour Duncan Blackout active humbucking pickups, Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo, matching headstocks
• DS-2 ST: Carved top, bound set neck with scalloped heel, pearloid position inlays, pearloid body and headstock binding, dual Charvel active humbucking pickups
• DS-3 ST: Carved top, bolt-on neck, 12”-radius fingerboard with dot inlays, dual Charvel passive humbucking pickups

Charvel Desolation “DC” double-cutaway models and features are:
• DC-1 ST: Carved top, neck-through-body design, bound neck with scalloped heel, abalone position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, EMG 85 (neck) and 81 (bridge) active humbucking pickups, matching headstocks
• DC-1 FR: Carved top, neck-through-body design, bound neck with scalloped heel, abalone position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, EMG 85 (neck) and 81 (bridge) active humbucking pickups, matching headstocks, Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo, matching headstocks
• DC-2 ST: Carved top, bound set neck with scalloped heel, pearloid position inlays, pearloid body and headstock binding, dual Charvel active humbucking pickups

Charvel Desolation “SK” Skatecaster models and features are:
• SK-1 ST: Solid body shape based on early-’90s hollow-body Surfcaster, neck-through-body design, bound neck, abalone “keystone” position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, EMG 85 (neck) and 81 (bridge) active humbucking pickups, single control knob (volume), matching headstocks
• SK-1 FR: Solid body shape based on early-’90s hollow-body Surfcaster, neck-through-body design, bound neck, abalone “keystone” position inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, EMG 85 (neck) and 81 (bridge) active humbucking pickups, single control knob (volume), Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo, matching headstocks
• SK-3 ST: Solid body shape based on early-’90s hollow-body Surfcaster, bolt-on neck, pearloid “keystone” position inlays, pearloid body and headstock binding, dual Charvel passive humbucking pickups, single control knob (volume)

NEW! Daily Specials

In the fast-pasted world of music retail, those who can't keep up are usually lost in the crowd.  Well, we're not going to get lost...we're going to lead the pack.

Beginning this week, check this blog and our Facebook page for daily specials - specials on everything from accessories to drum kits.  It's our way of telling Oklahoma musicians that we are there for you, that we want to be your primary resource for all things musical!

Check back often!

If They Will Do It To Them...

At Dancing Dragon, we're about music, not politics, so this blog today is a little different and off the beaten path.  But, it's about guitars and politics, so we hope you come along for the ride...

If you're a serious musician, you no doubt heard about a raid on the Gibson guitar factory in Tennessee last year as well as previous raids on Gibson.  The bottom line is that Gibson has come under government scrutiny for using wood that is not approved for export by the country of origin.  In their previous raid, Gibson was found to not have violated the law.

The federal government has seized about $500,000 worth of wood used to make fingerboards and as you know, without a fingerboard, a guitar is little more than a paper weight.

Here is a snippet from a Human Events story regarding the Tennessee Congresswoman who is demanding answers from the Obama Administration as to why the job-creating Gibson Guitar Company is being targed:

The Tennessee congresswoman, in whose district many Gibson Guitar workers live, co-signed a Sept. 8 letter to three federal agencies that raided Gibson Aug. 24 demanding status on the government’s investigation.


“Having armed federal agents raid an iconic American company is no way to inspire economic certainty and spur job creation,” said Rep. Marsha W. Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), the vice-chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade sub-committee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.


The letter is part of Blackburn’s struggle to figure out why the administration is going after Gibson in such a heavy-handed manner, when there is significant question whether a crime has been committed, she said.


In 2008, the Lacey Act of 1900, which forbids the importation of items into the United States that are not approved for export by the country of origin, was amended to specifically focus federal law enforcement on imported woods.


An affidavit filed with the search warrant request, referred to the illegal importation of wood from India, which the letter also addresses:  “The source country at issue, however, has no problem with Gibson’s actions. The deputy director general of foreign trade for India has stated that India would allow the export.”

Regardless of how you feel about Gibson guitars, this should be a wake-up call and yes, musicians should get involved in the process of protecting and demanding freedom from an over-reaching government.

DDM

Guild Artist Spotlight: Electric Touch

Dancing Dragon is proud to carry Guild guitars - here's a spotlight from Guild.