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Start A Band

Plug in, tune up, and crank the amp, because you're makin' music!

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Denali Saddle Blanket Guitar Strap

Let's be real, most straps you pick up at the local 🎸 shop are cookie-cutter sadness sheets of canvas and hide. These bespoke saddle-blanket axe holders from Denali Straps look cowboy-cool and are as supportive as a music studio sofa. Don't let your friend settle for anything less than distinguished comfort while shredding.

Gretsch Rancher Jr. Acoustic-Electric

With a clientele as varied as Jack White and Bo Diddley, Gretsch makes some of the most handsome, renegade acoustics in the biz. This particular axe 🎸 features a spruce top, arched mahogany back, and a Fishman® Isys+ pickup/preamp system, giving your buddy the option to plug-in before donning a Stetson and conducting a wistful serenade.

Pearl Roadshow 5-Piece Drumset

Gift your buddy the dream of venting their misplaced office anger on a musical punching bag! 🥁

This dazzling kit from rock legends, Pearl, includes everything the beginner or intermediate drummer could possibly require, including double-braced, poplar toms, snare, bass drum and pedal, and stands. Normal bud one day, Keith Moon the next.

Epiphone Les Paul Classic Custom Pro

For almost 70 years, there has been no instrument more synonymous with bellowing, euphonic, neighbor-riling sound than the Les Paul guitar. Give the harmonies in your buddy's head a voice with this gorgeous piece, featuring open coil humbucker pickups, a rosewood fingerboard, and Epiphone Deluxe Tuners. Make it LOUD! 🤘

Ion Audio Tailgater Plus PA System

No garage-rock band is complete without the bellow or shriek (depending on range) of a proper lead singer. Give a voice to those with absolutely no other musical proclivities with this portable, 50-Watt weapon of sound. 💣

Lasts fifty hours on a charge so friends can sing it loud, and sing it proud! *Robert Plant voice* aaaAAAaaaHHH aH!

Orange Crush Micro Amp

Jimmy Page. Mastodon. Sepultura. These are not quiet artists. These are thunder-chugging, riff-sweating, diabolic sound-lords sent to sizzle ear canals and make heads bang with one thing in common: they all play Orange amps. Now in bite-size roar! 🤯