Rob Hoffman, Author at Down on Jane -Songs, Stories, and Making Music in your 40's

The Novo Serus J: The Guitar That Wouldn’t Leave My Head

The Obsession I went to N Stuff Music to drop off my Ibanez RGEW521FM (easy name to remember, huh?) for a pickup swap. The stock pickups

Published by Rob Hoffman – Down on Jane Last Saturday night I stood in Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale with Tom, Scott,

Where It Started Before I ever plugged into a tube amp, there was a Fender Ultimate Chorus. It was made around 1991

I bought El Padre in 2020. A time when the world felt strange and quiet. COVID had everything shut down. Empty roads.

There’s a strange pocket of time I’ve found myself in. I’m home from Las Vegas. The noise, the lights, the reset button

Two weeks ago, I landed in Las Vegas with a laptop full of mixes I was determined to finish. Two weeks later,

It happened… The band got together.What’s the story, morning glory?It turned out to be the jam we didn’t know how much we

I’ve already told part of this story. When this Taylor first crossed my path, I wrote about the pull of Hawaiian koa,

There are some guitars you buy with your head, and some that haunt you from the moment you walk away. My Taylor

Thanksgiving week, I had hoped to include a band jam before the holiday chaos kicked in. Just a couple of hours of