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Thanks to all who attended the 2013 Central Coast Guitar Show!
Details about the
2014 Central Coast Guitar and Drum Show
moving to the
Alex Madonna Expo Center
San Luis Obispo, CA
April 5&6, 2014
will be announced soon
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2013 Central Coast Guitar Show
News
2013 CCGS Guitar Giveaway Winner

Kevin Beauchamp of Nipomo
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2013 CCGS Guitar Giveaway Winner
sponsored by

Roy Moran of Guadalupe (left) receives new Dean Vendetta guitar
from CCGS promoter Ed Miller.
This giveaway was to one lucky winner who liked CCGS on Facebook.
Thanks to Xombiewoof for sponsoring!
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Media Coverage of the 2013 CCGS
Front Page Article
Santa Maria Times, Sunday April 7
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here
KCOY TV
Morning Show
Friday, April 5
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enter “Central Coast Guitar Show” in lower search box to bring up video
KCOY TV Evening News
Saturday April 6
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here
Xombiewoof Music
and Entertainment Magazine Article
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here
Feature Article on CCGS in The Sun
"Guitar Lovers Unite"
by Joe Payne
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2013 CCGS Photos
(taken by Karen Witt and Ed Miller)









2013 CCGS JAM




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New CCGS Exhibitors

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2013 CCGS Guitar Giveaway

A new Fender Squire Affinity series
Telecaster was given away (see photo of winner above)
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New Sponsor www.xombiewoof.com
Xombiewoof sponsored a guitar that was given away in support of the show too
(see photo above), won
by liking Central Coast Guitar Show on Facebook

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CCGS admission tickets given away on these sponsor radio stations:


CCGS admission tickets also given away on these Fresno radio stations:
 CCGS admission tickets
also given away on these Bakersfield radio stations:
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Central Coast NBC affiliate KSBY TV on board as media sponsor
Click here to see CCGA ad being shown
on KSBY

Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce
Visitor & Convention Bureau
on board as new sponsor
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See our ad in the March
2013 and May 2013 issues of Vintage Guitar
magazine?
Check out page 110
Check out page 84

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* New show hours 10am-5pm on Saturday and 11am-4pm on Sunday
* Bring in any instrument to sell or trade and get $1 off admission
* Kids 12 and under free when accompanied by adult
The 2013 Central Coast Guitar Show will take place
on April 6&7 in Santa Maria, California, roughly midway
between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Santa Maria is central to an area called
the Central Coast, which includes Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo
counties, with a combined population of approximately 671,000. This area is
quite well known for its climate, wineries, BBQ, and a wide range of
recreational opportunities. Please plan to attend The 2013 Central Coast
Guitar Show!
The
Central Coast Guitar Show will take place at the Santa
Maria Fairpark, 937 S. Thornburg, Santa Maria, California, on
Saturday and Sunday, April 6 & 7, 2013, from 10am to 4pm Saturday and
11am-4pm Sunday.
The
show is for the purchase, sale, or trade of new, used, and vintage guitars,
amps, effects, and accessories.
Admission
was $10 per person for each day of the show, with a $1 discount for anyone
bringing a musical instrument or amp into the show for sale or trade. Parking is
free and there will be a food and beverage concession on
the premises during show hours.
A
special feature of the show will be a drawing for a guitar, no purchase required.
Lodging
The
Historic Santa
Maria Inn is the host hotel for the CCGS. The hotel is located within
walking distance of the CCGS venue and has a restaurant and
bar on the premises. The Historic Santa Maria Inn will also
host the CCGS Exhibitor & VIP Jam from 8-11pm after the show on Saturday,
April 6. The special room rate for the CCGS is $109 per night (single or double
occupancy, plus 10% room tax). Just mention Central Coast Guitar Show for the
special rate for rooms in the historic section or in the newer tower.
Call (800)462-4276 or (805)928-7777 to make your reservations as soon as you can
to ensure you get your choice of a room in the host hotel.
RVs
The Santa Maria Fairpark has on-site RV spaces available with
hook-ups, $25 per night. Call Angela in advance @ (805)925-8824.
Exhibitors
in town for the CCGS have to experience one or more of the following local
"Santa Maria Style" steakhouses, some
quite famous:
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The
Hitching Post, 3325 Point Sal Road, Casmalia. This place is a little ways
out of town, but highly recommended. The Filet Mignon and BBQ'd artichokes
are my favorite, the latter featured on the Food Network. Call ahead for
reservations at (805) 937-6151. Also check out www.hitchingpost1.com
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Jocko's Steakhouse, 125 N
Thompson Ave., Nipomo. This place is also a little bit out of town, but this
place is famous! Evel Knievel used to fly in from Montana to eat here. I
recommend the ribeye steak dinner, cooked over red oak and including
Santa Maria style beans and salsa. Call ahead for reservations at (805)
929-3565.
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F. McLintock's Saloon and Dining House, 750
Mattie Road, Shell Beach. You've probably seen this place, with the large
cowboy wood carving in front, right next to the freeway north of Pismo
Beach. I consider this place the "Disneyland of Steakhouses", with
lots of atmosphere and no one leaves hungry from this place. The place is
always packed, so call ahead for reservations at (805) 773-1892. Also
check out www.mclintocks.com
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Shaw's Steakhouse and Tavern, 714 S.
Broadway, Santa Maria. This place is across the street from, and will
be very convenient to people staying at, the Historic Santa Maria Inn. Call
call ahead for reservations at 805-925-5862.
CCGS central to all of California and then some!
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65 miles ( 75 minutes) from Santa Barbara
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91 miles ( 100 minutes) from Ventura
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130 miles ( 2.5 hours) from Bakersfield
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160 miles ( 3 hours) from Los Angeles
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171 miles ( 3 hours) from Fresno
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175 miles ( 3 hours) from Monterey
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195 miles (3.5 hours) from Anaheim
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264 miles ( 4.5 hours) from San Francisco
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283 miles ( 5 hours) from San Diego
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326 miles ( 5.25 hours) from Sacramento
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400 miles ( 6.7 hours) from Las Vegas, Nevada
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532 miles ( 8.5 hours) from Phoenix, Arizona
     

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2013 Sponsors

The New Times, San Luis Obispo
The Santa Maria Sun

The Historic Santa Maria Inn


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2012 Show
- 2012 show had approximately 700 attendees
and 30 exhibitors
- approximately 230 2012 show attendees brought in instruments to sell or
trade
Partial
2012 Exhibitor list:
Freedom
Guitar (Vintage and used guitars)
Schoenberg Guitars (Vintage and new acoustic guitars)
Demeter Amplification (Amps, effects, and more)
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo (Vintage, new and used stringed instruments)
Esoterik Guitars (High end custom electric guitars)
Robinsong Guitars (Custom handbuilt acoustic guitars)
Bennett Brothers (Guitars and amps)
Musical Rarities (Music CDs and DVDs)
Fretted Americana, Inc.
(Vintage
Guitars & Amps)
Steve Swan Guitars
(Acoustic
Guitars)
Handlebar Guitars
(Guitars
and amps)
Guitar College/99cent Guitar Lessons
(Guitar lessons)
Quilter Laboratories
(Guitar amps)
LJR Guitars- Jim Cole
(Vintage guitars and amps)
Chud King (Vintage guitars and amps)
The Slide Zone (Vintage guitars, lap steels, and amps)
Buffalo Brothers Guitars (Guitars)
Music Caravan (Accessories)
The Gear Trader (Guitars and amps)
Galaxy Music (Guitars)
Jim's Guitar Repair (Guitars and guitar repair services)
Community VW of Santa Maria (2012 VW Beetle with Fender Premium Audio
System
)
Winner of the 2012 CCGS Guitar Giveaway!

Zhanna Stinson of Oceano, California, is the winner of the 2012 CCGS Guitar
Giveaway. Zhanna and her
husband, James, took their son, Justin, to the show. Justin, 10, has been taking
guitar lessons from Glen Rathbone at
Lightning Joe's Guitar Heaven for more than 3 years. Justin heard about the show
while listening to 99.1 The Fox radio station
and talked his parents into taking him. Justin liked the show alot, especially
"the amp in the trailer" (the Quilter Amplification booth,
with the amp demo room in the 1967 Airstream trailer). Justin said will come to
the show again next year.
And, of course, Zhanna has given the new Fender Squire Stratocaster she won to
her son, Justin.
Congratulations to Zhanna and Justin!
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The Santa Maria Sun did a feature story
on the Central Coast Guitar Show the week of the
show
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KSBY TV Channel 6, the local
NBC affiliate, did a feature story on the Central Coast Guitar Show
the week of the show
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CCGS guest passes were given away on all of the
following El Dorado Broadcasters Central
Coast radio stations during the two weeks before the show.
99.1
The Fox (classic rock)
107.3
New Rock
102.5
Sunny Country
106.7
El Compa (Spanish speaking)
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2012 CCGS Guitar
Giveaway!

A drawing was held at the end of the
2012 Central Coast Guitar Show for a free Fender Squire Vintage Modified
Surf Stratocaster, candy apple red with lipstick pickups.
Very cool! See story on winner above.
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Rotary Club of Nipomo operated a concession for the CCGS, including coffee, soda, water,
donuts, and BBQ
tri -tip sandwiches
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Costa
de Oro Winery had their "Friday Wine Down" with live
music after load-in on Friday, March 23rd, from 5-8pm. And after the
show closed on Saturday, March 24th, Costa de Oro will presented a special
live music performance by Lawless
& Dean from 4-6pm. Costa de Oro is located across the freeway
from Costco and In and Out Burger at 1331 South Nicholson, Santa Maria,
phone 805.922.1468.
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The
Santa Maria Inn, our CCGS host hotel, hosted an Exhibitor Jam
after the show on Saturday, March 24th, from 7-10pm. The "house
band" was Unfinished
Business. The public was welcome and there was no cover. The Santa
Maria Inn is located at 801 South Broadway, Santa Maria, phone (805)
928-7777.
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CCGS was advertised in the March & April
2012 issues of Vintage
Guitar Magazine (see pages 126 and 84, respectively). The March issue was distributed at
the recent World Guitar Show in Costa Mesa and the NAMM Show.
2012 CCGS Media Coverage
See CCGS photo in July 2012 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine, Page 98
Click
here for article in the Santa Maria Sun
Click
here for article in the Santa Maria Times
Click
here for more Santa Maria Times photos
Click
here for the feature story on KSBY TV
Click
here for the article in the Adobe Press
CCGS 2012 Photos
(photos by Karen Witt and Ed Miller)

Ryan Cook, right, and Esoterik Guitars
staff
Gary Hernandez, Guitars West
Caroline Brass (right) & Dustin Jack (left)
of
Fretted Americana, Inc., with the Evil Robot
guitar amps in their vintage guitar display.

1960
Gibson Les Paul displayed by Ricky Beck Mahler,
John Nelson (fourth from left), formerly with Eddie Money,
owner of
The Chud King Vintage and Used Music Gear
chatting with Seymour Duncan (second from right) and Tom Benedickt
based
in Sherman Oaks. Note the $325,000 price tag.
(third from left), Handlebar
Guitars.
Ed
Miller, CCGS, with Seymour
Duncan
Dean Coy, Schoenberg
Guitars
Peter Yelda and Jim Witt
Steve Swan, Steve Swan
Guitars
and Tom Benedickt, Handlebar Guitars (left to
right)

Rob Szpuk (right), The Slide Zone, demos a lap
Jim Witt (left) and Dan Duehren
Jim Robinson, Robinsong Guitars Mike Marino
(left), Tone Candy pedals, and
steel for Los Angeles producer and artist Gio Loria
of California
Vintage
Kevin Coombs, Seymour Duncan
Company

Zach Wagner (left) of R.Zach Guitars
Dana Thorin, Music Caravan, Ed Miller, CCGS,
Central Coast artist Ron Miller
of
Ed Miller, CCGS,
with
and Ed Miller, CCGS
and Bob Page, Buffalo Brothers Guitars
(L-R)
Full Gallop
Music
Dewey Bowen (right), Freedom Guitar

Quilter Guitar Amplifiers Staff with Ed Miller (right), CCGS
Quilter Guitar Amplifiers "woodie"
van

James Demeter, Demeter
Amplification
Mark Oberg
and Gail
Anderson
Terry Veal, Community Volkswagen (CCGS
sponsor),
three Santa Maria Police
Explorers,
and Johnny Winter autographed National guitar
Guitars Not Guns booth (local
non-profit)
Keith Copas (left) of Musical Rarities
CCGS Staff: DJ, Mike, Art, and Ben
(L-R) CCGS
Staff Karen, Barb, and Kathy
(L-R) Nipomo
Rotary Club
Concession
CCGS Staff member and U2
keyboardist,
CCGS Staff member Brian Herrmann
Terry Lawless (right), checking in an
instrument
with vintage Epiphone
2012 CCGS Exhibitor Jam Photos
(Hosted by The Historic Santa Maria Inn, with house band Unfinished
Business : Jim Witt on bass and vocals. David Hollister on drums,
Ben Davis on rhythm guitar and vocals, "Toes" Cuffe on keys, and Ed
Miller on lead guitar and vocals) 
Unfinished Business

Ed
Toes
Jim

Ben
Dave

Dudley Gimpel, Ernie Ball
Company,
Mark Oberg
with Musicman
prototype

Rich Severson, Guitar College (third
from right) Zach Wagner, R. Zach
Guitars Alexander (right) sings Beatles' "Drive My
Car"
 
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