Award-Winning RKS Guitars Gives Away Four Exquisite Jet Black 'Dark Star' Electric Guitars in a Drawing During Last Month's NAMM Show 2006

Award-Winning RKS Guitars Gives Away Four Exquisite Jet Black 'Dark Star' Electric Guitars in a Drawing During Last Month's NAMM Show 2006

Quartet of Lucky Recipients Ranges From Arkansas to British Columbia

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- As Southern California-based RKS Guitars continued its campaign of "Creative Destruction" at the 2006 NAMM Show last month, they further spread the word about their revolutionary instruments via the give-away of four signature "Dark Star" hollow-body electric guitars. RKS' rallying cry to "Get The Experience" became a new year's reality for a quartet of lucky NAMM attendees who each took home the sleek satin black instrument valued at over $2,100. Winners were drawn from entries filled out at RKS's NAMM showroom during the January convention in Anaheim, CA.

Among the contest winners were two California residents including renowned pianist Spencer Brewer, who recorded more than half a dozen albums for the Narada label over the last two decades. Brewer resides in Ukiah in Mendocino County, where he owns the Ukiah Music Center, a full line music store, and the recording studio Laughing Coyote Productions. Brewer said, "Although I'm a non-guitar player, I saw right away that RKS Guitars have quite a cool design, kind of like an elegant skeleton. The guitar players at the store are all over it, so I can drool over it through them. I really appreciate being part of the experience."

Ojai, California's Ali Thompson, a painter and graphic artists, says that she was, "screaming and jumping up and down at the hotel" when RKS called to tell her she'd won. This year's NAMM marked Thompson's first visit to the world famous music products trade show, and her good fortune has inspired her to begin guitar lessons post-haste. "Thank you for all the amazing music, Dave Mason," she shouts out to the guitar hero and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who's also one of RKS Guitars co-founders, along with award-winning product designer Ravi K. Sawhney, Ph.D. and information technology pioneer Dale Jensen.

Outside the Golden State, RKS Dark Star winners include Matt Pierce, co-owner of Guit-Down Music in Jonesboro, Arkansas, about fifty miles outside of Memphis, Tennessee. "I've never won anything before, and I almost didn't register," says Matt, adding, "RKS Guitars are unlike anything that's sold around here. Given the craftsmanship involved, I think they'll blow peoples' minds when they see them. I'm looking forward to selling them at Guit-Down and helping to get the word out."

RKS' youngest NAMM winner was 15-year-old high school student Nick Rideout of Vernon, British Columbia, where his step-father Rick Doling owns the Vernon Music Shoppe. Rick remembers Nick tearing back to the RKS booth when he learned he'd won, and says, "RKS Guitars makes a really a revolutionary instrument -- very different, very well made. They're also very nice people, which helps make the experience. We've already talked about carrying them."

2005 was an extraordinary year of growth and prestigious awards for RKS Guitars, and they dramatically kicked off 2006 by expanding their product line with the introduction the ultra-resonant electric guitar "The Wave," and the first two RKS Guitars bass models -- the "A-Bass" and the "Sym-Bass" -- at the NAMM Show. Based at their headquarters and state-of-the-art production facility in Oxnard, CA, RKS Guitars are 100% U.S.-made and represent the first true revolution in electric guitar design in fifty years.

"The Look, The Feel, The Sound, Get the Experience"

www.rksguitars.com

Source: RKS Guitars

CONTACT: Erin Podbereski, +1-626-585-9575, erin@jensencom.com, for RKS
Guitars

Web site: http://www.rksguitars.com/

-------
Profile: intent