What? December 31st already? High time for our annual review. This year we’ve decided to get technical and share some of our 2011 web statistics.

Where did this year’s 51,316 visitors come from? It’s no surprise that the majority were from the U.S. followed by Canada and then the U.K. D’uh oh.

Hard to believe, but this week Felderfans.com celebrates six years online.

Quite honestly, we never expected the site to grow as it has. What started out as an HTML trial-and-error sandbox has evolved into full-blown social media geekdom. Thanks to Don and to those who have kindly donated images and other content over the years. Without your support, we’re not sure if we’d still be here today.

A word about our site commenting: After years of battling comment spam, last year we discontinued the fan forum and implemented Facebook’s social commenting system.

Welcome to 2011! If you haven’t made a resolution yet, consider bookmarking us, subscribing via an RSS reader, getting the latest posts delivered to your in-box, friending us on Facebook or following us on Twitter. It’s a heckuva lot easier than trying to lose weight.

Another year is drawing to a close, and instead of the usual “Felderfans Year in Review,” the editor, blind with optimism, has chosen to look forward to a newsworthy New Year. Spoiled over the years by our thorough investigative journalism, this site’s readers may find here one or more of the following front page headlines starting in January:

That “big guitar tone” heard on Already Gone, pick-ups on the Les Pauls, the source of that distinctive sustain in Visions and acoustic vs. electric guitars on stage and in the studio.

This and more as Don answers the latest fan questions in our Guitar Q & A.