Billie Joe Armstrong Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Green Day’s $180 “Blue”...
Billie Joe Armstrong's primary guitar — the guitar used on Dookie, the guitar that appears in every Green Day music video of the Dookie...
Billie Joe Armstrong Guitars & Gear: The Complete Era-by-Era Guide to Green Day’s Punk...
He was eleven years old when he got it. A scratched-up Fernandes Stratocaster copy buried under stickers, passed down through a chain of people...
Wes Borland Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Limp Bizkit’s Living Art Installation
His guitar tech has a name for the process of getting a new instrument ready for use: "Wes-proofing."
Kadaver Dellamorte, Borland's longtime tech, described it...
Adam Jones Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Tool’s Sonic Architect
The Gibson Silverburst Les Paul Custom was manufactured between 1978 and 1985. It was discontinued by Gibson because the unique metallic paint finish was...
Kerry King Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Slayer’s Most Metal Guitarist
He got a little eight-ounce can of black paint, stuck a drumstick in it, and dribbled it all over the guitar.
"Very musical," Kerry King...
Jerry Cantrell Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Alice in Chains’ Dark Architect
He was working at a guitar shop in Dallas, Texas in 1985. He was nineteen years old and had just quit his first year...
Nuno Bettencourt – The Funk Metal Architect of Fire and Precision
There are guitarists who can shred.And then there’s Nuno Bettencourt — the guy who turned shred into swagger.
Born in the Azores, raised in Boston,...
Dave Murray Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Iron Maiden’s Stratocaster Warrior
In 1976, a twenty-year-old guitarist in East London saw an advertisement in Melody Maker. A Fender Stratocaster was for sale. The previous owner: Paul...
Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Wildchild’s...
The Marshall JVM410H amplifier head that served as Alexi Laiho's primary amplifier for the last decade of his career carries the serial number M-2007-32-0567-1....
Tom Morello Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Man Who Made a...
At the age of twenty-something, Tom Morello went to see two cover bands play a throwaway gig. Both bands had shredders of what he...
