Brad Whitford Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Aerosmith’s Rhythm Guitar Architect’s Rig
When Brad Whitford walked into a Nashville storage facility to show his guitar collection to a visitor, he opened with a self-diagnosis that contains...
Bob Mould Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Hüsker Dü’s Ibanez Flying V,...
Bob Mould was born in 1960, which means jukebox singles were his toys. "I grew up with pop music in my DNA. When I...
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...
Bill Frisell Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Jazz’s Telecaster Visionary, Line 6...
Bill Frisell was born in 1951 — the same year that the Fender Telecaster was introduced. When he discovered a 1951 Telecaster that "got...
Bernie Marsden Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Whitesnake’s Blues-Rock Secret Weapon’s Rig
There is a guitar in this story that passed through the hands of Eric Clapton, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser, and an unknown intermediate owner...
Bernard Sumner Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Joy Division’s Shergold Masquerader &...
Bernard Sumner felt he couldn't sing and play guitar at the same time. This is the specific personal limitation that changed the course of...
Barney Kessel Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Jazz’s Most Recorded Guitarist’s Gibson...
Barney Kessel first encountered the guitar while walking his paper route as a boy in Muskogee, Oklahoma, when he passed a music store and...
Andy Powell Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Wishbone Ash’s Flying V Icon’s...
Here is a fact that says everything about the strange, beautiful randomness of rock history: the guitar most closely associated with Andy Powell —...
Andy Latimer Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Camel’s Gibson Les Paul, Fender...
Rolling Stone, reviewing Camel, noted that they were "rarely as flashy as Genesis, never as bombastic as Emerson Lake and Palmer." This is both...
Alvin Lee Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Ten Years After’s Big Red...
At Woodstock in August 1969, in front of approximately 500,000 people on the second day of the festival, Alvin Lee played a solo in...
