There are guitarists who play the blues — and then there was Stevie Ray Vaughan, who set the blues on fire.Born in Dallas, Texas, in 1954, SRV grew up with a cheap hand-me-down guitar, a broken amp, and an obsession that would redefine modern blues. While other kids were learning chords, Stevie was dissecting Albert […]
Category Archives: 70’s Rock
When rock became stadium-sized. The birth of heavy riffs, epic solos and loud attitude — the golden decade of guitar gods.
Long before the world knew him as The Purple One, Prince Rogers Nelson was a Minneapolis kid obsessed with guitars. Born in 1958 to jazz musician parents, he grew up listening to Jimi Hendrix, Santana and James Brown while teaching himself to play by ear. Those early influences — Hendrix’s psychedelic flair, Santana’s lyrical phrasing […]
There’s a moment — right before the lights go down — when you hear that dry, biting crunch rip through the arena.No pedals, no frills, no digital ghosts. Just pure electricity and a pair of Gibson SGs ready to detonate.That’s Angus Young.Five foot nothing, duck-walking across the stage in a schoolboy uniform, plugged straight into […]
There’s a moment in every guitarist’s life when they plug in, hit a chord, and realize — they’re chasing a ghost named Jimi Hendrix.That swirling feedback, that liquid sustain, that sense that the guitar wasn’t just an instrument but an extension of his nervous system — that’s what changed music forever. Before Hendrix, electric guitars […]
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You can almost hear it — that razor-sharp Les Paul bite slicing through Ozzy’s voice on Crazy Train. A mix of elegance and fury, like Bach on fire through a Marshall stack. Randy Rhoads didn’t just play guitar; he redefined what it meant to be a metal guitarist with soul, brains, and perfect pitch. When […]
Every generation has its guitar hero. Hendrix lit the fire, Clapton refined the art,But no one redefined tone quite like Eddie Van Halen. His unmistakable Eddie Van Halen guitar tone — the warm, roaring ‘Brown Sound’ — became the heartbeat of rock.When the world first heard “Eruption” in 1978, jaws dropped. A new language was […]
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You can argue about who invented punk — but if you plug in a Mosrite, crank a Marshall, and downstroke until your wrist burns, there’s only one right answer: Johnny Ramone. He wasn’t a shredder. He didn’t care about solos. He didn’t even change chords that much. What he did was redefine what a guitar […]
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Los Angeles, mid-1960s.On one side of town, surf rock still rules the radio.On the other, a dim bar on the Sunset Strip fills with poets, bikers, and misfits.A leather-clad singer stands at the mic, eyes closed, channeling chaos.Beside him, a quiet keyboardist hunches over a Vox Continental stacked on a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass.A barefoot […]
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Picture this: a teenage kid in 1963, soldering wires in a dimly lit London attic, carving guitar parts from an old fireplace mantle and motorcycle springs, with his dad watching proudly from the corner. No factory. No brand name. Just Brian May, some leftover oak, and an idea — to build a guitar that could […]
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It’s 1977 in a smoky West Hollywood club. A kid with black bangs and a leather jacket drags a beat‑up white Melody Maker across a stage sticky with spilled beer. She plugs straight into a Music Man combo and counts in – four downstrokes later the room erupts. The guitar is dripping with stickers and history; […]
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