Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Jangle Pop...
"I decided to seek out a Rickenbacker because I liked the 'really jangly, bright sound' and because the Byrds and the Beatles had used...
Barry Melton (Country Joe and the Fish) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to...
"This is my mid-'60s Gibson SG with Bigsby bar, leaned against my prototype predecessor of the Mesa Boogie amp. The guitar is relatively stock,...
Rick Springfield Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Jessie’s Girl’s Straight-Into-the-Amp Guitar Setup
"Actually, I used one guitar and one amp. I had a 12-watt Morgan PR12 1x12 combo and my '69 Gibson SG — which I...
Phil X (Bon Jovi) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Greek-Canadian Riff...
"My go-to rig: I've got an SG, for sure... one always has a P-90 in it, and one has a humbucker in it. Then...
Vinnie Vincent (KISS) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Egyptian Ankh Warrior’s...
Gene Simmons called Vinnie Vincent "by far" KISS's best guitar player. This is a remarkable statement from a man who managed Ace Frehley, Bruce...
Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Reaper’s...
"There's not one iconic thing; I never used pedals back in the day — it was just a guitar into an amp for years."...
Brent Hinds (Mastodon) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Fearless Guitar Slinger’s...
Brent Hinds passed away on August 20, 2025. He was fifty-one years old. He was the lead guitarist and co-vocalist of Mastodon for twenty-five...
Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Atlanta’s Riff Architect’s Rig
"My dad didn't believe in distortion." This is the biographical origin of one of the most technically sophisticated heavy metal guitarists in contemporary music...
Kirk Windstein (Down/Crowbar) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to New Orleans Sludge Metal’s...
"The thing is, up until when Dime turned me on to the Randall was right around the time we started to drop tuning —...
Pepper Keenan (COC/Down) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Southern Metal Workhorse’s...
"I plugged in that Thunderverb 50, no pedals or anything, and just raked a G chord. It sounded like fucking Malcolm Young! I just...
