Musical Instruments

Working hard to record Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut, Appetite for Destruction, Slash was experiencing nothing but frustration trying to achieve the tones he was seeking with a range of contemporary electric guitars he was using. Then someone handed him a reissue-style Les Paul Standard, and that was all she wrote. With this legendary rock machine in hand, Slash laid down the deadliest rock riffs of the decade—propelling songs like “Paradise City”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, and “Welcome to the Jungle”—and fired up the biggest-selling debut album of all time in the process.

As one of the heaviest metal men ever to burst out of Canada and North America, and a major force in Europe and Asia...

Known for his rhythmic genius, longtime Taylor player Dave Matthews is a man who needs little introduction to fans of popular music. As the...

BBE recently discontinued their BBE Freq Boost stompbox. The description BBE gives this pedal is: The Freq Boost is patterned after a rare Treble...

The latest incarnations of Fender’s famous Telecaster and Stratocaster models comprise the new American Special series—built “by the people, for the people” as value-laden...

The argument arises every once in a while that there are no new effects made for guitarists. Most argue that the new effects are...

I have for most of my life been in one player guitar bands. I cannot say if has been by design or fate. Being...

College Park-based Coil LLC has developed six patent-pending electronics to make that - and more - possible. Invented by electrical and computer...

Editor’s note: Here’s the second installment of our Epiphone: 75 Years of Great Tone series. Check back on July 10 for our third installment....

Even the fiercest rockers like their hot-looking guitars, and no axe out there offers the intensity of eye candy captured in the form of...