The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a ...

The term wouldn’t be popularized until the 1980s, but there, in front of hundreds of thousands of people, Joe Cocker was playing air guitar. You could start the history of the invisible ...

I should be able to play higher.' "And that was really the defining kind of root of why I invented a new kind of guitar," he added. "I just wanted to have more range in the top register--and ...