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 ...

Gibson calls its replica the Eric Clapton 1958 Les Paul Custom, but Clapton is only one of the stars to have owned and played this storied guitar ...

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 ...

This guitar was made in Japan by by the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company company. It is a copy of a guitar by the USA guitar makers Martin & Co. In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided ...