Jabo, Vince, and Broadcaster 0048
It’s routine for Vince Gill, as one of Nashville’s true connoisseurs of electric and acoustic gear, to receive tips about rare guitars for sale....
Dean DeLeo and Tom Bukovac unite on the trip the witch
At a glance, there’s little reason to connect a guitarist like Dean DeLeo to one like Tom Bukovac. One is ’90s-rock royalty, the other...
Dan’s Guitar RX: Creating the Iris DE-11
In last month’s “Approved Gear,” VG reviewed the Iris Guitar Company DE-11. If you missed it, I’d suggest you grab the issue and check...
Classics: January 2022
Sammy Ash first laid eyes on a PRS guitar in the early ’80s, after catching a glimpse of one in Guitar Player magazine.
“I stopped...
The West Avalon R
1971 West Avalon R
• Preamp tubes: two 12AX7, two 12AT7
• Output tubes: two EL34
• Rectifier: solid-state
• Controls: Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass, Reverb, Bright switch
•...
Epiphone Riviera
The Epiphone Riviera helped reinvent Epiphone in the 1960s as a modern guitar company whose instruments sported such contemporary features as thinline, semi-hollow, double-cutaway...
Rickenbacker 325
Details
In 1962, the Ac’cent Vibrato replaced the original Rick’s standard Kauffman unit, which was derived from a nearly 30-year-old design – and notorious...
The Audiovox 736 Electric Bass and 936 Amp
Eight decades ago, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer revealed the story of Paul H. Tutmarc debuting his latest invention – a solidbody electric bass.
The 1935 article...
Classics: December 2021
Live-music fans who roamed South Florida from the early ’80s until the mid 2000s might recognize Craig Ball’s ’67 Rickenbacker 360/12.
Ball was lead guitarist...
Zakk Wylde
Best-known as Ozzy Osbourne’s longest-tenured guitarist, Zakk Wylde has also been the leader of Black Label Society since the late ’90s. With Ozzy off...