Tag: features
Black Sabbath
Sabbaholic Must-Have
In May of 1972, Black Sabbath retreated to Los Angeles to record its fourth album, along with a mountain of cocaine. The result...
Lyle Workman
You might not recognize his name, but in the last 30 years, Lyle Workman and his guitars have backed Sting, Todd Rundgren, and Frank...
Fixing Tuner Holes in a Rare Gibson
I’ve worked on plenty of old Gibsons, but guitars like this 1939 J-55 are rare. It’s only the second one I’ve ever seen, and...
Peter Frampton
Formed with two formidable front men in Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton, Humble Pie was one of the earliest “supergroups” to emerge from the...
Rory Gallagher’s Photo-Finish
The year 1977 saw upheaval in rock and roll, from the death of Elvis Presley and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crash to the emergence of...
Classics – April 2021 Edition
Like so many Vintage Guitar readers, Steve Evans was propped in front of a TV that February night in 1964 when the Beatles first...
The 1966 Murph Squire II-T
Despite what many enthusiasts believe, there has been only one really significant “lawsuit” that defined a class of guitars – Norlin v. Elger, 1977...
The Airline GIM 9151A
1970 Montgomery Ward Airline GIM 9151A
Preamp tubes: three 12AX7
Output tubes: four 6L6GC
Rectifier: solid-state
Controls: Volume, Treble, Bass on each...
Simon Adahl’s 1958 Höfner 162
He may not be part of anthropological history like Dutch paleontologist Eugene Dubois, but Simon Adahl did have to dig a bit to discover...
Wolf Hoffmann
Traditional heavy metal is still a thriving beast thanks to bands like Accept, whose latest studio album, Too Mean to Die, is full of...