Steve Vai
More than 40 years into his career, Steve Vai is still pushing himself as a musician and exploring the boundaries of the guitar. A...
Classics: May 2022
Wilbert Harrison’s 1959 version of Leiber and Stoller’s “Kansas City” shares space at the summit of all-time blues/pop classics, its guitar part ably handled...
Benson Model 300H
Even with all the excellent guitar amps available by the late ’60s, nothing was quite good enough for jazz and studio great Howard Roberts...
Epiphone by Gibson Firebird 500
Gibson will forever be celebrated for its heritage of innovation, including guitars that didn’t look like the common perception of guitars. And for all...
Ray Cummins – I’ll See You In My Dreams
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Ray Cummins Plays the 1956 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 prototype “Dark Eyes”
VG ace online tutor Ray Cummins uses the famed ’56 Gretsch Chet...
Rick Vito’s Tale Of Two Grails
Whether it was by watching “Bandstand” on TV or learning the licks of Duane Eddy, Chuck Berry, or the Ventures, Philadelphia native Rick Vito’s...
1971 Dumble Special 16 #0001
1971 Dumble Super 16
• Preamp tubes: three 12AX7
• Output tubes: eight 6L6GC (most likely)
• Rectifier: solid-state
• Controls: Volume 1, Volume 2, Treble, Middle, Bass,...
1939-’42 Gibson SJ-100
Through the 1910s and early ’20s, Gibson catalogs denigrated flat-top guitars as inferior, unworthy of the company name. But that tune changed in 1926,...
Classics: March 2022
If your radio was tuned to a country station even for a few minutes anytime in the last 30 years, odds are you’ve heard...
“Unicorn”: Ca. 1910 Rafael Casana
This extremely rare guitar has been dubbed the “Unicorn” by virtue of the fact that for all his fame, it may be the only...