United They Stood, Part 2
In the history of guitars, the tale of United Guitar Corporation is a ghost story – little documented and lost in partially self-imposed obscurity.
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The Leo Krebs Tape Echo Amplifier
If you have no recollection of the revolutionary amplifier with 19 knobs, 23 tubes, and built-in tape echo created by Leo in California, chances...
Fender Palomino
Whether all collectors are as attached to nicknames as guitar enthusiasts is unclear. Do salt-and-pepper shaker collectors have fond shortcuts for, say, a Popeye...
David Hidalgo Plays Joe Walsh’s ’59 Les Paul
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David Hidalgo Plays Joe Walsh’s ’59 Les Paul
The video that helped convince Joe Walsh to reunite with his (now favorite!) ’59 Gibson Les...
Match Game
“There’s no telling how much time I spent at the library, looking at books about cars,” says Steve Evans of his years spent researching...
Gibson SG Les Paul
In 1961, Gibson replaced its Les Paul series with a new line of lightweight, ultrathin, all mahogany, double-cutaway solidbodies the SG (for solid guitar)....
Kevin Keaton’s 1958 Esquire
June 10, 2020, was a summer night like most in the life of Kevin Keaton, a postal mail carrier and guitarist who gigs in...
Christopher Thorn
Best known as half of the guitar tandem in the ’90s alternative-rock band Blind Melon (that’s his rhythm on “No Rain,” using his Gibson...
Ted Newman Jones’ West-Texas Guitars
Boxcars
Among the vast papers, drawings, photographs, and tapes at Texas Tech’s Crossroads of Music Archive is a guitar beloved by the late Jesse “Guitar”...
Classics: October 2021
Pete Prown’s obsession with the Ibanez Iceman began when the company’s 1978 guitar catalog landed atop dealer display cases; the teen rocker dreamily eyed...