Traynor YBA-2 Bass Mate
Canadian amp maker Traynor gets a lot of respect in some circles for turning out solid, good-sounding tube amps that are built with quality...
Horray For Hollywood
Movies made in the 1950s and ’60s that included rock-and-roll music acts typically showed them performing in segments using their own equipment (Little Richard...
1978 Gibson RD Artist
Throughout most of the 1970s, Les Pauls ruled the guitar roost. But toward the end of the decade, some players became interested in more-sophisticated electronics,...
National Bel-Air
The idea of Gibson providing guitar parts to another prominent guitar maker is laughable today, but in the 1940s and ’50s, relationships were cozier...
Boggs’ Quad
Noted in musical history as one of the players who pushed the steel guitar beyond Hawaiian music to more-complex chording and wild interchanges with...
National-Dobro 6107A
Preamp tubes: 56, 57
Output tubes: two 2A3
Rectifier: 5Z3
Controls: Volume
Output: 6 watts RMS +/-
Speaker: one 10" Lansing Model 112
Why doesn’t this ever happen to us?...
Kustom’s The Bag
When Steppenwolf’s John Kay took the stage, it was easy to believe he was performing a suitably ’60s ceremony celebrating the wine god Bacchus,...
Homer Haynes’ ’59 D’Angelico Excel
From 1932 to 1964, independent builder John D’Angelico produced some of the finest jazz guitars.
After apprenticing and working in the violin trade, D’Angelico transitioned...
Beyond the Parlor
Ed. Note: In part two of his series on the guitar in 19-century America, Tim Brookes addresses the common belief that the guitar was strictly a ladies’...
Star Board: Rudy Jaramillo
Rudy Jaramillo is quick to mention that his effects setup is very simple. "I go into my 1) Boss tuner, then to a 2)...