“ Fabulously well made ”... “ Always a joy to play ”... “ A sound and sustain more like that from a Les Paul than almost any other Japanes...

Ohhhh yeahhhh! As Gibson themselves put it in 1970, the 1958-1960 sunburst Les Paul Standard design really was the “Daddy of 'em all”. ...

Spending too much money on your electric guitar(s)? Going through pickups like there’s no tomorrow and finding you still can’t nail the p...

The Internet is heavily driven by populist themes. So if your interests have often strayed outside the mainstream, you may have struggled ...

In some ways, the 1980s ruined the Fender copy market . In the 1970s, even the sub-£100 guitars were made in Japan. And working on their o...

Any UK dwellers old enough to remember a mid 1980s alt comedy show called Who Dares Wins , may recall a clever and well played sketch in w...

Ah, that enduring slogan… How much can you remember? Was the BPI’s infamous anti-piracy campaign a ’70s thing? An ’80s thing? Was the slo...

Whether or not punk rock’s guitar style had a definite beginning is open to lively debate. And for good reason. The punk genre might have ...

Today, Fender Stratocasters made in the 1970s are generally regarded with affection, and have become sought after by many guitarists for t...

I wonder how many musicians reading this will have heard of a band called Eggs Over Easy? They’re not widely mentioned today, but, even thou...

Only very occasionally do you encounter the unexpected in a way that, for a short while at least, takes you into a completely different spac...

Another of the many fun memories I carry from my youth relates to the Saturday mornings I’d spend trawling round the city centre record sh...