Nobody disputes the fact that the Jazzmaster was designed for jazz guitarists, so it’s hard to understand why Leo Fender imagined all those ‘one tone for everything’ archtop huggers would be drawn to ...

The friendship between Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck was enduring and genuine, and it is perhaps best summed up in the tale of a very special Fender Telecaster – one that saw use in the hands of both ...

Leo Fender’s legacy revolutionizing modern music has been well chronicled at the Fullerton Museum Center. Starting out as a tinkerer in his radio repair shop, Fender went on to create and mass produce ...

Innovation is about more than the people who create a product, or the companies that back them. The history of the electric guitar shows that the musicians who worked the instrument were as much a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As my column for Thursday suggests, the Fender electric guitar deserves ...

When Fender launched the first ever mass-produced electric solidbody guitars in 1950 - the blonde Esquire and Broadcaster - the instruments became the de facto leaders of a brand-new niche in the ...

Swamp ash is a wood prized by guitar makers and musicians for its light weight and resonant sound. But flooding, and a tiny bug, threaten the wood and the sound that is synonymous with rock music.

But despite eventually becoming cool and fashionable among rock music’s elite, both brands had slightly nerdy origins. Orville Gibson, who founded the Gibson Guitar company was a self-taught luthier ...

Jimmy Page brought a special magic to Led Zeppelin. Or so it’s been charged. Page studied the works of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn founder Aleister Crowley as well as sacred geometry and the ...