T he music product and recording industries have been swept up in a technological revolution for well over a quarter century now – but despite advancements that we take for granted, some musicians just can’t help but wax nostalgic about a bygone era, the golden age of the electric guitar.
You probably know someone who regularly laments that recent generations haven’t produced a guitar hero to rival the icons of the Sixties and Seventies. Likewise, manufacturers have repeatedly returned their focus to the aesthetics of the Fifties and Sixties, and more recently, the Eighties. And when the attitude of consumers and guitar collectors alike has long been that ‘They just don’t make ’em like they used to’, why wouldn’t they?