SRV’s Flood

WHO KNOWS WHAT guitar music might be today if Stevie

SECOND COMING

In the summer of 1988, Stevie Ray Vaughan had just

SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE

AS A MEMBER of one of rock’s most influential bands,

STICKS and TONES

LISTENERS MIGHT APPROACH Cindy Blackman Santana’s new album, Give the

RENAISSANCE MAN

I’VE ALWAYS SEEN the guitar as a tool to make

AMERICAN SONGSMITH

JAMES TAYLOR IS one of the most influential acoustic guitar

Plays Well With Others

SONIC EXPLORER DAVID TORN has conferred his exotic tones and

Tiger in His Tank

TOM LIEBER HAS been building fine, handcrafted guitars since 1971,

My Career in Five Songs

WHEN ASSESSING ALEX Skolnick’s prodigious body of work as one

Padded Sell

SOLID-STATE GUITAR AMPS were touted as “the way forward” when

Sisterhood of the Sirens

TERE ESTRADA IS a guitarist, singer/ songwriter, author and sociologist

Double Your Pleasure

IN SAN FRANCISCO, back in the 1980s, ultra-hip multi-instrumentalist Robin

7-Tone Interval Mastery

IT’S NOT UNCOMMON for a hotshot high school guitarist to

Slash Chords Crash Course

BACK IN THE ’80s, when I was a teenager struggling

Path to Finger Freedom

WE RECENTLY ADDRESSED how to work with the thumb and

Taylor AD27

NAMED FOR THE Southern California guitar shop where Taylor Guitars

Fender JIM ROOT JAZZMASTER V4

EVEN THOUGH IT took me a minute to recognize the

Tech 21 SANSAMP PSA 2.0

BASED ON THE PSA-1 rackmount processor introduced in 1993, the

IK Multimedia Z-TONE DI

DIGITAL AMPLIFIER PLUG-INS have made it possible to get great

Maxon APEX 808

THIS LATEST ITERATION of the venerable TS-808 - originally made

Ragged Glory

WHEN THE FENDER Custom Shop unveiled the first two guitars

Millennial Marvel

“ROCK AND ROLL is a creation of Black America,” Seattle-based

“Surrender”

ALTHOUGH “SURRENDER” WAS featured on Cheap Trick’s third album, 1978’s