All Right Now: Remembering Guitar Great, Free’s Paul Kossoff

Best known for his sterling work on Free’s classic “All Right Now,” Paul Kossoff was one of Britain’s finest blues guitarists, destined to join the hallowed ranks of Clapton, Beck and Page if he hadn’t passed away at the tender age of 25 in 1976.

Down to the Wire: Guitar Circuit Tricks

From the moment guitarists first plugged into amplifiers, they began looking for ways to customize their sound. Really, the first effect was not a primitive tremolo or reverb. It was the suite of controls on board guitars themselves.

Comfortably Numb: David Gilmour’s 10 Greatest Guitar Performances

If tone is the great guitarist’s thumbprint, then David Gilmour must have hands the size of King Kong’s. His brilliant sound served Pink Floyd throughout all but the band’s debut album, and he continues on as an all-too-rarely recording solo artist whose discs define the heights of taste and compositional grace in rock music.

Pinball Wizard: Pete Townshend Finds His Signature Guitar Sound

The effortless flow of The Who’s genre defining rock opera Tommy – which was completed on March 7, 1969, the very day “Pinball Wizard” was released as a single – is deceptive. Beneath its sonic mesh of electric and acoustic guitars and the superb song-to-song integration of its lyrics lays a hotbed of turmoil that pushed Pete Townshend to the brink and left his bandmates feeling, at times, disenfranchised.

Arlen’s Basics Blog: Doing Your Own Repairs

If you want to tackle doing any of your own repairs on your guitars or even amps, I would certainly recommend going slowly and simply at first. You certainly don’t want to do any un-called for damage to your instrument and its electronics, nor do you want to make a problem worse. You also have to be careful to not affect its originality, especially if it’s a guitar that merits being considered a collectible, either these days or in the future!