The “Originals” Collection
THE ORGINALS If you are lucky enough to have every guitar you’ve evern owned, I envy you. All but two of mine are most likely lost for all time. About ten years ago I got the wild idea of trying to find all my guitars, and when that didn’t work very well I got the […]
Why So Many Guitars?
I get asked this a lot: Why So Many Guitars? Well, this because at some point, I stopped chasing the idea of the one “perfect” guitar. What I started chasing instead was something much more useful: What each guitar actually does better than anything else. That is a very different game. And it is exactly […]
When a Guitar Changes Your Mind
I didn’t see this one coming. For years, my relationship with PRS was… respectful, but distant. I’ve owned a 2002 Custom 22 forever. It’s a good guitar. Solid. Dependable. But every time I picked up another PRS, I’d walk away thinking the same thing: nice, but not for me. The headstock never quite […]
Marshall 1959 Modified & Vintage 25 Watt Greenbacks – Welcome Back Old Friend
I owned an early Plexi Marshall back in the mid-1980s. It was finicky and noisy, but when it was dialed in just right, it produced a sound that felt almost alive. I modded mine (what I did is lost to time), and somehow it became even better. It stopped being just an amp and started […]
Completed EVH Collection
From the first moment I saw the black-and-white guitar Eddie Van Halen was holding on the Van Halen I album cover, I lusted after that guitar, or at least tried to find one like it, with the same intensity as a 1977 Polaris Leaf Spring SnoPro. Don’t worry if you don’t know what that is, […]
THANK YOU MARK!
I Got a Giannini Craviola!
I first met Mark Edward at Black Mountain Guitar in Cave Creek Arizona, via the owner, Ed Heisler. Mark has a very fun band I’ve gone to see many times here in Arizona, known as Mark and the Usual Suspects. A few months back, mark brought in a 1970 Giannini Craviola 12 string, and unusual […]
What Is Guitar Fight Club?
Guitar Fight Club: Where Guitars Settle the Score Howdy. Name’s Larry Preston – and if I sound like I just stepped out of a time machine from 1986, that’s about right. From about 1978 to 1992, I was a six-string outlaw. Some years, I played over 310 shows a year, chasing that pure electric high […]