Tools of the trade, part 7

ANOTHER OF THE many Gibson guitars that I love (are there any that I don’t?) is the ES-350. This is a semi-hollow “jazz box” type of guitar, deeper than a ES-335 but still kind of skinny when compared

How’d you get this guitar? I worked at Hogan’s House of Music in Hawthorne, California, when I was younger. I bought it there. I paid $300 for it in 1980. Did you modify it? And what sort of rig did y

IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre

Meet the bass guitar that has appeared at Woodstock, featured on countless records, been played by Hendrix and had two famous owners. Throw in an instrument swap (plus 15 quid) and a bunch of anxiety, and it becomes the stuff of legends

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BELLA RAYNE used to run for the hills whenever her parents played Grateful Dead records in the house. “It drove me crazy. It’s like they pushed it on me,” she says. “I liked punk ro

MUSIC FANS KNEW Ozzy Osbourne as the Prince of Darkness or maybe even the Messiah of Metal, but among the hard-rock guitar community, he’ll always be remembered as the Godfather of Heavy Guitar. Thank