Ward Meeker

Howard Alexander Dumble, iconic amp designer and builder, passed away January 16 after suffering a stroke. He was 77 and had been dealing with heart issues including Atrial fibrillation (A-fib). The son of an engineer, Dumble grew up in Bakersfield,

Almost all of us have a guitar – maybe even two – we like a bit more than “the other ones.” Maybe it’s a favorite color, is from our “birth year” (yeah, that’s a thing), or it arrived by way of family, friend, or special occasion. Whatever the reason, it gets better treatment than the

Livermore Valley Arts and the Bankhead Theater, Livermore, California, will host the George Bowen Master Guitar Summit concert on Wednesday, March 15. A benefit for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, the event was founded by Bowen, a local luthier, after he was diagnosed with the condition. Guest performers include Arlen Roth, Bill Kirchen, Redd Volkaert,

A master of delivering crystal-clear musical messages with an off-kilter wit, whether talking, singing, picking, or sliding on guitar, everything Joe Walsh does brings an undeniable charisma. For decades, Walsh lived the ultimate rock-star life, wrote hit songs about it, emerged alive, sobered up, and all the while held on to his considerable musical skill.

Gibson Copper Iridescent Les Pauls

Jeff Beck, the guitarist who pushed the ’60s British Invasion band the Yardbirds from its electric-blues roots to a contemporary rock-and-roll sound before becoming one of the most-influential musicians of his generation, died January 10 after being stricken with bacterial meningitis. He was 78. Born Geoffrey Arnold to Arnold and Ethel Beck on June 24,

The years leading up to CBS Musical Instruments’ 1985 sale of the Fender brand were fluid times at the instrument maker’s headquarters in Fullerton. Faltering in a market death struggle with imports from Japan, in August of ’81, the company hired John McLaren and Bill Schultz – both poached from the guitar-making sector of Yamaha

Combine a knack for numbers with a love of old guitars and you get... well, you might get any of a thousand babyboomer accountants/collectors. But one is a supercharged version named Ram Tuli. A trained data analyst, Tuli is the new co-author (with Vintage Guitar founder/publisher Alan Greenwood) of The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide,

Steve Carr

Classics: January 2024