Are there two more iconic guitars than the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster? We’d wager probably not. These two behemoths of music history have consistently found themselves in the hands of ...

For guitar players, it’s an age old question: are you a Fender guy or a Gibson guy? Over the years since both companies became popular in rock music, many other guitar manufacturers have made inroads, ...

Gibson versus Fender has been a debate since the dawn of rock. Each guitar brand has its strengths and weaknesses, but the biggest names in music can’t agree on which one is the best. Former Van Halen ...

Everyone loves a good war movie, and now you watch one with guitars! Solidbodies: The 50 Year Guitar War is a new film tracing the half century battle for market dominance between the two most iconic ...

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Innovation is about more than the people who create a product, or the companies that back them. The history of the electric guitar shows that the musicians who worked the instrument were as much a ...

As one of the most groundbreaking instruments ever created, the Fender Stratocaster was so far ahead of its time that nobody has yet caught up with it.