The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a ...

That's $42.50. Today ... was a lightweight mahogany only body, two humbuckers and a slim mahogany neck. These guitars were still known as Les Pauls (Standard, Custom, Junior, Specials) until the ...

Fender and Paul independently looked to develop solid-body guitars ... Although Fender's electric guitar took the stage in the '50s, the Gibson Les Paul dominated sound in the '60s when Eric ...

solid-body electric guitar, he showed it to Les Paul, and as it turned out, Les wanted to go in a different direction." On how the electric guitars played on tour in England in the '50s by ...

50 years later after his legendary performance ... with inventing the electric guitar and did pioneer the solid-body electric guitar; however, musician George Beauchamp and electric engineer ...

It takes seven to eight weeks for David Hullings to create each of his solid-body guitars, but he says it's a labor of love. "I build the bodies from scratch generally, do all the routing ...