Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline ...

G&L Musical Instruments, which made guitars, basses and other gear on Fender Avenue in Fullerton since 1980, quietly closed ...

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

Jimmy Page may have felt unstoppable in his prime, but not many people could leave him shaking before they even played a note.

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, his apartment, his allowance, his shining boots, and, most profoundly, his ...

It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s ...