Given his reputation as a mad scientist within the guitar world, it's funny to think that Gene Parsons – the co-inventor of the B-Bender – was actually a drummer by trade. Of course, Parsons – a ...

Fender’s Chief Engineer Tim Shaw lifts the lid on the making of the John Osborne Telecaster, the challenges around creating a ...

We don’t know too much about the Fender Bender, but we do know that, like RoboCop officer Alex Murphy, machinery and electronics have replaced much of the original. In the Bender’s case, inventor “Dan ...

NAMM 2013: Gibson has unveiled the distinctive Music City JR. with B-Bender. An Ash bodied, P90 sporting solid body, this is a guitar that has been built with country players in mind, and looks as ...

[danwagoner] recently completed a restoration of his very first electric guitar. Instead of going the normal route, he modded it to be a Weird Sound Generator. The WSG is a popular kit sold by Music ...

This time it’s “The Guitar That Rocked The World”, a tribute not to one artist, but to pretty much anyone famous who strummed a Fender Stratocaster. If you think that sounds like a flimsy plot for a ...

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No B-bender, no problem, as the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us 9 licks for that faux pedal-steel sound ...

The annual Coachella music festival has become one of the largest music gatherings in the world, bringing together some 120,000 fans to watch more than 150 acts spanning every genre imaginable. But ...