What’s considered the best-selling pop instrument of all time was invented by Southern Californian Leo Fender. Some of the most notable electric guitar companies have their roots in Southern ...

And The Beatles’ early Rickenbacker era lives on ... cut-up polaroids of Fender Jaguar and Mustang guitars, Fender custom-built the world’s first Jag-Stang especially for the Nirvana front ...

Eddie Rickenbacker downed his first German airplane on April 27, 1918, and he never looked back. As Rickenbacker’s score mounted, the public fell in love with him. But unlike some early pilots ...

Jackson guitars first gained notoriety from Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads' custom-built asymmetric flying V model he called Concorde. The brand has since continued to build great-sounding ...