At midnight on Sunday, Aug. 17, 1969, Jimi Hendrix should have been plugging in his white Fender Stratocaster in front of a crowd of 500,000 at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y. His performance, meant ...

This insight comes via David Kalt, a former options trader and broker who’s now focused on guitars and all things related. A decade after he co-founded the online broker OptionsXpress, which Schwab ...

Thousands of guitar collectors head to Dallas for one of the biggest guitar shows of the year. They will be admiring -- and perhaps playing -- vintage Martins, Fenders and Gibsons that sell for as ...

While players like Joe Bonamassa chase rare gear, the Nashville session ace says one simple test reveals whether a guitar is ...

Inside their quiet workshop Wes Lambe and Ben Maschal fashion wire and wood into one of the most talked-about guitars in the acoustic music world. After years of studying, repairing and building ...

“Come on in—smell the wood, smell the old!” Shop manager Joe Little tends a quiet store Tuesday night at Imperial Vintage Guitars, 864 N. Main St. in Orange. It’s an hour before close, it gets dark ...

If you're a fan of vintage guitars and have one or more around the house or in storage, you could be sitting on a small fortune. One of those instruments could help boost your bank account to the tune ...

Doesn't actually make you Jimi Hendrix. Vintage guitars are expensive because most people who play guitar grew up hearing them, seeing them on TV, and dreaming of owning a real one someday. This fact ...

A new shop in Carmel is drawing some VIP tourists: members of Counting Crows and the Cult, and one of the Monkees. They all want to get their hands on the vintage guitars at Rumble Seat Music, to riff ...

Sinatra had the Sands. Wayne Newton had the Stardust. And you, well... we think you’re long overdue for a standing gig of your own. The bad news: it’s a little bit smaller than the packed arenas ...

I’m in Jay Boone’s Pioneer Square shop for maybe 60 seconds when he calls me over to look at an empty guitar case lying open on a counter, its rose-colored velvet lining exposed. “Here’s one thing I ...