Daniello De Laurentiis shows off Model 1478 at Silvertone Guitars.
The legendary Trev Wilkinson at Fret-King shows off the new Corona DBR Danny Bryant Custom guitar.
Carvin brought the big guns to NAMM.
Carvin brought the big guns to NAMM.
The Trussart Steelmaster Series is turning heads.
For those about to shred, Ibanez salutes you.
G&L is bringing the vintage vibe.
New sonic goodies from Electro-Harmonix.
Some Ibanez hollowbodies.
New from LSL Guitars.
New from Vigier guitars.
Malina Moye and her band rocked the She Rocks Awards.
Diamond Guitar Pedals’ Aimish Wallace (left) and Mike Knappe.
A bit of Lady Liberty in the ESP Custom Shop.
Roger Sadowsky with one of his Standard 5 basses.
Joe and Jack from Analog Alien.
Steven Smith, a demonstrator for Marshall Amplification in the U.K., shows off one of the new hand-wired amps.
Marshall Custom Shop JVM Tattoo Series.
Marshall Custom Shop JVM Tattoo Series.
Jared Bell rocks out with his Retronix R-800 at the Bitch Strap booth.
Hand-made goodness at the Tom Anderson booth.
The Villain Veil, from B.C. Rich.
New from Washburn Guitars.
Blackstar Amplification.
The Ernie Ball booth.
Product Specialist Tom Allen demonstrates the new Peavey Valve King 20-Watt Mini Head.
Radial Tonebone.
The new line from TC Electronic.
A little metal art at the Bohemian Guitars booth.
Randall booth.
Retronix Guitars’ Kevin.
Inside Marshall.
Behold Mount Marshall.
Doyle Dykes in the Guild Guitars booth.
Steve and Josh in the JHS Pedals booth.
A pre-show/behind-the-scenes look as the Magnatone Amps booth was being assembled.
Marshall Amplification is introducing its Custom Shop Tattoo series of amps.
We have your Marshall Amplification stacks right here!
Bob and Andy Taylor (Taylor Guitars) at their reception, marking 40 years in the business.
Andreas, Carmen, and Stephan in the Tube Amp Doctor booth.
Brady, Kelly, and Than, from Walrus Audio booth.
Silvertone’s Tony De La Rosa
The calm before the storm in the Fender Guitar booth.
The 60th Anniversary Strat, in the Fender Guitar booth.
Roscoe Beck (left) and Greg Koch at the Fishman booth.
PRS Guitars Private Stock acoustics.
A glimpse of the fun in the Teye Guitars booth.
Mike Voltz in the Gibson booth.
William Dunavant in the Schecter Guitar Research booth.
John Cruz, from Fender Guitar’s Custom Shop, with one of his creations.
Seymour Duncan with VG’s Dawn Flanagin and Alan Greenwood at the Seymour Duncan booth.
Jan-Jaap Tanis of Electro-Harmonix demos the new Lumberjack. Satisfaction, and the EHX Tortion.
Bill Silverman of El Dorado Straps at the Orange Country Guitar Show.
A couple road-worn Fender tweeds to go with the smoked Tele pictured earlier. What tales they could tell! A Bassman in back, Pro in front. From the Handlebar Guitars booth at the Orange County Guitar Show.
More Orange County Guitar Show. Fretted Americana’s David Brass with a 1960 Hofner 126 Club 50 prototype with built-in amp and speaker.
The Les Paul that started it all – 1952! From the Strings West booth at the Orange County Guitar Show.
More Orange County Guitar Show – Teles with Bigsbys! A ’67 from Lone Wolf Guitars and a ’69 from Strings West that spent serious time in smoke-filled bars.
VG spent the day at the SoCAL World Guitar Show at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Here’s a 1967 Gibson Johnny Smith in one-of-a-kind cream finish at the Fretted Americana booth.
Alan Holdsworth at Rocket Pedals.
Bryan Poulsen at Oxygen Amps.
Alex Skolnick and Robert Randolph in the Peavey Room.
Beatles Engineer Eddie Kramer at F Pedals.
Bonnie Raitt Bassist Jim Hutch Hutchinson at Ampeg.
David Grissom Demos New PRS DG Amps.
VG booth NAMM 2014
David Chiapetta of String Cleaner and Peter Einhorn of Spider Capo.
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Leo Nocentelli at the D’Angelico booth.