Collections

We chart the story of Alex Lifeson’s first-ever guitar and speak to Garren Dakessian of Loucin about its spectacular restoration.

We uncover the stories and secrets behind the Limp Bizkit guitarist’s strange gear, from custom four-strings to a home-built Bass VI.

One of LA’s premier vintage dealers has a personal collection to die for. We head to Sherman Oaks for an audience with the good stuff and to find out about the golden rules of guitar buying.

Rather than being trapped behind glass, these vintage instruments have seen live and studio action with The 1975, Talking Heads and more.

Steven Solomon has worked with James Arthur and Backstreet Boys and has an “unhealthy addiction” to old guitars. We head to Studio City to pay him a visit.

Brand President Cesar Gueikian gives us the tour and brings a few guitars from his personal collection along for the ride – including a Burst that’s a close relative of one of the most famous Les Pauls of them all.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has spent 25 years assembling the world’s leading collection of rock ’n’ roll, American history and pop culture artefacts. We touch down in Indiana to pay him a visit.

Collector Simon White owns some formidable instruments but the pinnacle is surely the Les Paul Standard used by Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on The Rolling Stones’ legendary 1972 album Exile On Main St.

Following a decade-long stint as a session sideman, it took an unintended jam with ‘God’ himself to reignite the blues-rock guitarist’s passion and inspire the best album of his career.

We sit down with the band’s slide-guitar hero extraordinaire Chris Turpin to check out the jewels of his enviable guitar collection and hear about a lockdown album with some famous special guests.