Gibson has announces that Randall Smith, Mesa/Boogie founder and legend of guitar amp design. has left the company. In a statement, Gibson, which acquired Mesa/Boogie in January 2022, said that it ...

Inspired by amps like Soldano’s SLO (itself derived from earlier Mark Series Boogies) the bigger, brasher Rectifier range redefined high gain in the ‘90s, inspiring a wall-of-sound approach that ...

Mesa Engineering changed electric guitar forever when the original Boogie combo appeared on the market in the early 1970s. Randall Smith’s cascaded gain preamplifier was just one of a series of ...

Mesa/Boogie has launched a limited edition run of its iconic Mark IIC++ tube amp head, offering the super-rare modded Simul-Class amp as a production model for the first time. But you had best be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the ...

Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began sometime in the early 20th century — and, by the 1930s, became a huge pop-music fad. Here, rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged in ...

Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett took to YouTube to wish ESP Guitars a very happy 50th Anniversary, the long-time endorsees checking in from their rehearsal room HQ, signature guitars in ...

Guitar manufacturer Gibson has acquired boutique amplifier brand Mesa/Boogie, the company announced Wednesday (Jan. 6). By Chris Eggertsen Guitar manufacturer Gibson has acquired boutique amplifier ...

Arthur Smith — a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded ‘‘Guitar Boogie’’ and ‘‘Dueling Banjos,’’ the latter heard in the acclaimed movie ‘‘Deliverance,’’ and influenced the ...

Arthur Smith, a trail-blazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Duelin’ Banjos,” the latter heard in the acclaimed movie “Deliverance,” and influenced the Beatles, ...