Back in 1958, when the first Gibson Explorer guitars appeared on the market, there was no heavy metal, hard rock, Marshall stacks or overdrive pedals. Distortion was something that amp manufacturers ...

Richie Sambora has been reunited with his much-loved, much-modded Gibson Explorer 41 years after it was stolen. This is the electric guitar that Sambora played during Bon Jovi’s dizzying ascent, his ...

The Explorer's "hockey stick" headstock is a thing of subtle beauty. To me, the 1976 Gibson Explorer means lust at first sight, love at first feel and that rarest of man-machine crushes: an enduring ...

CRKD is mining nostalgia for its latest guitar trio.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that, if you're a touring guitarist, you're bound to get one or more of your guitars stolen at some point. These tools of their trade end up disappearing into the ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions The Edge, aka David Evans of U2, introduces his iconic guitar, the ...

February 24, 2009 You can often tell a lot about what a guitarist is about to do just by looking at the axe he's chosen for the gig. If it's a Flying V, he's here to rock, and he doesn't care who ...

The latest entry to the revived Victory line takes Gibson further into extended range territory ...