February 2017

For more than 25 years now, Jackson guitars have reigned supreme over metal and all its many subgenres for discerning heavy guitarists worldwide. Onstage and in the studio, Jackson guitars are universally lauded as the metal guitars; the shred machines-finely tuned instruments of distinctive style and formidable substance…

Jackson History

If you wanted a total history of Ibanez you’d have go back to 1908 when a company named Hoshino began as a sheet music store and later music products distributor in Nagoya Japan.

If you wanted a little less completeness than that you’d go back about forty-five when Hoshino began distributing a Spanish guitar named Ibanez. Or perhaps you’d simply go to the Mid 60’s when Hoshino, who by that time had purchased the rights to the Ibanez name, began shipping incredibly funky looking guitars to the United States, many of which were actually sold in department stores.

Ibanez History