Gabriel Currie: Rock's Hidden Alchemist
Gabriel Currie has built guitars for Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Jackson Browne, and Marcus King, but this conversation goes way deeper than music. Growing up in East LA's Highland Park amid gang violence, punk rock chaos, and an education system that failed him, Gabriel…
Gibson vs Fender - Loud and Clear | 2
It's 1950, and Fender's first solid-body guitar, the Esquire, is the laughingstock of the music industry. To guitar makers used to elegantly made hollow-body guitars, Fender's thin, simple plank of solid wood is a joke. But its bright, powerful sound and lack of feedback make it a hit with guitar p…
Gibson vs Fender - Les and Leo | 1
In the 1930s and ’40s the market for electric guitars is growing, but it’s hindered by the instruments’ flawed designs. But a small group of mavericks is rethinking the guitar for the electronic age.One of them, guitarist Les Paul, tries unsuccessfully to convince one of America's oldest guitar com…
Episode 5 - Bass Guitar: The Hidden Engine
Drop your attention to the very bottom of a song — that low, round thing you feel in your chest more
than you hear. Almost nobody notices it, and it's holding the whole song together. The hidden engine.
The bass's unique job: the hinge between rhythm and harmony — root notes define the chords,…
A Look At The Fender Tone Master '59 Twin-Amp (Joe Bonamassa Edition)
Why would a legendary tone snob with Dumbles and real '59 Tweed Twins put his name on a digital amp? On today's episode of Ask Zac, we take a deep dive into the new Fender Joe Bonamassa Tone Master '59 High-Powered Tweed Twin, and what happened when I took it out on the road.Fender sent over one of…
Mysterious Bulges and Family Meetings
Sixteen-year-old Clark joins Mikey and Bonnie in the studio to put his parental knowledge to the test, revealing whether he knows his dad's Michigan past better than his mom's high school record. Then, the crew digs into Amazon's underlying customer data profiling to uncover the eerily specific (an…
Les Paul vs. Fender: The Men Who Changed the Electric Guitar
In their own very different ways, Les Paul and Leo Fender revolutionized the sound, design, and possibilities of the electric guitar and their paths would lead to influence and riches beyond what either could have imagined.
But how much of the story we’ve been told is actually true? How much is fa…
Leo Fender & George Fullerton: The Working Musician's Revolution
The episode's question: how did affordable, durable, electrified gear reach working musicians?
Leo Fender — orange-grove kid, bookkeeper, radio repairman; Fender Radio Service (1938), public address systems, Doc Kauffman and K&F
George Fullerton — machinist and weekend band player, hired Februa…
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