Author: Tony Bacon

Innovation. Disruption. Thought leadership. Today's hottest tech sector buzzwords would prove just as apt in describing the twentieth century cruci...

Legendary Guitars guides you through the electric guitars of the 1950s and 60s and the culture, styles, and music that shaped them. Finding ways to...

Color and B&W photos throughout

To many vintage guitar fans it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and during the following year introduced a c...

Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughout

First published in 2001 and now updated and expanded ÊHistory of the American GuitarÊ begins in New York City in the 1830s with the arrival of Chr...

This new version of Tony Bacon's ÊSix Decades of the Fender TelecasterÊ shows how the world's first commercially successful solidbody electric guit...

Paperback Original w/French flaps

Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own ä a glitzy wacky retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular ...

Leo Fender's company changed the course of popular music in 1954 when they introduced the Stratocaster. Since then the Strat has been played by co...

In 1982 Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars. Millions of guitars later and celebrating it...

ÊThe Gibson 335 Guitar BookÊ tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models as played by B.B. King Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton among othe...