The GUITAR Museum

Eddie Van Halen would have been 66 years old today. RIP. #EVH #EddieVanHalen #guitars #guitarist

Eddie Van Halen Is the recipient of this year's "Lifetime Achievement Award" for contribution to the legacy of the guitar, the first time NGM has awarded it in memoriam. @VanHalenNews @VanHalen @VanHalenVault @WolfVanHalen @Wolfiesmom facebook.com/guitarmuseum

As if 2020 could not get any worse, sadder, or more insane, Eddie Van Halen died today of cancer. He was 65. The guitar universe mourns a true legend. We will all miss him. RIP, #EVH #eddievanhalen. (classic photo by #neilzlozower)

Book Giveaway courtesy of NGM Director, HP Newquist #guitar #horror goodreads.com/giveaway/show/…

Summer Reads: BEHEMOTH Is One Of The Best Reviewed Thrillers Of The Year! (From NGM founder HP Newquist) amazon.com/Behemoth-HP-Newqu…

From the chords of “Yesterday” to the solo on “Maybe I’m Amazed,” #PaulMcCartney put in plenty of time on the #guitar. Here’s a video of him working out an early version of “Blackbird.” Happy Birthday, Sir Paul. youtu.be/q1LletEaBD0

Remember when #GuitarHero and #rockband were supposed to be the future of #guitar? That didn't last long.

The Birth Of The Stratocaster. 66 years ago today was the “official” release date of the first Fender Strat. Leo Fender and Don Randall introduced the radical new instrument and the world hasn't looked back. #Stratocaster #FenderNews #guitar

Today's guitar quote: “You bought a guitar / To punish your ma . . .” Welcome To The Machine, Pink Floyd #guitar #PinkFloyd

The NGM keeps digging for the creepy in our collection. This photo is from a series of x-rays we had commissioned of modern guitars. The lab used a skull as a size gauge. You can easily see the innards of the #fendertelecaster #guitar body. #CURATORBATTLE #CreepiestObject

Even guitars can be creepy. This is our Crossroads Guitar, which details the story of selling your soul to the #devil in return for fame and fortune. The knobs are skulls and ghouls rise out of the #guitar body. #CURATORBATTLE #CreepiestObject

Django Reinhardt at 110. #django Jean Reinhardt, better known as Django, was born on January 23, 1910 . . . 110 years ago today. His gypsy family lived outside Paris in a caravan where they played concerts and sold handmade goods... youtube.com/watch?v=ANArGmr7…

Weekend listening in The NGM Lobby features a live recording of a very young Paco de Lucia (from four decades ago) playing two flamenco standards, "Impetu" and "Panaderos." Stellar performances by an artist who, at the time, was barely into his... youtu.be/4TmxfHbd-M0

Dave Grohl and Jeffrey Weilandt (Zakk Wylde) share January 14th as a birthday, born two years apart in 1969 and 1967 respectively. Happy birthday, boys. (Great photo by Neil Zlozower, BTW.)

: Neil Peart, RIP. We rarely single out non-guitarists here, but Peart is an exception. He was probably one of the only drummers that nearly all of us as guitarists imagined being able to play with (or have in their bands). His... youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4i…

James Patrick Page was born on January 9, 1944, making him 76 years old today. There is little we can say here that hasn’t been said elsewhere about the ingenious guitarist who created Led Zeppelin. So we’ll leave it at that, and leave it to you to... youtu.be/GVQIWyosEeI

Weekend listening in The NGM Lobby is courtesy of John McLaughlin turns 78 years old, having been born on January 4, 1942. To give you a taste of what this guitarist has accomplished in his life, here is a live recording of The Mahavishnu Orchestra... youtu.be/MtSIEkPqVgk

Stephen Stills was born on January 3, 1945, making him 75 today. He first came to prominence in the late 1960s as the guitarist for Buffalo Springfield. His wide range of guitar styles - from blistering rock to light acoustic ballads - led him to... youtu.be/Abb0z_fLuIs

Bo Diddley was born Elias Otha Bates (later Elias McDaniel) on December 30, 1928. Bo was inspired to pick up the electric guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker. He played in Chicago blues bars during the 1950s, adopting the name Bo Diddley and... youtu.be/yeZHB3ozglQ