FLOYD D. ROSE
Locking trem pioneer
It’s hard to imagine what Steve Vai and Joe Satriani would have sounded like without the Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo. The unit was engineered in 1976 to provide more tuning stability for guitarists hoping to push instruments to their very limits. The hand-made double locking system, which featured clamps around the nut and bridge, was then licensed to Kramer Guitars for large-scale manufacturing, eventually ending up in the hands of Eddie Van Halen. Guitar music was never the same again.
JIM MARSHALL
The Brit who made it loud
There’s a good reason why English amp innovator Jim Marshall ended up earning himself the nickname ‘The Father of Loud’. As
