As American Songwriter reported, ZZ Top’s bassist Elwood Francis played an odd-looking 17-string bass at the band’s recent show on November 5 for the rock group’s 1983 song, “Got Me Under Pressure.” ...

YouTube guitar hero Jared Hines famously got ripped off while buying a 17 string guitar last year, but that hasn't deterred him from his quest to, err, own a guitar with loads of strings. He got ...

Remember the 17-string guitar that made headlines earlier this week? Not only did YouTuber Jared Dines — who commissioned the instrument to be made for him — never receive the guitar, but the whole ...

"I should have probably been a little smarter about it, but he seemed legit at the time, and I come to find out that he’s not." "I should have probably been a little smarter about it, but he seemed ...

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“The first song that made me want to play guitar was ‘Eruption,’" says Dines. "It really started with Eddie Van Halen for me. Like millions of others, I started with Van Halen 1 and that record still ...

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A new year, a new instrument with way too many strings! Following the debacle that was last year’s 17-string guitar — which turned out to be a mass-produced Chinese model that an American luthier was ...

Remember last year when we got very excited about the existence of a 17 string guitar that Jared Hines had had made? Turns out there was a fair amount of internet drama that came of that: Dines paid ...