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 ...

ZZ Top bass player Elwood Francis has moved past explaining why he whipped out a massive 17-string bass guitar onstage with the classic rock band. Now, he's frankly admitted which YouTuber inspired ...

ZZ Top's Elwood Francis has become a key part of the band's live lineup, but he has one major regret about his performances. That would be having introduced the gigantic bright yellow 17-string bass ...

"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 ...

Dusty Hill left some big shoes to fill in ZZ Top and Elwood Francis is doing a grand job, but we didn't see this coming; the band's former tech and current bassist used a 17-string bass guitar to ...

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 ...

Early last year, YouTube guitar wizard Jared Dines began a quest to find a skilled luthier who could make him a one-off 17-string guitar. After being let down by a US builder, and left seriously out ...

Remember how much fuss the internet made when Ibanez put out a nine-string electric guitar? Well, multiply that by 1.8-recurring because a seventeen-string guitar now exists. Created by New Hampshire, ...

Some day there’s gonna be a backlash to the current trend of adding strings to extended range guitars in which some young kids just decide one string is really all that’s needed. I’ll let that all ...

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 ...