Battle Axes: A Hard Rockin' History of Pointy Guitars
By Sean Kelly
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By Sean Kelly
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A Deep Dive into the Wildest Electric Guitars of ’70s and ’80s Hard Rock
From Flying V to Firebird, Explorer to Warlock—this is the untold story of the most outrageous guitars in rock history.
Why did rock’s greatest guitarists choose instruments that looked like weapons, spaceships, and abstract art?
In Battle Axes, guitarist and music historian Sean Kelly explores the cultural and musical evolution of the world’s most iconic “pointy guitars”—and how they helped define the sound and image o...
From Flying V to Firebird, Explorer to Warlock—this is the untold story of the most outrageous guitars in rock history.
Why did rock’s greatest guitarists choose instruments that looked like weapons, spaceships, and abstract art?
In Battle Axes, guitarist and music historian Sean Kelly explores the cultural and musical evolution of the world’s most iconic “pointy guitars”—and how they helped define the sound and image o...






















