The Ax

The AxThe Electric guitar rules the world. Here are half a dozen artists who demonstrate whyH/t«DL£ WITH Ci\R|iper square inch on this song than in anything in the history of Western civilization," the producer Sandy Pearlman said one night in 1978 at the Automatt studios in San Francisco. He was there to finish Give Em Enough Rope, the second album by the Clash, who were, after the demise of the Sex Pistols, the standard-bearers of punk. Guitarist Mick Jones and singer Joe Strummer were wi...