Right now everyone is talking about the new USA Jackson Soloists... it’s impressive, sleek, fast, and a great heritage, but it has a price tag of $2,500. For $500 you can get this incredibly cool 24 fret shred monster… and in all your favorite, totally radical 80s colors! With an upgrade or two, this guitar will crush the competition.
To celebrate and promote the Thomann / Harley Benton DIY KIT Challenge, Max has built a heavily modified kit guitar that fires a rocket! This guitar is a fully functional SG style guitar, and features aluminum plating, a fret-hand heat shield, and a solid fuel rocket that can be fired from the guitar!
Firefly guitars continues to roll out new models! In this video we review the new Flying V (FFLV) model. With a mahogany body and set neck, rosewood fret-board and AMAZING fretwork… this thing rocks hard and looks good doing it. At under $300, how can you go wrong? Let’s find out.
I have ordered a pair of guitars from Harley Benton recently and this super affordable Strat type guitar is one of them. With a silky smooth neck and pau ferro fretboard for price that you won’t believe… I’m hoping that Harley Benton is just as good of a value as I remember. I also wanted to test out the current state of shipping from Thomann. Let’s do an unboxing and full test!
These days, it’s rare for me to discovery a guitar brand that I’ve never heard of before… how did I miss Bootlegger Guitars? Especially considering that they’re based right here in California. The Bootlegger Guitars Royal, features a super cool triple humbucker pickup setup complete with coil splitting on all pickups. 24 frets, with a double locking trem, on a unique looking design… let’s check this out and do a full review!
This new single and music video is a shred collaboration with virtuoso guitarist Deakon Lekross!
This track is available on all major digital music platforms!
There’s a new brand being considered on the Guitar MAX channel: EART! This under-$200 guitar has stainless steel frets, and a super thin roasted maple neck. Amazing!
With a beautiful maple top, double locking Floyd Rose style trem, a walnut fretboard, and big, tall, polished frets, this Les Paul style guitar from Xaviere is pretty freaking cool. Much more than another cheap Les Paul knock-off, this thing has some amazing tricks up its sleeve! Here’s a full review and demo.
Checkout the guitars HERE
This video is from the new Heavy Metal Horizons channel and features some of Max’s flight training at The Flight Academy at Van Nuys airport. Here Max is working on performing take-offs and landings at non-towered airports! This is at the beautiful, Agua Dulce airport in California.
Do you want to learn that classic, totally awesome, 1980’s guitar style? Get GUITAR 1988 now and start shredding today!
Return to the days of big hair, T-top camaros, and neverending guitar solos!
This full program includes instructional videos + TABs + Backing Tracks!
This is the latest instructional program from Max Carlisle of the Guitar MAX YouTube channel. This program is designed to develop the techniques and style that defined 1980s guitar playing. Fans of guitarists like George Lynch, Warren Demartini, John Sykes, Paul Stanley, Slash, Glen Tipton, K.K. Downing, Akira Takasaki, Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, and other iconic 80s guitarists will love this program!
Videos can be downloaded or streamed!
