G&L Musical Instruments, which made guitars, basses and other gear on Fender Avenue in Fullerton since 1980, quietly closed down last month.

When James Gay was 8 years old, his parents bought him his first guitar. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Upon plugging it in, nothing but static came from the amp connected to Gay’s Squier Stratocaster ...

It was December 1949. King and his band were playing a juke joint in the small town of Twist, Ark., when two men got in a fight and knocked over a flaming garbage pail half-filled with kerosene, ...