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GALLERY: Red Hot Chili Peppers 2012 Touring Gear

Get up close and personal with Flea and Josh Klinghoffers'' rigs.

"The amps run into three Gallien-Krueger 410 cabinets and three 115 cabs, all running."

Watch our Rig Rundown videos for even more details on the rigs! Click here to see Flea's | Click here to see Josh's.

Celestion introduces a low-sensitivity, dual voice coil, attenuating speaker.

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An all-new line of solid body electric guitars, rooted in Eastman’s D’Ambrosio Series.

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Cort Guitars debuts the latest evolution of their X series electric guitars, the Mutility II.

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Think you’ve got what it takes to work on the Acoustic Music Works sales floor?

You’ve gotta have serious chops to toil in a music instrument store—but not the kind you’d think.

We’ve all heard those classic phrases: ā€œDo what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!ā€ or Elbert Hubbard’s ā€œWork to become, not to acquire,ā€ which is, I think, more zen than any of us have time to process these days. This column is about that little thing that every single guitarist has asked themselves: What if I worked in a guitar shop?

Here are some tips and insights from the first 13 years of a long career in the instrument game.

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