It sounded naïve—borderline nuts. But it worked. Smith managed to get through to Ted Nugent after a show the Motor City Madman put on here in 1975. Nugent commissioned Smith to make him a guitar.

When it comes to making guitars, one name has become synonymous with Maryland: Paul Reed Smith.What has become a global brand still has its roots in Annapolis and on the Eastern Shore.John Mayer ...

But really it can be framed around the two 1984 sample guitars he took on the road to get the company up and running, and in the latest episode of PRS’s From The Archives YouTube series, Smith does ...

Paul Reed Smith has offered his latest hot take on guitar building: he doesn’t think where a guitar is made matters. The country in which an electric guitar or acoustic guitar is made has a huge ...

Debuting PRS’s “throaty” new McCarty III humbuckers, the Private Stock 40th Anniversary McCarty Dragon is a work of art and a triumph of engineering – and, says Smith, it’s built to play ...

Paul Reed Smith salutes his mentor, Ted McCarty, and celebrates 40 years of PRS with an immaculate weight-relieved single-cut. ... Yes, a Paul Reed Smith guitar does not come cheap, ...

WEBVTT SARAH CALDWELL EXPLAINS HOW PAUL IS USING MUSIC TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE. SARAH: THE 98 ROCK STUDIO HAS SEEN ITS SHARE OF GREATS, BUT EVERY TIME PAUL REED SMITH WALKS TO THE DOOR CRADLING ONE ...

The guitars evolved into the PRS Standard and Custom 24 but in '84, these prototypes scored the orders that got the brand up and running. Here Smith discusses their evolution When you purchase through ...