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ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's a question: how many different kinds of music are there? It's got to be a lot, right? Metal and funk and reggae and classical and country and R&B and hip hop and... so...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! It's been a few years since we first noticed the video uploads of Ukraine-based All Access community member Victor Kovalchuk, but every time he posts something, it rocks. Today's...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We've featured community member Late Honkola a number of times because a) his video submissions sound great and b) his music is cool. Those are the best reasons. Late, who hails...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Look... not everyone has a big budget for guitars. It's true; we know it and you know it. And that's the reason why ESP offers the affordable LTD Series, giving players the...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We first heard community member Tim Barnard back in 2020 when we did our "Lockdown Rockdown" competition. Out of thousands of entries, Tim was one of the finalists chosen by Alex...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! One cool fact about playing guitar: there's no one way to do it that's right or wrong. A song can have 37 chords and 3,000 notes of solo played at blazing speed... or it can have a...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We're really enjoying every video submission from community member Anthony Lumpkins. In his most recent one, he's using three different ESP models on a playthrough cover of "A Sign...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Why is community member Darren Stroud always smiling in his videos? It's because he knows something that most people may not: the LTD EC-256 is a kick-ass guitar. Just because you...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Philippines-based rocker Ruben Baculo, using his super-modified LTD Deluxe EC-1000T CTM on his band's song "Negative Weight". Why do people modify guitars? Because they want...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Even though he's been part of the All Access community since 2014, this seems to be the first time we've featured anything from community member Brian DeJoy, but it was worth the...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! It's been awhile since we noticed a new video posted by community member uNburst, but this one definitely caught our eye... and ear. He's doing some original riffing inspired by the...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The history of heavy music is a destination that has many roads. A lot of metal came from rock and roll music that was developed from blues, which itself came from African rhythms...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We have never been anything less than blown away by the work of ESP community member (and now ESP artist) Steve Dadaian. This time is no exception; he's using his LTD Mirage Deluxe...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member GuitarBeastKing has posted tons of videos to the ESP site using a guitar we no longer make, but has an interesting lineage. For a couple of years in the early 2010s,...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We enjoy waking up on a Friday morning and finding a member of the ESP All Access community we haven't heard before. That happened today with Brazilian metal guitarist/producer and...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Knoxville,TN-based multi-instrumentalist and ESP community member Ian Shuirr (known by his solo project name InVase) using his LTD Deluxe MH-1000NT (along with some other...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! You know what people sometimes forget about playing guitar? That's it's supposed to be fun. But that never seems to be a problem for ESP community member Dave Sevenstrings, who has...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We've featured All Access member Tim Barnard a couple of times before, because... this dude rips! Back in 2020, we got to know Tim when he was the top runner-up in our "Lockdown...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Have we featured the smiling face (and blistering guitar chops) of community member Darren Stroud too many times in our weekly spotlights? We'll make you a deal: all you have to do...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We love the melodic playing style of All Access member Chuck J, who is also known as the South Korean shred wizard JongHa Jeong. Here, in tribute to Dimebag Darrell, he's taking on...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We're getting in the wayback machine for this week's All Access spotlight, with community member Warren Hughes using an ESP custom M Series guitar he recently acquired but has its...