https://www.guitarworld.com/news/dave-grohl-guitar-music
...back towards guitar based music. Yip. this years installment of "Is guitar dead?"
However you define the (somewhat broad) concept of ‘guitar-based music’, Grohl’s feeling that guitar playing is once again in the ascendance is certainly backed up by the numbers.
Fender recorded its highest ever sales volume last year, while Gibson CEO James “JC” Curleigh confessed the company “literally couldn’t deliver enough” and Martin’s CEO Chris Martin stated we are in a “guitar boom”.