Starting with his usual hands-on, DIY mentality, Billy started out in a garage. Recognizing that he had plenty to offer the world of guitar making, Billy launched Rock N Roll Relics in 2005, driven by a passion to hand-build nothing less than all-round amazing guitars. After decades as a touring musician and tech, Billy Rowe had shredded guitars and rebuilt them over and over. But stadium rock’s loss is the guitar player’s gain. Bad timing and plain bad luck meant that despite major label albums, Jetboy never scaled the heights of their peers. But there always has to be a hard luck tale in any rock’n’roll saga – and Jetboy was it. Jetboy were tight with all of them, and were equal darlings of the Hollywood scene. Billy played rhythm and slide guitar in Jetboy, one of the pioneer acts of the incredible scene that spawned Guns N’Roses and Poison. Well he would, wouldn’t he? After growing up and learning his licks from the classic rock of the ‘70s, the San Francisco native ended up right there in the middle of the 1980s rock explosion that first lit up Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, then blew out the entire world’s speakers. The Rock N Roll Relics founder has spent his whole life thinking about how to make guitars sound great, feel great, play great.īilly knows a thing or two about what makes a killer guitar. Whether it’s playing them or building them, Billy Rowe’s love for guitars always shines through.
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