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ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We love seeing new names of All Access members who upload videos to our community, and we love it even more when they can shred like Chuck J! He's using his 2002 ESP Horizon-II from...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! As you may have seen if you've followed our weekly All Access spotlights for awhile... some of the same people seem to pop up multiple times. We're always looking for more musicians...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We've chosen video submissions from France-based ESP All Access member Florian Soum several times now. He's got that winning combination of excellent playing skill, great-sounding...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The timing couldn't be better for All Access community member Dave Sevenstrings to post his band Solus Ex Infernis's cover of Behemoth's "Ov Fire and the Void". First of all, like...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's a sort of unusual All Access spotlight, featuring community member Carlos M. Azola taking on the slippery fusion lines of Greg Howe's "Reunion" using his ESP E-II Mystique for...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! What's the most important thing we're looking for when we choose our weekly ESP All Access spotlights? That's easy... it's the sound of the guitars we make, and as she's done many...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Let's talk for a moment about how you improve as a guitar player. We all went through the process of starting out, maybe learning a few chords, and then perhaps a pentatonic scale....

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member Aeon Slate of Atlanta, GA-based progressive metal band Dear Shadow uploaded this playthrough of their song "The Witch & The Helix Tree". He's playing his LTD...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Doing a very precise two guitar and bass playthrough cover of Parkway Drive's song "Dedicated", All Access member Antoine Ignace uses three ESP models -- an LTD MH Series, LTD H...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's All Access member Kerry Smith using his ESP E-II Horizon NT-7 EverTune in the best of ways... rocking the riff and chorus from Babymetal's 2016 slammer "Karate". He's chosen a...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We were impressed by the tone and performance style of community member chrisxbailer, also known as Chris Harte of Cork, Ireland-based hardcore metal band Bailer. He's doing a...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Looking at community member Late Honkola's profile page here on the ESP site, it's obvious he's a pretty serious player, based purely on his amazing guitar collection that includes...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Released August 12, 1991, Metallica's fifth studio album was simply self-titled as Metallica, but has ever since been known as The Black Album due to its ominous dark packaging. It's...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! If you want to know how to get featured on our ESP All Access weekly spotlight, you might want to ask Brendan Breakdown. We've featured him a bunch of times due to his great playing...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We receive all kinds of videos here at ESP. Some are just quick captures via phone cameras of jams in bedrooms, and some are full-on studio-based recordings, with people doing...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's something you might not know: of all the major guitar manufacturers, ESP offers a wider range of readily-available left-handed models than just about anyone. A good example is...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Let's talk about pop music for a moment. Ask nine out of ten musicians in any genre from metal to classical to jazz, and they'll all claim to hate pop. Why? Well, it's because it...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member Daniel Kesler is part of the extended ESP family, working as a product specialist for European ESP distributor Sound Service. We're always glad when he cranks out a...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! French musician and guitar teacher Florian Soum has a bunch of our guitars, and his collection includes an ESP M-I, an LTD Deluxe EC-1000 EverTune, and several ESP E-II models like...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The USA is heading into a holiday weekend for Independence Day, so what better choice for our weekly All Access Spotlight than to show member Darren Stroud and his LTD Gary Holt...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! July 10, 1942 marked the birth of one of the greatest singing voices that ever existed, or possibly ever will exist. It was a voice that helped define hard rock and metal as we know...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We love getting bass videos from members of the ESP All Access community. ESP basses are the not-so-secret weapon of thousands of players in genres that range from rock and metal to...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This week, the All Access spotlight shines on community member Marcin G., using his LTD Deluxe EC-1000 Duncan Vintage Black to do a playthrough cover of "Blood to Bleed" by Rise...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's ESP All Access member Francesca Mazzucchetti, who just joined our happy community a week ago and posted this excellent playthrough of the solo from "Anything for You" off the...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Let's talk about guitar mods for a moment. At ESP, we do our best to pair what we consider the best components for each guitar, keeping in mind that by definition, music and tone are...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Antoine I. is a new member of the ESP All Access community, having joined us just last month in April 2021, but he's obviously been a big ESP supporter for much longer than that....

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Mexico City-based All Access member Sandra Pagola and her LTD Deluxe M-1007 Multi-Scale doing a playthrough of "Ocean" by her band The Hellish. The M-1007 Multi-Scale makes...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Put away your broom, because All Access member and ESP artist Harry Gandler is doing all the sweeping in this playthrough cover of the solo section of "Incinerate" by Unearth. Plus,...

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Steve Dadaian is an ESP All Access member we've featured a number of times for a very simple reason: he's really, really, really good. We're not the only ones who think so; he's been...