G&L Rampage

The G&L Rampage is a single-pickup, single-volume solidbody guitar designed by Leo Fender's final company, G&L Musical Instruments. Its stripped-down design — one humbucker, one knob, hardtail bridge — eliminates everything between the player's hands and the amplifier, producing a direct, uncompromised signal path. Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains made the Rampage his primary guitar, recording most of the band's iconic songs with it including the riffs on Man in the Box, Rooster, and Would?. The guitar's G&L Magnetic Field Design humbucker delivers high output with tight, focused midrange that responds well to the high-gain amplifiers Cantrell favors. The Rampage's simplicity suited Cantrell's approach — no pickup switching or tone adjustments to fuss with, just volume and hands. Despite its relative obscurity compared to Gibson and Fender models, the Rampage's association with Alice in Chains' catalog has given it a permanent place in grunge guitar history.