In a recent interview with Guitar World, Roth says that the active quadruple-coil pickups on his iconic and utterly unique Sky Guitar have pretty much blown up all amps they have come into contact ...

That’s how his brainchild the Sky guitar became a reality in 1983, with the help of luthier Andy Demetriou. “It was the highest-playing guitar on the planet at the time,” Roth says.