“It’s a really good guitar, especially for the price”: Jake E. Lee has added Yungblud’s signature guitar to his collection

The former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has been playing the affordable Epiphone – and he’s impressed

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“I was the only guy playing that guitar. It was their version of a semi-hollow”: How Robben Ford helped Fender design their short-lived answer to the ES-335

The short-lived build aimed to compete with one of Gibson’s flagship models

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“I set about them with a wood burner”: Pat Metheny asks Ibanez to send him “cheap” versions of his own signature guitar – to turn them into artworks

Between launching a new music label and studio album, Metheny spends his downtime transforming his Ibanez signatures into sculptures

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“Why an SG? Perhaps he was fed up that his two Les Paul ’Bursts had been stolen”: The history and preservation of Eric Clapton’s The Fool SG

With its psychedelic paint job, Clapton’s iconic Cream-era Gibson SG is a guitar like no other. As it goes under the hammer as part of the Jim Irsay Collection, we take a closer look at The Fool SG

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“This can be the area that spawns the most intimidating names”: 5 altered chords you need to know – and how they get their names

Altered chords can be intimidating at first, but here we demystify the naming conventions, and once you understand that, you can easily find your own

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“What is this entire piece-of-s**t setup?”: Josh Homme once showed his Peavey/Yamaha bass rig to John Paul Jones – this was his reaction

“You’re looking for any way to do something that nobody else is doing. Getting s**t from people is the best thing that could happen.”

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Stop wasting your money on professionals – here’s how to install a new guitar pickup yourself

While there’s a time and a place to take your instrument to a qualified guitar tech, there are plenty of simple jobs you can do yourself with a little knowhow – and swapping out your pickups is one of the easiest

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“I kept saying, ‘I’m not the guy. Call Nuno’”: Joe Satriani put Nuno Bettencourt’s name forward for failed EVH tribute tour with Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Before embarking on the Best of All Worlds tour with Sammy Hagar, Satch was close to hitting the road for a Van Halen tribute tour with Roth and Alex Van Halen

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“It was just unbelievable. I’ve literally never heard anything like it my whole life”: Jacob Collier on what happened when he gave his 5-string acoustic to Julian Lage and Chris Martin

Collier has ushered in a five-string revolution and a few big names are already on board…

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“I can’t fake the funk”: Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist on why he’s often looked so miserable on stage

If guitarist Michael Hampton isn’t feeling his power-funk sound, he can’t fully immerse himself in his instrument.

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Who’s the best guitar player you’ve ever seen live?

Did the best live guitar playing you’ve ever seen come from a hero you’d been dying to see for years? Or someone out of the blue, who you’d never heard before? Tell us the story!

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“I thought, ‘Well, it couldn’t hurt…’ It did hurt”: Noodling alone at home is fine. But you’ll never be a great guitar player unless you join a band

Leaving the bedroom for the rehearsal room exposed my flaws and smashed my confidence. But if you can stick with it, you’ll have the best laugh of your life and supercharge your playing

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“I threw my guitar off mid strum, dove into the crowd and began strangling him to the ground”: Billy Corgan on the first time he met future Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur

The pair reflect on how a heckler at an early Pumpkins gig led to a decades-long friendship

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Gibson expands its Songwriter line with new Recording Artist and Recording Artist EC models

The Recording Artist and Recording Artist EC capture Gibson’s classic tone with a “modern, professional” polish.

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