“The way my guitar looks with the circles and squares – I was trying to find my own pattern”: How Jerry Cantrell was inspired by Eddie Van Halen to create his own legendary modded guitar
“Angus Young plays a Gibson SG, Eddie’s got his guitar. The G&L is mine.”
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“Tight harmonies that can sound like two (or three!) guitars playing together”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine review
EHX shrinks another pedal as the Intelligent Harmony Machine joins the ranks of the pedalboard-friendly Pico range
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“Absolutely essential listening for any would-be rock bass player”: How Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber galloped his way through a hard-rock classic alongside Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio
Having become disillusioned with Deep Purple’s growing love of funk, Ritchie Blackmore jumped ship in August 1975 – taking most of Purple’s opening act with him
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“I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, and they gave me a guitar. It pissed me off”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player
Baxter would go on to become a bona fide guitar great, but his life might have turned out differently had he got his wish…
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“If I stopped what I was doing because I was blinded by fame and money, that would be selling my soul”: Why Michael Schenker didn’t join Ozzy Osbourne’s band
“I wanted to carry on doing my thing and purely self-express, and not run after a trend.”
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“Danny Gatton and Jimmy Bryant have the otherworldliness that I saw in Dimebag Darrell and Randy Rhoads”: Baroness shredder Gina Gleason on 75 years of the Fender Telecaster, the magic that binds its players, and why it works for metal
The face of Fender’s 75th Anniversary Telecaster campaign shares all about her new death metal project, recent technique breakthroughs and where she thinks the future of metal tone lies
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Upgrade your in-the-box guitar rig with these sweet savings as part of Plugin Boutique’s Band Month
Save up to 94 percent on certain guitar plugins…
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“For those who stand at the crossroads of Hell and rock ‘n’ roll”: Jackson’s Diablo crossover Kelly is inspired by the Lord of Hatred – but you’re still going to love it
Fans begged for the Diablo Kelly to make a return after Jackson dropped a Custom Shop version in 2023
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Up close with iconic guitars from Ace Frehley, Kirk Hammett, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more at Julien’s Music Icons auction
The annual sale of legendary music memorabilia takes place next month, and we got a front row seat to the most interesting and iconic guitars in the sale
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“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind
Bettencourt rarely reposts players on his social media accounts, but this Instagram guitarist-producer has got him all worked up
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“The neck is as thin as Gibson could go without the liability of it snapping”: Jake Kiszka talks us through his new Gibson SG signature, a devilishly thin-necked beast built to galvanize the next generation of rock kids
The Greta Van Fleet and Mirador guitarist gets a loving tribute to The Beloved with his first-ever signature model
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“We have a moral duty to the players”: Fender CEO Bud Cole on leading with responsibility
“When you think about what Fender represents, 80 years of shaping music culture, being a servant leader here feels less like a style choice and more like a responsibility.”
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Police uncover organised crime ring targeting multiple West Coast Guitar Center stores, suspect arrested
Employees of a pawn shop “reported a man had pawned multiple high-value instruments in quick succession”.
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“I said that if we’re gonna make another Lamb of God record, it’s really gotta be worthy of being in the catalog we’ve created. That sets the bar high”: Willie Adler and Mark Morton take us inside metal’s premier riff machine
Into Oblivion finds the guitarists revisiting past chaos to inspire some of the Virginia stalwarts’ most brutal and diverse material to date
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“I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting y’all”: Grace Bowers has quit YouTube over the number of “old ass creeps”
Bowers has also once again distanced herself from the blues, saying she wants to make music for her own generation