Stella – the legendary guitar brand championed by BB King, Elvis and Kurt Cobain – has been revived by Harmony with a new line of parlor acoustics
“B.B. King’s first guitar was a red Stella acoustic. That’s the kind of impact we want this brand to continue to have, being the guitar that starts someone’s story,” says Meng Ru Kuok, CEO of Vista Musical Instruments.
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“Billy said, ‘I’ve never played a high-gain amp that I like.’ It was a tall order”: How a Smashing Pumpkins superfan made the only amp Billy Corgan has ever truly loved
Brian Carstens spent 30 years obsessing over Corgan’s guitar tone. Then he ended up making amps for his hero – not to mention John Fogerty, Tool and Misha Mansoor
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“My idea, John, if you’re reading this, would be to write an odd-time signature song”: Plini is manifesting a collaboration with John Mayer – and has issued an open call to make it happen
The prog metal virtuoso has a wild vision for what their joint single could potentially look like
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“You just popped over, had a little toot and continued”: Robben Ford recalls “a box of cocaine on every shelf” while jamming with George Harrison in the ’70s
Ford would later join Harrison on his Dark Horse tour that same year.
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“This was a divine intervention for me. It was everything that I was looking for”: Jake Kiszka on finding his “Beloved” Gibson SG
The guitar is the inspiration behind his new signature model with Gibson.
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Fender teams up with fashion brand Kith on a super stylish Stratocaster
The guitar marks significant anniversary milestones for both brands, with Fender celebrating 80 years of business.
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“The power went out, then this horrible rainstorm came. I got the chills. I said, ‘Dude, I think Gary Moore’s here’”: The supernatural experience Jared James Nichols had when he played through Gary Moore’s old amp
Nichols looks back on the moment he and Joe Bonamassa fired up one of Moore’s prized amps – which the Nerdville owner recently acquired for $25,100
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“We’ve always been big fans of Nickelback – their guitarist came to see one of our shows and asked if we’d support them”: How UK riff-slingers Don Broco ended up recording with Muse’s bass rig – and collaborating with Nickelback
Recorded with the help of Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme, Nightmare Tripping showcases bassist Tom Doyle’s Earth-shattering basslines
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“I unbolted the neck and put it in a suitcase to save baggage. Then we saw all our stolen gear posted for sale in Eastern Europe”: Indie band survival stories with Ratboys and The Beths
Transatlantic touring pals Julia Steiner and Liz Stokes on their gear nightmares and why Stokes is still hoping for a guitar reunion story like Paul McCartney and his long-lost Höfner bass
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“The new vibrato only adds to the appeal – it’s easy to see how this guitar could do the business equally well for metal, jazz-fusion or function gigs”: Strandberg Boden Standard N2.6T review
A new vibrato design, on a guitar we loved already – will we be tickled pink?
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“It was three people watching us in a bar and grill, and two of them were working behind the bar!” Zakk Wylde on his Ozzy Osbourne tribute, his Led Zeppelin epiphany, and the triumphant return of Black Label Society
The Wylde man waxes lyrical about songwriting, recording, his approach to soloing, and Ozzy’s Song, a poignant track from BLS’s hard-charging newalbum
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“I get a call from Guitar Center in New Jersey. They go, ‘Your Explorer was in here. We just sold it to some guy’”: Richie Sambora hired a private detective to recover his stolen Gibson
Sambora was recently reunited with his prized 1976 Gibson Explorer, 41 years after it was stolen out of a warehouse
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Which guitar brand has the better headstock design – Gibson or Fender?
There are few things that spark lively guitar debate like headstock design – one person’s perfect ratio is another person’s paper-bagger. But of the two major electric guitar brand design philosophies, which actually works better?
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“What’s that headless bass that looks like a toothpick? I really liked the sound, but I hated the bass”: How bassist Cliff Williams landed the gig (and found his sound) with AC/DC
When he joined AC/DC in 1977, Cliff Williams played a Fender Precision, but made a permanent change following the band’s Highway to Hell album
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“He said, ‘We have this Michael Jackson tune.’ I looked at Quincy and said, ‘What does it need? Who should we…?’ Then he said, ‘Carlton’” Session legend Larry Carlton on how he ended up playing on a Michael Jackson hit
Carlton is part of a very select group of guitarists that’s ever worked with the King of Pop and his elite team
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“It’s difficult to see how this could have been expressed more clearly”: Estates of Jimi Hendrix bandmates Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell lose court case over royalties
A judge has put an end to a years-long royalty dispute between the estates of the three bandmates.
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