ThorpyFX just made the world’s first braille pedal for blind guitarist Anthony Ferraro following his custom braille Victory amp
Innovation in guitar tech just got a lot more wholesome.
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“That changed everything for me. ‘It doesn’t hurt. I could play like this all day long. And it sounds great!’’ How a Hendrix hack helped The Collect Pond’s Danny Moffat play through his health issues
A jangle-pop-inspired Boston post-punk band that shares its name with a putrid body of water in 19th-century Lower Manhattan? What’s not to love!
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“It absolutely blew my f**king mind”: Dave Grohl is getting on the Angine de Poitrine hype train
The Foo Fighters frontman is the latest big name to be floored by the Quebec duo’s mind-bending sound.
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Fender Made In Japan Traditional 60s Jazzmaster review: “this visually polarising guitar is anything but traditional”
Does this Pearl ‘n’ gold limited edition guitar offer an unconventional route to an authentic vintage Jazzmaster? Well, not really…
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“I was 8 and Andy was my first guitar teacher – to me he was Mr. Summers with a funny accent!”Doug Pettibone on taking lessons from Andy Summers, touring with Jewel, and not getting fired by John Mayer
The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel until Mayer helped him make it
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“I put it in the freezer overnight and took a blowtorch to it”: Joe Perry put his “desert island guitar” through hell but it’s still his number one
Perry’s Fender/Warmoth “Burned Strat” aka the “Rat Strat” was the main guitar on Aerosmith’s recent collab with Yungblud
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“I certainly didn’t know how to build a studio. It was all Donn’s magic”: Donn Landee, the engineer who masterminded 5150 Studios, and helped shape Van Halen’s sound, dies at 79
The recording engineer was a key figure in Van Halen’s first eight albums and made Eddie Van Halen’s ahead-of-his-time vision for 5150 Studios a reality
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“The company that handles all our equipment has completely boned us. We have literally nothing to play”: The All-American Rejects cancel show after gear is “mistakenly shipped across the country”
The band have staked their claim for the ‘weirdest gig cancellation’ of the year
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“There are really good ’Bursts, average ’Bursts and some that are not that good at all”: What this pristine 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard tells us about the myth of the ’Bursts
A so-called Double-O, this 1960 Les Paul was made from ’59 parts, and is a bona-fide grail. But this was not always the case. Back in the day, players just didn’t get the appeal
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Fender masterbuilders on why relic’d guitars aren’t about “stolen valour”: “Those who like it aren’t thinking, ‘I want this instrument to look like I’ve played it for 60 years.’ They just think it’s cool”
Fender’s Andy Hicks and Austin MacNutt explain why opinions on relic’d guitars are more about taste than authenticity.
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