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“The first accessible guitar ever made”: Blind guitarist didn’t realize fret markers were a thing – until he was given a game-changing guitar with a tactile ‘navigation neck’

When Anthony Ferraro highlighted the difficulty blind and partially sighted guitar players face in navigating the fretboard, boutique builder NVision Guitars came to the rescue

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“I played a Gretsch and then played the Flying V, and I couldn’t tell the difference”: Brian Setzer on the unlikely Gibson guitar that’s most like his iconic Gretsch

Setzer says the Flying V is the only guitar that has ever come close to matching the tone and feel of his Gretsch hollowbody

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“I got it for 800 bucks, and it became an important guitar. I took it over to Jake Kiszka’s house – he whipped out a case and he had the same one”: Mirador’s Chris Turpin on the ‘sleeper’ star of his vintage guitar collection

Turpin’s 1960s Gibson B-25 is one of the best 12-strings for recording – and his old pal Jake Kiszka has one just like it

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“The cleaning lady came the next morning and everyone was on the floor. Mick Jagger had his head up inside the bass drum”: The incredible life and times of Hubert Sumlin, one of the blues' greatest guitarists

In a 1992 GW interview, the late Howlin' Wolf guitarist of 23 years told tales of taking (with permission) one of Eric Clapton's favorite Strats (before giving it back), fistfights with his boss, studio shenanigans, and the day Hendrix played Wolf's guitar with his teeth...

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“I gave Eddie Van Halen the parts, and the next time I saw the guitar he had used a spray can to paint it white with black stripes”: How Charvel spawned a custom shop revolution – and became the premier guitar maker in the age of shredders

Wayne Charvel's namesake brand started life as a small parts and repair facility and ended up building guitars played by the biggest virtuosos on the planet

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“The thought process is, which notes should sting, which notes should moan, and how can I effectively express emotion”: From B.B. King to Eric Clapton and Otis Rush, the blues is the core element of Joe Bonamassa's playing

In this essential video lesson with the guitar superstar, he explains why it doesn't matter what style he is playing – it always begins and ends with the blues

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“Randy said, ‘Maybe if you tried it in this key…’ He had the patience because he was a guitar teacher. He wouldn’t intimidate me. Because I’m quite easily intimidated”: Ozzy Osbourne on his special writing dynamic with Randy Rhoads

Blizzard of Ozz was the Prince of Darkness' solo debut – but it forever marked Rhoads as a guitar hero for the ages

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“He had a kind of caveman instinct”: Was David Bowie a good guitar player? Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton and more weigh in

Bowie's various sidemen share their thoughts on what their former leader was like as a guitarist

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A year on from the tragic passing of the great Ozzy Osbourne, we dive into the secrets behind Randy Rhoads’ guitar tone on the iconic Crazy Train – and lift the lid on how to nail the sound on a budget

How a mids-heavy EQ and a triple-tracked solo gave Rhoads to the sound that launched Ozzy's solo career

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“I still can’t believe that he’s not here with us. There will never be another Ozzy”: Tony Iommi shares Ozzy Osbourne tribute on the first anniversary of his death

Iommi has paid a heartfelt tribute to his former Black Sabbath bandmate

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“Rik told me, ‘Don’t hold back. Do yourthing. I don’t want people to see adiluted Phil X, so be you.’ He’s right. I’ll beme”: Phil X on taking to the stage with Canadian rock heroes Triumph– and how he’s switching up his Bon Jovi rig for the occasion

Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X – the guitar star of Triumph’s final studio album – won’t be holding anything back when he joins Rik Emmett

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“Those Dookie mods pay dividends – this is the sound in every Green Day fan's head”: Marshall Billie Joe Armstrong Signature 1959BJA review

The legendary Green Day frontman’s new amp – Time of Your Life, or a Basket Case?

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"It is not the widest selection of sounds, but what it does do is almost universally brilliant": Darkglass Anagram Limited Edition Guitar Essentials review

Darkglass goes guitar with the Guitar Essentials package and this limited edition, facelift version of the hardware, in collaboration with Andertons and Sweetwater.

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“It’s like if you found out Harry Potter’s scar wasn’t from battling Voldemort but done under anesthetic on Harley Street”: The case for and against guitar relicing

Sure, you can get the visual mojo of a heavily-played instrument – but some players insist you’ve gotta earn it…

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“I was just sick of the white blues rock thing. The whole mentality seemed stupid”: Why The Edge was always destined to become a different kind of guitar hero

In 1996, U2's six-string sonic experimentalist offered a frank discussion of his influences – and why he felt disillusioned with the current guitar scene

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“After the second or third song, people get over the shock of seeing Johnny Depp up there with a guitar. And it’s legit”: Joe Perry on what it’s like being in a band with one of the world’s biggest movie stars

From the silver screen to the studio, Johnny Depp’s ongoing tenure as one of three guitarists in the Hollywood Vampires is decades in the making

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“Frets are necessary, like a baby walker that a small child uses to learn to walk. But after a certain point they can become restrictive”:How a Greek orthodox priest went viral by turning church hymns into fretless eight-string metal ragers

Armed with a Harley Benton eight-string, genre-stretching Fr Dionysios Tabakis sent the music world into an unlikely frenzy with debut album Paradise Metal

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“Gibson would have been aware of the popularity of Fender vibratos and maybe considered Bigsbys to be too expensive or too closely associated with Gretsch. Either way, the company devised its own”: What this Golden Era ’63 SG tells us about Gibson design

The Les Paul Standard may be the most iconic and the ES-335 the most versatile, but the SG remains Gibson’s greatest commercial success

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“Second song in, the amps blew up. You can hear Jagger apologizing to the crowd, ‘We’re trying to get it together up here. Maybe we’ll do a couple of acoustic ones’”: How a revolutionary amp nearly derailed the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour

The Stones bet big on Ampeg’s all-new SVT. And the gamble paid off… until one night it didn't

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“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend

Fripp had made magical contributions to Bowie's masterpiece, Heroes, just a few years earlier – but this time the legend had something very different in mind…

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Martin caves to player demand and revives its smallest guitar body shape – but it’s not tuned like your regular acoustic

The 5-28 Terz is a tiny 12-fret acoustic that promises a distinct voice of its own

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“His impact will live on for generations”: Wayne Charvel, legendary luthier who built guitars for Eddie Van Halen and gave rise to the Superstrat, dies aged 85

The revered guitar builder was one of the most influential modders and makers of his time, and sparked the custom shop revolution

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“We told their manager we were open to making them a guitar. Two weeks later they were touring our factory”: The making of Angine de Poitrine’s new Godin double-neck – and why it’s not a signature model (yet)

The Canadian guitar firm stopped all other production for 38 days to embark on its most ambitious project yet: a microtonal double-neck for the viral polka-dot duo

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"There’s something about the pure honesty of a tube amp that can’t be topped”: 5 reasons I think digital modelers still can’t win the gear war

I'm here to argue that the humble valve amp is still as relevant today as ever – here's why

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“She was such a force. She made so many feel so seen”: L7 bassist Jennifer Finch, who changed the game on and off the stage, has died aged 59

The musical and cultural force passed away shortly after revealing a brain cancer diagnosis

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