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“Redefines delay effects to create a pedal like no other”: The Dark Cloud is the final pedal Diamond designed before the revered effects firm closed down – now it’s finally seeing the light of day

The innovative delay is a ‘greatest hits’ of Diamond designs, with a unique reverse mode that’s “like echoes bounding through a stormy canyon”

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“I didn’t tell anybody when I started playing the guitar. Then I entered a talent contest and I played The Star-Spangled Banner with my teeth – and I won”: Why Steve Vai kept his guitar playing a secret when he first started

Vai didn't tell anyone when he began learning the guitar, but eventually announced his new-found fretboard abilities in quite spectacular style

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“You can look at Nashville pre-Kris and post-Kris, because he changed everything”: Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88

The actor, songwriter and country giant was lauded by Bob Dylan, had his material covered by Johnny Cash and Janis Joplin, and joined a supergroup with some of country music's biggest names

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Long before shred took hold, instrumental electric guitar was pioneered by players like Link Wray, Les Paul and Hank Marvin – and their groundbreaking contributions shaped the sound of every guitarist who followed

We pay tribute to the kings of twang with this electric masterclass in early rock ’n’ roll instrumental guitar

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“I don’t know what kind of music this is!” Even Trey Anastasio doesn’t know how to describe his otherworldly playing in Phish – but his unique blend of guitar styles makes him a force to be reckoned with

Anastasio draws from influences across the musical spectrum. This lesson breaks down his dynamic soloing and songwriting approach

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“I went backstage and said to Rory, ‘There’s a guy out there called Slash who’s come to see you…’ Rory’s eyes lit up”: The night Rory Gallagher gave the Guns N’ Roses guitarist a taste of affordable Gibson via his 1960 Melody Maker

Modded with a Gibson humbucker, this 1969 student guitar has lived a life, and was the star of the show when Gallagher jammed with Slash in 1991

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“By their very nature, electric 12-strings are quirky… But surely there’s no cooler instrument on which to progress your jangly journey”: Gibson Custom Shop 1965 Non-Reverse Firebird V 12-String Reissue review

If there’s a cooler high-end electric 12-string on the market today we haven't seen it...

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“I would call our approach organized chaos, but it drove Allan Holdsworth up the wall”: John Wetton has been the bass force behind a peak-period King Crimson lineup and two prog rock supergroups

A veteran of one of King Crimson’s classic lineups, John Wetton’s amazing career took him through a host of British prog bands

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“Thrill-seekers wishing to add ear-melting fuzz to their bass will be in tonal nirvana”: Goliath FX Hornburg Fuzz review

With drive tones verging on the mythical, is this the ultimate bass fuzz?

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“Tailored for his percussive playing and highly technical style”: Ibanez finally honors prog guitar hero Manuel Gardner Fernandes with his first signature model – and it’s a radical reimagining of the firm’s most daring design

The percussive fingerstyle heavyweight has swapped AZ Superstrats for the ergonomics of the Quest range, resulting in Ibanez's finest headless guitar yet

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“The mightiest guitar tone and performance monster per square inch”: Kemper responds to the Neural DSP Nano Cortex with not one, but two new upgrades for its Profiler Player – but you'll have to pay

The compact rig replacement has been elevated to a whole new level with two impressive upgrades, which offer an effects explosion and popular Kemper functions – but they don't come cheap

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“He'd be like, ‘Yeah, when you're sitting in, you can just use mine.’ I was like, ‘I can?!’” Larkin Poe's Rebecca Lovell on the time Elvis Costello let her borrow his famed Fender Jazzmaster

Lovell went from being an Elvis Costello fan and buying a Jazzmaster to playing his actual guitar

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“Pat and Joe came to the shop, and he loaned the money to Joe to buy the guitar. He bought it for $250”: Gibson unearths the forgotten history of Joe Staunton’s mystery “Orphanage Burst” – a ‘59 Les Paul like no other

The blues legend – also known as 'The Left-Handed Wizard' – first purchased the LP in 1969, and used it throughout the course of his career as he helped shape the Irish music scene

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“The first time I saw a D'Angelico guitar, it was in a video from Isaiah Sharkey and Melanie Faye. I immediately tried to find a store that had them”: D'Angelico teams up with funk sensation Giacomo Turra on a '60s-inspired signature model

The Giacomo Turra Bedford SH features an all-new Supro Gold Field pickup that promises to deliver clear, single coil-like tones, with the added boldness of a humbucker

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“He taught me how to play songs by Dream Theater, Iron Maiden and King Diamond… though I remember giving up on some of the John Petrucci solos!” Tor Oddmund Suhrke on guitar lessons with Ihsahn and casting musical illusions with Leprous

Melodies of Atonement finds Leprous taking the complex and making it sound simple – and if that confuses prog purists then so be it, says Suhrke. There is no reversing the evolutionary wheel…

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“Joe and I had been hanging out, secretively making music, knowing that one day we'd do something. Four sessions later, we had an album”: How Glenn Hughes brought his low-end expertise into the spotlight with Joe Bonamassa and Black Country Communion

The ageless rock veteran with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath recorded his most bass-intensive disc alongside guitarist Joe Bonamassa

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“One thing I won’t waver from is achorus effect on my clean tone. I love the underlying sadness it gives, even if you’re playing something happy”: Los Bitchos guitarist Serra Petale on repurposing ’80s sounds and the tone so good she wanted to eat it

Talkie Talkie is a fun sophomore album featuring stellar tones and hooks from London's most exuberant stompbox enthusiast. She explains why the chorus is sad but human – and always on

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“I could see Brian was thinking about something, and he said, ‘How would you feel about using one of my Brian May guitars?’” Queen’s second guitarist, Jamie Moses, on how Brian May convinced him to switch from a Strat to a Red Special

Jamie Moses toured with Queen for 11 years, and switched up his rig to perform alongside May – and even inspired a new modification for the iconic guitar

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“A one-of-a-kind experience where creativity knows no limits”: Fender partners with video game franchise Monster Hunter for a wild Telecaster that glows red in the dark – and has a literal scratchplate

Fender's latest foray into the world of video games has resulted in one its most striking special-edition Teles yet

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What are 6/9 chords? Meet 5 chord shapes that make perfect set closers – and murder mystery soundtracks

What are 6/9 chords? Well, it might sound complicated but they simply have the 6th and 9th of the parent scale, and their stacking of 4ths gives them a sound like no other

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“The classic British sound of a Laney amp on your pedalboard”: Laney Black Country Customs Ironheart and Lionheart LoudPedals review

Laney presents the signature Tom Quayle and Martin Miller pedalboard versions of a pair of its finest amps, featuring 60 watts of real amp power, right at your feet

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“I walked through the ‘Nothing To Declare’ lane, though it was in an embarrassment of a guitar case atthat point”: The remarkable story behind Rory Gallagher’s 1968 Coral 3S19 Electric Sitar

Famously used on Philby, the electric sitar is one of the most unique instruments in the Rory Gallagher Collection. Donal Gallagher tells us how he found it and its glam Transatlantic journey home

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“Sets a new benchmark for guitar amp plugin performance”: Blackstar and Jared James Nichols blur boundary between physical and digital amp releases with ground-breaking signature amp and plugin launch

The British amp builder says this is the first time an artist signature amp has been launched on the same day as a matching plugin

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Perry Farrell punched Dave Navarro in the face backstage, alleges Jane’s Addiction guitar tech as he reveals the background to the band’s onstage fight – and the dramatic aftermath

Dan Cleary was the man who restrained Farrell seconds after the singer attacked Navarro mid-gig – he opens up about the months of tension that led to what he believes to be the band’s last-ever show

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“A bevy of enhancements for endless tonal possibilities”: Boss just gave players another reason to give its flagship touchscreen GX-100 amp modeler a try with huge firmware update

New amps, quality-of-life improvements and some iconic Boss effects help keep the floorboard on top form in the competitive modeler/multi-FX market

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