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“The store said, ‘We can’t get an amp before your gig.’ This gentleman walked up behind me and said, ‘You can use mine.’ It was John Entwistle”: Martyn LeNoble was once in desperate need of bass gear – and The Who’s low-end legend came to his rescue

When he first moved to the US, the Porno for Pyros bassist was unable to ship has trusty Trace Elliott over with him. When a local bass store couldn't provide a replacement in time, Entwistle stepped in…

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“The label president said, ‘Angelo, I thought you were fast?’ I was taken aback. Then he said, ‘I want you to overplay all the time.’ He wanted the record to be abrasive”: Michael Angelo Batio tells the story of Nitro, hair metal’s most extreme band

Michael Angelo Batio became known as shred's most OTT virtuoso. He explains why the critics were kind of right about Nitro, the magic he cooked up with Wayne Charvel, and why he's living the dream with Manowar

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“Just about every blues show I attended in the ’80s and ’90s started with an uptempo shuffle like this”: Joe Bonamassa on the Eric Clapton classic that’s essential learning for any blues soloist

Written by Memphis Slim, covered by Slowhand with John Mayall, Steppin’ Out is one of the tracks that all blues players should know. Bonamassa teaches you how to play it

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“The label says, ‘We need five more Wait and Bleeds.’ I was like, ‘We're really not that band. You sell our records and we'll make them, okay?’”: Mick Thomson reflects on Slipknot's Wait and Bleed, label pressures – and sticking to their own guns

In a 2014 GW interview, Thomson revealed his disdain for melodic choruses, and how he fought hard for the band to maintain their artistic integrity post-Wait and Bleed

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"It’s easy to see why Baum has seemingly emerged from nowhere when it’s delivering guitars this good": Baum Guitars Carve review

Is this Danish-designed, P-90-equipped double cut the ultimate retro-modern rock machine for under $1,000?

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The ultimate drop-tuning pedal? Solar Guitars reckons the Chug Capo can outdo DigiTech and Boss

The digital pitch-shifter promises low latency and ultimate tone quality preservation

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“I’m a firm believer that if you put a truss rod in a guitar, it sucks the tone out of it”: Simon McBride has a hot tone take you’ve probably never heard before

The Deep Purple guitarist prefers guitars that forego truss rods – here's why

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“It was a nightmare. My only experience was playing in my room where I was alone”: Laura Cox on the challenges of transitioning from YouTube to the studio – and how to conquer them

The French guitarist made her name with classic rock videos on YouTube, but when it came to cutting her teeth in the studio, Cox admits it was another story altogether...

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JHS Pedals corrects its biggest error with the relaunch of the DIY Dumble pedal – complete with a clone of John Mayer’s ultra-rare boost

The Notadümble now correctly features Mayer’s magic clean boost circuit – and it’s been given some key new upgrades to boot

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“There was a message from Jason Momoa – a video of him in his car saying, ‘You gotta call me. Here's my number’”: Jason Momoa saved their career. Keanu Reeves rocked up to a show. Flea let them crash at his house. How did the Bobby Lees get here?

After calling BS on streaming services payouts, guitarist and vocalist Sam Quartin announced her band’s hiatus. She never could have anticipated what happened next…

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“It took me 10 or 11 takes to get the timing on the intro right. Jimi easily could have just done it”: The life and times of Dave Mason, the former Traffic guitarist who made a habit of playing on iconic tracks

The Traffic guitarist’s best work of the ’60s and ’70s was magical, but the stop/start nature of his career held him off household-name status

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“He would show up in a station wagon full of Les Pauls, Teles and Strats. I bought probably 20 pieces from him over the years”: The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars

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“I bought it for 100 bucks. The guy didn’t think it was fixable. Years later, he came to a show and saw me playing it. He was mad – said I took advantage of him”: Jeff Tweedy says his mom has an eye for guitar bargains – these are the cheapest gems yet

The $100 purchase was in poor condition, and when he got it singing, its former owner was vexed...

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My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

My personal highlights from a week that brought us a single-pickup PRS for Jon Jourdan, Eventide's next-gen H9, and more. Have a highlight of your own? Let us know in the comments

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“I was driving home, and I thought of this chord sequence. I was about 20 minutes away from the studio. I turned around and went back”: Robert Smith on the flash of inspiration that shaped the Cure's biggest hit

Proving beyond doubt that the band's range extended far beyond dense, brooding epics, it remains the Cure song to reference for those who know only of the band's name and maybe their frontman's inimitable hairdo

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“Little Simz asked me to play some shows, but the dates clashed with a family holiday. She asked again a month later, and I ended up playing Glastonbury”: How Marla Kether landed the Little Simz gig and made her debut on the UK’s biggest festival stage

The London-born bassist, DJ and producer enjoyed a baptism of fire on the Pyramid Stage – now her solo work brings her Afro-Brazilian influences to the fore as she plans her next step

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“Jack had this roaring, growling thing that would start at the bottom and twine all the way up. I’d never heard bass like it”: A guide to the basses, amps, and signature tone of Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady

From his early-‘60s Jazz Bass to a Flying V, Jack Casady was among the first to embrace custom bass builds – and it changed his tone forever

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“A seriously elegant, feature-rich and capable instrument”: Ornamentation? Check. Booster soundport? Check. Furch’s new Red Series acoustic is the $7,000 guitar that dreams are made of

The Furch Red Deluxe GC-LI 2026 combines high-end aesthetic flourishes with some seriously well thought-out design elements – and we don't want to hand it back.

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"It’s a tale of two halves – I found the clean tones to be quite lackluster": Gretsch Electromatic Jet Baritone review

Gretsch's gargantuan scale metal machine gives players an option to downtune without resorting to a 7 or 8 string, but it surprisingly leaves traditional tones in the dark

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“We needed to avoid parasite noises when you slide your fingers along the strings”: Peppino D’Agostino on his nylon-string collab with a neuroscientist that could literally heal your mind

Serenity now! One of the world's most “transcendent” players teams up with a neuroscientist on pipe organ for an album of brain-healing melodies and zero harsh frequencies

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“I’m exploring my voice as a guitarist, and I’m trying to write in a space without rules – no genres, no time lengths”: Steve Vai, Nita Strauss... Bella Perron? Why the former Plush guitarist could be our next Ibanez-toting guitar superstar

Wildfire shredding and whiplash licks prove that this Maine-bred gun-for-hire can hold her own. Now based in L.A., she’s in extra-high demand

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“I wanted to know how he got the top note on Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”: How Jeff Beck and Brian Robertson swapped guitars – and brought guitar synths to Motörhead

Robertson’s ill-fated stint in the band was short, but Jeff Beck helped him introduce an oddball instrument into their lore

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“Very few people know these exist, and this one may be the only surviving version that is fully intact”: A 1960 Les Paul Custom in Cherry? This vintage stunner was once owned by Neal Schon – and it might well be a true unicorn

It may look like a ‘70s survivor, but this Les Paul Custom is one of six from a limited 1960 run

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Bob Dylan has just recruited one of the world's greatest jazz guitarists – and no one quite knows what's going on

Virtuoso Julian Lage – who's very likely your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist – has been welcomed into Dylan’s band without prior announcement or fanfare

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“Every detail of this series reflects Kramer at its best”: Kramer goes for gold with its 50th Anniversary collection

The ’80s shred classics are back – as streamlined as ever – and sporting golden limited-edition colorways.

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