Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Guitar World

“Ihad to make sure he had all the tones he needed – the intro to Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love is like taking a flint and stone to make a spark”: How a glam-metal guitarist built Joe Satriani an amp that captured Eddie Van Halen’s tone

3rd Power’s Dylana Nova Scott leaned on an impressive production background to design boutique amps for some of the biggest names in the biz

Guitar World

“I heard this car come roaring up… Jeff’s coming out and he’s holding this guitar. He said, ‘Here, this is yours for getting me in the Yardbirds’”: The story of the Fender Telecaster that unites Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon

Guitar World

“Those records made me think the guitar could be as good as jazz. Up until then, the electric guitar was a stupid instrument to me”: The songs that made Tom Verlaine take the guitar seriously

Piano and saxophone were his first loves. The guitar came much later

Guitar World

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“Jeff’s like, ‘That’s the most expensive guitar in this building.’ I was like, ‘Get it away from me’”: Jeff Tweedy opened his guitar vault for this cult indie artist – and it put him on edge

Recording with the Wilco man meant Cut Worms got to explore his wealth of guitars, but had to pull himself away from one

Guitar World

“Back then, he didn't know anything about electric guitar… It was like, ‘Don't worry Bob, I'll adjust the amp for you, it sounds great, don't worry’”: Robbie Robertson on Bob Dylan's rocky electric transition

Though he was playing to some of the biggest crowds of his career, Dylan hadn’t consistently performed electric band shows since his teens – and those gigs certainly weren’t to cheering (and jeering) masses

Guitar World

"It gives the Custom Shop ‘54 pickups in my own Strat a run for their money": Fender Vintera III Late '50s Stratocaster review

Fender sends a love letter to the golden age of guitars with an accessible vintage-inspired instrument

Guitar World

Two essential G chord shapes: when to use each finger position and why

You'll spend a lot of time playing this chord – thankfully, there are multiple ways to do it, and each has a distinct purpose

Guitar World

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“The only way for me to play it was to sit in a chair. I had to explain that to the audience. It was quite embarrassing”: The guitar solo Joe Satriani wished he never wrote

Tuning issues and a desperate need to blow off musical steam from limiting session work made it a lesson learned for the esteemed shredder

Guitar World

“Mitch has finally got the intro and then… crash! It's Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones. He stumbles in, and he's out of his mind!”: Inside the chaotic sessions that produced Jimi Hendrix's classic rendition of All Along the Watchtower

Recorded in London and New York, Hendrix's version of the Bob Dylan track would become the Experience's best-selling single – but it took many takes to get there

Guitar World

“I was getting calls from George Harrison and Eric Clapton’s group. They were working together. And what were they interested in? The J-180 and J-185”: Inside Gibson's Century Collection acoustics – and the role the Rolling Stones and Beatles played

Period-correct in (almost) every detail, the Gibson Century Collection’s 12-fret format is addictively playable. Gibson's Robi Johns tells us it’s all downtothe Brits

Guitar World

“He fired a shotgun out of a window into a bird sanctuary. When we heard the bang, we said to the tour manager, ‘You need to take that gun off him!’” The Sweet's last man standing Andy Scott on wild times and triumphs in glam's most influential band

The guitar history of the Sweet, one of the best-loved bands of the glam era, who splashed color, fun and rock-solid riffs across the ’70s pop world – and influenced a generation in the process

Guitar World

"Once I'm playing, the Hush X Live feels much more like a 'real' guitar than the novelty I was first expecting." Donner Hush X Live Pro review

An ambitious, affordable, and fully-loaded guitar that looks to be a one-stop shop for all your traveling needs

Guitar World

“Suddenly I’m running my bass through this old Marshall guitar amp, but it absolutely roared”: How an off-the-cuff studio experiment unlocked one of Mastodon’s biggest bass sounds

Troy Sanders discovered an unexpected source of low-end fury thanks to a Marshall guitar head and 4x12 cabinet

Guitar World

“Ozzy was used to Les Pauls from Zakk Wylde and Randy Rhoads. He kept asking me if I could play one”: Gus G on whirlwind days with Ozzy Osbourne, his rock-star Guitar World cover shoot, and his difficult choice of guitars

With new solo album Steel Burner out now, Gus G checks in to talk about his August 2010 GW cover shoot and all the madness surrounding it

Guitar World

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“It's an amp for when you feel the need to give the FOH sound engineer a nervous breakdown”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

New releases from Marshall, Harley Benton, Gibson and more…

Guitar World

“A rare and often overlooked chapter in amplifier history”: IK Multimedia makes 9 elusive lost era Fender amps available as a TONEX plugin

A total of 80 Tone Models based on Fender's ultra-rare brown-panel amps have been captured

Guitar World

“When John smashed that guitar above my head, I knew it was coming. But it was terrifying nonetheless”: Stephen Bishop on friendship, luck, and his impossible-to-miss Ferrington guitar

He hit big with his 1976 debut, Careless, went on to be attacked by John Belushi in Animal House, and appeared in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. As he suspends retirement for a farewell tour, he reveals the last musical item on his bucket list

Guitar World

“Thomann isn’t a small independent guitar builder... It is one of the world’s largest instrument retailers and the owner of one of Europe’s largest guitar brands”: Fender fires back at Thomann and sues for copyright infringement – read the full statement

Fender has filed an infringement action against Thomann after the Harley Benton owner took legal action against the guitar maker last month

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

The pedal that made me ditch my tube amp – and why I'll never go back

I thought I'd be a tube amp loyalist for life, but one pedal landed on my lap and overturned my philosophy

Guitar World

“His death was an incredible loss, not only for the band but for guitar fans as well”: Every Deep Purple guitarist, from Blackmore to McBride

The British rock pioneers have survived almost continuously since 1968, partly because of their ability to choose the right players to stand in Ritchie Blackmore’s place

Guitar World

10 misunderstood guitar pedals that became modern classics

These trailblazing stompboxes baffled players at first, but guitarists eventually caught on…

Guitar World

“A full-bodied response that would undoubtedly work a treat with flat-wound strings”: Fender Vintera III Late ‘60s Precision Bass review

Fender's Vintera range receives another round of tweaks – and a new ‘60s-styled P-Bass

Guitar World

“I let it go to voicemail. It said, ‘Hello, this is Eric Clapton. This may sound like a hoax, but it’s not’”: Slowhand tried to invite Derek Trucks onto his album with JJ Cale – but he thought it was a prank call

Trucks was in the middle of a game of poker when Clapton came calling – but he didn't answer the phone

Guitar World

“A Strat gives me all the sounds I want. When I hear that tone, I’m like, ‘That's what a guitar is supposed to sound like’”: He’s jammed with Grace Bowers and collab’d with Cory Wong – now Devon Gilfillian wants to introduce “Nashville Soul” to the world

The Philly native’s new record, Time Will Tell, is “a soul album with little spices from the country spice cabinet” – and it’s loaded with guitar-work that's heavy, funky, weird, and, of course, soulful

Guitar World

“We’d just played the Black Sabbath farewell show and I thought, ‘What’s the worst that can happen if we ask Geezer to guest on our album?’” How Troy Sanders landed one of metal’s greatest bassists for a guest spot on Mastodon’s new album

Marrow Deep features an unexpected low-end hero – and according to Troy Sanders, it's the album’s defining bass performance

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.