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“Harrison lost interest in the Rosewood Telecaster well before Let It Be came out. In December 1969, he gave it away”: How George Harrison fell in and out of love with the Tele he played at the Beatles’ final performance – and where it is now

George Harrison’s heavyweight prototype Fender shaped the late-era Beatles sound, and later passed through the hands of Delaney Bramlett and, briefly, Jerry Garcia

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“It all started during a soundcheck. I was playing a Telecaster, and I said to our drummer, ‘Hey man, play the train beat!’ I began playing what became the main riff in Let It Burn”: Charlie Starr on how to turn a simple, catchy riff into a killer song

The Blackberry Smoke guitarist pays tribute to the power of the almighty riff in his latest GW lesson

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“I’ve lost count of how many SGs I have. But none of them match up to that one guitar”: Angus Young on his favorite Gibson SG from his collection – and the hunt to find a replacement

The AC/DC guitar hero has tried getting copies made to no avail

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“Harley Benton might have outdone itself. This is custom shop-level detail for under $350”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

New drops from Orange, Kramer, Harley Benton and more

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“Well, I’ve always said that if they wanted me to reform, I would do it”: Steve Hackett says he would be up for a Genesis reunion tour with Phil Collins – but could it happen?

There would be some serious obstacles in getting the ’70 to ’75 classic Genesis lineup back together

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“He solobombs in to drop some terrifyingly clean sweep passages. Modern technical guitar playing doesn’t get better than this”: July 2026 Guitar World Editors' Picks

Featuring a ferocious new single from the future of shred, defiantly optimistic post-punk, “ecstasy for the ears” indie, irresistible jazz fusion, and much more

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"The build quality is superb, it plays like a dream, and unlike other guitars in this price range, the electronics don’t let it down": Sire Larry Carlton S7 Ash Top review

With a raft of premium features, Sire's super value-for-money S-style makes a concrete case for dodging the big brands

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“I was geared up to play Steve Vai solos. But they sent me in a completely different direction”: How John Squire’s replacement had to reinvent his playing when he joined the Stone Roses

Aziz Ibrahim says replacing the beloved guitarist was “bittersweet” – and he had a tough time settling into the gig

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“Me and my dad went to pick it up from a woman’s house and it turns out it was her ex-husband’s. Somewhere out there is a guy wondering where his Strat went!” Zac Schulze on the ultimate eBay bargain Strat, and the greatest blues tone ever

The Zac Schulze Gang's eponymous band leader discusses blues heroes, tone tricks, and how the sound of the fast-rising UK blues-rock band came together

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“He’s pretty fearless in the studio. You just gotta trust him and know it’s gonna work, ‘cause there’s a lot of experimentation”: Dominic Davis on growing up with Jack White and what he’s learned playing bass with him

The session ace talks essential bass gear, channeling John Paul Jones on Jack White's new album, and explains how working with White has made him rethink his tone and his playing

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“I did say to him, ‘Do you want to play on something else?’ He said, ‘No. Your solos are good. I don’t need to play’”: Tony Iommi reveals Brian May’s role on his upcoming solo record

The Black Sabbath riffsmith recently announced the release date of his new album, From the Dark

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“It’s the actual composer, the actual score – the riffs played properly loud in a room that can withstand all the ripping and tearing”: Mick Gordon to perform Doom score live for the very first time next year

The Australian composer will bring the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter vibes – and his infamous Doom Machine – when he headlines the UK's RADAR Festival 2027

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“A celebration of legendary bass tone”: Geezer Butler gets a limited-edition combo and Dingwall honors a modern metal great in July’s biggest bass releases

From classic heavy-metal thunder to the soulful tones of reggae, these are the bass releases putting some serious weight behind July’s gear calendar

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“I wanted to make sure it was perfect. A completely different type of Kramer”: Kramer and Malina Moye make history with the underrated modern guitar hero’s first signature model

The genre-hopping guitarist has become the company's first woman of color signature artist

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“We’re genuinely sorry for the delay in response and confusion it caused”: D’Addario sets the record straight over generative AI accusations

The string maker was recently accused of using generative AI to create the music for a product demo video

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“I contacted Stevie Ray Vaughan’s amp tech. He approached amps the way a tailor fits a suit. Watching him work was like seeing magic happen”: Philip Sayce on the gear that changed him – and how he learned to wield it

The high-energy blues-rocker – who missed out on buying one of his dream instruments only to find it again years later – explains what he picked up from Jeff Healey, Melissa Etheridge and almost every player he listened to

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“You could just play different voicings and inversions of A7 over this groove all day long and it’ll sound great”: How to build a compelling rhythm guitar part with triads

Confused about triads? They are just chords with three notes, and as Corey Congilio demonstrates here, they can be the building block of a great guitar part

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“He would text me, ‘I'm in pain. This thing, it's getting me down.’ I would just say, ‘You're the strongest man I know’”: Ozzy Osbourne's best friend on the legend's final days

Billy Idol's rhythm guitarist, Billy Morrison, was the Prince of Darkness' best friend for three decades

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“Alex Lifeson went off on loose-limbed benders, taking madcap detours and stretching out phrases just to see where they’d land”: Rush deliver the thrill of mastery at Madison Square Garden – live review

At the first show of their four-night stand in NYC, the new trinity of Lifeson, Lee, and Nilles delivered a tour de force of classics, deep cuts, and fearless musicianship

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"Any aspiring dirt purveyor worth their salt will naturally gravitate toward the HalfLife’s crushing wall of sound" EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) HalfLife Octave Distortion & Booster review

EQD’s HalfLife pedal delivers the droned, bottom-heavy fury inspired by Sunn O))) with uncompromising force

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“Unrecognizable. Make it right”: Guitarist calls out American Airlines after his acoustic was returned to him in pieces

Titus Tucker is the latest player to have his gear destroyed by an airline

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“Cover music has been analog AI for a long time”: Fender CEO Bud Cole under fire from online guitar community for AI comments

Cole's comments on AI's place in the guitar world from earlier this year have resurfaced – and not been well-received

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“There was really no plan, but festivals started making offers. Our manager got us on a call, and I was basically crying – it's what I’d been waiting for”: Chris Caffery on the return of Savatage, and his guitar partnership with the late Criss Oliva

Ahead of the release of a new classic lineup era live album, he looks back on working with the queen of rock and the king of polka, and admits to pride over a unique Trans-Siberian Orchestra stat

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“We’re not trying to prove anything – it rocks”: Tony Iommi announces first solo album in 21 years – hear the new single, World Alone

Iommi has shared the record's lead single ahead of its release later this year

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Glen Hansard, celebrated Irish singer-songwriter and star of Oscar-winning movie Once, dies in motorcycle crash

Hansard was a music, acting and songwriting triple threat – fronting Irish band The Frames, building a respected solo career, and collaborating with the likes of Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen

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