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“I said to my tour manager, ‘I need 350 bucks,’ which he wasn’t happy about. That bass changed my career”: In 1981, Pino Palladino bought a fretless StingRay that altered the course of his musical life – now it’s been recreated as a signature model

In 1981, Pino Palladino bought a fretless StingRay that altered the course of his musical life – now it’s been recreated as a signature model

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“Bey wanted a solo. She’s like, ‘We can have a 16-bar solo on this record.’ So that was a little bit of pressure”: Eric Gales nearly recorded a guitar solo for Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

Raphael Saadiq reveals he was close to giving Gales a ring when Beyoncé requested an extended solo on one of the Cowboy Carter tracks

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“I just went nuts and added lots of parallel distortion!” Thunderstruck on bass? With slapping and tapping? Modern-day bass hero Toby Peterson-Stewart flexes his formidable chops in tribute to AC/DC

From parallel distortion to cutting-edge tapping, Toby Peterson-Stewart breaks down some of the highlights from his latest cover

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“Everyone in Olivia’s band and Olivia herself is a huge fan. I was watching them, thinking, ‘This is so cool. They’re playing Jacksons’”: How Turnstile ramped up the shred in Olivia Rodrigo’s live show

Lead guitarist Arianna Powell reveals how the hardcore outfit inspired the guitar choices on Olivia Rodrigo’s recent tour

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“When the wonderful David Fleming approached me to help out with guitar for the new James Gunn Superman film/soundtrack, I was like, ‘Um, hell yes?!’”: Yvette Young confirms that she's the guitar-wielder on the new Superman soundtrack

In videos posted to social media, Young can be seen recording for Superman using a sparkly pink Ibanez equipped with P-90s, which she had previously teased “may or may not be coming out”

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“You’re a walking encyclopedia of Stevie knowledge”: This 16-year-old has been called the next Stevie Ray Vaughan – and he’s finally been given the keys to “the real SRV tone” after years of experimenting

Rhys John Stygal has partnered with Pedal Pawn to put on an SRV clinic, complete with an obsessively assembled guitar rig and pointers on how to harness the blues great’s tone

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“These guitars really come across as a very boutique, artisan pair of instruments… Above all, they’re not just another copycat design”: Eastman Fullertone SC ’52 and DC ’62 review

Last year’s D’Ambrosio series guitars signified numerous firsts for Eastman, not least that they were US-made with boutique prices to match. These new FullerTones capture the magic at a fraction of the price

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“People shied away from its political edge – they didn’t get their love songs. But for us it was a lot of fun”: Junior Marvin on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Survival – and the influence Hendrix’s guitar pedal guru had on its sound

After the success of Exodus and Kaya, Bob Marley took the Wailers into a more politically charged direction to deliver a slept-on classic in the Wailers’ discography

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“That was also where Mitch Mitchell brought Jimi’s white Woodstock Strat for me to set up, prior to him selling it”: My afternoon interviewing Hank Marvin over beans on toast and chickening out of a Paul McCartney 'audition'

Neville Marten's first assignment for Guitarist was one for the ages, at a venue that is now sadly lost but for a time was the place for the biggest bands to rehearse

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“If you think about the approach to guitar I’m known for, it seems to have little in common with Hetfield’s. But I would argue that it has much to do with it”: What funk maestro Cory Wong learned from James Hetfield

Papa Het has got a brand new bag when it comes to downpicking, and it’s full of lessons for the funk guitar player

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A guitar amp with a touchscreen? Mooer’s $190 F15i looks to set a new benchmark for desktop modeling amps – and promises to “redefine portable guitar practice”

Could the Positive Grid Spark have competition?

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Here are the 13 must-try guitar accessories for under $25 this Prime Day - including the Hetfield-approved Dunlop Black Fang guitar picks for only $8.25!

From picks to tuners, slides to strings, these are our choices for the best guitar-related items under $25 on sale right now at Amazon

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The secret behind Marcin, Matteo and Paco? How rest note picking can improve your tone, speed and volume

Paco Peña, Marcin Patrzałek and Matteo Mancuso all use rest strokes to play powerful single notes – here's how to make them work for you

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“My gosh, that’s a big guitar”: 10-year-old guitarist nails Are You Gonna Go May Way during America’s Got Talent – on a PRS that’s almost as tall as he is

Bay Melnick Virgolino’s PRS might make him look tiny, but the sounds he gets out of it are huge

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“I remember reading it and thinking, ‘Why did he say I left the band?’ I never left the band. I was fired”: Vivian Campbell sets the record straight on his infamous departure from Ronnie James Dio’s band

The guitar icon joined and departed Dio in the space of a few years owing to disagreements over the financial running of the band, Campbell says

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"This is the kind of guitar that encourages you to play your best, allowing you to perform faster, smoother, and more expressively than you thought possible": Gibson Marcus King ES-345 review

Marcus King delivers a royal reimagining of an ES classic – and it may take the crown as the finest signature guitar of the year

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“I stepped on the stage really hard and the guitar fell over and exploded. The headstock shattered into five pieces”: That time Ty Segall accidentally smashed his beloved ’60s Gibson

We’ve all got at least one broken gear anecdote, and if you think yours is a horror story, think again...

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“Sound like your favorite song with a single click”: This ambitious pedal uses AI to recreate the guitar tones from any song you feed it

Show the OnePedal a song and it’ll steal its tonal secrets, its developers say

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“A modern take on vintage tones”: PRS gives its celebrated NF 53 the SE treatment – tabling a bid for the best sub-$1k electric of 2025

The workhorse six-string is loaded with the firm’s innovative Narrowfield pickups and a bunch of premium specs – and it’s already received rave reviews

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“I like a standard-tuning guitar. If you can’t put your ideas across with that, you’re in trouble”: Justin Hawkins on why he’s not convinced by alternate tunings

Hawkins believes that E standard offers plenty of opportunity for expression

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“There were a lot of things I wish I had done with Greta that if I could go back in time and do differently, I would”: Jake Kiszka’s Greta Van Fleet journey so far has been an astounding success – but there are some things he’d change about it

Kiszka looks back on GVF’s early days while looking ahead to the future with his brand-new project, Mirador

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“Korn was doing their 30th anniversary show with Gojira. I was like, ‘I have to go give Christian a guitar, and I have to give Head a guitar’”: Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones

The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

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“Rule number one: When you’re notusing a pedal, your guitar must sound like your original guitar sound”: Steve Stevens on the pedalbord the guru Dave Friedman made him, his favorite Klon klone and why he can't use chorus anymore

The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard

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“Well-spec'd and looking like it could do serious damage on the battlefield, this guitar is as muscular as Rammstein’s live shows”: ESP LTD RZK-III OW review

Rammstein’s riffer-in-chief Richard ZK returns with his third signature guitar, marking a departure from its predecessors with an arsenal of fun features

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“If you think PRS just makes guitars for well-heeled doctors and dentists, you might have to change your opinion”: PRS SE NF 53 review

A new month, a new PRS. This time the USA NF 53 gets the affordable SE treatment

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