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“We didn’t recognize him immediately – honestly thought it was James McCartney for a minute”: How a vintage guitar store in Malta landed Lewis Capaldi a rare Gibson acoustic

The guitar boutique’s co-founder, Andrew Francica, recounts the time that the Scottish superstar randomly walked into his store before a festival appearance

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“I’ve tested my fair share of import guitars – this Hawk flies above the rest”: Washburn Hawk review

There’s plenty to love about this refreshed reissue of Washburn's original Hawk guitar

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Chris Shiflett plays Randy Rhoads’ Gibson ‘Quiet Riot’ Les Paul with Foo Fighters

He also got to play a host of other iconic guitars before the show

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Why do PRS Guitars have a 25-inch scale length? Paul Reed Smith explains

The iconic guitar builder sought to differentiate himself from the likes of Fender and Gibson… and overhauled the specs of his early designs to do so

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“Every artist that has played it goes crazy about it – it has been owned by two legends for a reason”: Up close with the Les Paul Custom that both Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton owned

Dubbed the ‘Fretless Wonder’, the Les Paul Custom waltzed onto the scene in 1954. This particular mid-’50s model found its way into the hands of two guitar heroes

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“We were making a $10,000 guitar and selling it for $3,000”: From Chet Atkins to the Acoustasonic – the surprising history of hybrid acoustic-electric guitars

Sonic expansion or evolutionary dead-end? The acoustic-electric has undergone a radical reinvention over the years

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“I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. It was like seeing an instrument from outer space. I said to myself, ‘That’s the future – that’s what I want’": The story of Eric Clapton’s Cream guitars

Beyond the tales of Clapton’s lost ’Bursts, the guitarist reached for a variety of instruments during his tenure in Cream, from the iconic ‘Fool’ SG to a mid-’60s ES-335

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“Ideal for beginner guitarists chasing heavier sounds”: Sire Larry Carlton X1 review

The jazz-minded session ace goes heavy metal with his latest wallet-friendly collaboration with Sire, and it’s heavy in both senses of the word

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Why Airbourne’s Joel O’Keefe swears by his Gibson Explorer onstage but never plays it at home: “It should come with a warning label that says, ‘Might cause physical harm’”

O'Keefe nearly knocked himself out with the Explorer, but insists that it's still his all-time favorite

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“I hate the term relic’d guitars. We don’t relic guitars. We age guitars”: Mark Agnesi explains the difference between relic’ing and aging guitars – and Gibson’s vision for making the vintage guitar experience more accessible

Gibson’s Director of Brand Experience gives his take on aged guitars – and explains why Murphy Lab is closing the gap with bona fide vintage models

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"The Floyd Rose genuinely feels like the finishing touch this model always needed": Gibson Victory Floyd Rose review

Gibson’s latest iteration of this cult, rediscovered ‘80s model is the big win fans have been waiting for

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“This guitar means the world to me. My first El Dorado was a gift from my father”: Marcus King’s signature Epiphone is a stunning dreadnought acoustic inspired by his first-ever guitar – and it has the coolest pickguard ever

This limited run all-solid dreadnought comes with ample mojo, a cool back story, a custom hard-shell guitar case and LR Baggs electronics

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"No amp can fix a guitar that feels like a plank of wood with strings, or even worse, won’t stay in tune": Are you prioritizing the wrong end of your signal chain? Two pro gear reviewers debate whether you should spend more on your guitar or amp

Armed with just a $2,500 budget, we’re duking it out to see which part of your rig is a better investment – which side are you on

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Gibson Garage Vegas offers chance to make a whole different kind of drunken decision on the strip

The firm’s rapid retail expansion continues with the news that the fourth Gibson Garage is on its way

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“Jack White is the last rock star that I can think of. He’s very dangerous. His approach to playing… you just don’t know what’s going to happen”: Billy Howerdel is trying to avoid being “too good”, as he writes A Perfect Circle’s next album

Having dropped the all-new single Starless in May, Howerdel says a new record is incoming but “You've got to be a Buddhist about it”

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From Hendrix’s pyrotechnics to Cory Wong’s hot-buttered funk, for 72 years the Strat has revolutionized how we play guitar. These are the 25 players who wrote – and burnt – the playbook

The Fender Stratocaster would just be a glorified carpentry project without the players who danced across its neck and gave it life. Here we celebrate 25 of the best

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“Most people don’t get to see guitars like these”: Meet the 1968 Gibson Super 400 that was customized for Merle Travis – the ultimate artist’s guitar (even if the materials aren’t that great)

With a thinner neck and P-90s instead of humbuckers, this is the kind of unicorn that pops up very rarely on the vintage guitar market

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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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Billie Joe Armstrong’s punk rock riff machine, Orange’s mighty micro-amp, and the $150 acoustic that gives us serious John Mayer vibes – it’s MusicRadar’s monthly guitar gear roundup, the July 2026 edit

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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“They gave me a hard time when I brought it through customs. I thought, ‘Are they going to take it off me?’” Steve Hackett on the guitar that defined his Genesis sound – and how he bought it for a bargain price

After his Les Paul Standard was stolen and held for ransom during a North American tour, Hackett acquired the Gibson that became his mainstay in Genesis

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“I had a few million views before going on stage. I had this pressure”: Laura Cox on taking her sound from YouTube to the studio and the stage – and the release from playing with “real people”

Now a fully fledged touring artist with three albums to her credit, the French blues-rocker talks Les Pauls vs SG, studio pressure and Marshall amps

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“Clapton kept calling Andy Summers and said, ‘You need to sell me your guitar. I’m going to record Fresh Cream and I need a Les Paul – that’s the sound I want’”: The hidden history of Eric Clapton’s 1960 Summersburst Les Paul Standard

When his ‘Beano’ ’Burst was stolen, Slowhand reached out to Andy Summers for a replacement – and the guitar became the sound of Cream

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“The original owner was a schoolteacher. It had been under her bed for 15 years in its case”: How a forgotten 1969 Jazz Bass became the go-to studio instrument for one of London’s top session bassists

Sam Dixon’s bass collection also includes a 1967 Silverstone Dolphin, a Harmony H2 from 1964, and a pre-CBS Fender P-Bass

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The most difficult job in guitar maintenance? How to make and install an ES-335 wiring harness – and why it's easier than you think

Upgrading pickups and controls on a Gibson thinline is not a job many techs enjoy, let alone amateurs. But with a little organisation you might be able to get it down in an hour

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“Somebody handed me a ’59 Les Paul and said, ‘That’s yours to play.’ I went from poverty one minute to having the world’s ultimate guitars in my care”: The underrated Stone Roses guitarist whose life changed completely after landing the highly-coveted gig

Aziz Ibrahim recalls the exact moment he was asked to replace co-founding guitarist John Squire in the legendary British band – a call that also came with a treasure trove of high-end gear

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