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“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 · Jul 18

“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 · Jul 17

“One of the rarest and most revered hard rock icons”: Gibson has revived one of the most sought-after guitars it has ever produced

Originally crafted for the 1972 Olympic Games, Schenker’s black-and-white version quickly became the stuff of folklore

Guitar World · Jul 15

“I knew the guitar was valuable, but this was before Slash blew up, so nobody really wanted Les Pauls. They all wanted Charvels”: Billy Duffy on his greatest guitar deals – and the one he regrets selling to Bob Rock

The Cult six-stringer looks back on Les Pauls loved and lost, plus the latest and greatest from his mostly back-to-basics rig

Guitar World · Jul 9

“The wood is only wood until it arrives in a master’s hands”: Eric Church teams up with Epiphone for the Hummingbird Dark – and toasts this sweet collab with a whiskey finished in toasted maple from Gibson offcuts

Strum a few chords on his Cobra Burst acoustic, followed by a shot of Tonewood Vol 1... Now that's a night in

MusicRadar · Jul 9

"It's not the norm, but maybe it should be": Gibson Les Paul Special with Mini Humbuckers review

Trading the usual P90s for Mini Humbuckers, this Les Paul Special is bound to raise a few eyebrows with a different sound for a classic guitar

Guitar World · Jul 8

“One day I was in an elevator with Miles Davis and he said, ‘Hey, do you got a wah wah yet?’ ‘No, I don’t play a wah wah.’ He says, ‘You gotta get a wah wah!’”: Carlos Santana on Miles and McLaughlin, Hendrix and SRV, and his quest for eternal melody

“I wanted my guitar to sound like a female – like the voice of my favourite singers”

MusicRadar · Jul 8

Epiphone’s Eric Church signature Hummingbird Dark comes with a whiskey made using Gibson tonewood offcuts

Church’s signature acoustic has been launched alongside a unique pairing

Guitar World · Jul 8

“It was kind of a wild idea in 1960 to call a guitar a Hummingbird. As wild as calling your band TheBeatles”: How Gibson became an icon of acoustic guitar – 100 years on from its first flat-top

Gibson’s Mat Koehler charts a century of flat-tops – and how the J-45, SJ-200, Dove and Hummingbird took over the world

Guitar World · Jul 8

“I’d been using Marshall for so long that I’d never listened to anything else. I never gave anything else ashot”: Slash on what made him finally change up his sound – and why we’re living through a renaissance for blues guitar

With his live album and concert film out now, Slash explains why he's still got the blues and that ain't bad

Guitar World · Jul 7