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NAMM 2024: “Harmonically rich American tone in a compact and easily portable package”: Gibson’s relaunched guitar amplifier line takes flight with the Randall Smith-designed Falcon tube combos

The Falcon 20 and Falcon 5 are all-tube combos, based on the Gibson amps of the '60s and designed with Smith and his Mesa/Boogie team in California

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"The quality of tuition remains second to none, the user interface is slick, and the amp feature is both practical and entertaining:" Gibson: Learn To Play Guitar app review

The sophisticated Gibson tuition app sets the tone for players aspiring to dial in as much gain with as little pain as possible - with oodles of feedback always on tap

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“I’m still looking for my original SG. If anyone out there knows anything about that, please call me. Seriously!” Robby Krieger is trying to track down his stolen Gibson SG Special used on Light My Fire and the Doors’ most iconic material

The guitarist has repeated his call for help in tracking down –and buying back – the early-’60s Gibson SG Special and is asking players to look for the serial number

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“We’d love to be plugging PRS guitars into Mesa/Boogie amps, but for now it’s an old, worn-out Gibson Les Paul Studio”: Return to Dust’s brand of grunge metal has millions of views on TikTok. Now they face the challenges of entering the real world

For guitarist Matt Joseph, 2024 is about acquiring skills now they’ve secured festival billing alongside Slipknot, Judas Priest and Pantera. For 17-year-old bandmate Sebastian Gonzales, it’s about handling being away from his family

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Short-scale vs long-scale bass: what's the difference?

Get the lowdown on the low-end - we look at the differences between short-scale and long-scale basses

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“If we were told these two Les Pauls were made in completely different factories, we’d believe it”: Gibson Les Paul Modern Figured and Modern Lite review

Two new Les Pauls are added to the Modern strand of Gibson’s expanding USA guitar range with quite a specification and cost difference. Which one to go for?

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Luke Ericson named as Gibson's permanent Chief Operating Officer

He had been in the interim role of COO since May 2023

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“Ready for flight?” Gibson teases the return of its cult-classic guitar amps with the help of Mesa/Boogie

It may be better known for its guitars, but it looks like Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian has kept his 2021 promise with the return of its Falcon tube amp

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“[We want] to recover the guitars and sell them to people who actually want to play them”: $80,000 worth of vintage guitars have been stolen from Guitar House of Tulsa. Now the owner – and Joe Bonamassa – are appealing for your help

15 vintage guitars – including ’50s/’60s Gibsons, PRS Private Stock models, and a ’61 Rickenbacker – have been taken

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It looks like Gibson Amps will be making a comeback very soon

NAMM 2024: The company's new reveal confirms the return of a cult classic model and some spec details

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“I had a couple of passes at the solo, and that was it. Keith’s playing great – and it’s unusual to hear me playing at full acceleration outside of Led Zeppelin”: Jimmy Page on his surprise Rolling Stones collaboration, and the gear that made rock history

In this all-encompassing 2020 interview, the Led Zeppelin legend reflects on the evolution of his guitar rig, writing rock’s greatest albums – and how the Beatles shaped the sound of Whole Lotta Love

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“A stunning-looking guitar that covers pretty much any musical base”: Epiphone Joe Bonamassa 1963 SG Custom review

Epiphone’s collaboration with blues maestro Joe Bonamassa continues unabated, with this sexy take on one of JoBo’s own favourite axes. But is a grand and a half just too grand?

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Ever seen Vs like these? Gibson expands its One of One Custom Shop family with three new-look Flying Vs – giving a surf-y SoCal twist to one of its most enduring rock ‘n’ roll designs

The ’58 Korina Flying V as you've never seen it before: feast your eyes on the latest drop from the Gibson Custom Shop

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NAMM 2024: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions from the greatest gear show on Earth

The guitar, amp and pedal news you need to know about, all in one place

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“I’ve used 4x12 cabinets and heavy Marshall heads, but it almost felt unnecessary”: Jake Kiszka explains why he only used combo amps on Greta Van Fleet’s last album

The guitarist has been detailing his gear choices behind the band’s 2023 album Starcatcher

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Unseen Led Zeppelin footage appears from the band’s record-breaking 1977 set at the Pontiac Silverdome

The 23-minute, 8mm footage has been carefully restored by a four-strong team and shows the band rip through a 20-song set in front of over 76,000 fans

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NAMM 2024: “Making the most of every note”: Dean continues its resurgence with Fishman-loaded neck-thru Exile Select as it brings back the Floyd Rose

The Exile follows in the footsteps of relaunched Zero and Vengeance models as Dean Guitars looks to bounce back from the lawsuits that plagued its 2023

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The world’s most influential guitar gear designers: meet the pioneers behind the innovations that changed the electric guitar forever

It’s not just star guitarists who have changed the way we play – these are the innovators whose inventions forever altered the course of the guitar itself

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The history of Gretsch electric guitars: how guitarist, demonstrator and designer Jimmie Webster’s innovations of the ’50s and ’60s shape That Great Gretsch Sound to this day

Jazz Age razzmatazz, pickup experiments and Jimmie Webster’s wonders – we celebrate 140 years of That Great Gretsch Sound with a look at its key electric milestones

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“As far as solos? I’d turn up, light a spliff, open a beer, and crack on”: Steve Cradock on his relaxed approach to lead work in Ocean Colour Scene, playing with Paul Weller – and why he’s too scared to play the mod legend’s guitar

The Ocean Colour Scene man keeps it so minimal in his approach to sound and solos that he admits: “I’m still surprised people do dig what I’m doing”

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“We determined, ‘Boy, with that checked finish, the acoustic guitar – which is a box that vibrates – really rings’”: Gibson's Tom Murphy on how Murphy Lab acoustics are taking aged guitars into new sonic territory

Gibson’s master artisan Tom Murphy has reinvented the process of guitar aging. Now he’s turned his eye and – perhaps, more importantly – his ear, to the firm’s acoustic line

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News of the (guitar) world: the biggest, baddest, weirdest and saddest guitar news of 2023

We track the year’s biggest six-string stories – from landmark gear developments to devastating departures and 2023’s most headline-grabbing players

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Gibson unveils head-turning refresh of its most famous electric guitar with the launch of the slimmed-down (and more affordable) Les Paul Modern Lite

The Modern Lite has a thin mahogany body with a belly cut for comfort, and comes in fresh solid-colour finishes with matching headstocks – and with a refreshing $1,499 price tag

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“I don’t go in with an idea of what guitar I want to use. One will call out to me, saying, ‘OK, it’s my turn.’ It leads to something that comes explicitly from that instrument”: Art rock icon Bill Nelson has 80 guitars, but he ditched amps a long time ago

The creative drive of Be Bop Deluxe’s avant-garde guitar hero cannot be stopped. Nelson releases multiple albums a year and still prizes his ’60s Gibson ES-345 – although he wanted a Gretsch at first, until his dad intervened…

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“Eric’s Les Paul gets stolen, and he knows I’ve got the other one. He starts calling me relentlessly. I charged him £200. It’s worth about two million now”: Andy Summers recalls selling Eric Clapton his Gibson Les Paul ‘Burst for a bargain price

After Slowhand‘s legendary Beano ‘Burst was stolen in ‘66, Summers reluctantly sold his own Les Paul to the bluesman for a measly £200

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