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“Deputies hit all the right notes bringing this case to a close”: Police officers in California recover $60,000 worth of stolen guitars – still with Guitar Center price tags on

The five high-value guitars were found in the suspect's car trunk

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“I played that on just about every Eagles record”: Don Felder names the most important guitar in his 300-strong collection

Every guitar is painstakingly ordered in his vault, but there's one he finds himself grabbing more than most

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“It was the record that changed our lives. The record that won us freedom of creative expression”: Rush frontman Geddy Lee recalls how the band's 1976 prog classic 2112 transformed their fortunes

No one at the record company was happy to hear that Rush had another concept record. But this time the prog trio stuck the landing on a sci-fi epic that changed everything

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“You can get a little bit of everything”: Grace Bowers’ tone tips to get the most out of the Gibson SG

There’s one pickup position she hardly ever uses

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“We once came close to an Angine de Poitrine tribute guitar. This might be the next best thing…” All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a Sting-approved limited-edition Fender

An Angine de Poitrine-inspired double-neck, another cool collab from Fender, and the ultimate Tube Screamer clone? All that and more in this week's gear round-up

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“I’ve sat down with other guitarists – you just end up playing blues licks all day and not writing anything. But we went to work straight away”: Richie Kotzen and Adrian Smith on absurd volume, improv and how long a solo should be

We meet Smith and Kotzen pre-show totalk gear, their new album Black Light/White Noise, and find a pair whose chemistry makes this a hard-rock project with legs

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This is definitely, maybe your best chance to nail Oasis guitar tones – Noel Gallagher’s pedalboards have gone up for sale

Built for Gallagher by touring gear guru Mike Hill, these 'boards come straight from the Chief's collection

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How do you like your ES-335? Gibson’s gives its iconic semi-hollow the Les Paul treatment, offering ‘50s and ‘60s versions with “decade-correct feel, look, and tone”

The ‘50s ES-335 comes strapped with Custombuckers, the ‘60s model has T-Types, and we’ve got classic finishes, vintage-inspired specs too

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"Tired of run-of-the-mill guitars? Well, this may be the six-string for you": Epiphone Futura RD Custom review

Epiphone drags a ‘70s cult classic kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a tight modern build

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“If I could make it sound like a Floyd Rose, without it looking like one, I’d do that”: Grace Bowers specs out her dream SG – is this what a potential signature Gibson could look like?

The guitarist has been flying the flag for Gibson SGs since the start of her career, so a signature model could very well be on the cards

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“As it was going up in the air, I thought, ‘Wow, that looks so cool.’ On the way down, I was thinking, ‘What did I do?!’ Joe Perry on his customized ‘50s Gibson Les Paul Junior that refused to die

The Aerosmith guitarist on the iconic Junior with the custom mother-of-pearl inlay, his desert island guitar – and why he reads Guitar World every month

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“We lost Rob in a car crash there in 1996, when he was driving back to the studio. After that, we didn’t go back. Not for a long time”: Mark Collins on triumph, tragedy, and the long-awaited return of the Charlatans

Collins explains why the Britrock survivors still believe in albums and real amps moving air, and discusses their return to the formative Rockfield Studios after three decades

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“A lot of Oasis-related gear has come up for sale... but there can’t be that many pre-CBS Strats that were owned by Noel”: Up close and personal with a '63 Strat and '70s Höfner Violin Bass with Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene connections

This 1963 Fender Stratocaster and 70s Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar recently wentunder the hammer – and, as it turns out, these were Britrock unicorns for collectors

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“Over the past 24 hours, I’ve received hundreds of messages about my current situation. So yes, it’s official: I’ve made the move”: Jared James Nichols switches to Marshall amps

The purveyor of Blues Power says his heart belongs to the sound of a cranked Plexi and Gibson guitars

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“He let me into the basement with all his secret stuff and he had 10 Dumbles down there. It was the biggest collection I’ve ever seen in person!” Jake Kiszka on the time he went shopping for the world’s most expensive guitar amp in Japan

And it was then when the Greta Van Fleet guitarist realised that the über-rare holy grail tube amp was still a little steep for his liking...

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“A new world record for Slash memorabilia”: A Les Paul used during Guns N' Roses' classic lineup reunion tour becomes the most expensive Slash guitar ever sold at auction

The Gibson Les Paul ’59 Custom Shop guitar, used during the band's blockbuster Not in This Lifetime… Tour, went under the hammer for $307,692

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“I used it in the Damned, playing with Iggy… That guitar was part of me”: The Damned frontman Brian James’ ‘New Rose’ Gibson SG sells for over $95,000

The Gibson SG that put UK punk on the map smashed its pre-auction estimates – as did James’ hand-written lyrics

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Guns N’ Roses guitar fetches more than £230,000 at auction

A gold microphone presented to rock band Queen and used by frontman Freddie Mercury also sold for £151,200.

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“I get a call from Guitar Center in New Jersey. They go, ‘Your Explorer was in here. We just sold it to some guy’”: Richie Sambora hired a private detective to recover his stolen Gibson

Sambora was recently reunited with his prized 1976 Gibson Explorer, 41 years after it was stolen out of a warehouse

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“I unbolted the neck and put it in a suitcase to save baggage. Then we saw all our stolen gear posted for sale in Eastern Europe”: Indie band survival stories with Ratboys and The Beths

Transatlantic touring pals Julia Steiner and Liz Stokes on their gear nightmares and why Stokes is still hoping for a guitar reunion story like Paul McCartney and his long-lost Höfner bass

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“I’d be in the middle of a tough show, look over at the side of the stage and there’s Nels Cline, one of the best guitar players ever to play rock and roll”: White Denim’s James Petralli has learned to roll with rock’s punches

The sonic architect has been the one constant of White Denim’s 13-album rollercoaster – he tells us how he’s lasted the ride, and how it’s changed him as a player

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“The owner saw something in me. He said, ‘You know what? Just pay me back for it later’”: Jake Kiszka on the time he walked out of Chicago Music Exchange with a $25,000 guitar – which would become his Number 1 SG

The Greta Van Fleet guitar hero looks back on how he first crossed paths with the guitar he affectionately calls The Beloved

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"For blues players and fingerstyle enthusiasts especially, it’s hard to imagine a better-suited companion": Gibson L-00 Century 12-Fret review

Gibson harkens back to its past with a 12-fret version of an acoustic classic

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“That song ended up being my homage to Jimmy Page... There’s this Celtic thing that we were tapping into. Like the Bert Jansch recording of Blackwaterside”: Rich Robinson on The Black Crowes’ triumphant second act

“It's the season of brotherly love,” says Robinson, as the once volatile Atlanta, Georgia rock legends return – but the ’Crowes are still flying by the seat of their pants

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“Gibson said, ‘We really can’t reproduce that wah effect,’ so they went to Chandler and bought all of the ones they had in stock”: Joe Perry on how Jimmy Page inspired his custom ‘90s Black Burst Les Paul Standard

A doozy from the Gibson Custom Shop that inspired the Aerosmith man's signature model, this single-cut is hot-wired for a tone that sets it apart from garden variety Les Pauls

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