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Dan Hawkins on the time he jammed “back to back” with Brian May onstage: “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’ve never done this before. If I move, he will fall over”

The Darkness shared the stage with the Queen guitar legend back in 2011

Guitar World · Aug 9

Julian Lage reacts to surprise praise from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy: “I find it hard to believe. They’re monsters”

The jazz ace has been a key inspiration for some modern heavy guitar heroes

Guitar World · Aug 7

Bob Dylan recruits Jimmie Vaughan as blues legend becomes final guest guitarist during hectic US tour

The blues veteran becomes Dylan’s fifth guitarist of the tour

Guitar World · Aug 4

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"It can go from barely there room sound to a drawn-out blooming reverberance": JHS 3 Series Reverb review

This budget reverb pedal delivers impressive tones, a handy pre-delay switch, and an ultra-rugged build quality, all for just $99

Guitar World · Aug 4

“They had a picture of me up at the NAMM Show but I wasn’t an endorsee! I went to the Fender booth, and they said, ‘We want to give you a deal’”: John 5 is a modern master of the Telecaster – here are his 5 favorite Teles

The stories behind 5’s favorites, featuring the Mötley Crüe guitarist’s custom Ghost and Phantom builds, and a vintage doozy that convinced Fender he should be on the artist roster

Guitar World · Aug 3

“A clever expanding pedalboard that solves a real gigging problem, but it isn’t without practical compromise”: D'Addario XPND 1 Core pedalboard review

D’Addario’s XPND range brings telescopic pedalboard expansion with a rugged design built for real-world use – but is it genuinely practical, or just clever engineering?

Guitar World · Aug 3

“If you’re a guitar player out there, go listen to her – that is the way you should play guitar”: Brian Fallon on the lick that every guitarist should know

The Gaslight Anthem frontman says the world needs players like Izzy Stradlin and Slash in equal measure– and this lick proves why

Guitar World · Aug 1

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“He would text me, ‘I'm in pain. This thing, it's getting me down.’ I would just say, ‘You're the strongest man I know’”: Ozzy Osbourne's best friend on the legend's final days

Billy Idol's rhythm guitarist, Billy Morrison, was the Prince of Darkness' best friend for three decades

Guitar World · Jul 29

“I tried to play rock stuff. I didn’t particularly like jazz – I couldn’t hear what was happening in it”: The pioneering jazz guitarist who bridged Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery – and was gone too soon

In the ’70s and ’80s, Emily Remler broke new ground by blending jazz with samba, bossa nova, bebop, and hard bop, recording seven studio albums before her tragic death at 32

Guitar World · Jul 25

“There’s absolutely no doubt this is dream distortion pedal material. But at $415, it’d be hard to justify”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

An insanely affordable new Gretsch and a pedal called Jimothy headline the round-up this week

Guitar World · Jul 24

“We made a choice to demo these products in a fully produced mix. It backfired”: D’Addario denies using AI to make the music in string demo video

The firm found itself in the eye of an AI storm after commenters took aim at the super-polished demo for its new extended-range NYXL HD singles

Guitar World · Jul 24

“I played a Gretsch and then played the Flying V, and I couldn’t tell the difference”: Brian Setzer on the unlikely Gibson guitar that’s most like his iconic Gretsch

Setzer says the Flying V is the only guitar that has ever come close to matching the tone and feel of his Gretsch hollowbody

Guitar World · Jul 23

“I gave Eddie Van Halen the parts, and the next time I saw the guitar he had used a spray can to paint it white with black stripes”: How Charvel spawned a custom shop revolution – and became the premier guitar maker in the age of shredders

Wayne Charvel's namesake brand started life as a small parts and repair facility and ended up building guitars played by the biggest virtuosos on the planet

Guitar World · Jul 22

“He had a kind of caveman instinct”: Was David Bowie a good guitar player? Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton and more weigh in

Bowie's various sidemen share their thoughts on what their former leader was like as a guitarist

Guitar World · Jul 22

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Guitar World · Jul 21

“Those Dookie mods pay dividends – this is the sound in every Green Day fan's head”: Marshall Billie Joe Armstrong Signature 1959BJA review

The legendary Green Day frontman’s new amp – Time of Your Life, or a Basket Case?

Guitar World · Jul 20

“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend

Fripp had made magical contributions to Bowie's masterpiece, Heroes, just a few years earlier – but this time the legend had something very different in mind…

Guitar World · Jul 19

“Jeff’s like, ‘That’s the most expensive guitar in this building.’ I was like, ‘Get it away from me’”: Jeff Tweedy opened his guitar vault for this cult indie artist – and it put him on edge

Recording with the Wilco man meant Cut Worms got to explore his wealth of guitars, but had to pull himself away from one

Guitar World · Jul 18

“The only way for me to play it was to sit in a chair. I had to explain that to the audience. It was quite embarrassing”: The guitar solo Joe Satriani wished he never wrote

Tuning issues and a desperate need to blow off musical steam from limiting session work made it a lesson learned for the esteemed shredder

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Guitar World · Jul 17

“Ozzy was used to Les Pauls from Zakk Wylde and Randy Rhoads. He kept asking me if I could play one”: Gus G on whirlwind days with Ozzy Osbourne, his rock-star Guitar World cover shoot, and his difficult choice of guitars

With new solo album Steel Burner out now, Gus G checks in to talk about his August 2010 GW cover shoot and all the madness surrounding it

Guitar World · Jul 17

“His death was an incredible loss, not only for the band but for guitar fans as well”: Every Deep Purple guitarist, from Blackmore to McBride

The British rock pioneers have survived almost continuously since 1968, partly because of their ability to choose the right players to stand in Ritchie Blackmore’s place

Guitar World · Jul 16

“Frank took an extended 10-minute solo. I walked off stage. David Bowie and Iggy Pop were standing there”: Adrian Belew on how he went from playing with Frank Zappa to joining David Bowie’s band

Belew would serve as Bowie’s lead guitarist between 1978 and 1979, before returning as his musical director in 1990

Guitar World · Jul 16

The pedal that changed me – I asked the Guitar World staff to name the stompboxes that actually made a difference to their playing

Whether it was fun, frustrating, or forced us to think differently, these are the 12 pedals that GW staffers say have actually changed the way they play

Guitar World · Jul 15

“I did get some bad reviews. Some people called me ‘the guy who ruined the Pretenders’”: Robbie McIntosh on his trial by fire when he replaced the late James Honeyman-Scott

The guitarist had huge shoes to fill, and the press weren’t exactly on his side

Guitar World · Jul 15

Yamaha confirmed to be among Fender’s cease-and-desist targets

The largest musical instrument maker in the world has been drawn into the ongoing legal dispute over the Stratocaster

Guitar World · Jul 14

“I FaceTimed with her parents and said, ‘I like your daughter’s playing. She’s a natural. She plays like Gary Moore’”: How 22-year-old Anna Cara landed the gig of a lifetime with Alice Cooper

At just 19, Cara was scouted by Cooper's longtime guitarist, Tommy Henriksen, on social media, and immediately flown out to Los Angeles

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