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“There’s nothing that impressive about being able to play the guitar at a decently high level anymore”: Why Billy Corgan changed the way he plays guitar solos

Social media burnout has impacted the role of guitar solos in the Smashing Pumpkins’ live show

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“Maybe I didn’t expand on it to the extent that I should have”: Chris Buck responds to the backlash against his “Strat baggage” comments

The British guitar ace says the baggage is his own burden to bear

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“He shoved me down to the floor of the car. He was kicking the windows. The whole time he's yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘Yoko! I want Yoko!’” The wild story of John Lennon's rock ’n’ roll covers album

Recorded under threat of a lawsuit, while in the midst of his infamous “Lost Weekend”, Rock 'n' Roll was the craziest ride of the Beatle's career – featuring top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector

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“I wrote the music before Oz passed away… I wrote the lyrics after we laid Ozzy to rest”: How Zakk Wylde wrote his tribute song to Ozzy Osbourne

Wylde explains how no one expected Ozzy to pass away two weeks after Back to the Beginning, saying that, “Keith Richards, Lemmy, Ozzy... they're like the air you breathe, and you think they're going to be around forever”

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“I walked into a Guitar Center one day and took it off the wall. It launched 1,000 ships of people chasing that sound”: The guitar that changed Billy Corgan’s life

It soundtracked two of the biggest alt-rock albums of all time, but as the Smashing Pumpkins leader remembers, the guitar itself was far from expensive

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“I never got drunk again”: Steve Howe reveals his most embarrassing onstage moment – and it involves his prized Gibson ES-175

The guitar legend proves that he's just like the rest of us, with an awkward mid-gig blunder that's extremely relatable

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“It’s a challenge. But I would say that at no point was it ever not a challenge”: How Taylor is building quality acoustic guitars in the face of tariffs and uncertainty

As the guitar industry faces mounting pressure, Taylor Guitars CEO Andy Powers reveals how the company is grappling with these challenges

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“Flamenco-inspired triplets, big trap beats, and – wait – is that a wah solo?” January 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

Featuring an onslaught of leviathan power chords from Sunn O))), a bruiser of a blues rock romp from Jared James Nichols, a beautiful, heartfelt piece of desert blues from Imarhan, a genre-obliterating piece of twisty guitar genius from Tim Henson, and a whole lot more

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“Doors are immediately opened for us, but once you’re in the room they don’t necessarily give you the benefit of the doubt”: Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons on the realities of making it in the music industry as the sons of two Kiss legends

As the sons of Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the two are carving their own musical path together under the moniker Stanley Simmons

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“He told Sharon, ‘I know a lot of guitar players. We don’t have to use him’”: Jake E. Lee recalls how his conflict with producer Ron Nevison impacted Ozzy Osbourne’s The Ultimate Sin

The two clashed during the recording sessions – but a compromise was eventually reached

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“A brand-new guitar shape from one of the world’s oldest guitar companies. Will wonders never cease?” 10 things we learned at NAMM 2026

We scoured every corner of the Anaheim Convention Center to scope out the latest and greatest gear – and there were some telling signs about the current state of the guitar world

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“I fell in love with the Revstar because it was different from your Tele, Strat, Les Paul or whatever”: Chris Buck on how Yamaha nailed his new signature Revstar – and why you should reconsider the P-90

As a blues-rock player, Buck was told he should be playing something more old-school. But as he explains, the Revstar has everything he needs and more, and you should try one too

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“He was across the hall and I mentioned my tone troubles to him…” How Steve Stevens saved Steve Vai on his David Lee Roth debut

Vai was a novice at “big rock guitar tones” at the time – but Stevens came to his rescue

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The demo was “dreadful” and the main riff drove the guitarist crazy – but with some inspiration from Yngwie Malmsteen, it became one of the biggest rock songs of the ’80s

A staple of sporting events around the world, this keyboard-driven anthem was given a healthy dose of muscle by its skeptical guitarist, transforming it into a perfect-for-the-era, stadium-pleasing classic

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“It’s a versatile workhorse that I’ve been using for everything”: Ibanez shares first look at 2026 artist guitar lineup – and Nili Brosh’s long-awaited signature leads the charge alongside new Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Nita Strauss models

We got up close and personal with all the new signature guitars at NAMM 2026

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“Ask any of the people who have played with him… he’s incredibly talented, but very mysterious”: Dave Mustaine admits he nearly passed on Marty Friedman for Megadeth because he didn’t like his hair

But then he heard Friedman play...

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“It’s like a baseball bat. It doesn’t play like any modern guitar I’ve ever used”: Geese guitarist Emily Green reveals the vintage guitar gem defining the breakout band’s sound

The budget-friendly model has become one of Green’s go-to guitars during this buzzy era of Geese...

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“If you got the Ibanez catalog that year, it was Reb Beach, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on the first three pages. They said, ‘Whatever shape you want’”: Reb Beach on the story of his ’90s Ibanez signature guitar – and the mystery behind its sequel

The year is 1990 and Reb Beach is on the cover of Guitar World with his Ibanez WRB-3, a super-cool weird shape electric. But what happened to the WRB-1?

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“Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan has shrunk his Smashing Pumpkins rig into a Laney pedal amp – and he tested it in front of 60,000 My Chemical Romance fans

When Corgan walked onstage with My Chemical Romance at Soldier Field stadium, he didn’t bring his guitar rig. He plugged into the Laney Supergrace and nothing else

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“Here’s a diary entry from July 24, 1974: ‘Argument with Bill Bruford. Bill says, ‘They might as well get a session guitarist’”: The making of Red, the album that pushed King Crimson to the brink

Robert Fripp digs into his long-unopened personal diaries with Guitar World as he shares the story of the relentlessly heavy and ambitious 1974 prog classic

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“With that said, you all can stop asking me if I am buying it now. Muchas gracias”: Joe Bonamassa has his say on the future of Norman’s Rare Guitars

Once described as a "good fit" for the store, Bonamassa says he is more than happy to see Norman Harris's vintage guitar institution join the Carter Vintage Guitars family

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“Randy thought, ‘It’s not going to be good.’ He was so worried about it”: Why Randy Rhoads had reservations about Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman

Rhoads’ sister once looked back on the making of Ozzy’s sophomore solo record – and recalled the virtuoso being uneasy with its quick turnaround time

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“Pro-level features on a bedroom budget”: Boss moves to take control of the entry level amp modeler space with the $229 GX-1 – going up against Mooer, NUX and Zoom

The effects pedal giant looks to make the multi-effects modeler experience more intituitive than ever with an affordable price tag and fool-proof layout

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“We play three to four hours a night or more. I study in real time, 100 gigs a year. That's a great deal of practice”: Bob Weir's 6 principles of rhythm guitar

Often overlooked in guitar circles when compared to Grateful Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir was a brilliant rhythm player who blended jazz, folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences into a style that any guitarist would do well to study

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“The people who like that song aren’t actually fans of The Cure. They’re not the ones who buy my records”: How Robert Smith took a rare trip to “happy land” to create one of The Cure’s greatest hits

“I thought, why don’t I do a song about that Friday feeling?”

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