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"We wrote a song based on a riff I had. The idea was to be Mahavishnu Orchestra with vocals": After Deep Purple decided not to hire him after Ritchie Blackmore's departure, Clem Clempson almost formed a wild supergroup with Glenn Hughes and David Bowie

The Colosseum and Humble Pie guitarist was in with a shot at joining the band –but says Tommy Bolin got the gig for one specific reason

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“He was opening for Bobby Darin and the audience were going, ‘We want Duane! We want Duane!’ Poor Bobby was backstage, almost in tears. From there on, Duane finished the show”: Albert Lee, Joe Bonamassa and Vince Gill on the life and legacy of Duane Eddy

He was the most successful instrumentalist of the rock age. We went along to last month’s all-star Nashville tribute show to learn first-hand about the Titan of Twang – from those who were inspired by him and those who were there

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“We haven’t broken a string on a Les Paul for more than three years”: Joe Bonamassa swears by this easy string-saving hack – which was inspired by Jimmy Page and Billy Gibbons

Bonamassa’s go-to stringing method for his Les Pauls improves durability – and helps achieve a slinkier feel

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“Save yourself a few hundred thousand dollars and experience the magic for yourself”: JHS Pedals has unveiled its latest DIY pedal kit – a $119 Dumble-style overdrive partly inspired by a one-off John Mayer stompbox

With easy instructions and no soldering required, the Notadümblë adds to the firm's ‘build your own pedal’ family – and offers two tonal flavors from one of the world’s most sought-after amp brands

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“A half-million dollars of tone at your feet”: Nail the sound of a holy grail tube amp with a pedal you made yourself – JHS Pedals unveils the NOTADÜMBLË solderless DIY kit

Megabucks tube amp tones beloved by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Carlos Santana in a stompbox you assemble yourself? No wonder the first batch sold out within a day

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“This is my first band since Deep Purple. It’s out of this world – I’m back in a rock band, a real rock band”: How Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and a modern blues icon came together to form Black Country Communion

Black Country Communion’s second album, BCC2, established them as one of the greatest supergroups of the 21st century

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“Norm was like, ‘Do you want to play with Joe?’ Before I could say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ he brings Joe over and tells him, ‘Jason wants to play a set’”: Jason Sinay on jamming with Joe Bonamassa – and why his early sessions with Mike Campbell were a struggle

The session veteran recalls jamming with Neil Young, Keith Richards and Bob Weir – and why he thought he’d initially blown the gig with the Heartbreaker’s solo band

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“He seems to access a different part of his vast library of music genre from the jukebox-in-his-head! This album is a round-the-world musical trip”: Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Breakthrough – listen to the title-track now

Is this a new direction for Bonamassa or an expansion of his style? Breakthrough drops on 18 July

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“I met Joe when he was 12. He picked up a vintage guitar in one store and they told him to leave. But someone said, ‘This guy called Norm will let you play his stuff’”: The unlikely rise of Norman’s Rare Guitars and the birth of the vintage guitar market

Just in time for a new Netflix doc, GW sits down with Norman Harris – owner of Tarzana, California’s iconic Norman’s Rare Guitars – to discuss 50 years of sales, his kinship with Joe Bonamassa, and what the future holds for the guitar institution

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“The future is pretty bright”: Norman's Rare Guitars has unearthed another future blues great – and the 15-year-old guitar star has already jammed with Michael Lemmo

The vintage guitar dealer has once again put the spotlight on young Charlotte Milstein, who paid homage to a number of blues greats during the jam

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“If any song can unite all generations of rock guitar fans, this is it”: March 2025 Guitar World Editors' Picks

A round-up of March's best and most exciting guitar-led cuts from the likes of YUNGBLUD, Sleep Token, Samantha Fish, Great Grandpa, Rachel Chinouriri, Joe Bonamassa, Mickey Callisto, and many, many more

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Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Mark Morton & Charlie Starr, The Darkness and five other tattooed beat messiahs

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“The intensity of Rory’s guitar playing – the emotion, the sound and his incredible attack – was mindblowing for me”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to the late, great Irish blues-rock icon Rory Gallagher

He might have only just learned how to pronounce Gallagher's name properly, but JoBo is a player who idolized the man, and will pay tribute to him in three shows this summer in Cork, Ireland

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“We’re all looking for new inspiration. Some of us have been playing humbuckers for a long, long time”: Are we witnessing a P-90 renaissance? Warren Haynes has his say

Need some fresh sounds? The Allman Bros guitarist says P-90s are "instantly the tonal change I’m looking for"

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“It was a complete and utter shock to my system – when his tech came in, he was like, ‘Keith’s using your rig!’” The night Keith Richards rocked up unannounced to an LA jam night

Singer-songwriter Jason Sinay is best known for his work with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, and has recalled a career of amazing guest spots – including one from a Rolling Stone

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“If he wasn’t doing what he’s doing, he’d be a natural fit”: Norman Harris hints Joe Bonamassa could take over Norman's Rare Guitars when he retires

The owner of perhaps the world's most famous vintage guitar store has discussed his own retirement, and believes Bonamassa has the skills for the job

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“Gary’s approach to soloing was like placing a brick on a car’s gas pedal. Like SRV and Jimi Hendrix, he had infinite passion and musical ideas”: Joe Bonamassa explains the expressive soloing secrets of his hero Gary Moore

No Moore, no Bonamassa, says Joe, as he puts together four blazing solo ideas inspired by the late blues-rock force of nature

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“I am beyond blown away that this is now in my possession”: Joe Bonamassa now owns Rory Gallagher’s Number 1 Rangemaster – the same treble booster that gave Brian May his tonal breakthrough

Bonamassa is one of Gallagher’s biggest fans, and now he’s been gifted the Rangemaster that formed the foundation of his legendary tone

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“I am beyond blown away that this is now in my possession”: Joe Bonamassa is now the proud owner of the treble booster that blew a young Brian May’s mind and made Rory Gallagher’s Stratocaster sing

Gallagher's number one Dallas Rangemaster was up for auction. But the late Irish blues-rock icon's family kept it back and gifted it to Bonamassa

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“It’s extremely wrong to put, ‘Gibson, Made in the U.S.A.,’ on the headstock of a guitar that is not either of those things”: Joe Bonamassa, Gibson’s Tom Murphy and all-star gear specialists reveal how to spot a fake Les Paul

YouTuber Robert Baker put a fake Les Paul on the workbench, and let the guitar experts have their say

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“It’s just heartbreaking to see someone spend so much money on something that is fake”: YouTuber assembles team of guitar experts including Joe Bonamassa and Gibson's Tom Murphy to show you how to spot a fake Les Paul

Robert Baker puts a lot of guitar knowledge in one room to run the rule over a cheap and nasty counterfeit Gibson

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“One of the hardest things about expanding our technique is going ‘against the grain’ of learned patterns”: Rewire your lead playing with four soloing ideas inspired by contemporary blues maestros

Expand upon traditional blues approaches with this lesson in the style of Joe Bonamassa and Eric Johnson

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“He’s one of my favorite players. It would be a dream come true to work with him”: Matteo Mancuso has played with Joe Bonamassa and Steve Vai, but he’s already got his eye on his next dream collaborator – and a signature Revstar

Mancuso took the guitar world by storm when he first burst onto the scene in 2023, but now he's looking forward to a new album, even more high-profile collaborations, and maybe even his first-ever signature guitar…

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“For power Stratocaster playing”: The tones of Joe Bonamassa’s obscure “Greenburst” Strat have been brought to the masses with new Seymour Duncan signature pickups

The single-coils feature period-correct wiring, staggered Alnico 5 magnets, and gray bottom flatwork to faithfully recreate the tones of the “star” guitar

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“The ‘gray bottoms’ have a little more high output – they have a punchier sound to them”: Joe Bonamassa and Seymour Duncan put pre-CBS tones on the menu with “Greenburst” Stratocaster pickup set

The hottest mod of the year? These replicate the same gray-bottomed single-coils in the ’64 Stratocaster that stopped Bonamassa in his tracks at Norman’s Rare Guitars

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