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“It reminds me of a saturated Clapton mid-boost or tubular Santana tone. It’s a very handy thickener for single coils”: Black Ice Boost review

A passive boost you can retrofit to your guitar to thicken up single coils – no battery required

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“If you talk about rare unicorns, that's the amp. To have something that John Mayer himself couldn't distinguish from the real thing, that’s something we would love to do”: The Neural DSP team reveal the vintage amp they dream of one day modeling

With the help of its TINA modeling robot, Neural DSP has assembled a huge archive of vintage amp sims – but there’s one it desperately wants to add to the collection

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“They asked Billy Gibbons, John Mayer and me. I wish this would make me sound like Jeff Beck, but it won’t”: Steve Lukather confirms Jeff Beck guitar tribute project as he wields his iconic White Strat to cover Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing

Lukather is one of the first players to use the late guitar great's old instruments as part of an ongoing “musicians’ project to honor Jeff’s legacy” – and many more are expected to follow

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“I told him to quit college immediately and come back when he had succeeded as a songwriter”: Tomo Fujita on what it was like to teach John Mayer – and how he indirectly helped him write Neon

The guitar professor lifts the lid on his early lessons with Mayer and explains how Neon was born from his signature slap guitar technique

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“A new and unique take on the classic Bluesbreaker tone”: Origin Effects’ Halcyon Blue recreates John Mayer’s favorite Marshall drive pedal – but it’s much more than just a clone

The latest addition to the Halcyon range seeks to take the famed drive stompbox from the 1990s to new heights

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John Mayer Is Rumoured To Be Dating Former Child Star Kiernan Shipka & The Age Gap Is Wild

“I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age.”

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“John said to me, ‘When you hear a solo, you can tell how well that guy knows that guitar.’ I went, ‘He's so true’”: Keith Urban and John Mayer agree – having fewer guitars can make you a better guitar player

Urban on the valuable lesson he learned from John Mayer

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“I get some people don’t like relic guitars, but to talk trash on a really, really good relic job is just ridiculous!”: Zach Myers’ tech Drew Foppe posts pic of Shinedown guitarist’s relic’d John Mayer Silver Sky and internet loses its mind

Spare thought for Foppe. He just wants to keep Myer's heavy relic'd pink Silver Sky setup, in tune and ready for action each night. It's not even his guitar! And yet people still write in...

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“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde”: St Vincent brands John Mayer’s Daughters 'the worst song ever written'

"I hate it," says Annie Clark

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“No-one will ever have an amp on stage at the Sphere. They might have dummies, but they’re not on”: Trey Anastasio reveals why it’s impossible to play with onstage amps at the most advanced music venue in the world

In order to play the Sphere, The Edge ditched tube amps for amp sim pedals, and John Mayer has hidden his own amps away in wooden shipping creates. The Phish maestro explains why such workarounds are necessary for the state-of-the-art stage

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John Mayer plays a Telecaster, taps through a solo, and tackles some of Dead & Company’s final shows with only three fretting fingers following serious finger injury

Mayer was forced to alter his playing style after injuring the "team captain" of his fretting hand last week – and whatever he's been doing in the practice room has clearly worked wonders…

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“I have spent every day practicing guitar using the other three fingers”: John Mayer reveals hand injury and how it will impact his playing at the final Dead & Company Las Vegas residency shows

Mayer has explained how the injury forced him to rethink his approach to guitar playing

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"I have spent every day practising with the other three fingers and I think I have it sounding pretty good!": John Mayer injures finger but plays on

John Mayer injures his finger but plays on

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“He’s taught me a lot about the guitar, but not from showing me stuff on the neck or talking about picking”: How Steve Vai helped Jacob Collier become a better player without even touching a guitar

The newly crowned Strandberg signature artist discusses how Vai’s progressive mentality informed his approach to the guitar

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“I was practicing with it in the dressing room and it was feeling too good to put down”: John Mayer honors Jerry Garcia by performing with a replica Alligator Strat at The Sphere – but says he wasn't ready for its “unbridled fury”

Mayer said the replica model deserved a moment in the limelight and was quickly reminded how hot its input is

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“John Mayer, you’ve been sleeping on a good jam”: Tash Sultana publicly invites John Mayer to a guitar duel

In the same social media video, Sultana teased potential new material with a blues-inspired jam

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“I understand how it may be perceived as our answer to the Stratocaster, but that’s not my intention with this guitar”: How PRS made the SE NF3 – and what makes it different from the Silver Sky

We catch up with PRS Guitars’ COO, Jack Higginbotham, to get the lowdown on the company’s hotly hyped new budget bolt-on – and whether a USA model is on the cards…

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John Mayer Debuts On Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart

John Mayer's collaboration with Zach Bryan on 'Better Days' debuts at No. 45 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, showing promise for further...

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From John Lennon to NWA: 14 of the best protest songs, ranked

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

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“Hawk Tuah Girl” Stuns Thousands After First Public Appearance At Zach Bryan Show

"Two little words changed her whole life!" The post “Hawk Tuah Girl” Stuns Thousands After First Public Appearance At Zach Bryan Show first appeared on Bored Panda.

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“The range of music I’ve had to play in the last year is so vast”: How Sophie Giuliani went from ballet dancer to Olivia Rodrigo’s guitarist – and what she learned from John Mayer

The Australian guitarist is now an LA native with a roll call of credits including Rodrigo, Empress Of and Mayer Hawthorne, and she runs her own masterclass out of Pickup Music

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"You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that”: Sheryl Crow slams Drake’s use of AI ‘Tupac’

Sheryl Crow slams use of AI in Drake track

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“Chrissie Hynde and Linda McCartney were friendly. She said that Paul was looking for a guitar player”: Robbie McIntosh on a playing career running from the Pretenders to John Mayer – and the knock-off Japanese Strat he used on tour with a Beatle

In a lifetime of great gear and credits from Norah Jones to Celine Dion and Paul McCartney, the guitarist says he remains in love with his yellow Strat copy

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“While Fender players might feel more at home with the Silver Sky, PRS players will definitely feel a little more comfortable here”: PRS SE NF3 review

This new SE-exclusive NF3 uses a similar bolt-on platform to John Mayer’s Silver Sky model – but is a very different guitar. How so? Let’s find out

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“File under ‘whatever it takes’. If you happen to be walking through, you’ve got no choice but to hear it!” John Mayer is still using his tube amps at The Sphere – but you’ll never guess where he’s hiding them

Mayer is staying true to his usual crop of highly desirable guitar amps for Dead & Company's ongoing shows, but they've been hidden in a rather unusual place

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