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“I’ve always said that I don’t play the guitar, I play the string”: John Mayer ends years-long search for his ultimate string set with the Ernie Ball Silver Slinky – a new signature set that brings the guitar hero’s custom gauge to the masses

Over the past few years, Mayer has been using and refining his custom Silver Slinky set, which offers a unique in-between gauge and a custom core-to-wrap ratio

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Watch Neil Young and John Mayer trade solos in a ferocious rendition of Rockin’ In The Free World with Stephen Stills

Young and Stills performed a 13-song set brimming with classics, including a song they haven't performed in over 50 years, and another one that was never actually recorded

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32 Celebs Who Are Awesome at Impressions

Prepare to be impressed by some exceptional mimicry.

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Stills and Young reunite at Harvest Moon charity festival

Stephen Stills and Neil Young reunite at Harvest Moon charity event

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“You have to be secure in yourself. I'm not intimidated to tell you to buy a Keeley pedal. If that tears my business apart, then my business sucks”: How Josh Scott built one of the world’s leading pedal firms by recommending his rivals

The JHS founder has become the internet’s go-to pedal guru. He tells GW about his pre-pedal days as a pawn-shop gear flipper, the Bad Monkey bubble – and the key to finding genuinely new guitar sounds

Guitar World

Kamala Harris to appear on ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast

The podcast episode with VP will reportedly be released next week

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“John Mayer had Paul build a guitar for him for the Dead & Company. He wanted one guitar all night. I thought, ‘Let’s see if I can get back to that’”: Keith Urban on working with PRS on a ‘do-it-all’ guitar build –and why SRV is still number one

Country icon reflects the feeling of bonding with a single instrument – and says you should give up playing and become an accountant if you’re missing his special ingredient

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“The Black Crowes got thrown off the ZZ Top tour. We picked up where they left off…Every night the tour manager warned us when the explosions were going to go off”: Michelle Malone gave up sax for guitar – and had John Mayer “begging” to join her shows

With her 20th album looming, the raw Americana player looks back on working with Albert King and Blackberry Smoke members, her ever-loving vintage gear and running her own label

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“It’s amazing and hands down the best one I’ve ever played”: Keith Urban on what it’s like to play through the Dumble that John Mayer used during his blues trio days – and how it became his main amp

Urban is in possession of the Overdrive Reverb that helped Mayer launch his blues trio project back in the early ’00s

Guitar World

“The sound of the most elusive guitar amps ever made”: Universal Audio unveils the UAFX Enigmatic ’82 Overdrive Special Amp– a Dumble-in-a-box for “heavenly” tones in the style of SRV, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer et al

These are bold claims but Universal Audio has earned them with the success of its UAFX amp pedal lineup. And the Enigmatic ’82 might just be its most exciting release yet

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“When I hear a great guitar solo on a tune in 2024, I get very excited”: John Mayer praises top-tier lead effort from young Berklee grad as one of this year’s must-hear guitar solos

Mayer used his SiriusXM radio show to highlight the guitar talents of a British Berklee graduate, who's currently working as a session player in Nashville

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“John was goofy, gawky, and really tasty. I took him on the road, and he would steal the show every night”: Michelle Malone on John Mayer's early days and how she ended up becoming his mentor

The Southern rock and Americana veteran gave Mayer the chance to feature on her record and introduced him to her audience before he got his big break

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“Paul was like, 'Good God, what are you asking for?' I'm like, 'I'm just asking for a little struggle!'” Keith Urban is working with PRS on a new Tele-style guitar – and he wants to break the company's rules

The country rock great's go-to guitar since 1989 has been a Fender Telecaster called Clarence, but John Mayer has inspired him to join the PRS ranks – and he's working on a T-type like no other

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John Mayer Achieves First Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales Hit

John Mayer and Zedd's collaboration 'Automatic Yes' debuts at No. 11 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart, marking a milestone in their...

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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.”

Guitar World

“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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