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John Mayer's maple-fretboard PRS SE Silver Sky is finally here – and so are some sleek new finishes

First road-tested by Mayer in the spring, the SE Silver Sky Maple comes in its own set of smart colorways

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Introducing Paoletti Guitars, the firm that builds electric guitars from old wine barrels

With small ’shop boutique makers popping up on a seemingly daily basis, what’s different about Paoletti Guitars? We ask the company’s MD, Filippo Martini

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Marty Stuart: “It started with my Clarence White Telecaster. That old guitar is kinda like an invisible band member. It has a tone of its own”

The country legend on channeling the Byrds’ guitar tones, how YouTube helps him cope with the loss of Johnny Cash and finding the amp he’d been searching for all his life

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Mesa/Boogie Mark VII Head review

The latest evolution of Mesa's flagship head might just be Randall Smith's finest hour, and one of the best amps on the market right now

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Meet Dante Frisiello, Steve Vai's new guitar sideman who went from law school to playing with his hero

The guitarist reflects on his disastrous solo on the first night of his new gig, the hardest part about playing with one of the world's leading virtuosos, and why the Abasi Larada is his favorite guitar he's ever played

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When Cliff Burton met Geddy Lee: “He started pacing, he started smoking pot, and he was like, ‘Oh my God!’”

Kirk Hammett remembers when Rush frontman Geddy Lee showed up at a Metallica show

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Fender debuts sparkle-finished Mikey Way Jazz Bass – a glittering signature model that will appeal way beyond its My Chemical Romance associations

Fender has unveiled a stunning new limited-edition signature model for the MCR bassist

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August 2023 Guitar World lesson videos

Featuring the latest column videos by Joe Bonamassa, Andy Timmons, Josh Smith and more, plus some exclusive Nuno Bettencourt content

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Mateus Asato proves why Nuno Bettencourt both loves and hates him with this killer Get the Funk Out guest spot

The Brazilian guitarist has had a dream weekend – jamming onstage with Extreme and meeting Steve Vai in a whirlwind 24-hour trip

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Forget Dave Grohl – Emily Wolfe just dropped the best-looking Epiphone semi-hollow of the year

The blues-rocker’s new “White Wolfe” Sheraton is a stone-cold stunner

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Boss RC-1 Loop Station review

One of the simplest and most reliable looper pedals on the market right now

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MXR might have just made the most versatile Fuzz Face ever – and it only has two controls

The Hybrid Fuzz combines germanium and silicon transistors for one era-spanning fuzz pedal

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Watch Tom Morello trade blues licks with Buddy Guy on the Strat legend's spotted Fender

Joining Guy onstage at the Best of Blues and Rock festival in São Paulo, Morello laid down some licks far bluesier than those that populate his catalog with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave

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Rob Caggiano has left Volbeat

The rest of the Danish hard-rock group wished Caggiano, who they referred to as a “brother,” “all the best with everything he does in the future”

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Here's what you voted the best guitar solo of the 21st century

The winner was recorded more recently than you might think...

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Watch Brian May, James Burton, Arielle, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and 11-year-old Britain's Got Talent star Harry Churchill rock Johnny B. Goode

Albert Lee, Ronnie Wood, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter and Tommy Emmanuel were also on hand at the London Palladium for a tribute to Burton, a legendary guitarist most famous for his tenure as Elvis Presley's six-string sidekick

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Is this the guitar Keith Richards used at the Rolling Stones’ first-ever gig?

Many British guitar heroes of the ’60s started out on budget archtops that retain nostalgia value today. But what if you thought you had found Keef’s actual guitar?

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From Prince to John Frusciante via Cory Wong: learn the rhythm approaches of the pop-funk masters

Hone your rhythm chops with examples in the style of the players who took funk in new directions

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Eric Gales on his jam with Stevie Ray Vaughan: “Right at the end I asked him to sign an autograph for me – and he said, ‘Only if you sign one for me first!’”

Eric Gales looks back on the time when he was just 15 years old, a young blues-rocker with talent to burn, and had the chance to jam with his hero

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Gibson Kirk Hammett ‘Greeny’ Les Paul Standard review

Following a pair of five-figure Custom versions, here’s the everyman Greeny. But is it a valid introduction or simply a slightly pimped version of an existing Les Paul?

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We don’t know anything about Sleep Token, but at least we have some idea of what guitar gear they’re using

Jackson Guitars has gone behind the scenes with metal’s most mysterious band to uncover the rig that powers IV’s crushing live tones

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No, this isn’t Photoshopped. Some dude actually turned his pedalboard into a diorama of a raging outdoor show using $3k worth of figurines

The “Homieboard” has gone viral after being listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace

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Watch Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt trade solos as they cover Audioslave’s Cochise with Gary Cherone

The two Extreme members joined Morello for a version of the Chris Cornell-fronted classic – complete with an extended guitar solo section

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Wait, Polyphia are using Marshall amps now?

Digital modeling enthusiasts Tim Henson and Scott LePage have been spotted with JCM800s – but is everything as it seems?

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Level 42's debut album: a Britfunk classic that took slap bass and bent harmonics to a new, uh, level

It's 1981 and the bass players of the UK are looking at their thumbs and wondering if they can keep up…

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