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Gibson announces opening of third Garage, and second in the US

The 8,000-square-foot location follows the launch of stores in Nashville and London

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“We made a choice to demo these products in a fully produced mix. It backfired”: D’Addario denies using AI to make the music in string demo video

The firm found itself in the eye of an AI storm after commenters took aim at the super-polished demo for its new extended-range NYXL HD singles

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“Billie plugs in, puts the guitar on, and plays When I Come Around. He’s like, ‘That's the sound’”: The story of the Marshall Billie Joe Armstrong amp – its first artist signature in 14 years

How Marshall teamed up with the Green Day frontman to bottle one of rock music’s most instantly recognizable tones

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“I was in this fold-out chair. The DI was so terrible, because it was going through a generator. It added to the character”: How one of the year’s best metal albums ended up being recorded in Airbnbs, a shed and an RV

British metal quartet Loathe are rising just as fast as they're tuning down – and new album A Stranger to You might have you questioning just how heavy a guitar can sound

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“He plays those little Taylors. I’m always like, ‘Come on, play a proper guitar’”: Graham Coxon’s thoughts on Damon Albarn as a guitar player

Coxon offers his opinion on what his Blur bandmate is like on guitar

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“A desirable icon of ’80s nostalgia and futuristic innovation”: How Steinberger started the headless revolution – with a little help from Eddie Van Halen and Allan Holdsworth

Ned Steinberger didn't invent the headless guitar but his GL series captured a moment in the ’80s that changed guitar for good

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“They were all having a difficult time, having lost a bandmate and a good friend. It was a dark moment, and I was in the middle of it”: Robert Sarzo was hired and immediately fired as Randy Rhoads’ replacement – but he has no regrets

The Hurricane leader, soundtrack composer, and veteran rock axeman explains how he’s taken career ups and downs in his stride, and how it felt to finally be on a big stage with bassist brother Rudy

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“To this day, I find it incredibly ironic and hilarious that it turned into a song, especially such a successful one”: How Slash’s throwaway riff became the most successful Guns N' Roses song ever

Sweet Child O’ Mine was a happy accident, and a lucrative one at that

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“Bob Ezrin was recording and I changed to a different guitar. Within five seconds, he stopped the tape and said, ‘There’s something wrong…’” Simon McBride on Deep Purple’s new golden age of heavy

The band's fleet-fingered, PRS-toting guitar-slinger tells GW how the rock legends nailed their ‘70s sound in the 21st century on their new album, and the pedal people would be surprised to hear is on his 'board...

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“The first accessible guitar ever made”: Blind guitarist didn’t realize fret markers were a thing – until he was given a game-changing guitar with a tactile ‘navigation neck’

When Anthony Ferraro highlighted the difficulty blind and partially sighted guitar players face in navigating the fretboard, boutique builder NVision Guitars came to the rescue

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“I played a Gretsch and then played the Flying V, and I couldn’t tell the difference”: Brian Setzer on the unlikely Gibson guitar that’s most like his iconic Gretsch

Setzer says the Flying V is the only guitar that has ever come close to matching the tone and feel of his Gretsch hollowbody

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“I got it for 800 bucks, and it became an important guitar. I took it over to Jake Kiszka’s house – he whipped out a case and he had the same one”: Mirador’s Chris Turpin on the ‘sleeper’ star of his vintage guitar collection

Turpin’s 1960s Gibson B-25 is one of the best 12-strings for recording – and his old pal Jake Kiszka has one just like it

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“The cleaning lady came the next morning and everyone was on the floor. Mick Jagger had his head up inside the bass drum”: The incredible life and times of Hubert Sumlin, one of the blues' greatest guitarists

In a 1992 GW interview, the late Howlin' Wolf guitarist of 23 years told tales of taking (with permission) one of Eric Clapton's favorite Strats (before giving it back), fistfights with his boss, studio shenanigans, and the day Hendrix played Wolf's guitar with his teeth...

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“I gave Eddie Van Halen the parts, and the next time I saw the guitar he had used a spray can to paint it white with black stripes”: How Charvel spawned a custom shop revolution – and became the premier guitar maker in the age of shredders

Wayne Charvel's namesake brand started life as a small parts and repair facility and ended up building guitars played by the biggest virtuosos on the planet

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“The thought process is, which notes should sting, which notes should moan, and how can I effectively express emotion”: From B.B. King to Eric Clapton and Otis Rush, the blues is the core element of Joe Bonamassa's playing

In this essential video lesson with the guitar superstar, he explains why it doesn't matter what style he is playing – it always begins and ends with the blues

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“Randy said, ‘Maybe if you tried it in this key…’ He had the patience because he was a guitar teacher. He wouldn’t intimidate me. Because I’m quite easily intimidated”: Ozzy Osbourne on his special writing dynamic with Randy Rhoads

Blizzard of Ozz was the Prince of Darkness' solo debut – but it forever marked Rhoads as a guitar hero for the ages

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“He had a kind of caveman instinct”: Was David Bowie a good guitar player? Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton and more weigh in

Bowie's various sidemen share their thoughts on what their former leader was like as a guitarist

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A year on from the tragic passing of the great Ozzy Osbourne, we dive into the secrets behind Randy Rhoads’ guitar tone on the iconic Crazy Train – and lift the lid on how to nail the sound on a budget

How a mids-heavy EQ and a triple-tracked solo gave Rhoads to the sound that launched Ozzy's solo career

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“I still can’t believe that he’s not here with us. There will never be another Ozzy”: Tony Iommi shares Ozzy Osbourne tribute on the first anniversary of his death

Iommi has paid a heartfelt tribute to his former Black Sabbath bandmate

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“Rik told me, ‘Don’t hold back. Do yourthing. I don’t want people to see adiluted Phil X, so be you.’ He’s right. I’ll beme”: Phil X on taking to the stage with Canadian rock heroes Triumph– and how he’s switching up his Bon Jovi rig for the occasion

Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X – the guitar star of Triumph’s final studio album – won’t be holding anything back when he joins Rik Emmett

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“Those Dookie mods pay dividends – this is the sound in every Green Day fan's head”: Marshall Billie Joe Armstrong Signature 1959BJA review

The legendary Green Day frontman’s new amp – Time of Your Life, or a Basket Case?

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"It is not the widest selection of sounds, but what it does do is almost universally brilliant": Darkglass Anagram Limited Edition Guitar Essentials review

Darkglass goes guitar with the Guitar Essentials package and this limited edition, facelift version of the hardware, in collaboration with Andertons and Sweetwater.

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“It’s like if you found out Harry Potter’s scar wasn’t from battling Voldemort but done under anesthetic on Harley Street”: The case for and against guitar relicing

Sure, you can get the visual mojo of a heavily-played instrument – but some players insist you’ve gotta earn it…

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“I was just sick of the white blues rock thing. The whole mentality seemed stupid”: Why The Edge was always destined to become a different kind of guitar hero

In 1996, U2's six-string sonic experimentalist offered a frank discussion of his influences – and why he felt disillusioned with the current guitar scene

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“After the second or third song, people get over the shock of seeing Johnny Depp up there with a guitar. And it’s legit”: Joe Perry on what it’s like being in a band with one of the world’s biggest movie stars

From the silver screen to the studio, Johnny Depp’s ongoing tenure as one of three guitarists in the Hollywood Vampires is decades in the making

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