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“I’m a firm believer that if you put a truss rod in a guitar, it sucks the tone out of it”: Simon McBride has a hot tone take you’ve probably never heard before

The Deep Purple guitarist prefers guitars that forego truss rods – here's why

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“It was a nightmare. My only experience was playing in my room where I was alone”: Laura Cox on the challenges of transitioning from YouTube to the studio – and how to conquer them

The French guitarist made her name with classic rock videos on YouTube, but when it came to cutting her teeth in the studio, Cox admits it was another story altogether...

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JHS Pedals corrects its biggest error with the relaunch of the DIY Dumble pedal – complete with a clone of John Mayer’s ultra-rare boost

The Notadümble now correctly features Mayer’s magic clean boost circuit – and it’s been given some key new upgrades to boot

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“There was a message from Jason Momoa – a video of him in his car saying, ‘You gotta call me. Here's my number’”: Jason Momoa saved their career. Keanu Reeves rocked up to a show. Flea let them crash at his house. How did the Bobby Lees get here?

After calling BS on streaming services payouts, guitarist and vocalist Sam Quartin announced her band’s hiatus. She never could have anticipated what happened next…

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“It took me 10 or 11 takes to get the timing on the intro right. Jimi easily could have just done it”: The life and times of Dave Mason, the former Traffic guitarist who made a habit of playing on iconic tracks

The Traffic guitarist’s best work of the ’60s and ’70s was magical, but the stop/start nature of his career held him off household-name status

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“He would show up in a station wagon full of Les Pauls, Teles and Strats. I bought probably 20 pieces from him over the years”: The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars

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“I bought it for 100 bucks. The guy didn’t think it was fixable. Years later, he came to a show and saw me playing it. He was mad – said I took advantage of him”: Jeff Tweedy says his mom has an eye for guitar bargains – these are the cheapest gems yet

The $100 purchase was in poor condition, and when he got it singing, its former owner was vexed...

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My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

My personal highlights from a week that brought us a single-pickup PRS for Jon Jourdan, Eventide's next-gen H9, and more. Have a highlight of your own? Let us know in the comments

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“I was driving home, and I thought of this chord sequence. I was about 20 minutes away from the studio. I turned around and went back”: Robert Smith on the flash of inspiration that shaped the Cure's biggest hit

Proving beyond doubt that the band's range extended far beyond dense, brooding epics, it remains the Cure song to reference for those who know only of the band's name and maybe their frontman's inimitable hairdo

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“Little Simz asked me to play some shows, but the dates clashed with a family holiday. She asked again a month later, and I ended up playing Glastonbury”: How Marla Kether landed the Little Simz gig and made her debut on the UK’s biggest festival stage

The London-born bassist, DJ and producer enjoyed a baptism of fire on the Pyramid Stage – now her solo work brings her Afro-Brazilian influences to the fore as she plans her next step

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“Jack had this roaring, growling thing that would start at the bottom and twine all the way up. I’d never heard bass like it”: A guide to the basses, amps, and signature tone of Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady

From his early-‘60s Jazz Bass to a Flying V, Jack Casady was among the first to embrace custom bass builds – and it changed his tone forever

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“A seriously elegant, feature-rich and capable instrument”: Ornamentation? Check. Booster soundport? Check. Furch’s new Red Series acoustic is the $7,000 guitar that dreams are made of

The Furch Red Deluxe GC-LI 2026 combines high-end aesthetic flourishes with some seriously well thought-out design elements – and we don't want to hand it back.

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"It’s a tale of two halves – I found the clean tones to be quite lackluster": Gretsch Electromatic Jet Baritone review

Gretsch's gargantuan scale metal machine gives players an option to downtune without resorting to a 7 or 8 string, but it surprisingly leaves traditional tones in the dark

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“We needed to avoid parasite noises when you slide your fingers along the strings”: Peppino D’Agostino on his nylon-string collab with a neuroscientist that could literally heal your mind

Serenity now! One of the world's most “transcendent” players teams up with a neuroscientist on pipe organ for an album of brain-healing melodies and zero harsh frequencies

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“I’m exploring my voice as a guitarist, and I’m trying to write in a space without rules – no genres, no time lengths”: Steve Vai, Nita Strauss... Bella Perron? Why the former Plush guitarist could be our next Ibanez-toting guitar superstar

Wildfire shredding and whiplash licks prove that this Maine-bred gun-for-hire can hold her own. Now based in L.A., she’s in extra-high demand

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“I wanted to know how he got the top note on Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”: How Jeff Beck and Brian Robertson swapped guitars – and brought guitar synths to Motörhead

Robertson’s ill-fated stint in the band was short, but Jeff Beck helped him introduce an oddball instrument into their lore

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“Very few people know these exist, and this one may be the only surviving version that is fully intact”: A 1960 Les Paul Custom in Cherry? This vintage stunner was once owned by Neal Schon – and it might well be a true unicorn

It may look like a ‘70s survivor, but this Les Paul Custom is one of six from a limited 1960 run

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Bob Dylan has just recruited one of the world's greatest jazz guitarists – and no one quite knows what's going on

Virtuoso Julian Lage – who's very likely your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist – has been welcomed into Dylan’s band without prior announcement or fanfare

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“Every detail of this series reflects Kramer at its best”: Kramer goes for gold with its 50th Anniversary collection

The ’80s shred classics are back – as streamlined as ever – and sporting golden limited-edition colorways.

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“I knew about it for years. I couldn’t tell anyone”: Eric Clapton's ‘Summersburst’ Les Paul – used on Cream's debut album – has finally been unearthed after 60 years

From England to New York and Paris, the 1960 Les Paul Standard Clapton used on Cream’s game-changing debut is now being brought to the masses of guitar aficionados, thanks to Matthieu Lucas of Matt’s Guitar Shop

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“A no-nonsense digital amplifier alternative that avoids the overly complex modeling options currently trending:” Kustom Amplification Carbon 100 review

Is this simpler approach to modeling amps a breath of fresh air?

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“Gibson is part of my DNA. It's been the honor of my life to help lead it and to work alongside the people who bring this company to life every day”: Cesar Gueikian to step down as CEO and President of Gibson

Gueikian, who served as Gibson's Brand President before his appointment as CEO in 2023, will continue on as a member of the guitar giant's Board of Directors, and as an artist ambassador

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“The Back to the Beginning thing was just getting bigger and bigger. It's been a wild year since that gig”: Yungblud’s right-hand man Adam Warrington talks Idols, smashed gear – and keeping big-rig arena shows alive

Dom Harrison’s closest collaborator shares his playing journey, from tough gigs to broken rigs to meeting Ozzy – and on to the world-conquering, pyro-laden Idols tour

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“He plugged it in and we both shut up and went, ‘This is an amazing guitar.’ It just sounded extraordinary”: How a friendly rivalry with Jake Kiszka helped Chris Turpin bag this stunning double-cut

This 1961 Gibson Les Paul/SG is the guitar dreams are made of. And the two Mirador guitarists both had their hearts set on it. Turpin tells us how it all went down

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“He spent 20 minutes ripping out all of the padding from the case. He was unable to put it back together”: Blues band film TSA agent ruining $380 guitar case during pre-flight inspection

Boston band GA-20’s clip of the incident has since gone viral, reigniting the debate about the aviation industry’s apparent disregard for musicians’ property

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