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Paul Gilbert and Positive Grid unveil special limited run Spark Mini packed with the shred icon’s “firebreathing rock tone”

It's a Spark Mini, so of course it is small yet improbably stacked with features, but each of these 100 amps comes signed by Gilbert and you can download his sounds via five signature presets

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Positive Grid continues its signature Spark Mini spree with a Paul Gilbert amp – and it's joined by custom presets of his “most iconic tones”

Only 100 units will be made, and each will bear the virtuoso's signature and the dragon emblem from his Ronnie James Dio tribute album

Guitar World

Paul Gilbert thinks freeform guitar solos are “pretty dangerous” – but he’s brought them back for Mr. Big’s farewell tour anyway

Though the virtuoso has admitted he's “a bit rusty with the artform” of freeform soloing, there's little sign of it in the electrifying examples that have surfaced from the band's ongoing final tour

Guitar World

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“Paul was tuning his guitar at one point, and I said ‘What key is that in?’, added a bassline and that became a song”: The good luck and creative chaos behind Mr Big’s Lean In To It

"Like a chainsaw going through chocolate pudding”: Mr Big's Lean Into It caught an unstoppable rock band at the top of their game…

Guitar World

“Marty Friedman taught me to pick phrases that help tell the story. Resist the temptation to use your songs to show off your fastest licks”: Nita Strauss on how she stepped up her game for The Call of the Void

Nita Strauss can shred with the best of them, but her new solo album features ‘radio songs’ with guest-star vocalists – plus a showdown with mentor Marty Friedman

Guitar World

Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 351

All of the videos, backing tracks and audio from issue 351 of Guitar Techniques, to download and stream

Guitar World

Greg Howe: “I realized that I wasn't going to push pure technique any further than Paul Gilbert or Jason Becker. So, I thought, 'OK, what am I going to do after that?'”

The master guitarist reveals how he's moving forward after the tragic death of his fiancé and manager, how he blended John Scofield and George Benson with Van Halen, and the solo album he hopes people have forgotten

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The Independent UK

Agony as Walker dad-to-be's killer could be released from prison as parole hearing looms

Murderer Philip Craggs, who stabbed young dad-to-be Paul Gilbert to death in 2008, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15-and-a-half years

Chronicle Live

Ibanez revives the Paul Gilbert PGM for 2023

The full-scale version of the virtuoso's classic signature has returned to the Ibanez lineup, and it's never looked better

Guitar World

Ibanez expands its Paul Gilbert signature series with the super classy, super shreddable PGM50 and PGM1000T

And you can watch Mr Gilbert introduce them in the maximum shred demo video

MusicRadar

Steel Panther’s Satchel: “I really like the sound of single-coil pickups. It makes me play differently and feel like I’m David Gilmour. Or Yngwie!”

Steel Panther’s resident shredder discusses everything from Paul Gilbert’s picking method to super-expensive Strats, and explains why he doesn’t use amps in the studio

Guitar World

Hearing Eddie Van Halen was "like, 'OK, the adult has entered the room'" says Paul Gilbert

"When Eddie came out, it was otherworldly"

MusicRadar

Paul Gilbert names 12 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Mr. Big guitar hero reveals how his strap length influenced his technique, why hearing Yngwie Malmsteen down the phone inspired him to give fast picking one more try, and what he considers to be "one of the biggest scourges" of modern guitar playing

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Paul Gilbert explains why 21-fret guitars can actually deliver higher notes than 24-fret models

The Mr. Big virtuoso revealed how a 1983 Ibanez Roadstar II helped him tap into Ronnie James Dio's vocal tones – and hit notes higher than a modern-day 24-fret would allow

Guitar World

Everything you need to know about Metallica's scorching new album – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Steel Panther, Paul Gilbert does Dio, Chris Holmes, the top 10 tools for every gig and tributes to Gary Rossington and David Lindley

Louder

The Dio Album by Paul Gilbert reduces the originals to a jarring, overplayed jumbles

Paul Gilbert's misguided Ronnie James Dio tribute is more hell than heaven

Guitar World

Paul Gilbert reveals the surprising guitars he used to emulate Ronnie James Dio's voice, the lead that took 100 takes and his grand guitar solo plans for Mr. Big's farewell tour

The much-loved virtuoso details his approach to tackling parts by Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi and Vivian Campbell for The Dio Album, snapping up vintage Ibanez guitar bargains, and the younger players who are catching his ear

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The Guardian - AU

Victorian opposition didn’t consult hospitals on plan to deploy protective service officers

Pledge to station officers at five hospitals, despite inquiry finding it would be ‘contrary to the good management of security’

Los Angeles Times

She won a local election in a landslide. A conservative activist launched a recount anyway

The election wasn't even close.

Los Angeles Times

In red California, anti-mask recall effort fizzles and a candidate harassed by election deniers wins

She was an Asian American candidate in a predominantly white rural county who was called “a carpetbagger” in election mailers from her detractors.

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