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“It can definitely zero in on the Beatles’ retro tones. But there’s more to it than that”: Aclam Go Rocky Go review
Aclam releases its third pedal inspired by vintage Voxamps and the Fab Four’s guitar sound
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“People think it’s a banjo or a toy, and they’re stunned when they hear it. I put a Slash humbucker and some SG electronics in it, and let me tell you, it rips!” Meet The Frst’s Mikei Gray, the virtuoso whose guitar is made out of a ’50s Buick hubcap
Mashing up genres comes easy to the Frst, especially when Mikei Gray is a play-anything virtuoso who not only made his own guitar but gave bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs a lesson
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“He got really upset and ran off down the street. He turned the corner, and I never saw him again”: Jack Bruce’s final encounter with Jaco Pastorius
According to his brother, Rory Pastorius, Jaco was influenced by the late Cream bassist’s midrange sound and aggressive lead style
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“Hearing the crowd sing the War Pigs solo gave me chills”: Back to the Beginning was Ozzy Osbourne’s night – but it was also a tribute to Tony Iommi’s singular impact on guitar music
Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast of guitar heroes had so much fun playing them
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“He was told early in his career that his playing was too loud, too strident and outside the accepted norms of the day”: Buddy Guy influenced Clapton, Page, Hendrix and countless others – here’s what you can learn from blues guitar’s greatest showman
No-one plays the blues like Buddy Guy – but that doesn't stop us trying. We look at four ways the blues icon approaches his solos. Warning: it's going to get fiery
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Every guitar hero, special guest and all-star cover from Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s epic Back to the Beginning farewell show
Jake E. Lee, Ronnie Wood and Nuno Bettencourt were among the six-string royalty joining the likes of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira for the nine-hour celebration
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“Every guitar player should have a nylon-string guitar in their collection. This is an ideal‘gateway’ instrument for electric players”: Cort Sunset Nylectric DLX review
Cort's stylish single-cut might be the hybrid nylon-string that electric players are looking for
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“A vast universe of distortion and fuzz effects and much more”: SOMA Harvezi Hazze review
Behold, a distortion pedal with waveshaper designed around a "relic" from the early days of semiconducters – and yes, it sounds like nothing you've ever heard before
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“If we played a two-hour show, the blood would be dripping down the bass!” Nile Rodgers on what made Bernard Edwards a bass genius – and the making of some iconic 4-string moments
With Chic, Bernard Edwards delivered some of the most infectious basslines of all time
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“Brands are making these guitars, but it’s just a model in a lineup. Others make guitars without headstocks – we make headless guitars”: Ola Strandberg ushered in a new era of headless guitars – but no-one is doing it like his own company
Ibanez, Kiesel, Schecter and more have all upped their headless guitar game in recent years, but Strandberg’s approach is unique
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“It proved to be too tricky for everyone to hear and perform together without losing track of the beat”: Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones explains what people get wrong about his Black Dog riff – which originally tripped up even Jimmy Page and John Bonham
In his inaugural Guitar World lesson column, authored in 1996, the legendary bassist also revealed why he used pick to lay the song down in the studio – and why he later would use an eight-string bass to play it live
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“That one’s a ’62. It’s also been shot. There’s a mark on the bottom where the bullet went in”: From his legendary Franken-Les Paul, Old Black, to his Hank Williams-owned Martin, and a pedalboard “ugly button,” Neil Young's rig is like no other
“When it comes to equipment, the idea with Neil is that you don’t change anything,” Young's guitar tech, Larry Cragg, told GW in 2009. “You don’t even think about it”
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“I watched Tony a lot. We became friends. It was emotional – not in a ‘pinch me!’ sense, but realizing how on-point he was – and how much he was not phoning in that performance”: Rival Sons’ Scott Holiday on what it’s like to open a Black Sabbath show
Supporting Sabbath throughout The End Tour, Rival Sons got a better view of metal's godfathers than anyone – and will pay tribute to them at their final show. What will they play? Holiday's sworn to secrecy
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“My dad stepped in to greet the ensemble – and then in came The King”: Billy Gibbons shares the story of the “treasured moment” he sat in on a B.B. King session – as a child
Long before he got the chance to pick it up for himself, the ZZ Top man found himself in a truly formative session with an icon of electric guitar
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“It just never felt like it worked with Queens. There’s something about it – it’s a little too ordinary”: Troy Van Leeuwen explains why Queens of the Stone Age are not a Fender Strat band
The alt-rock maverick doubles down on his love for offsets and the Tele's versatile tone
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“More of the glassy sparkle that Tele neck pickups always lacked”: DiMarzio is determined to make you like the Tele neck pickup position with its new Muscle T set
The Muscle T aims to add everything Tele pickups lack
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Can you keep up? 6 minor pentatonic licks that go FASTER!
Turbo-boost your pentatonic lead playing by learning from Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page and more
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“The solution to your Tele neck pickup headaches and a fitting farewell for the godfather of heavy metal”: This is all the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and it includes my new dream reverb machine
Elsewhere, Ibanez shows its RG range some love and Dunlop hopes to make you a better player with some newly engineered guitar picks...
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If I was starting guitar again today, this is the first deal I’d jump on – get $1,000 worth of content for just $125.65 with Guitar Tricks' Summer Black Friday
Thinking about buying new gear? Investing in your technique is a much better way to spend your money
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“I felt like it was going to be a scam but emailed them anyway, signing off as Este Haim”: How Este Haim ended up buying her dream ’70s Fender Precision Bass on Craigslist for a bargain – from one of her favorite guitarists
Haim had been scouring the internet for years for her dream bass, until she spotted one on Craiglist for less than $2,500
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