Jackson Maxwell
Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
Latest articles by Jackson Maxwell
Black Friday guitar deals 2024: get the lowdown on all the best guitar sales, with savings on guitars, amps, pedals, accessories and more
By Daryl Robertson last updated
Save big on guitars, pedals, and amps with all the best deals action from the Black Friday sales across the web
Black Friday guitar pedal deals 2024: We round up the very best Black Friday stompbox deals live right now
By Daryl Robertson last updated
Your place for all the greatest Black Friday deals on guitar pedals, pedalboards, power supplies and more
Musician's Friend Black Friday deals 2024: get up to 50% off gear right now!
By Chris Barnes last updated
Your place for the latest Black Friday deals at Musician's Friend this Cyber Weekend
Black Friday Fender deals 2024: the early deals are already here, save big on guitars, amps, pedals, and more
By Daryl Robertson last updated
Black Friday is nearly here, and we're expecting big discounts on some of the most iconic guitars ever made
Sweetwater Black Friday deals 2024: save up to 80% on guitar gear
By Daryl Robertson last updated
The full Sweetwater Black Friday sale has arrived – here's your one-stop shop for all the best deals
Guitar Center Black Friday deals 2024: the GC Black Friday sale is officially live
By Chris Barnes last updated
Grab yourself massive savings of up to 50% off, with some of the lowest prices of the year on gear at Guitar Center
“I hit the first chord and my Marshall blew up”: Richie Sambora on Bon Jovi's nightmare arena debut
By Jackson Maxwell published
Reflecting on the experience decades later, Sambora said that – embarrassing as they are in the moment – mishaps like that are “what shape you as a pro”
Greg Suran on his time with Joe Walsh – and the Eagle’s passion for tonal tinkering
By Jackson Maxwell published
A veteran guitarist whose resumé also includes work with Sunny Day Real Estate, The B-52's, and Lionel Richie, Suran tells GW that he learned plenty from the Eagles legend, both tone-wise and solo-wise
A guide to everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange
By Henry Yates published
Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit
Black Friday Positive Grid deals 2024: Save up to 50% off amps and software in the huge Black November sale!
By Chris Barnes last updated
Positive Grid's official Black November sale will be live throughout November with huge hardware and software discounts up for grabs. But is Positive Grid holding any Spark 2 discounts up its sleeve?
“The sonic equivalent of a fist-fight between James Hetfield and Alex Lifeson”: October 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The hot new tracks and deep cuts GW editors have been listening to this month
Rory Gallagher’s 1961 Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $910,000
By Jackson Maxwell published
The historic Strat – the sale of which attracted the attention of senior members of the Irish government, who hoped to keep the instrument in Gallagher's native country – went under the hammer along with dozens of other guitars from the legendary player's collection
AI-aided Eddie Van Halen solos could be a possibility, according to Alex Van Halen
By Jackson Maxwell published
The late guitarist's older brother says that he reached out to OpenAI about potentially analyzing “the patterns of how Edward would have played something” to help round out unfinished material
Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee shot multiple times in Las Vegas
By Jackson Maxwell published
According to Lee's representative, the guitar virtuoso was out walking his dog in Las Vegas when he was shot multiple times. He is expected to make a full recovery
Brian May on his unlikely guitar kinsmanship with Steve Cropper and Billy Gibbons
By Jackson Maxwell published
Recruited for the recent Cropper tune Too Much Stress, May says the three masters fit together better than you might think
Cream were one of the loudest rock bands of their time – that excessive volume helped tear the band apart
By Jackson Maxwell published
During Cream's late '60s heyday, and again during their brief reunion in 2005, drummer Ginger Baker felt that both his – and even Eric Clapton's – contributions were often drowned out by bandmate Jack Bruce's
“I got a call: ‘I’m putting a super band together’”: How Les Dudek joined Journey “for two hours”
By Jackson Maxwell published
Recruited due to his stellar resume – which included studio work with the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller – Dudek turned down the gig to pursue a solo career
Steve Morse modded the heck out of his first serious guitar, and it became the blueprint for his signature Ernie Ball Music Man model
By Jackson Maxwell published
Unsatisfied with the limitations of his first proper guitar, Morse took matters into his own hands, a lá Eddie Van Halen
How Jonny Greenwood's renewed love of delay pedals defined the Smile's new album
By Jackson Maxwell published
The sound of the Radiohead offshoot’s latest record stemmed from a challenge the famously tech-savvy guitarist set for himself – and his renewed love of delay
“I just turned my back”: Martin Barre on the time Jimmy Page nearly cut him off mid-Aqualung solo
By Jackson Maxwell published
“I think it was take two,” the Jethro Tull guitarist recalled, “and if I hadn’t got it in two then it would have been a flute solo”
Guitar Player magazine to cease print publication
By Jackson Maxwell published
The world's oldest continuously published magazine devoted to guitarists, guitar gear, and instruction, Guitar Player was instrumental to the careers of Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, and Yngwie Malmsteen, to name just a few examples
Joe Bonamassa's 1958 “Amos” Flying V was owned by Norm Harris and featured in Spinal Tap – now it's been recreated by Gibson's Murphy Lab
By Jackson Maxwell published
A year and a half in the making, the Collector's Edition “Amos” is limited to just 50 examples, and replicates in molecular detail all of the storied original guitar's quirks
How Les Dudek ended up on the Allman Brothers Band's Ramblin’ Man
By Jackson Maxwell published
“Dickey was thinking about harmony guitars, like what he did with Duane,” the veteran guitarist recounted to GW
David Gilmour explains why he still uses a 30-year-old Zoom multi-FX for his home demos
By Jackson Maxwell published
He may have once had a guitar worth $4 million, and you'll still see physical heads and cabinets at his live shows, but when laying tracks down at home, the Pink Floyd legend's tastes are far from expensive
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