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The Band's Jim Weider on how he bagged his career-defining Fender Telecaster
By Janelle Borg published
After spending years searching for his dream '52 Telecaster, Weider describes how he finally managed to get his hands on the one that would accompany him throughout his illustrious 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
Brian May explains why he was reluctant to share a solo with Billy Gibbons – and what changed his mind
By Janelle Borg published
May and Gibbons were recruited by session icon Steve Cropper to add their guitar star power to his latest release, Friendlytown
“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”
The night Rory Gallagher was spooked by his childhood hero – as the Royal Albert Hall waited in anticipation
By Jamie Dickson published
Gallagher’s iconic Strat is one of the most storied guitars in the world. But the day Rory, with untold thousands of gigs under his belt, became stage struck in the presence of his hero is one of his brother Donal Gallagher’s favorite tales
Fontaines D.C. guitarist Carlos O'Connell reacts to playing Rory Gallagher's prized guitars
By Janelle Borg published
O'Connell also tries out Gallagher's 1959 Silvertone, 1963 Epiphone Coronet and 1968 Martin D-35 ahead of the much talked-about auction
How Rory Gallagher’s sweet talk – and a little help from Clapton – secured his $50 Kay Value Leader
By Jamie Dickson published
This vibey early ’60s electric looked too pricey to buy, even with the help of blues musician John Hammond Jr – but Rory’s charm secured it in a New York minute, as his brother Donal explains
The night Rory Gallagher gave the Slash a taste of affordable GIbson via his modded Melody Maker
By Jamie Dickson published
Modded with a Gibson humbucker, this 1969 student guitar has lived a life, and was the star of the show when Gallagher jammed with Slash in 1991
A trip on Concorde? Cliff Richard? The story behind Rory Gallagher’s Coral Electric Sitar
By Jamie Dickson published
Famously used on Philby, the electric sitar is one of the most unique instruments in the Rory Gallagher Collection. Donal Gallagher tells us how he found it and its glam Transatlantic journey home
Cash & Carter’s Ross O’Reilly is using a one-take guitar approach to write new songs for the old frontier
By Glenn Kimpton published
Cash & Carter's No Use Praying EP is essential listening for fans of Chris Stapleton, John Mayer and George Ezra, but maybe also of John Wayne, Randolph Scott and Sergio Corbucci too
Ani DiFranco on the dark arts of acoustic – and why she’s over online ‘performers’
By Henry Yates published
Percussive and heavily processed, the US troubadour’s new album, Unprecedented Sh!t, burns the playbook of acoustic folk
How Rory Gallagher grabbed his iconic 1963 Gretsch Corvette for the princely sum of $150
By Jamie Dickson published
Can you judge a guitar by its case? Not usually, but when Donal Gallagher was shopping for cases for brother Rory, he found one with a very special guitar inside, and there was a deal to be made
From its journey from amp to stompbox to how it works, this is everything you need to know about tremolo
By Huw Price published
Whether this timeless effect comes from an amp or a pedal, the sound of this O.G. guitar effect still has us shaking all over
Meet Rory Gallagher’s ’32 National Triolian Resonator, a guitar with mojo, scars and stories to tell
By Jamie Dickson published
Rory’s battered National Triolian could be seen as the acoustic sibling of his infamously weathered 1961 Strat – though this metal workhorse could howl, too
Investigating the mystery mods of Andy Summers’ mongrel Telecaster
By Dave Burrluck published
Plenty of modded or self-built guitars have powered the careers of big players. But the origins of one heavily used guitar remain a mystery…
Before Lake Placid Blue there was Moreno Blue, and it makes this ’57 Stratocaster a true unicorn
By Huw Price published
David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars tells the story of a Blue Metallic Strat that is about as rare as they come
Tyler Bryant on the Tele that's rivalling his beloved ‘Pinky’ Strats
By Andrew Daly published
The plan? There is no plan, says Bryant. When he gets in a room with the Shakedown they jam until their hungry, eat and repeat, and what comes out the other end comes out... Electrified
“The neck is twice the thickness of many standard necks”: The making of Phil Collen’s monster new Jackson Tele-style
By Andrew Daly published
Jackson Master Builder Joe Williams shines a light on the process behind the Def Leppard guitarist’s prototype Jackson T-style, which may well enter production as a future signature model…
Crushed under the wheels of a baggage truck, how Rory Gallagher’s ’59 Esquire rose from the dead
By Jamie Dickson published
Heavily modded over the years, this hot-sounding Esquire was, outside of the Strat, Rory’s go-to Fender for slide work – but it nearly came to an untimely demise on an airport runway…