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Bill Corgan on the time Eddie Van Halen asked him to play guitar – during a Guitar World interview
Turns out EVH was impressed by the Smashing Pumpkins frontman's guitar skills
Tommy Thayer emerged in a scene of shredders and guitar heroes – but the style they pioneered never appealed to him
The Kiss guitar player was surrounded by shredders in an era of evolution for guitar music, but felt a stronger affinity for what came before
Thin Lizzy guitarist and Live Aid mastermind Midge Ure was asked to join the Sex Pistols – but he didn’t think twice about turning them down
Ure claims he was scouted for his look by Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and his punk co-conspirator (and later, the Clash manager) Bernard Rhodes
Lost chords that George Harrison wrote down before his passing have been turned into a new song
For the Love of George is taken from a new George Harrison tribute album, which was recorded using the late Beatle’s own guitars
Getting up close and personal with a 1928 Martin 00-42 – a pre-war, small-bodied vintage unicorn of an acoustic guitar
Martin has become synonymous with dreadnoughts and OM models, and there were rich pickings in the small-bodied pre-war era, too. We take a closer look – and get Chris Buck’s thoughts on it, too
The UK’s biggest guitar event is this weekend, with 'wit and wisdom' from That Pedal Show
The Guitar Show hits Birmingham 1-2 March 2025: Full line-up revealed
Karl Cochran, longtime Kiss and Joe Lynn Turner collaborator, has died aged 61
The guitarist wrote Into the Void alongside Ace Frehley, which appeared on Kiss' 1998's Psycho Circus, and toured extensively with Frehley, Turner, Eric Singer, Bob Daisley, and many others
Gibson’s latest Certified Vintage drop offers a fascinating insight into the firm’s forgotten Superstrat era
A host of experimental builds – constructed against the backdrop of the supercharged guitar evolution that defined the 1980s – headline the latest collection of archive finds
Nuno Bettencourt says this 15-year-old blues player is in the league of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen
The Extreme hero is betting on this young Australian guitarist after being blown away by his virtuosic performance
The Circle Guitar is revolutionizing the instrument and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has already bought one
The self-strumming “rhythm machine” has won over some notable fans as it looks to go beyond the physical limitations of a traditional guitar
Joe Bonamassa, Gibson’s Tom Murphy and all-star gear specialists reveal how to spot a fake Les Paul
YouTuber Robert Baker put a fake Les Paul on the workbench, and let the guitar experts have their say
A Complete Unknown’s Monica Barbaro on how she went from never playing guitar to nailing Joan Baez's intricate fingerstyle technique
The actor reveals she had zero experience playing guitar before she landed the highly coveted role – and explains why the humble metronome was key to her learning-guitar-as-Baez journey
Strymon’s new EC-1 was modeled after an iconic tape echo unit
Strymon got its hands on an Echoplex EP-2 that had been modded by Stevie Ray Vaughan's old tech, and used it to mastermind its latest compact stompbox
Orangewood comes under fire for its Juniper rubber bridge guitars
The firm has been accused of “ripping off” the instruments pioneered by Reuben Cox of Old Style Guitar Shop
Jim D’Addario on the history, innovations and future of the world’s biggest string manufacturer
As D’Addario celebrates its 50-year anniversary, we speak to its current chairman about the company’s roots, breakthroughs and next moves, and learn how the family has been making strings for centuries
Statue of Motörhead legend Lemmy to be unveiled in his hometown this May
Lemmy's bronze tribute was sculpted by Andy Edwards – the artist behind the world-famous Beatles statue in Liverpool
The Hollywood-like “kidnapping” and ransom story of one of George Harrison's most famous guitars
Clandestine meetings, dramatic TV pleas, ransom demands, hurried getaway drives across the Mexican border... it sounds like a thriller, but it all revolved around a very special Les Paul
Andrew Watt on the time Paul McCartney gave him a guitar lesson over tea
The super-producer also relays a secret Macca revealed about recording a classic Beatles track
Fender outlines the future of Squier after the launch of its new Standard Series – which is built in the same factory
The Standard Series further closed the gap between Fender and Squier – but would Fender ever put its name on the entire production line, from entry level to Custom Shop?
