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Join Guitarist and Gibson for an evening celebrating ‘Holy Grail’ guitars with ‘The Burst Experience’
By Matt Owen published
Guest performances of revered ’Bursts from Aynsley Lister, as well as insights from a panel of ’Burst experts, head up the unique three-hour event on October 10

The song that started life as an Eagles track – but ended up as the theme song for an animated film
By Matt Owen published
Plans for a Hotel California sequel were in motion, but the track wouldn’t emerge from the Eagles archive until a few years later

Positive Grid embraces the age of AI with BIAS X – which responds to prompts and recreates the guitar tones of any reference song
By Matt Owen published
Text-to-tone and music-to-tone functions head up the radical new amp and effects software

Fender has been forced to increase its prices to weather the tariff storm, according to new report
By Janelle Borg published
While sales to distributors have exceeded expectations, S&P Global suggests that consumers are leaning more towards the second-hand market amid increasing economic uncertainty

Pete Townshend’s substitute guitarist on his heated rehearsal row with the Who legend
By Phil Weller published
Steve Bolton was hired to handle Townshend’s electric leads in the lead up to the band’s 1989 tour, but some confusion over who’d play what during one rehearsal tipped things over the edge

Nuno Bettencourt’s outrageous part-guitar, part-keytar Washburn is 2025’s wildest Custom Shop creation
By Phil Weller published
The guitar was crafted by Washburn Master Builder Chris Meade, and was spotted in Extreme’s music video for X Out

Norman’s Rare Guitars is home to some of the finest Strats in the world – but you’ll never guess which one sounds the best
By Phil Weller published
The store has waxed lyrical about a mid-priced, made-in-Mexico Strat that’s given its vintage counterparts a run for their money

TikTok’s favorite tennis racket rubber bridge guitar hack no longer exists – so this guitarist made something even better
By Phil Weller published
A $12 tennis racket accessory was an unlikely but brilliant budget hack for rubber bridge tones, but the Plunk takes it even further

At 80, John Fogerty says his guitar practice regimen is as rigorous as ever
By Jackson Maxwell published
The legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist is currently on the road promoting Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, a new album of Creedence re-recordings he undertook after finally gaining back the rights to the band's music

Foo Fighters super-producer Nick Raskulinecz on the most surprising thing about Dave Grohl's guitar playing
By Janelle Borg published
Raskulinecz credits Grohl with jumpstarting his career after the Foo Fighters frontman gave him the opportunity to produce and engineer the band's fourth album
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