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“Every time we play together it takes me back to when we were teenagers… pushing, challenging and helping each other to be the best we could be”: For the first time ever, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are working on new music together
The two virtuosos have also announced a huge tour marking their first co-headline dates outside of their G3 shows
“A painstaking tribute to the guitar that changed music forever”: Kramer’s MIJ 1983 Baretta reissue offers a detailed recreation of the shred guitar that, with a little help from Eddie Van Halen, made it the biggest guitar brand of the ’80s
Maple body, Floyd Rose and a Seymour Duncan ‘59 – what else does the discerning shredder need?
“We didn’t want to just make a one trick pony octave up device”: Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi and Josh Homme all championed the octave pedal – now KMA Machines’ Mandrake Octo-Shrieker looks to take the effect to new heights
Simple yet effective: the user-friendly Mandrake updates an existing KMA circuit and attempts to solve a key issue of orthodox octave up pedals
“Each channel alone is worth the entire price of this amp”: PRS has finally launched Mark Tremonti’s MT 100 signature head – and it has a new channel modeled on his favorite Dumble
Building on the MT 15, the expanded amp head features three separate circuits, spanning Twin-like cleans, all-out high gain and Dumble-inspired drive
“[He’d record] everything we ever did. He would record the f**king milkman”: there are reportedly 7 hours of unreleased Randy Rhoads demos taped by Bob Daisley, but Ozzy Osbourne says he has no plans to release ‘Holy Grail’ recordings
The metal legend dismissed the material in the latest Osbournes podcast, while Sharon says it should be up to the Rhoads camp to decide its fate
“An instrument with class that could still appeal to the most technically driven shredders”: Bruno Mars’ signature Fender Strat tips the cap to his six-string icons Jimi Hendrix and Prince – and it’s one of the finest artist builds we’ve seen
Featuring Fender’s all-new Heirloom aging process, virtuoso-friendly playability and a choice of two pickguards, Mars’ take on the Strat will surprise you
“Unlike any guitar we’ve released before”: Ed Sheeran has unveiled his latest limited-edition Lowden signature acoustic – and it’s a thing of beauty
Created to celebrate the chart-smashing singer-songwriter’s latest album, the Autumn Variations guitar introduces some new specs to the Sheeran by Lowden range
“One of my favorite memories”: Praise rolls in for Tom Morello’s 12-year-old son, Roman, as footage emerges of him nailing Killing in the Name during Rage Against The Machine soundcheck
The youngster, who can “shred circles around” his father, filled an empty arena with Whammy-laden lead lines back in 2022 in the latest example of his impressive soloing chops
“I don’t think there’s any guitar playing in history that stands above that”: John Frusciante, Johnny Marr, Radiohead and the Edge rank him among their favorite players – now underrated guitar hero John McGeoch gets the spotlight in new documentary
The Light Pours Out of Me film examines the life and legacy of the influential guitarist behind Magazine, PiL and Siouxsie and the Banshees
“He wants the heaviest guitars that we can humanly make”: Here’s why Adam Jones has Gibson searching for “the heaviest woods” in order to build his custom Les Pauls
Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian says the Tool maestro is very particular about the weight of his guitars thanks to his vintage '79 Custom model
