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“Everybody was going crazy about Yngwie Malmsteen... Joe Satriani told me, ‘That’s fine, but don’t get too into him’”: Alex Skolnick explains why he was warned off sounding like the neoclassical maestro
The Testament guitarist says he learned more than just techniques from his A-list teacher
Blues legend Junior Wells, who has been dead since 1998, has a brand-new single out using AI
Wells, who performed with Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Earl Hooker during his lifetime, passed away 25 years ago, but Cleopatra Records has “resurrected” his voice for Halloween
This historic Fender Precision Bass lay hidden underneath a bed for over 50 years – now it’s going up for auction
The ’60s bass is believed to be one of the first to ever land in the UK, arriving in the country not long after The Shadows' Jet Harris received the UK's premier Fender P-Bass
“At first you fight, and you’re a little bit angry and then you get sad... but that solo is blistering”: Brad Whitford recalls the time Aeromith’s producer called in session pro Steve Hunter to replace his and Joe Perry’s lead lines
The guitarist has discussed his feelings around Alice Cooper duo Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner’s involvement in selected tracks from Get Your Wings
“Let me know if you like it or you think I ruined it!” Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing becomes Sultans of Shred as Sophie Lloyd gives the guitar anthem a high-gain makeover
Mark Knopfler's sultry single-coil runs get given a generous injection of searing shred tones in Lloyd's latest cover
“This man changed the game in so many ways”: One of Les Paul’s own Les Pauls – which has a rare maple fretboard – has been listed on Reverb
One of a pair of Les Pauls once owned by the late guitar pioneer, this ‘Blonde Beauty’ style creation heralds from the early ’80s, when Gibson’s maple experiments first took off
Head to the outer limits of the tone galaxy with Interstellar Audio Machines’ new trio of vintage-modern effect pedals
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Octonaut Hyperdrive, Fuzzsquatch Fuzzdrive and Marsling Octafuzzdrive capture some of the most coveted sounds in guitardom – and add in a few new ones to boot
Wolfgang Van Halen’s favorite guitarist tears it up while death metal has never sounded more alive: this week’s essential guitar tracks
Round out the week with our curated list of unmissable songs from Intervals, Alluvial, Sophie Lloyd, Santana, Kvelertak, Sleater-Kinney and more
“The direction I was given was, ‘We want to encompass the history of the guitar’”: The guitarist behind Back to the Future’s Johnny B. Goode scene says he used a Strat copy with a Floyd Rose
The scene is famous for Marty McFly’s (historically inaccurate) Gibson ES-345 – but it was recorded on a very different guitar
“The thing the incident reveals to me is a much larger problem – the idea that profits are more important than people”: George Lynch breaks silence following resurfaced allegations that Peavey used prison labor
The amp brand categorically denied using prison labor after Lynch's allegations from 2018 were unearthed. Now the Dokken guitarist has responded to Peavey's request for a retraction
