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New guitar, who dis? John Mayer just debuted his stunning new boutique T-style on his new collab with Lainey Wilson
Mayer has got his hands on a boutique Esquire-style custom build from a legend of Californian guitar making
Tom Misch on the time his guitar hero reached out of the blue and offered to join him on stage
The jazz-funk guitar star was on his way to play the Crossroads Guitar Festival when Mayer messaged him
JHS Pedals once mistakenly put an ultra-rare Dumble boost circuit into one of its DIY pedals – now it’s been launched as an $89 standalone stompbox
A clone of John Mayer's elusive Dumble BBC-1 has been released after it was accidentally put in the Notadümblë
The story of John Mayer’s Fender fallout – and how it gave birth to the Stratocaster’s biggest rival
Mayer left Fender after his wishes for an elevated S-style fell on deaf ears – and he found the perfect partner in PRS and the Silver Sky
How to funk up your blues solos
Taking cues from John Mayer, Jimi Hendrix and Nile Rodgers, this lesson offers three examples of phrases that add rhythm and movement to blues
PRS has been hit by a cease-and-desist from Fender
This has now become the highest-profile case of the entire dispute, and could well be one of the most hotly contested
Plini answers the call of the wild in search of instrumental guitar’s new frontier
The Australian virtuoso on dream collabs with John Mayer, high-BPM workouts, and what happened when he imagined “a cello player in a huge, empty concert hall playing this difficult arpeggio”
Plini is manifesting a collaboration with John Mayer – and has issued an open call to make it happen
The prog metal virtuoso has a wild vision for what their joint single could potentially look like
Doug Pettibone on taking lessons from Andy Summers, touring with Jewel, and not getting fired by John Mayer
The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel until Mayer helped him make it
