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Alien-shred, Brit-rock royalty, one blues icon and a hardcore superstar: here are Guitar World's Guitarists of the Year 2025
All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their shoulder to the evolutionary wheel of guitar playing
The life and wild times of Danny Thompson, the legend of upright bass who “brought greatness to everything he played”
The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that weaves through the rock ’n’ roll era
Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog
With their uncompromising blend of formidable time signatures and distorted guitar riffs, Tool are a band quite unlike any other
Joe Walsh auction raises huge sums for charity – and raises eyebrows as unexpected guitars attract big money bids
Who here remembers the time circa 2008 when Walsh was playing an EMG-equipped Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom live onstage with the Eagles?
English Teacher on the dangers of self-relic'ing, and why they love Fender offsets “for the same reason any alternative band does”
Guitarist Lewis Whiting and bassist Nicholas Eden celebrate their new Fenders, explain how they transform studio songs to live performances, and reveal how they react when things go wrong
Yngwie Malmsteen hits back at singers who features on his records
Malmsteen is claiming that certain singers are trying to capitalize on his brand and claim song ownership
John Mayer explains what finally convinced him that modeling tech was up to scratch in newly shared signature plugin test footage
Mayer teamed up with Neural DSP for an Archetype plugin that modeled his prized guitar gear in digital form
Fender Masterbuilder on what it’s like to watch his ultimate guitar hero play the Strat he made for him
Andy Hicks built Dave Murray a Custom Shop Strat for tour – and it’s since become his Number One guitar
