Chris Gill
Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.
Latest articles by Chris Gill

By Chris Gill Published
It had the tones, it had the super-stable floating vibrato for divebombs, and it had the fastest neck around. The RG550 pushed shred guitar further and faster – just ask Paul Gilbert

By Chris Gill Published
Joe Pass was one of the few jazz cats who used the Jazzmaster for what it was designed for. But that didn't stop it being a sleeper hit for Fender, and a future classic

By Janelle Borg Published
The band’s 1976 record 2112 – which followed the critically panned Caress of Steel – ended up become one of Rush’s most famed albums

By Chris Gill Published
What was so great about the CE-2? It had everything. It was affordable, built like a tank, had simple controls and lush tones that defined an era

By Matt Owen Published
The early 1980s custom build, which was played on tour and once owned by Mick Mars, ushered in a watershed moment for Kramer and the guitar industry

By Chris Gill Published
A classic '50s style vintage ribbon mic without the price tag? It's Warm Audio doing Warm Audio things again

By Chris Gill Published
The PRS Archon Classic runs the gamut from crystal cleans to classic crunch and hot-rodded high gain

By Chris Gill Published
Used by Radiohead, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello and countless others, the Whammy was the game-changing pitch-shifter guitar was waiting for

By Chris Gill Published
For decades, players such as Keith Richards have been swapping out their Tele's neck single-coil for a humbucker – now Fender has unveiled its most high-spec take on the format yet

By Chris Gill Published
Cort's stylish single-cut might be the hybrid nylon-string that electric players are looking for

By Chris Gill Published
Behold, a distortion pedal with waveshaper designed around a "relic" from the early days of semiconducters – and yes, it sounds like nothing you've ever heard before

By Chris Gill Published
Beloved by James Hetfield, Prince and John Petrucci, the most revered amp in metal guitar tone makes a long-awaited return

By Chris Gill Published
The story of an electric guitar so cool, there's no wonder they called it the Iceman

By Chris Gill Published
Birthed amid the Superstrat mania of the 1980s, the Custom 24 bucked the trend with a set-neck build – and hit a spot with players that wanted timeless looks and modern, high performing upgrades

By Chris Gill Published
An all-in-one mic and audio interface solution for the guitarist who likes to podcast, stream online and record anywhere

By Jackson Maxwell Published
Johnstone did end up with the '50s-era beauty in the end, though not for a happy reason

By Chris Gill Published
It looks like an adaptor and it kind of is. But this cult fuzz box was a favorite of Norman Greenbaum and Spirit’s Randy California and was on more garage rock records than we’d care to imagine

By Chris Gill Published
Lee Kiernan of IDLES' signature pedal is a Jekyll and Mr Hyde drive/fuzz twofer inspired by EQD's legendary Gray Channel

By Chris Gill Published
The American guitar giant delivers a 4K Dolby Atmos version of a classic flat-top with a new Super Auditorium body style and tone to spare

By Chris Gill Published
Because a super-classy, versatile semi doesn't have to break the bank

By Chris Gill Published
A precursor to the pointy shapes of ’80s guitar design, the Mockingbird bridges two worlds of extreme design and vintage class

By Chris Gill Published
Devin Townsend’s delay, reverb and looper makes a spectacular return – and it’s the pedalboard sequel we’ve all been waiting for

By Chris Gill Published
50 years on, Blow by Blow remains an inspirational force – a turning point for Beck and guitar-led music in general
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