Phil Weller
A freelance writer with a penchant for music that gets weird, Phil is a regular contributor to Prog, Guitar World, and Total Guitar magazines and is especially keen on shining a light on unknown artists. Outside of the journalism realm, you can find him writing angular riffs in progressive metal band, Prognosis, in which he slings an 8-string Strandberg Boden Original, churning that low string through a variety of tunings. He's also a published author and is currently penning his debut novel which chucks fantasy, mythology and humanity into a great big melting pot.
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He’s jammed with some esteemed talents, but this player is one of his favorites

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Do it the wrong way and your tuning will suffer, the acoustic great warns

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The 24-year-old talent joins Kingfish’s record label and already has 12 years of gigging experience under his belt

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From the Archive Gallagher shouldered the lead guitar player spot despite never feeling entirely comfortable with solos

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From the Archive He was regularly compared to Eddie Van Halen, but Randy Rhoads struggled with the height of his hype

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Venues that receive the most votes will be kitted out with a new Fender backline

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The Sea of Emotion will arrive before the year is out

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30 painstaking replicas are being sold exclusively through a private event at Gibson Garage Nashville

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At a festival he curated, Strings showed the darker side of his shredding

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Some metal-coded P Series models have also caught the eye in the surprise September collection

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Dave Friedman has teamed up with the late Jose Arredondo’s daughter for a 20W head and 1x12 combo that champions his innovative amp mods

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The esteemed guitar builder’s dedication to craftsmanship and innovation has been recognized

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Stage Tour comes from the makers of the cultural smash and is set to release on December 10

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The Swedish virtuoso played an insane number of notes as he sat in with the Roots on Jimmy Fallon

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It puts Morello’s favored pickup pairing found in his iconic Arm the Homeless guitar into a ready-made set

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A 20-watt half-stack arrives alongside celebratory Major V headphones and an Emberton III portable speaker

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Burnham played The Smiths’ Rusholme Ruffians to soldiers in a mobile recording studio in Kyiv, and the man who wrote the song couldn’t be happier

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The band will perform at the halftime show during Seattle Seahawks’ NFC West season opener next month

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The Astryx is a stunning twist on the Custom 24 built for one of riff rock’s fastest rising guitar heroes

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This is what Johnson looks for when he’s searching for a new guitar

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The guitar Andy Burnham played tells its own story

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The celebrated guitarist’s condition is not operable at this time

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Extremely affordable and packed with features, is this the perfect gateway into floor modelers?
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