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Hank Marvin of the Shadows plays his red strat and wears and orange and black graphic shirt.

My day interviewing Hank Marvin over beans on toast and chickening out of a Paul McCartney 'audition'

By Neville Marten published

Neville Marten's first assignment for Guitarist was one for the ages, at a venue that is now sadly lost but for a time was the place for the biggest bands to rehearse

Guitarists
Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe of Tetrarch pose with their weapons of choice. Fore holds white ESP singlecut, while Rowe has her signature Monarkh from Jackson

Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones

By Gregory Adams published

The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

Guitarists
Steve Stevens shreds onstage with a red-and-white stripped video behind him.

Steve Stevens on his Dave Friedman pedalboard, his fave klone and why he can't quit guitar synths

By Andrew Daly published

The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard

Guitarists
Ozzy Osbourne embraces Jake E. Lee as the latter takes a solo during an '80s live performances.

Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads

By Andrew Daly published

Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn't stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at Sabbath's final show. And Tom Morello needed him bad

Guitarists
A black and white shot of Thin Lizzy guitarists Gary Moore and Scott Gorham both working their Les Pauls – Moore on the Junior, Gorham on a Standard.

Scott Gorham on how his guitar partnership with Gary Moore came to a dramatic end

By Henry Yates published

The Belfast-born virtuoso brought blues-rock fireworks to Thin Lizzy's sound and a muscular foil for Gorham who was always trying something different

Guitarists
Richard Dawson performs live: his Fidelity Signature JB facilitates a low C tuning, with the bridge being shifted back to accommodate heavy strings. The single pickup is custom-wound by Mojo

Richard Dawson on writing melodies with the feel of a “newborn foal staggering around a barn”

By Glenn Kimpton published

Richard Dawson on balancing the mundane and profane, and the "unsteady" melodies of his staggering new album

Guitarists
Black Sabbath bathed in red stage lights as they play Madison Square Garden in the late '70s. Tony Iommi is in black. Ozzy Osbourne in white, with white tasselled sleeves and arms aloft.

The complete history of Black Sabbath – lineup by lineup, album by album

By Joel McIver published

As Black Sabbath took a triumphant bow at Back to the Beginning, we reexamine their recorded works, from the riff that started metal through the Dio years, to the return of Ozzy Osbourne and 13

Bands
Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition '59 Stratocaster

Up close with Fender Custom Shop’s ’59 Journeyman Stratocaster – a stunning vintage repro fresh out of the box

By David Mead published

Eschewing the heavy relic work of many Custom Shop Strats, the Journeyman nails that ‘one careful owner’ vibe

Electric Guitars
The Frst’s Mikei Gray in white sunglasses with his DIY hubcap guitar

Meet The Frst’s Mikei Gray, the virtuoso whose guitar is made out of a ’50s Buick hubcap

By Joe Bosso published

Mashing up genres comes easy to the Frst, especially when Mikei Gray is a play-anything virtuoso who not only made his own guitar but gave bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs a lesson

Guitarists
Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker performing at the Bottom Line in New York City on December 7, 1989. Photo of Jaco Pastorius CIRCA 1970.

Jack Bruce’s final encounter with Jaco Pastorius

By Nick Wells published

According to his brother, Rory Pastorius, Jaco was influenced by the late Cream bassist’s midrange sound and aggressive lead style

Bassists
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