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The PRS 40th Anniversary Special Semi-Hollow Limited Edition is $6,990 – but here’s why we want one
PRS Guitars has been releasing eye-popping limited-run instruments month after month but this do-it-all high-end electric might just be the pick of the litter
How Italian maestro Andrea Rinciari is reinventing the great American jazz guitar songbook
Soho Sessions is the sound of Rinciari cutting loose and putting his own stamp on the classics, with the help of his one-of-a-kind Fibonacci Ambassador
Unorthodox, powered by EMGs, Gary Moore's 1982 Charvel San Dimas was the battle-ready hot-rod he needed in the ’80s
Hasty mods made to this Charvel made it a choice workhorse for Gary in the early ’80s – and it fetched over $40,000 when auctioned at Bonham's
Why Jared James Nichols stopped obsessing over gear – and honed in on his playing instead
Freedom, says Nichols, is the knowledge you can pick up anyone's guitar and sound like you, and now the Nashville-based Les Paul wrangler is finding that freedom in songwriting
Kiki Wong reveals her Smashing Pumpkins live rig, gear regrets and how a Line 6 amp made her the player she is today
Kiki Wong might be the only guitar player alive today who can recall from memory Ibanez S series model numbers. Here's what the S40DXQM means to her...
Remembering Ken Parker, the genius luthier who brought us the Parker Fly
One of the guitar world’s most visionary makers, who took the archtop guitar to unimaginable levels and also created the radical Parker Fly, has died aged 73
Chrissie Hynde on that one time she bought her own signature guitar off the shelf
Turns out having your own signature Fender Telecaster stocked in shops is pretty handy when you're caught without your own...
Lita Ford had her prized Mockingbird stolen – but crossed paths with it in the most bizarre circumstances
Ford was briefly reacquainted with her beloved Mockingbird when an auditionee rocked up to her studio with her stolen guitar
I spent an evening with 7 original Gibson Les Paul ’Bursts from 1958 to 1960 – here's what I learned
There were two ’58s, an ex-Mick Taylor ’59; the exquisite ‘Minnesota’ ’59 ’Burst, and ‘Grainger’, too – but did a 1960 ’Burst made to ’59 spec steal the show?
Chris Dreja turned down Led Zeppelin, but he will be remembered as the Yardbirds’ unsung bass hero in a band of guitar superstars
Co-founder of the Yardbirds, Chris Dreja – who supported Clapton, Beck and Page on rhythm or bass guitar, then went on to become a photographer – has died, aged 79
Clean, almost all original, lightweight with PAFs to die for – Gary Moore’s 1962 Gibson Les Paul is a true grail
Sold at auction via Bonham's for around $27,385, was this Les Paul/SG one of the great bargains for vintage collectors and Gary Moore superfans?
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
These ‘60s Gibson semi-hollows were Gary Moore’s workhorses – and they’ve still got the blues
Serial number A33857, this stunning '60 ES-355TD was top-of-the-line in its day, and with his ’63 ES-335TD, offered Moore stunning tones. We took a closer look as they headed to an auction where they fetched around $94,000 and $65,000, respectively
Veteran bluesman Larry McCray recalls the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died
The famed Strat wielder passed away at the age of 35 in a helicopter crash outside East Troy, Wisconsin
Wolfgang Van Halen on Allan Holdsworth, unintentional Van Halen-isms, and his go-to guitar-test riffs
As the son of one of the world’s most influential rock guitar players, it’s understandably taken Wolfgang Van Halen some time to feel comfortable in his own skin. Mammoth’s third full-length, The End, is undoubtedly the sound of his confidence growing stronger and stronger
The making of the American Professional Classic series – the brand-new “lived-in” (but not relic’d) US Fender line
More aged nitro finishes and a new US-made line-up that pares back the modernisms. Are our tastes changing? Max Gutnik, chief product officer at FMIC, tells all
How a $10k acoustic build put the loud into Lowden – with exotic tonewoods and faultless construction
Meet the high-end cutaway acoustic of your dreams that looks a million dollars and costs more than $10,000 – another occasion when Irish luthier George Lowden has raised the bar
Gary Moore’s 1963 Telecaster is modded and thrashed to death – and it’s got a tone pot that behaves like a wah
Before it was auctioned for just under $69,000, we take a closer look at one of the lesser-spotted electrics in Moore’s collection, with Bonham’s Steve Clarke sharing its story
The challenge of amplifying our acoustics has been one of guitar’s great challenges over the decades – are we nearly there yet?
We’ve come a long way from the “plastic piezo ping” – acoustic players today have more options on how to present their sound onstage just as nature intended
