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Derek Trucks recalls playing with the greats from an early age
Sharing the stage with his heroes taught Trucks a wealth of valuable lessons – and also showed him the difference between mediocre players and the greats
Quick! Guitar Center’s up 40% December Deals sale is your last chance to save before Christmas – including hundreds slashed off Fender, Yamaha, Line 6 and more
Guitar Center’s pre-festive discounts cover practically everything music – with some especially sweet deals for the eagle-eyed guitarist
Josh Rand’s guitar collection is an ode to ’80s shred – but he’s putting some of his prize pieces up for sale
Rare, vintage, and signed models make up the guitarist’s 31 new listings, and there’s plenty to get excited about
Reverb has revealed its best-selling pedals of 2024 – and it seems we have a winner in this year’s amp modeler race
It’s been a big year for digital amp modelers and regular stompboxes alike, and as Reverb itself notes, it all makes for quite an interesting list
The emotional moment Johnny Cash was offered his one-of-a-kind signature acoustic
Cash was a strong proponent of Martin guitars, playing a whole host of models – but his all-black D-42 signature model is the most iconic
Pantera’s Rex Brown rejoins Spector’s artist ranks – less than a year after dropping his first Epiphone signature
Brown relied on his Spector basses for the band’s final three albums, and took his stash on the road after Pantera reformed in 2022
Mark Tremonti on how Paul Reed Smith got him hooked on Dumbles
The Alter Bridge guitarist looks back on how he beat his PRS peers to play the amp of his dreams – and never looked back
NAMM 2025: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world’s biggest gear show
With the likes of Fender, Gibson and Marshall returning to Anaheim at long last, this year’s event is set to be the biggest in five years – with secrets and surprises to match
Dweezil Zappa shares the surprising beginner guitar lessons he learned from Eddie Van Halen
Zappa first met Van Halen when he was just 12 years old, and it wasn’t long before he was receiving lessons from the guitar god – on his legendary Frankenstein
How the producers of the Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic nailed Dylan's unique tone – with a particular tweak
In partnership with the film's producers, Gibson gave Chalamet a collection of pristine, handcrafted guitars – but the movie's head music director needed, for accuracy's sake, to dim their natural sonic richness
