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Fender has unveiled a limited edition PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster
Fender and Pac-Man team up for a limited-edition Telecaster (and no the dot inlays are not edible)

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Just keep this Telecaster away from John 5's signature model unless it's had its Power Pellets...

Electric Guitars
Blues hero Larry McCray pictured with his Gibson Les Paul
Larry McCray on his Albert King-inspired Flying V, touring with Gary Moore and his life in three guitars

By Mark McStea Published

The blues comeback king tells his life story via the medium of three guitars that he can’t live without

Guitarists
Walter Trout takes a solo on his 73 Strat.
“You could scrape that guitar, smoke the residue and get strung out”: Walter Trout’s life in three guitars

By Mark McStea Published

The Strat-addicted bluesman describes the three guitars he couldn’t, can’t or won’t live without

Guitarists
Joe Bonamassa holds up two vintage Les Pauls
Joe Bonamassa breaks down the differences between P-90s and PAF humbuckers

By Joe Bonamassa Published

In this lesson, the blues maestro demonstrates how pickup choice affects the tone and can be used for different purposes

Artist Lessons
Guitarists Lee Altus and Gary Holt of Exodus perform at Fox Theater on November 11, 2014 in Oakland, California
“I’ve never concerned myself with the Big Four”: Gary Holt and Lee Altus on why Exodus will never be a legacy thrash act

By Jon Wiederhorn Published

The Bay Area thrash stalwarts return with the face-ripping Goliath, an album that finds them with nothing to prove but Holt's still out for blood anyway

Guitarists
Wayne Hussey wears dark sunglasses and plays his tear-drop Vox 12-string live with the Mission in 1990.
The difficult birth of The Sisters of Mercy’s trailblazing goth classic

By Joel McIver Published

Billy Corgan loved First and Last and Always so much he invited guitarist Wayne Hussey to his home to jam it. Over 40 years on, Hussey and Gary Marx look back on its dark majesty

Guitarists
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler onstage with Aerosmith in 2023.
“As it was going up in the air, I thought, ‘Wow, that looks so cool.’ On the way down, I was thinking, ‘What did I do?!’ Joe Perry on his customized ‘50s Gibson Les Paul Junior that refused to die

By Andrew Daly Published

The Aerosmith guitarist on the iconic Junior with the custom mother-of-pearl inlay, his desert island guitar – and why he reads Guitar World every month

Electric Guitars
PRS USA Silver Sky vs SE Silver Sky
The modern guitars that have held their value best, according to a Reverb expert

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Reverb’s data guru crunches the numbers for us, and the stats say a famous player’s name on the headstock bodes well for resale value

Guitars
Tortoise: [from left] John McEntire, Dan Bitney, Jeff Parker, Douglas McCombs and John Hernon.
Douglas McCombs on the long-awaited return of post-rock trailblazers Tortoise

By Adam Kovac Published

We had to wait nigh-on a decade for new album Touch but it demonstrates that Douglas McCombs and his six-string lieutenant, Jeff Parker, have not lost theirs, nor for their taste in retro-audio engineering techniques

Guitarists
Mark Collins of the Charlatans plays a Bigsby-equipped Les Paul Custom during Heritage Live 2025.
Mark Collins on triumph, tragedy, and the long-awaited return of the Charlatans

By Henry Yates Published

Collins explains why the Britrock survivors still believe in albums and real amps moving air, and discusses their return to the formative Rockfield Studios after three decades

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