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Dave Mustaine recounts the hiring and firing of every Megadeth guitarist
As Megadeth prepare for their final album release and tour, Mustaine looks back at some Mega-memories, the ghosts that still haunt him and the lead guitarists he played with along the way
![Butch Walker plays an EVH Striped Series superstrat [left]. On the right, his new signature Divided By 13 tube amp and matching cabinet.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QdVcgiz4RoY9j7NngyDBJh-840-80.jpg.webp)
Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections
Walker's hand-wired head allows players to run either of its EL84 or 6L6 power sections individually, or combine them, and there's a tube-buffered effects loop too
Josh Menashe of Frankie and the Witch Fingers has some advice on riff writing – just up your step count and let them come to you
Trash Classic is an album that does not hang around. Riffs come at at you fast – get in, get out is FATWF's credo, says Menashe
How three session aces and an inspired intervention from a “wunderkind” Steve Lukather saved a ‘70s soft-rock classic
England Dan and John Ford Coley's Love Is the Answer might not sound like the guitar track of nightmares but it took a lot of guitar talent to get it onto tape
![The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Jimmie Vaughan [left] and Kim Wilson do their thing at Rockefellers in Houston circa 1984...](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QNeXPUasV8vjS8djbycRLe-840-80.jpg.webp)
Texas blues legend Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and collabs with a Beatle on the Porky’s Revenge OST
A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. – including an entire unreleased album from 1978. Here, Vaughan talks T-Birds and Strats and Fender amps, and tells us what flips his switch
Reb Beach on the story of his ’90s Ibanez signature guitar – and the mystery behind its sequel
The year is 1990 and Reb Beach is on the cover of Guitar World with his Ibanez WRB-3, a super-cool weird shape electric. But what happened to the WRB-1?
How the Velveteers' Demi Demitro learned to speak through baritone fuzz riffs
With Dan Auerbach at the helm once more, the Velveteers' A Million Knives holds the brute force of low-end guitar and melody in equilibrium while two drummers pummel their way through the mix
Kevin Jonas on his love for the Dove, and why you’ll almost always find the Jonas Brothers in DADGAD
It turns out Kevin Jonas – yes, the Kevin Jonas of pop superstars the Jonas Brothers – lives and breathes guitar, and it all started with a ‘teach yourself guitar’ book and a cheapo red electric
