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Dave Navarro performs live with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1996. On the right, his GW cover, where he unusually chose a Les Paul

The incredible story of the Les Paul that Dave Navarro bought for his Guns N’ Roses audition – and ended up giving to John Frusciante

By Andrew Daly published

We ask Navarro about the Gibson that featured on the cover of GW's March ’96 issue, and it opens up a whole lot of memories for the former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist

Guitarists
Cory Wong wears shades and performs with his blue Strat live in Italy, 2025, and is lit from behind by a white stage light.

Cory Wong on how to arrange guitar and keyboards

By Cory Wong published

The funkmeister puts Direct Flyte under the microscope to deliver a masterclass in arrangement. It's funk, sure, but there's some operatic influence in there, too, because that's just how Wong rolls

Artist Lessons
Bourgeois Slope D Standard T/S: Inspired by the J-45, this Touchstone series acoustic has. a beautiful high-gloss finish with a tiger-stripe pickguard

“Reimagined through the lens of a master craftsman”: Bourgeois Slope D Standard T/S review

By David Mead published

The latest in Bourgeois’ Touchstone range has shades of Gibson’s J-45. Will it live up to expectations and carve a legendary niche all its own?

Acoustic Guitars
Fingerstylist Andy McKee uses a K+K Pure pickup system in his custom Greenfield acoustic as he performs here in 2018

The challenge of amplifying our acoustics has been one of guitar’s great challenges over the decades – are we nearly there yet?

By Michael Watts published

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

Acoustic-electric Guitars
Steve Cropper poses with his Peavey signature guitar and a Fender Twin combo

Steve Cropper on writing Green Onions, stressing out Brian May and the secret of Billy Gibbons’ guitar style

By Phil Weller published

The co-writer of classics including Green Onions and (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay proved you don’t need technical wizardry to make a mark. In 2024, he walked us through a career marked by hits, groove and soul

Guitarists
Eddie Angel of Los Straitjackets wears a Luchador mask and plays a funky looking offset with four single-coil pickups

Primitive solos, Luchador masks, SpongeBob SquarePants? Meet Los Straitjackets, guitar’s most out-there instrumentalists

By Gregory Adams published

In this shocking exclusive, guitarist Eddie Angel takes you behind the glitter masks of the surfin’, riffin’, fast-pickin’ instrumental combo

Guitarists
Gem Archer, Noel Gallagher and Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, each photographed with their new signature models from Epiphone and Gibson

The story behind Oasis’ new signature guitars

By Stuart Williams published

The Gibson Les Paul, Epiphone Riviera and Epiphone Sheraton have a deep history with the Manchester rock powerhouse, and this year’s new signature models take us all the way back to the beginning

Electric Guitars
Kim Deal plays her Fender Strat as she performs at London's Roundhouse in June 2025, the stage lit up in blue.

Kim Deal on finally making her solo debut, working with Steve Albini and why she hates bright guitar tones

By Jim Beaugez published

On her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You more, Kim Deal expands on the sonics she built in the Breeders and Pixies

Guitarists
[from left] The Byrds’ Clarence White, Skip Battin, Gene Parsons and Roger McGuinn in action in London in 1971

“Bob Dylan said, ‘Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it’”: Roger McGuinn on the making of The Byrds’ countercultural classic

By Andrew Daly published

Roger McGuinn explains how Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan and CBS-era Fender amps all factored into the making of The Byrds’ 1969 classic, Ballad of Easy Rider

Guitarists
[LEFT] 1966 EMS-1235 with full-scale four-string tenor neck and eight-string mandolin neck. Right: 1961 EMS-1235 with a regular six-string neck and an octave six-string neck.

“Some might be thankful they only made one because Gibson didn’t waste any more wood”: Meet the obscure ’60s Gibsons that prove double-necks were a thing before Stairway to Heaven

By Dave Davidson published

Meet the ‘60s Gibson EMS-1235s that prove that doublenecks were a thing before Stairway to Heaven

Electric Guitars
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