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Chris Buck on how Yamaha nailed his new signature Revstar – and why you should reconsider the P-90
By Adam Kovac published
As a blues-rock player, Buck was told he should be playing something more old-school. But as he explains, the Revstar has everything he needs and more, and you should try one too

Cory Wong reveals how to solo over chords in a meaningful way
By Cory Wong published
Wong explains how outlining notes in the chord progression helps find a solo that's melodically on-point and just what the song calls for

Dave Mustaine recounts the hiring and firing of every Megadeth guitarist
By Andrew Daly published
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

“A radical approach to fuzz – whether you’re a Muse fan or not”: Manson Guitar Works Supermassive Black Fuzz review
By Trevor Curwen published
Manson Guitar Works’ first stompbox delivers a high degree of variation in your fuzz tone

How Georgie Hume’s “surf exotica” is taking instrumental guitar into a whole new world
By Amit Sharma published
Starting out in a London pub, Georgie Hume and the Pity Party are taking a wayfaring approach to jazz, soul, and surf guitar, and Hume has some help from a left-field “secret weapon” pedal

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
By Joe Bosso published
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
By Joe Matera published
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-320-80.jpg)
Texas blues legend Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and collabs with a Beatle on the Porky’s Revenge OST
By Andrew Daly published
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
By Andrew Daly published
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
By Jim Beaugez published
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
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