Guitarist
Black Country
Based on the Takamine used by Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi, the GD34CE has all of its stablemate’s classic good looks on a budget. But how does it sound?
5 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
TIME BANDITS
Some bands are retro. Some bands are very retro. Dutch trio DeWolff take that to the max in everything they do, looking back for inspiration and feeding it into something new.
8 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
RESURRECTION DAYS
After a career peppered with notable successes – and a fair few line-up changes and fall-outs – in the mid-80s Kansas came close to being dead and buried. But, taking the advice of their most famous song title, they picked themselves up and carried on…
10+ min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
GARY ROSSINGTON - December 4, 1951 - March 5, 2023
We look back at the life, times and music of the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who survived the band's plane crash in 1977, and also survived all the band's other founder members.
9 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
MEN FOR ALL SEASONS
Stranger things: in their 40-plus years Metallica have gone from being a cult metal band to a commercial juggernaut and a household name. But even with new album 72 Seasons ready to storm charts worldwide they're still angry, still insecure.
10+ min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
INFINITE HORIZON
Patch Rubin coaxes a dimensional acoustic voice from his superbly crafted Wide Sky Guitars P125C electric.
3 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
GOLD RUSH
Gibson archivist Mat Koehler traces the first 10 years of the Les Paul's history, in which it transformed from an elegant jazz guitar to the weapon of choice for the 1960s' rock and roll revolution.
7 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
SLASH THE COLLECTION
He made his name with a 1959 replica Les Paul on Guns N' Roses' debut, Appetite for Destruction. Now, with hundreds of guitars in his collection, Slash selects the models he treasures most and traces their journeys through his career and hits.
9 min |
May 2023
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TAYLOR
American Dream Grand Theater AD11E-SB
3 min |
May 2023
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TWA
SH9 Scott Henderson Signature Distortion
2 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS
Weeks before his death, the legendary David Crosby spoke with us about treasured sessions from his long and brilliant career.
6 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
UNFORGETTABLE
With Dirty, Malina Moye leaves an indelible record of her singular style.
5 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
The Master of Slide Guitar
Playing otherworldly Hindustani slide licks on instruments of his own invention, Debashish Bhattacharya connects East to West in a fusion that's earned him raves from John McLaughlin and Americana Dobro icon Jerry Douglas.
9 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
Sound Check With Leo
Acoustic icon Leo Kottke offers insights as he finds his sound at Sweetwater Music Hall.
4 min |
May 2023
Guitar Player
How I Wrote..."Wooden Ships"
David Crosby reveals how he, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner wrote a visionary classic.
3 min |
May 2023
Guitarist
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist spills the beans about his love of Eddie Van Halen and his attraction to clean tones, with a first-hand dive into seven guitars behind the group’s hits. John Frusciante’s tech, Henry Trejo, and former tech, Dave Lee, fill in the details
10+ min |
May 2023
Guitarist
MOONSHINE - Pink Floyd: 50 Years Of The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd's masterwork, The Dark Side Of The Moon, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Although it remains one of the greatest studio albums of all time, Floyd's opus began life as a live performance and it went on to be toured twice in Floyd's career: once in the early to mid 1970s and again in 1994. In this special edition, we examine why the 20-year-evolution of Dark Side as a hypnotically powerful live performance was a longer and even more fascinating journey than the creation of the album itself. We also find out how the journey to The Dark Side Of The Moon shaped David Gilmour's gear choices as he strove for the signature tone we know so well today, 50 years on
10+ min |
May 2023
Guitarist
Korina, Korina
This intriguing collaboration between Epiphone and Gibson's fabled Custom Shop yields faithful reproductions of two of the most brilliantly radical guitars ever devised
9 min |
May 2023
Guitarist
Small Size, Big Tone
The mini-humbucker deserves better than also-ran status as Gibson’s ‘other’ pickup, writes Jamie Dickson
4 min |
May 2023
Guitarist
SCOTT HOLIDAY
The Rival Sons guitarist on bad trades, stolen Strats and why character beats pedigree every time
5 min |
May 2023
Guitarist
Cloud Nine
Strymon gives the BigSky Cloud algorithm its own pedal as the first in a new, more compact series
5 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
THE MAGIC FLUTE
The second new Jethro Tull album in two years, Rokfléte, explores Ragnarok, the Norse interpretation of the apocalypse. So naturally, we spoke to lan Anderson about the end of the world.
6 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
IAN HUNTER
He's older than rock'n'roll itself, and back with an all-star cast on his new album on Sun Records. Here he talks to CR about working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 7Os. This is what he’s here for.
10+ min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
Inspector Cluzo
Environmentally-friendly French farming is a proving ground we didn't predict, but blues rock has always been rooted geddit?) in the country.
3 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
Richard Marx
Hazard He only recorded it to prove people wrong and he considered it his worst ever song. So just how did the AOR singer’s global smash hit come about?
4 min |
May 2023
Classic Rock
STRING THEORY
Next month Def Leppard release Drastic Symphonies, reworked classic Leps tracks accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They invited us to Abbey Road Studios to watch it take shape.
10+ min |
May 2023
Total Guitar
"I hit an E chord and felt all this power"
For blues-rock star Jared James Nichols, it’s all about expression – and a Les Paul is “the best tool for the job”
4 min |
April 2023
Total Guitar
"It's Obscenely Heavy and Growls Like Nothing Else!"
Al Di Meola discusses his famous Les Paul – and his friendship with the man himself
4 min |
April 2023
Guitar World
Τοm Verlaine 1949-2023
The cult hero who reconfigured guitar music and inspired generations of alternative rock bands
9 min |
May 2023
Total Guitar
"if It's the Right Les Paul, It Feels Right in Every Way"
Aerosmith legend Joe Perry plays vintage classics and his own signature models. As he puts it: “Les Paul and Gibson just hit the nail on the head”
7 min |