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THRILL OF THE HUNT

On Dripfield, jam-band breakouts Goose let their muse lead them outside their comfort zone. Says guitarist Rick Mitarotonda, \"We chase what we hear.\"

TIP SHEET

These are the habits that have made Steve Howe a stylistic and technical virtuoso.

GARY ROSSINGTON 1951-2023

The survivor of the infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, who helmed the band for a further three decades and gave countless gunslingers their start, has died aged 71

SOUND AND VISION

Timeless in tone and style yet built with advanced lutherie techniques, Furch Guitars deserves your serious attention. We travel to the Czech Republic to find out more…

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?

HÖFNER S7L

How a little known and short-lived guitar from Höfner found its way into the hands of The Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell around the time of the band’s hit Golden Brown

DAVID LINDLEY 1944-2023

Remembering maxi-instrumentalist slide guitar master David Lindley, who died at the age of 78 after a long illness

Made To Measure

Most of us are happy with off-the-shelf guitar designs, but there’s nothing quite like ordering up your own custom-made guitar. We ask Maybury Guitars to build us one!

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

UNFORGETTABLE

With Dirty, Malina Moye leaves an indelible record of her singular style.

Sound Check With Leo

Acoustic icon Leo Kottke offers insights as he finds his sound at Sweetwater Music Hall.

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.

INFINITE HORIZON

Patch Rubin coaxes a dimensional acoustic voice from his superbly crafted Wide Sky Guitars P125C electric.

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.

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.

TAYLOR

American Dream Grand Theater AD11E-SB

TWA

SH9 Scott Henderson Signature Distortion

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

Small Size, Big Tone

The mini-humbucker deserves better than also-ran status as Gibson’s ‘other’ pickup, writes Jamie Dickson

SCOTT HOLIDAY

The Rival Sons guitarist on bad trades, stolen Strats and why character beats pedigree every time

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

Cloud Nine

Strymon gives the BigSky Cloud algorithm its own pedal as the first in a new, more compact series

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

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.

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.

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.