Guitarist - May 2023

In this issue

Tones Behind The Tracks.

Historic Hardware: Hugh Cornwell’s Höfner S7L.

Epiphone 1958 Korina Explorer & Flying V..

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 mins

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!

9 mins

Small Size, Big Tone

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

4 mins

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

3 mins

DAVID LINDLEY 1944-2023

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

3 mins

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

6 mins

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+ mins

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+ mins

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 mins

Cloud Nine

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

5 mins

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…

10 mins

SCOTT HOLIDAY

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

5 mins

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