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I'M 100 PERCENT HAPPY WITH THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH PINK FLOYD. BUT...'MY FOCUS IS DIFFERENT RIGHT NOW'

Leading a rock group and being a solo artist were \"not what I asked for,\" David Gilmour says. For Luck and Strange, he assembled a team that shared the weight of his creative efforts. The result? \"The best album I've made since The Dark Side of the Moon.\"

DOUG GILLARD IS INDISPENSABLE

His six-string genius has proved vital to the music of Guided by Voices, Nada Surf and other indie-rock favorites. But all he really wants is to make good music.

MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS

Joe Walsh's Jazzmaster, Billy Cobham's bass line... As Bush head out on tour, Gavin Rossdale reveals the history behind a handful of their best tunes

TIPSHEET

We asked Brian Ray for his advice on playing Beatles tunes. After all, he learned from the best.

TRANSCENDENTAL MAN

Luther Dickinson interpreted a priceless work of art in music. In the process, the blues guitarist wrote his own next chapter.

MASTER OF HIS OWN JOURNEY

For more than 50 years, David Lindley graced albums and concert stages with his singular talent on a vast range of stringed instruments. In this Guitar Player exclusive, his musical friends — including Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and Bonnie Raitt - pay tribute to an original.

Dobro 101

A look at the iconic bluegrass slide box.

CERTIFIED GREATNESS

Fingerstyle master Tommy Emmanuel combines unique musical instincts and breathtaking technique to become an acoustic tour de force.

Sol Salvation

The genius of Sol Hoopii is preserved in 16 timeless cuts on Master of the Hawaiian Guitar.

Pickup Artist

With its Wide Range humbuckers, the 1970s Fender Telecaster Thinline scores better than most of its contemporaries.

MADE IN THE SHADE

The Gibson Custom Shop created just 59 examples of the Jason Isbell \"Red Eye\" 1959 Les Paul Standard. We got our hands on one of them.

MAN AT WORK

A juke joint just wasn't in the cards. So Cedric Burnside turned the old building into a studio for his hardcore blues workout, Hill Country Love.

PRS

PREVIOUSLY PART OF PRS's Maryland-built guitar line, the SE NF3 was recently reissued in the company's offshore-produced SE series. The SE NF3 is so named for its Narrowfield Deep Dish (a.k.a. DD) \"S\" pickups. These unique PRS-design units have deeper bobbins to accommodate more windings and extra metal pieces between the magnets to yield a more powerful \"single-coil\" tone, while remaining noise-free because they are in fact humbuckers. A control set consisting of master volume, tone and a five-way blade switch allows the usual selections of bridge, middle and neck pickups by themselves and the neck-plus-middle and bridge-plus-middle combinations that allow the SE NF3 to veer into Strat-like territory in switch positions two and four.

EPIPHONE

Inspired by Gibson Custom 1963 Firebird V and 1959 ES-355

THE BEAT GOES ON

Together with Tony Levin, Adrian Belew and Steve Vai join forces for a Robert Fripp-endorsed revival of King Crimson's groundbreaking 1980s music.

Live with Blak Aaron

The rhythmic sounds of international guitarist Blake Aaron's accompanied by Will Donato's melodic sounds on saxophone under the direction of the musical director and bassist John Dillard and his band mesmerized their Middle C Jazz audiences in the Queen City of Charlotte, North Carolina on August 16, 2024.

Dan Seigal Unity

When my publisher of Smooth Jazz Magazine asked me to do a review, I was initially hesitant as I am in deep preparation and learning with The Second Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninoff...

The Building of a Legacy - MARCUS ANDERSON

The musical presence and footprint of jazz fusion artist Marcus Anderson is being felt in places that perhaps only few have reached.

Bob Holz Night Watch

Renowned jazz fusion composer and drummer Bob Holz brings us his seventh album, “Nightwatch.”

PAT TRAVERS

The Canadian-born virtuoso discusses the rise and fall of the Pat Travers Band, witnessing the U.K. punk revolution and the riotous roots of \"Snortin' Whiskey\"

In the Studio with Anthrax

SCOTT IAN AND JONATHAN DONAIS: \"WE WANT THIS NEW RECORD TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE\"

Danelectro Doubleneck

WHEN I THINK back to the Seventies, the famously coined “Me” decade, it seems the only surefire way you could leave audiences awestruck was to strap on a doubleneck guitar.

CARLOS ALOMAR

The former David Bowie guitarist talks Young Americans, Station to Station and the Berlin Trilogy, plus recording (and co-writing) \"Fame\" with John Lennon

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!

In the Seventies, the guitar didn’t just come of age — it took over the music world. Welcome to the creation of heavy metal, Southern rock, glam, punk, funk, AOR, prog and a million, billion other genres!

In the Studio with Anthrax

SCOTT IAN AND JONATHAN DONAIS: \"WE WANT THIS NEW RECORD TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE\"

DEWAYNE "BLACKBYRD" MCKNIGHT

The jazz/funk/fusion veteran on his smooth segue from Herbie Hancock sideman to full-on Funkdaledic member -plus his '70s gear and what he learned from Shuggie Otis

DAZED and CONFUSED

Providing more hits and misses than a vintage K-Tel Top 40 compilation, the guitar industry during the '70s was anything but boring

TC Electronic TC 2290P Dynamic Digital Delay

THE MID EIGHTIES was a golden age for digital delay, thanks to the proliferation of pro- and studio-quality rack effects units from Eventide, Korg, Lexicon, Roland and Yamaha.

BEST SOLOS, 70S RIFFS and FORGOTTEN HEROES

A horde of guitar stars including Warren Haynes. Doug Aldrich, Sophie Lloyd, Frank Marino. Vernon Reid and Mike Campbell (not to mention Blackbyrd McKnight, Jared James Nichols. Steve Lukather, Steve Morse and Charlie Starr) choose the best stuff from the '70s

DAZED and CONFUSED

Providing more hits and misses than a vintage K-Tel Top 40 compilation, the guitar industry during the '70s was anything but boring