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“It's an amp for when you feel the need to give the FOH sound engineer a nervous breakdown”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

New releases from Marshall, Harley Benton, Gibson and more…

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“One of the rarest and most revered hard rock icons”: Gibson has revived one of the most sought-after guitars it has ever produced

Originally crafted for the 1972 Olympic Games, Schenker’s black-and-white version quickly became the stuff of folklore

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“It holds a special place in Gibson history. As one of our earliest limited-edition instruments, it helped establish a lasting legacy within hard rock guitar culture”: Gibson unveils Custom Shop reissue of a Michael Schenker and Kirk Hammett favourite

They only made 350 of them back in the day but the 1971 Flying Medallion takes flight once more with a stunning VOS reissue

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“Die-hards will be saying, ‘That’s not a Les Paul!’ But playing and living with an LP of this weight is simply a pleasure”: Gibson Les Paul Studio Double Trouble review

Gibson brings the Double Trouble treatment to a lower price-point with a weight-relieved Studio version. Forskint rockers everywhere, it’s time to rejoice!

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“I bought a tiger-stripe Les Paul and started playing it on stage. I broke the neck, got it back and it sounded better. Then I was even more attached to it!” Kirk Hammett on Gibsons, the magic of Greeny and why he thinks the age of active pickups is over

The Metallica lead guitarist discusses Peter Green's influence, the magic of a Gibson P.A.F. pickup, and how owning Greeny has been a life-changing experience

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“We left the track and went back out on the road. Two weeks later I hear it on the radio. I said, ‘No, that was just a demo!’ They said, ‘No, it’s a hit’”: Why Keith Richards never wanted anyone to hear his Satisfaction guitar riff

Turns out, Otis Redding's rendition was the right one all along…

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“I knew the guitar was valuable, but this was before Slash blew up, so nobody really wanted Les Pauls. They all wanted Charvels”: Billy Duffy on his greatest guitar deals – and the one he regrets selling to Bob Rock

The Cult six-stringer looks back on Les Pauls loved and lost, plus the latest and greatest from his mostly back-to-basics rig

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“The wood is only wood until it arrives in a master’s hands”: Eric Church teams up with Epiphone for the Hummingbird Dark – and toasts this sweet collab with a whiskey finished in toasted maple from Gibson offcuts

Strum a few chords on his Cobra Burst acoustic, followed by a shot of Tonewood Vol 1... Now that's a night in

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"It's not the norm, but maybe it should be": Gibson Les Paul Special with Mini Humbuckers review

Trading the usual P90s for Mini Humbuckers, this Les Paul Special is bound to raise a few eyebrows with a different sound for a classic guitar

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“One day I was in an elevator with Miles Davis and he said, ‘Hey, do you got a wah wah yet?’ ‘No, I don’t play a wah wah.’ He says, ‘You gotta get a wah wah!’”: Carlos Santana on Miles and McLaughlin, Hendrix and SRV, and his quest for eternal melody

“I wanted my guitar to sound like a female – like the voice of my favourite singers”

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Epiphone’s Eric Church signature Hummingbird Dark comes with a whiskey made using Gibson tonewood offcuts

Church’s signature acoustic has been launched alongside a unique pairing

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“It was kind of a wild idea in 1960 to call a guitar a Hummingbird. As wild as calling your band TheBeatles”: How Gibson became an icon of acoustic guitar – 100 years on from its first flat-top

Gibson’s Mat Koehler charts a century of flat-tops – and how the J-45, SJ-200, Dove and Hummingbird took over the world

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“I’d been using Marshall for so long that I’d never listened to anything else. I never gave anything else ashot”: Slash on what made him finally change up his sound – and why we’re living through a renaissance for blues guitar

With his live album and concert film out now, Slash explains why he's still got the blues and that ain't bad

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“I’m probably gonna get 150 guitarists telling me how I’m doing this wrong, but this is just what works for me. My ’board is a hot mess”: Samantha Fish on finally meeting her fans’ demands and why the SG is the one

With a new live album out now, we sat down with the blues-rock fireball to hear about the gear and attitudethat fuels her stage performances

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“It could give my Quad Cortex mini a run for its money”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

Vote for your favorite new release in Guitar World's weekly guitar gear poll

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“I felt kind of bad about it because I should have paid a fair price”: Kirk Hammett felt so guilty about buying Neal Schon's Les Paul on the cheap that he called him to ask if he wanted it back

Some might have thought that this was the bargain of a lifetime, a Factory Black '57 Les Paul with P-90s, and it was. And that was the problem

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Gibson gives the Les Paul a Fender twist with the Long Scale Custom

Gibson has matched Fender's favorite scale length with an extended Les Paul that boasts a 25.5" setup

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“Alex said, ‘I don’t want to play my double-neck – it’s too heavy.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He lent me his white Gibson EDS-1275 for Stairway”: How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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An EHX take on a cult Albini-approved fuzz-stortion, a single-pickup PRS, the triumphant return of Squier’s Paranormal series and more! It’s MusicRadar’s epic monthly guitar gear round-up, the June '26 edit

Guitar gear worth a pay day blow-out, ft. metal-friendly signature guitars from PRS and Jackson, the return of Squier's Paranormal series and more Inspired By Gibson Custom Epiphone models

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"A big part of the appeal is the build quality, which truly stands out at this price point": Gretsch Electromatic Premier Jet review

Is Gretsch's new attempt at a Les Paul killer the perfect blend of features and single-cut affordability?

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“He has poured his passion, creativity, and relentless commitment into Gibson”: Cesar Gueikian steps down as Gibson CEO after three years

Gueikian refocused company on its core market: guitars

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My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

My personal highlights from a week that brought us a single-pickup PRS for Jon Jourdan, Eventide's next-gen H9, and more. Have a highlight of your own? Let us know in the comments

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“Jack had this roaring, growling thing that would start at the bottom and twine all the way up. I’d never heard bass like it”: A guide to the basses, amps, and signature tone of Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady

From his early-‘60s Jazz Bass to a Flying V, Jack Casady was among the first to embrace custom bass builds – and it changed his tone forever

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“Very few people know these exist, and this one may be the only surviving version that is fully intact”: A 1960 Les Paul Custom in Cherry? This vintage stunner was once owned by Neal Schon – and it might well be a true unicorn

It may look like a ‘70s survivor, but this Les Paul Custom is one of six from a limited 1960 run

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“Every detail of this series reflects Kramer at its best”: Kramer goes for gold with its 50th Anniversary collection

The ’80s shred classics are back – as streamlined as ever – and sporting golden limited-edition colorways.

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