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“At home, you’re tempted to go over the top with everything. ‘Maybe if we put on another double guitar part – that’ll fix it.’ You can spend forever making a song worse”: Paul Gilbert on how the original POTUS's words opened new frontiers for his guitar

The shred titan's new LP, WROC, combines words from George Washington with incendiary rock and super-sized melodies. Oh, and he had weird AI experiences along the way. We'll let Gilbert explain all...

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“I never heard from John. He sold the guitar once he got out of rehab. And that was that – I never saw it again”: The incredible story of the Les Paul that Dave Navarro bought for his Guns N’ Roses audition – and ended up giving to John Frusciante

We ask Navarro about the Gibson that featured on the cover of GW's March ’96 issue, and it opens up a whole lot of memories for the former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist

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"Will it knock your socks off? For some, absolutely, but for me, I find it works admirably in a cranked rig and stacks nicely with other gain pedals": Warm Audio Tube Squealer overdrive pedal review

Warm Audio’s latest overdrive machine serves up the three greatest hits of the 'Green Screamer' overdrive in one stompbox

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“I knew I couldn’t take a ‘56 Junior and butcher the nut to put on the super fat strings that I would need for these low tunings”: Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string

Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...

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“Playing with John is always a university of learning and experimenting”: John Mayer and Isaiah Sharkey impress at record-breaking concert – and Sharkey’s in-development signature Ibanez was along for the ride

The guitar is one of two in-the-works signature models, and it starred during the largest ticketed single concert in US history

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“An instrument that actually solves the problems holding guitarists back”: Ibanez and Bernth team up for a classy high-performance signature electric that makes you play “faster” and “cleaner”

Is this the guitar that makes you a better player? The Austrian virtuoso believes it will, and it’s got multi-voice signature Fishmans that give you more core tones than you have days in the week

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“It came from how much timber had been taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: What's the secret behind the tone of Jimmy Page's legendary “Number One” Les Paul? Bare Knuckle founder Tim Mills had the chance to examine it and found out

Mills had the opportunity to analyze the highly-coveted guitar after Page sent the guitar to his workshop just before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion

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“Most of the tone came from how much timber had taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: Bare Knuckle supremo Tim Mills reveals the tone secrets of Jimmy Page’s legendary ‘Number One’ Les Paul Standard

Mills was living the dream when he was asked to give Page's 1959 Les Paul an MOT before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion gig

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“Brands are making these guitars, but it’s just a model in a lineup. Others make guitars without headstocks – we make headless guitars”: Ola Strandberg ushered in a new era of headless guitars – but no-one is doing it like his own company

Ibanez, Kiesel, Schecter and more have all upped their headless guitar game in recent years, but Strandberg’s approach is unique

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“I was very inspired by my Ibanez sister and the way she approaches her songwriting and her chords”: Nita Strauss reveals how Yvette Young inspired one of her favorite riffs she’s ever written

Strauss demonstrates a tapping and hammer-on/pull-off-heavy riff that featured on her 2023 album, The Call of the Void

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“I told Ibanez, ‘You make wonderful instruments, but you have nothing original.’ They said, ‘That’s why we’re here’”: How George Benson helped take Ibanez to the next level in the late-’70s

With multiple Ibanez signature guitars under his belt, the Breezin' guitarist shares the story of how his relationship with the Japanese guitar brand came about

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Did Tim Henson just tease the arrival of his first Japanese-made Ibanez signature guitars – and a new 8-string?

The Polyphia guitarist debuted a new white colorway on both a six– and 8-string Ibanez TOD builds –and now fans are speculating about the prospect of a Prestige line

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“Completely shatters the expectations for a guitar geared toward modern metal”: PRS SE Mark Holcomb SVN review

The Periphery guitarist’s signature model gives lovers of the low-end great specs and playability at a lower cost. We find out if it’s more than just a djent machine.

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“Jack loved that a kid like me, with a blue mohawk and plaid guitar, was making the songs my own – playing Cream and doing divebombs in the corner”: Blues Saraceno toured with Clapton’s Cream bandmates, recorded for Cher and had a bumpy ride with Poison

The ‘kid who replaced Clapton’ as a teenager and landed a double-salary stint with Poison moved into TV, movies and videogame soundtracks – and doesn’t plan to come back

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Watch Marty Friedman, Kiko Loureiro and Dave Mustaine rehearse for one of the summer’s biggest festival sets in new Megadeth behind-the-scenes footage

See the ensemble run through sections of their four-song setlist – complete with an up-close view of Friedman's absurd solo powers

Guitar World

Nita Strauss: "A guitar solo is a way for the guitarist to tell a chapter of the song's story. That dictates my approach, rather than, 'Here's a bunch of cool notes'"

The Ibanez signature shredder on reuniting with Alice Cooper for her latest single, how working with singers made her a less selfish musician, and why people got her departure from Cooper's band so wrong

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Tottenham first half player ratings vs Roma: Doherty, Dier and attack struggle but Sanchez decent

Here are our first half ratings from Tottenham Hotspur's pre-season friendly against Jose Mourinho's Roma in Israel on Saturday evening

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