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Did Greta Van Fleet Break Up or Tease New Music? The Hidden Clue Fans Think Everyone Missed

Greta Van Fleet's cryptic social media post has sparked speculation of a breakup, leaving fans confused and concerned. The band has not confirmed any split.

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"Thanks for the wild ride." Greta Van Fleet share cryptic social media post and some fans think they've broken up

It's confusing

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“He let me into the basement with all his secret stuff and he had 10 Dumbles down there. It was the biggest collection I’ve ever seen in person!” Jake Kiszka on the time he went shopping for the world’s most expensive guitar amp in Japan

And it was then when the Greta Van Fleet guitarist realised that the über-rare holy grail tube amp was still a little steep for his liking...

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“The owner saw something in me. He said, ‘You know what? Just pay me back for it later’”: Jake Kiszka on the time he walked out of Chicago Music Exchange with a $25,000 guitar – which would become his Number 1 SG

The Greta Van Fleet guitar hero looks back on how he first crossed paths with the guitar he affectionately calls The Beloved

Guitar World

“It was a $25,000 guitar. He said, ‘Just pay me back for it later, when you can afford it.’ And I did!”: How Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka met the Beloved – the ’61 Gibson SG Les Paul that became his talisman

With Gibson releasing a signature model inspired by his SG, Kiszka explains how he found his dream guitar – and admits he is a dangerous man to take guitar shopping

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“It might be the cleanest SG I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s dream guitar material”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a new accessory that could change the game for guitar swaps

New drops from Gibson, PRS, John Page, Strymon and more...

Guitar World

“A lightning bolt just hit me from above. I really did feel like this was sort of a divine intervention. It was everything that I was looking for”: Gibson unveils signature SG for Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka

The Greta Van Fleet guitarist's signature SG is based on his battle-scarred '61 Les Paul SG and comes with an extra backplate signed and stamped by Kiszka

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“The neck is as thin as Gibson could go without the liability of it snapping”: Jake Kiszka talks us through his new Gibson SG signature, a devilishly thin-necked beast built to galvanize the next generation of rock kids

The Greta Van Fleet and Mirador guitarist gets a loving tribute to The Beloved with his first-ever signature model

Guitar World

Alien-shred, Brit-rock royalty, one blues icon and a hardcore superstar: here are Guitar World's Guitarists of the Year 2025

All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their shoulder to the evolutionary wheel of guitar playing

Guitar World

Greta Van Fleet rocker Jake Kiskza calls for more experimentation in contemporary rock

Jake Kiszka believes more experimentation is needed in modern rock music.

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"You ready?" Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka's new band Mirador play London for the first time and there's a lot of screaming

What happened when Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin’s maverick blues project Mirador played London on their first UK tour

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“The director said, ‘I’m looking for a young, hip rock ‘n’ roll band like Greta Van Fleet.’ And the producer’s like, ‘Well, I know someone…’” How Greta Van Fleet ended up in the new Bruce Springsteen biopic

You may spot two Kiszka brothers alongside Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Guitar World

"Are they gonna think I'm Beelzebub taking their precious baby away, breaking their hearts and defiling him?": What happened when Greta Van Fleet's guitarist got himself a new band

When the worlds of Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka and alt.folkie Chris Turpin collided, it was musical love at first sight. After a whirlwind romance, new project Mirador was born

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“The scrutiny we were under lent itself to the atmosphere of the record. We really had to come out swinging”: Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin on conjuring old-school guitar magic for Mirador’s debut – and the difference between US and UK guitar players

The Greta Van Fleet x Ida Mae collab is a 21st-century exercise in rock classicism, bringing the ancient and the modern together, using high volume to bind, and to relieve some of the pressure, too

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Motörhead: 50 Years Louder - A celebration, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Robert Plant, Terry Reid, Grand Funk Railroad, Luke Morley, Spinal Tap, George Harrison, W.A.S.P, Vernon Reid and more

Guitar World

“I may have swiped that guitar from underneath him”: Jake Kiszka once came close to finding an equal for his famed Number One Gibson SG – but his Mirador bandmate ‘stole’ it from him

The two guitarists have shared their tales of looking for great-sounding 1961 SGs – and they’ve gone to great lengths to find them

Guitar World

“The band is called Guitar – that’s the pitch. Why are you still standing here?”: August 2025 Guitar World Editors' Picks

With killer cuts from Deftones, Lorna Shore, Big Thief, Young Dervish, Paco Peña, and many more, there was plenty of guitar greatness to pick from this month

Guitar World

“The thing is, Jake doesn't appreciate how spectacularly special that is”: When Chris Turpin started playing with Jake Kiszka, the Greta Van Fleet guitarist's live rig surprised him

Turpin's new Mirador bandmate doesn’t like relying on pedals for his sound

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“Our producer had a Marshall Lead that had been modded by Dumble. He paid him with a Nutribullet”: When Dave Cobb traded a blender for the services of a legendary amp modder, he found the sound for Mirador’s blockbuster debut

According to Chris Turpin – who used the amp on his new album with Jake Kiszka – Cobb acquired the mod in exchange for a $80 kitchen gadget

Guitar World

“Each guitar has the Mirador logo inlaid in abalone pearl”: Mirador's Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin show us their custom one-of-one Martin acoustics

Kiszka and Turpin’s 12-fretters are stunning – and they sound as good as they look as the Mirador pair demo them exclusively for GW

Guitar World

“I was side of stage, watching Jake with his ‘number one’ SG. It was a crazy, spiritual experience. I hadn’t heard a guitar player like that before”: Chris Turpin on teaming up with Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka for Mirador and the unplanned magic of rock

The Ida Mae guitarist isn't even sure what to call Mirador, but with some tone mojo from cranked half-stacks and Jake Kiszka’s raw, effervescent energy, they've got something good going on

Guitar World

“I thought maybe we’d have 2,000 people show up early, but our first performance was for 10,000 people. I was shocked”: Jake Kiszka on Mirador, his hard-riffing collab with blues brother Chris Turpin – and what it means for Greta Van Fleet

Weaned on the blues, raised on rock 'n' roll, Kiszka and Ida Mae's Turpin bring their kindred spirit to bear on Mirador's breathtaking debut album. Kiszka reveals how it all went down

Guitar World

“I just had a feeling. I didn't even play it properly. It had one dodgy jack lead, and I squeaked out two chords on it and I thought, ‘This is the guitar for this project’”: How Chris Turpin found the perfect foil for Jake Kiszka’s Number One Gibson SG

The Ida Mae and Greta Van Fleet guitarists came together and bonded over a shared love of the blues to form their new band, Mirador

Guitar World

“There were a lot of things I wish I had done with Greta that if I could go back in time and do differently, I would”: Jake Kiszka’s Greta Van Fleet journey so far has been an astounding success – but there are some things he’d change about it

Kiszka looks back on GVF’s early days while looking ahead to the future with his brand-new project, Mirador

Guitar World

Jake Kiszka is a classic rock guitar powerhouse – learn how he crafts his no-holds-barred rhythm and lead parts

It's time to dig out the SG and fire up the Marshall, we're going to unpack the Greta Van Fleet guitarist's signature style

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