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“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it”: How Radiohead’s debut changed the way they thought about recording guitars – and set them up for two landmark albums

The game-changing band has just announced its first tour in seven years, alongside the release of a live album

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“Robin opened up the case, and there was a 1957 Fender Stratocaster. He said, ‘Do you like it?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘Take it’”: Robert Fripp on that one time Robin Trower gave him a highly coveted Strat – and why he never ended up using it

Fripp proves he’s Gibson (and Fernandes) through and through...

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“Joe said, ‘I love this truck. Is it for sale?’ I was like, ‘If you buy it, it's going to cost you a vintage Les Paul’”: The Imaginaries’ Shane Henry on his eye for vintage gear, recruiting Vince Gill – and trading trucks with Joe Bonamassa

From once-in-a-lifetime collaborations to buying a slew of vintage guitars and starting his own pedal company, Shane Henry is living most guitarists’ wildest dreams

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“I have long harbored a slight obsession with this hugely underrated guitar. The new finish doesn’t help with that one bit”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including... an urn that fits inside an acoustic?

A whole load of new Jacksons, Charvels, Yamahas and Gibsons headline the last seven days of guitar gear drops

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“Makes next-level Gretsch style and sound more accessible than ever”: Gretsch brings its iconic Falcon and Nashville hollowbodies to new-low price points with unveiling of the Synchromatic Collection

The guitars feature an enhanced bracing style for authentic Gretsch tones on a more manageable budget

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“I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days”: Polymath virtuoso Jacob Collier’s new album is a love letter to the guitar – and alternate tunings

When tuned to DAEAD, the songs just fall out of the guitar for the musical super-genius – and his new album The Light For Days is a vehicle for showing what the instrument can do

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“A unique and meaningful tribute to your departed loved one”: Would you keep your loved one’s cremated remains in the soundhole of an acoustic guitar?

KapSoul has unveiled an urn that you mount inside an acoustic guitar and is backed by an “Eternal Warranty”

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“He shaped the tone of his voice like a guitarist would finesse riffs and phrases”: Joe Satriani pays tribute to Chris Cornell with instrumental cover of Audioslave’s Be Yourself

The virtuoso features on the latest track from King Ultramega, a tribute project for the late Soundgarden frontman

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“Her technique is particularly difficult to replicate because she played ‘upside down’ on a guitar strung for arighty”: Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass

Foley's latest lesson unpacks the Piedmont fingerpicking style perfected by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten – and there's some Memphis Minnie, too

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“Together, our chemistry is magical”: Steve Morse has announced his first new album since leaving Deep Purple – and it’s set to feature Eric Johnson and John Petrucci

Triangulation also features Morse's son on a tribute to the guitarist’s late wife

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“Nothing’s more real than seeing your Ibanez JS guitars played by the legendary Spinal Tap”: How Joe Satriani became Spinal Tap’s unofficial guitar supplier for the loudest movie of the year

Satch and the Tap are old friends. And if you look closely, you might just catch Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins playing his Ibanez signature models in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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“A modernized take on the classic shred machine”: Charvel beckons a new era for its So-Cal Superstrat – and brings the classic Pro-Mod model into the modern era

Seymour Duncan Distortion humbuckers and Luminlay side dots deliver high-quality specs without crazy price tags

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“Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to the Ozzy legacy”: Justin Hawkins defends his brother’s comments over the VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

Yungblud starred alongside Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler for an all-star medley of Prince of Darkness tunes – which was met with derision by Dan Hawkins

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“If you have a really fast run it’s just blazing past you. But with a lovely slow melodic line, you just kind of melt into it”: Meet Still Corners, the Anglo-American duo who write Shadows-inspired dream pop while they’re watching movies

Regularly dropping into longform and instrumental pieces, you’ll hear flavors of Westerns, The Shadows and Chris Isaak as guitarist Greg Hughes sticks to one guitar with a chiming clarity

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“My grandma asked me why I was spending so much time pretending when I could just get a real guitar”: Inhaler guitarist Josh Jenkinson on how Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles’ producer expanded their sound – and why he just bought his first electric last year

Inhaler’s Josh Jenkinson is living proof that this generation’s guitar heroes actually got hooked on guitar courtesy of Guitar Hero – but he's not playing when it comes to tone and songwriting

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"It was only £45 or something, and all the other guitars were getting into the hundreds": Jimmy Page's 5 most iconic guitars, in his own words

Jimmy Page tells all, sharing the stories behind his most significant guitars – plus we tell you how to nail his iconic tone at home at various price points

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“Heavy metal and drop D is a match made in heaven”: Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple

Drop D tuning is one of the easiest alternate tunings to get to grips with. Here’s our step-by-step guide

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“I saw the message and I was like, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ He called me the next day and offered me a world tour”: How Yungblud bassist Silke Blansjaar got the gig of a lifetime – despite not playing bass

The Gibson Grabber-wielder was actually a drummer when she went from playing to a room of 100 to an arena of 6,000 overnight. She explains the golden rule of session work and why she likes to keep her rig old-fashioned

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“I grabbed his hand saying, ‘Thank you for everything.’ He goes, ‘You were the only guitar player who said no to me’”: Nuno Bettencourt remembers his final exchange with Ozzy Osbourne – a reminder of the gig he once turned down

As a 15-year-old, Bettencourt auditioned to become Randy Rhoads’ replacement. When the gig presented itself years later, he declined

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“He wanted to show me his really nice old Les Paul, and I just said, ‘I don’t like Les Pauls,’ and walked off”: When Joe Bonamassa was introduced to Joanne Shaw Taylor – who “offended” him on their first meeting

The two blues guitar greats crossed paths at a festival in 2008 – but Taylor wasn’t interested in what Bonamassa had to show her

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“I measure success by the number of knock-off clones I have – that gives me an idea as to how I’m perceived in the pedal world”: Robert Keeley on becoming one of the most imitated pedal builders in the biz – and the “smoking” drive he can't sell online

Keeley takes us behind the scenes at Keeley Electronics to discuss the evolution of a brand that brought us the industry standard compressor and some of the coolest stompboxes we've seen

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“I said, ‘That’s my music.’ His manager said, ‘You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this’”: Rita Coolidge alleges she helped write Eric Clapton’s Layla – but never got credit for it

In a resurfaced interview, Coolidge recalls the time she sought a songwriting credit for composing the song’s piano coda – but was rebuffed

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“The first gig, they handed me a mayonnaise jar full of cocaine and said, ‘Welcome to the band’”: Blues survivor Walter Trout on wild times with Canned Heat, how John Mayall helped him get sober – and his death metal tone secret

As the blues veteran releases a fiery new album, Sign of the Times, and wrestles with his new gym regimen, he checks in to talk tone and share memories of a career like no other

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“It’s clear that the pickups on this guitar are geared for the loud and lewd stuff”: Gretsch Electromatic CVT review

Gretsch revives a 1960s cult-classic, delivering sharp looks and aggressive tones at a price that’s accessible for all

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“Makes selling music gear more rewarding than ever before”: Reverb relaunches in the UK with reduced seller fees – promising players “more money for their music gear”

Musicians will now get more money for the gear they sell on the website, which also provides discounted shipping labels and UK market trend data

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