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“A good guitar solo should sound like an orgasm. I can hear it in Eddie Van Halen’s playing, and Jimi Hendrix. I live for the juicy notes”: Carlos Santana on playing like a soul singer and his visitations from B.B. King, Miles Davis and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Single-cuts are like merlot, solos are like grapefruit… the inimitable, peerless Carlos Santana shares stories from his legendary career and insights from the cosmos

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"The true star here is the pickup configuration": PRS SE Studio review

Modern electrics can be criticized for trying to be all things to all people, but the SE Studio may just be one of the few to pull it off

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“Watching Tony Iommi play Iron Man to demo his signature pickup in person was a borderline biblical experience”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – and is that a new Epiphone double-neck?

New launches from Boss, PRS, Fender and Third Man Hardware headline the biggest guitar gear drops this week

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“Your guitar playing was on point”: 10-year-old guitar prodigy backed by Kiko Loureiro nails Joan Jett classic during America’s Got Talent quarter final

After a stunning audition, the “mini rock star” is back with a new guitar and some feisty playing

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“My guitar was slightly out.Steve Vai walked past and said,‘Your low E was four cents flat.’And he’d been in the green room!” Meet Derek Day, the swaggering virtuoso who went from busking on the streets to touring with his hero

The 24-year-old explains how he merges prog and glam, and escapes the “originality ordeal” of an ancient instrument by hopping between Fender, Gibson, PRS and Ibanez (even if he prefers to write on cheap knock-offs)

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“It seems the age of touchscreen guitar amps is advancing faster than I ever imagined”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the return of my favorite Fender offset

The guitar amp of the future, more passengers on the PRS party train, and Squier’s newest Classic Vibe collection – all that and more headline this week’s gear round-up

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“Each guitar includes a 40th-anniversary certificate hand-signed byPaul Reed Smith”: PRS swaps maple for mango to give its flagship Custom 24 an eye-popping satin nitro makeover

The Mango tops on the Custom 24 Satin are exquisite, but they’re only making 500 of ‘em

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Your guide to John Mayer's guitar gear, era by era

We take a head count of the six-string sensualist's most significant guitars, amps and pedalboard rigs

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“One of my favorite signature guitars of all time just got a standard run release, and Gretsch has not disappointed”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a pedal that will solve all your Mk.gee tone troubles

Mk.gee's tone in a box? Noel Gallagher's mystery Oasis reunion Les Paul? Fender's answer to its boutique rivals? All that and more dropped this week...

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“With the middle pickup from the Modern Eagle V added to the mix, you can easily dial in the classic scooped tones”: PRS promises spanky Strat-esque tones and a lot more from its limited run PRS CE 24 Special

The CE 24 bolt-on gets an HSH refresh and a serious tone power-up, presenting itself as another play-anything high-end build from PRS – but they’re only making 1,500 of them!

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“Three guitars with pretty much the same sonic range: which is best? Well, that could lead to quite a discussion”: PRS Special Semi-Hollow, S2 Special Semi-Hollow and SE Special Semi-Hollow review

Along with its 40th Anniversary specials, PRS is cranking out the new releases, including three-pickup Special Semi-Hollow models in the S2and SE line. We compare them with the Core version

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"I've never played a PRS Silver Sky but that might be about to change": All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and I've just solved a problem I didn't even know I had

My favorite Silver Sky finish to date has been launched alongside new gear from Blackstar, Kiesel, Epiphone and more

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“You could argue that the pickups are the most important thing. But in the end, there’s nothing more important on the guitar than this”: Paul Reed Smith on a guitar's most crucial feature – and how it dictates your tone

Forget pickups and the weight of a guitar – this is where tone really starts, according to Smith

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“These are time-tested hues that have been popular through decades”: John Mayer’s PRS SE Silver Sky Rosewood gets a refresh with four all-new solid-colour finishes “inspired by traditional American fashion”

Could Dandy Lion could be this year's Roxy Pink? The SE Silver Sky Maple also gets a makeover, with Moon White, Stone Blue, Summit Purple and Nylon Blue expanding your finish options

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“Four new colors inspired by traditional American fashion”: PRS and John Mayer unveil fresh finishes for the best-selling SE Silver Sky – and add new Maple models

The classic looks expand the Strat-inspired guitar’s empire, while previously rosewood-exclusive finishes make their way onto maple ’board models

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“It’s that Rolling Stones thing – using two guitars to make one part bigger. We’re aiming to sound more like one-and-a-half players than two!” Too rock for country and too country for rock, Morganway are an old-school guitar duo in the best way

Husband and wife Kieran Morgan and SJ Mortimer are inspired by Queen, Fleetwood Mac and boygenius in equal measure – and their guitar approach leans into the classic rock guitar pairings

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“If you listen to Summer Nights, the Van Halen tune, that’s a headless guitar. It sounded fantastic”: Could PRS ever make a headless guitar?

Strandberg, Ibanez and Schecter have all been flying the flag for headless designs – could PRS be next?

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“Impressive value for guitarists seeking rich clean/overdrive tones and timeless distortion tones”: PRS Archon Classic Head review

The PRS Archon Classic runs the gamut from crystal cleans to classic crunch and hot-rodded high gain

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“Martin and Taylor, watch out. There’s a new small-bodied build on the block”: This is all the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and I think I've been convinced to finally go wireless

All-new drops from PRS, Furch, Victory and more

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“He called me and said, ‘Paul! Paul! I need your help. Eddie’s coming up”: Paul Reed Smith on the time Kramer asked him to build a guitar for Eddie Van Halen

Smith was asked what he would have made if Van Halen had ever asked for a PRS guitar – but it turned out to be something of a trick question

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“I’m not a collector. I get guitars, but I give them away. Guitars are like human beings – if you don’t play them, they get sick”: Why John McLaughlin still regrets giving up some vintage guitars – including a '67 Strat gifted to Jeff Beck

Plus: why he loves his latest PRS

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“This guitar is my new gold standard for tone and playability”: Mark Holcomb’s US-made signature PRS is back for good – and it has a figured mango top and ships in a chug-friendly Drop C tuning

Equipped with the Periphery guitarist's signature Seymour Duncan humbuckers, this is a PRS tooled up for low-end progressive metal riff work

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“We have to ask: canthe electric guitar get any better?” With 40 years of groundbreaking luthierie behind it, the limited PRS Charcoal Phoenix is deserving of its mythical status

One of PRS Guitars’ 40th Anniversary special editions, limited to 150 units, this is the one Paul himself plays, and it’s perched at the summit of our wishlist

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“I didn’t know John had a pink one coming out, so it looked like John had given me a pink guitar and I’d relic’d it. People were mad”: Zach Myers’ heavy relic’d PRS John Mayer Silver Sky has given him so much grief he might burn it

Myers got the jump on PRS when he started playing a relic'd pink Silver Sky – before the official Roxy Pink version came out

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“The wood buyers didn’t think we would be able to use it. I went, ‘Oh no, that's going to turn into a ridiculous color’”: PRS turned unwanted wood into some of its best guitar finishes – including the one found on Paul Reed Smith’s go-to guitar

Emerald Green and Charcoal – two of the firm’s most eye-popping offerings – were stumbled upon by accident

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