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  • Guitar News – 01 May 2026

    “The guitar is so much more personal”: Former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford on why he’d always pick a good guitar over a good amp

    Marc Ford performing live

    “You’re physically touching the thing… it becomes a part of you.”

    The post “The guitar is so much more personal”: Former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford on why he’d always pick a good guitar over a good amp appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “He would put a lot of treble on his amp to get the sound he wanted out of Lucille. Working and being in his presence was magical”: Jerry Jemmott on playing bass with B.B. King

    guitarworld.com When Jemmott was drafted to play on the Live & Well sessions in 1969, he would find himself in awe of the King, and joined a band that would produce three albums’ worth of material

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    “He’s like, ‘Where did you find that? Our storage unit’s been broken into. Everything’s been cleared out’” Korn bassist Ra Díaz recovers 15 bass guitars that were stolen from him – thanks to community effort

    guitarworld.com A musician in Henderson, Nevada, spotted some of Díaz’s instruments at a local music store

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    “The next thing you know I’m a full-time mechanic”: Rob Dukes reflects on his 2014 Exodus firing

    Rob Dukes performing live with Exodus

    “I’m a f**king master welder now! I just love making stuff out of metal.”

    The post “The next thing you know I’m a full-time mechanic”: Rob Dukes reflects on his 2014 Exodus firing appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    Klang Guitars DC review: an aluminium neck guitar for the masses?

    Klang Guitars DC, photo by Adam Gasson

    Aluminium-necked guitars have been a niche, expensive curios since Travis Bean popularised the concept in the 70s – but now Klang Guitars is here to make them more accessible than ever

    The post Klang Guitars DC review: an aluminium neck guitar for the masses? appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “We were falling about the studio floor laughing when I was playing. People started coming into the control room, like, ‘What is going on with these three guys? It’s an absolute racket!’”Meet High Fade, the Scottish funk-punk heroes we need right now

    guitarworld.com They’ve terrorized Nashville – now the Scottish funk-rockers are taking second album Twice As Nice to the streets. Guitarist Harry Valentino tells us of a riotous studio experience

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    “It’s going to piss off anyone drilling their sweep picking, but it’s brittle and human and alive in a way that I adore”: April 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

    guitarworld.com Fresh new cuts from all corners of the guitar world courtesy of Muse, Arlo Parks, Jack White, Ed O’Brien, Weezer, Periphery, and more…

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    “It’s never really about the gear itself. It’s just a tool for unlocking an idea”: American Football’s slow-burning debut album was originally dismissed. Four records in, they’re glad that’s how it went

    guitarworld.com Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Nate Kinsella explain the art of making songs sound simple when they’re actually complex and deep, and reflect on how they learned to do it so well

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    David Allan Coe, the outlaw country legend who played with Dimebag Darrell and gave Warren Haynes his break, has died, aged 86

    guitarworld.com Coe scored hits with You Never Even Called Me by My Name and The Ride, and stood alongside Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson in the outlaw wing of country music

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    Richie Sambora reveals he hired a private detective to track down his stolen Gibson Explorer

    Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi performing live

    The Bon Jovi guitarist was reunited with his stolen ‘76 Explorer earlier this year.

    The post Richie Sambora reveals he hired a private detective to track down his stolen Gibson Explorer appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “She put it under her bed and didn’t play it for 60 years. When I got it, it still had the original strings on it”: Why telling your guitar’s backstory could help it sell for more money

    guitarworld.com Reverb’s Cyril Nigg offers some sage advice for selling your guitar, and it’s just like Joe Bonamassa says: “I don’t buy guitars, I buy stories”

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    “I used it in the Damned, playing with Iggy… That guitar was part of me”: The Damned frontman Brian James’ ‘New Rose’ Gibson SG sells for over $95,000

    guitarworld.com The Gibson SG that put UK punk on the map smashed its pre-auction estimates – as did James’ hand-written lyrics

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Latest Music Gear Reviews

Our music gear reviews are moulded from first-hand experience and are written by experienced performers and musicians. The result? A true-life account of the quality and level of the items in question. We basically want to share the things we love with you, and the things we think you will find most useful in your musical journey and for whatever level you may be currently at.

Boss TU-3 Tuner Pedal – Is It Still The Benchmark Tuner?

The Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal is the standard torch-bearer when it comes to compact-size digital tuners. Since Boss introduced the first digital tuning pedals in the early 1980s, they have been seen as the benchmark for the devices, and with good reason. Anyone who has owned a Boss stomp pedal will attest that the…

Who is Rick Beato?

‘Everything Music’ is the simple tag line on both Rick Beato’s YouTube channel and website, and in terms of what he offers, it’s pretty on point. But who is Rick Beato? Who is Rick Beato? A quick google shows I’m not the first to ask the question. However, a scan of the results seems to…

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