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  • Guitar News – 23 Apr 2026

    “The way my guitar looks with the circles and squares – I was trying to find my own pattern”: How Jerry Cantrell was inspired by Eddie Van Halen to create his own legendary modded guitar

    Jerry Cantrell with his modded G&L Rampage guitar on stage.

    “Angus Young plays a Gibson SG, Eddie’s got his guitar. The G&L is mine.”

    The post “The way my guitar looks with the circles and squares – I was trying to find my own pattern”: How Jerry Cantrell was inspired by Eddie Van Halen to create his own legendary modded guitar appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “Tight harmonies that can sound like two (or three!) guitars playing together”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine review

    guitarworld.com EHX shrinks another pedal as the Intelligent Harmony Machine joins the ranks of the pedalboard-friendly Pico range

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    “Absolutely essential listening for any would-be rock bass player”: How Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber galloped his way through a hard-rock classic alongside Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio

    guitarworld.com Having become disillusioned with Deep Purple’s growing love of funk, Ritchie Blackmore jumped ship in August 1975 – taking most of Purple’s opening act with him

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com

    “I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, and they gave me a guitar. It pissed me off”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player

    guitarworld.com Baxter would go on to become a bona fide guitar great, but his life might have turned out differently had he got his wish…

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com

    “If I stopped what I was doing because I was blinded by fame and money, that would be selling my soul”: Why Michael Schenker didn’t join Ozzy Osbourne’s band

    Main image shows Michael Schenker playing guitar on stage with a shocked expression on his face. A small, circular image shows Ozzy Osbourne singing.

    “I wanted to carry on doing my thing and purely self-express, and not run after a trend.”

    The post “If I stopped what I was doing because I was blinded by fame and money, that would be selling my soul”: Why Michael Schenker didn’t join Ozzy Osbourne’s band appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “Danny Gatton and Jimmy Bryant have the otherworldliness that I saw in Dimebag Darrell and Randy Rhoads”: Baroness shredder Gina Gleason on 75 years of the Fender Telecaster, the magic that binds its players, and why it works for metal

    guitarworld.com The face of Fender’s 75th Anniversary Telecaster campaign shares all about her new death metal project, recent technique breakthroughs and where she thinks the future of metal tone lies

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com

    Upgrade your in-the-box guitar rig with these sweet savings as part of Plugin Boutique’s Band Month

    AmpliTube interface, showing virtual amp and effect emulations.

    Save up to 94 percent on certain guitar plugins…

    The post Upgrade your in-the-box guitar rig with these sweet savings as part of Plugin Boutique’s Band Month appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “For those who stand at the crossroads of Hell and rock ‘n’ roll”: Jackson’s Diablo crossover Kelly is inspired by the Lord of Hatred – but you’re still going to love it

    guitarworld.com Fans begged for the Diablo Kelly to make a return after Jackson dropped a Custom Shop version in 2023

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com

    Up close with iconic guitars from Ace Frehley, Kirk Hammett, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more at Julien’s Music Icons auction

    A 1975 Les Paul Custom played by Ace Frehley. Image by Adam Gasson

    The annual sale of legendary music memorabilia takes place next month, and we got a front row seat to the most interesting and iconic guitars in the sale

    The post Up close with iconic guitars from Ace Frehley, Kirk Hammett, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more at Julien’s Music Icons auction appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind

    guitarworld.com Bettencourt rarely reposts players on his social media accounts, but this Instagram guitarist-producer has got him all worked up

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com

    “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

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

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    “We have a moral duty to the players”: Fender CEO Bud Cole on leading with responsibility

    New Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole

    “When you think about what Fender represents, 80 years of shaping music culture, being a servant leader here feels less like a style choice and more like a responsibility.”

    The post “We have a moral duty to the players”: Fender CEO Bud Cole on leading with responsibility appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    Police uncover organised crime ring targeting multiple West Coast Guitar Center stores, suspect arrested

    Guitar Center

    Employees of a pawn shop “reported a man had pawned multiple high-value instruments in quick succession”.

    The post Police uncover organised crime ring targeting multiple West Coast Guitar Center stores, suspect arrested appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.

    “I said that if we’re gonna make another Lamb of God record, it’s really gotta be worthy of being in the catalog we’ve created. That sets the bar high”: Willie Adler and Mark Morton take us inside metal’s premier riff machine

    guitarworld.com Into Oblivion finds the guitarists revisiting past chaos to inspire some of the Virginia stalwarts’ most brutal and diverse material to date

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    “I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting y’all”: Grace Bowers has quit YouTube over the number of “old ass creeps”

    guitarworld.com Bowers has also once again distanced herself from the blues, saying she wants to make music for her own generation

    Read full article on GuitarWorld.com
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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…

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