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- Guitar News – 14 May 2026
First a Godzilla Strat, now a PAC-MAN Tele…
Fender has teamed up with Bandai Namco to celebrate 45 years of the beloved arcade game, PAC-MAN.
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“I walked in at about 2pm and George Harrison and Kim Basinger were there hanging out. I noticed this little guy wearing leather gloves and a hooded surfer’s sweater”: Slash on that time he was invited to play on a Bob Dylan record
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Not only did Slash walk into a room full of legends, but Dylan also asked him to rip out a solo à la Django Reinhardt…
“They’ve been stuck in London customs for a month”: Paul McCartney’s guitars allegedly held up in England ahead of major Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibition
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The seven guitars, which are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s “Paul McCartney and Wings” exhibition, are central to the showcase, which opens in two days
“The thing was beat to shit”: The time My Chemical Romance’s Ray Toro got to play one of Jimi Hendrix’s Strats
![Ray Toro playing a Les Paul on stage in 2011 [main]. Jimi Hendrix captured playing his Strat [inset].](https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ray-toro-mcr-jimi-hendrix@2000x1500.jpg)
“Live, I’m still a Les Paul guy, but playing Jimi Hendrix’s Strat really got me interested in Strats and other guitars…”
The post “The thing was beat to shit”: The time My Chemical Romance’s Ray Toro got to play one of Jimi Hendrix’s Strats appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
Eastwood Guitars unveils an Angine de Poitrine-inspired double neck guitar/bass – polka-dots not included
It boasts 38 frets on its guitar neck, coming in at 24.75” in scale, while the bass neck has 28 frets and sits at 30.5”.
The post Eastwood Guitars unveils an Angine de Poitrine-inspired double neck guitar/bass – polka-dots not included appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
Megadeth drummer says Dave Mustaine “invented thrash metal”
![[L-R] Dirk Verbeuren and Dave Mustaine](https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dave-Mustaine-Dirk@2000x1500.jpg)
Dirk Verbeuren calls Dave Mustaine the “ultimate rock god”.
The post Megadeth drummer says Dave Mustaine “invented thrash metal” appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
“I’ve sat down with other guitarists – you just end up playing blues licks all day and not writing anything. But we went to work straight away”: Richie Kotzen and Adrian Smith on absurd volume, improv and how long a solo should be
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We meet Smith and Kotzen pre-show totalk gear, their new album Black Light/White Noise, and find a pair whose chemistry makes this a hard-rock project with legs
“For the most part, people seem to really like it… others have been very vocal about hating it”: The making of the Telecasso – the Telecaster-Picasso mashup that has driven guitarists crazy
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Les Godfrey has been crafting guitars for over 30 years, and with his latest creation, he brings a Cubist take to a timeless model
EarthQuaker Devices CEO says the brand has spent “more than $100k in tariffs since April 2025”
“That’s money that could have gone toward good jobs for Ohioans and provided our team with more resources to innovate,” says Julie Robbins.
The post EarthQuaker Devices CEO says the brand has spent “more than $100k in tariffs since April 2025” appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
“Chaka Khan decided to fire the whole band – I don’t know why. But the week after she fired us, Prince called”: How Andrew Gouche rose from playing church halls to become the guru of gospel bass with Prince
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Gouche met Prince in 2011 while leading Chaka Khan’s band
Gretsch is metal now? Legendary guitar maker unveils two new baritone models begging for downtuned riffs
The new Electromatic Jet and CVT Baritone models come with longer scale lengths, and are fully capable of heavy metal carnage, as demonstrated by Loathe guitarist Erik Bickerstaffe.
The post Gretsch is metal now? Legendary guitar maker unveils two new baritone models begging for downtuned riffs appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
“It was just in my closet, and one day I pulled it out, turned it on, and thought, ‘Wow… this is a sound that I’ve been missing’”: How Mike Campbell ended up reconnecting with a classic piece of Heartbreakers gear
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Turns out, the missing piece of his ideal tone was closer than he thought…
“I saw a line of people wrapped way down the block. I thought maybe Bill Clinton was in town, but it was for our show”: Rogers Stevens on how a young Blind Melon made it big with No Rain
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Channeling Dickey Betts and using different gear paid off for the band in 1992. But it wouldn’t have happened if their label hadn’t been so supportive, the guitarist says
“I bent up from the 21st fret and broke the first string – I played the rest of the solo without it”: Hidden for four decades, the story behind the (almost) unheard outro solo on John Farnham’s smash hit, You’re the Voice
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Celtic rock bagpipe phrasing, THAT blazing arpeggio and a crazy bend that broke a string – learn how Brett Garsed played his solo in this exclusive feature
“If you had a big carrier bag, you could put the body in the bag and have the neck go up your arm”: How a prolific guitar thief stole 50 headless bass guitars in the ’90s
Guy Pratt is still on the look out for his missing Steinberger headless bass…
The post “If you had a big carrier bag, you could put the body in the bag and have the neck go up your arm”: How a prolific guitar thief stole 50 headless bass guitars in the ’90s appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
This is how your guitar’s truss rod actually works – and here’s what you’re doing wrong with it
It’s one of the most important components of your guitar, but do you actually know what it does, and what you need to do with it to keep your instrument playing perfectly?
The post This is how your guitar’s truss rod actually works – and here’s what you’re doing wrong with it appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
“None of it sat well with him. The further we went into rock, the less he liked it”: When the Eagles’ founding guitarist knew it was time to leave
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Bernie Leadon left the band amid a changing lineup and creative differences
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