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Fender and Brad Paisley introduce the Custom Shop 1967 ‘Lost Paisley’ Telecaster
By Jonathan Horsley published
This limited edition Tele resurrects a unicorn finish and applies it to a top-tier vintage build featuring Seymour Duncan pickups and Glaser G Bender

Steven Wilson reveals the $20 plugin he used for all the guitars on his new space rock epic
By Jonathan Horsley published
And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

Nail the sound of a holy grail tube amp with a pedal you made yourself
By Jonathan Horsley published
Megabucks tube amp tones beloved by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Carlos Santana in a stompbox you assemble yourself? No wonder the first batch sold out within a day

“Then it’s how you smack it, or zing it or strum it”: Guitar legend Michael Thompson talks clean tone
By Daniel Griffiths published
In a new video Thompson tells the backstory of his playing for NSYNC, All-4-One, Monica, Gloria Estefan and more.

"This is a guitar that proves affordability can still bring looks that stun": Gretsch G5230T Electromatic Sparkle Jet FT review
By Pete Emery published
Gretsch makes a few tweaks to the G5230T to bring us a variation with more than a little sparkle

“That feel is something you can’t teach": Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her slide guitar style
By Ben Rogerson published
“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” she says

Magic Mike Dawes has turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius
By Jonathan Horsley published
Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

How Rush marshalled Alex Lifeson’s dreams to write a bona-fide prog-rock classic
By Jonathan Horsley published
A tour-de-force of instrumental prog, La Villa Strangiato is the sound of Rush at the height of their powers, and this is how the Hemispheres epic came together
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