FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Guitar world | History Defined

Joe Bonamassa explains how “hiding” your guitar pick can make you a more expressive player: “You can start with rock and end with B.B. King”

Want to find your voice? Switch up your pick attack and put some character into your phrasing

Guitar World · Sep 3

"The sounds here are absolutely the cream of the crop": Eventide H9 Harmonizer Gen 2 review

With world-class, studio-grade algorithms in a pedalboard-friendly chassis, Eventide's new multi-FX is built to handle any style or genre

Guitar World · Sep 3

“After I stopped touring with Ian Brown, people would ask him, ‘Where’s that Asian Jimi Hendrix that plays with you?’” From the Stone Roses to Paul Weller, poverty to ’59 Les Pauls, Aziz Ibraham shares his remarkable story

The Manchester-born guitarist and composer landed his dream gig with The Stone Roses in 1996, then everything changed

Guitar World · Sep 3

IK Multimedia’s touchscreen TONEX Board is its most ambitious modeler to date – and it’s biting at the heels of its biggest rivals

The sub-$1k modeler puts the entire TONEX ecosystem into one pedal and looks like a dangerous competitor

Guitar World · Sep 3

Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s first joint studio album is finally coming out: “We’ve been planning this since 1973”

The Sea of Emotion will arrive before the year is out

Guitar World · Sep 2

Green Day, Rancid and Blink-182 members celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary with a set at a cemetery

Newly formed supergroup Cretin Family featured Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, and late-era Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone – and blazed through Ramones hits and deep cuts

Guitar World · Sep 2

If you learn one thing from Angus Young it should be this

For those about to solo, you’ll be thunderstruck with the AC/DC guitar legend’s whole lotta use of open strings

Guitar World · Sep 2

Phil X on the time his pedals died moments before opening for Steel Panther: “Guys, we don’t have overdrive tonight”

The guitarist was going through a battery phase when a forgetful tech left him in the lurch

Guitar World · Sep 2

Gibson recreates Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates Les Paul – and you’ll have to meet the ZZ Top legend in person if you want one

30 painstaking replicas are being sold exclusively through a private event at Gibson Garage Nashville

Guitar World · Sep 2

“On a couple of gigs we had Eddie Van Halen playing with us. He said, ‘I can't play on that!’ I said, ‘Yes, you can!’” Albert Lee is the legendary British picker who found his home in country music – and made guitar heroes quake in their boots

The icon of rock and country guitar tells all: what it was like performing alongside Eric Clapton and George Harrison, how he inspired Jimmy Page and why he hates distortion

Guitar World · Sep 2