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“We can create sound with more freedom, while maintaining the original quality”: What is BOSS Waza Craft? The Japanese effects giant’s boutique range explained

If classic tones with custom voicings and enhanced functionality is what you’re after, in a package that’s built to the highest possible quality, Waza Craft is for you

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“Eddie Van Halen influenced me both in sounds and vocabulary”: Matteo Mancuso pays tribute to one of his heroes with EVH-inspired You Really Got Me cover

The Sicilian six-string sorcerer returned for a knockout TV appearance, and tipped his hat to Van Halen with the help of an orchestra

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“I loved Hendrix – he was my first guitar hero... But seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan was transcendent. He made me understand Hendrix better”: Mike McCready says SRV helped him make sense of this Hendrix technique

“When he [Vaughan] did Voodoo Child, it was so bad-ass," McCready says. “He changed how I wanted to play, and if you listen to Even Flow, you can hear me trying to emulate his stuff”

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BOSS celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a collectible supplement in the new issue of Guitarist magazine – plus a special interactive online timeline

Filled with iconic effects, amps and guitar synth innovations from BOSS's past and present

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From Holy Grail to dodo: how the legendary SynthAxe went from being "the future of the electric guitar" to "way beyond what most guitarists could comprehend"

But if you own this rare and mythical musical instrument beast, then the drinks are on you…

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Geordie Walker, Killing Joke’s pioneering guitarist and co-founder, dies aged 64

Guitarist joined the band in 1979 and, along with frontman Jaz Coleman, was their only sole constant member

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“Please tell me that’s the new Epiphone headstock in general”: The Epiphone Greeny Les Paul is nearly here – and guitarists are losing their minds over the headstock

Kirk Hammett and Cesar Gueikian have both teased the new model, offering glimpses of a build that looks much more faithful to Gibson’s own design

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Epiphone Greeny Les Paul breaks cover early: Kirk Hammett and Gibson CEO have been filmed playing it

Hammett used in onstage with Metallica in Detroit while Cesar Gueikian jams Metallica riffs on the soon-to-be-announced model in his office

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“Billy Gibbons brought some off-brand amp simulator to the studio. We heard him playing through this thing and it was like, ‘Wow! It sounds like f**kin’ Billy Gibbons!’” Troy Van Leeuwen might have just proven beyond doubt that tone truly is in the hands

The Queens of the Stone Age guitarist recalls a studio visit from the ZZ Top icon, and in doing so provides yet more evidence in favor of the ‘tone is in the hands’ argument

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“A lot of people told me when I was coming up, ‘Jared, you’re not going to be a professional guitar player unless you use a guitar pick:” Watch Jared James Nichols deliver a masterclass in fingerstyle blues

Nichols once told us his guitar style was like wrestling a bear but there’s more than raw-meat physicality to his playing as he demonstrates how his creativity is set free by fingerstyle

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Bernie Marsden guitar auction delayed following guitar hero’s death

Gardiner Houlgate has announced it will hold off on the sale for “an appropriate period” as a mark of respect to the late influential guitarist

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“As I came off the stage I said ‘How much do you want for it?' He wanted the princely sum of 600 pounds”: Bernie Marsden plays the blues on “The Beast,” his legendary 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, and reveals its origin story

Gary Moore was in awe of its tone, and Jeff Beck played Scatterbrain on it... Here, the late blues-rock guitar titan tells the story of the most famous six-string in his collection

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Bernie Marsden, former Whitesnake guitarist and giant of blues-rock guitar, has died

Co-writer of Here I Go Again, Marsden leaves behind a profound legacy following a lauded career, and was “writing and recording new songs until the end”

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Gibson’s Mat Koehler says he rates this guitar among the most “beautiful designs ever to come out of Kalamazoo” – and it’s an Epiphone

“Clearly positioned as the pinnacle flat-top that Gibson made” – the acoustic guitar now has a modern equivalent that Koehler reckons punches well above its weight

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Tom Morello breaks out the Takamine and joins the Hollywood picket line as he plays Woody Guthrie for striking union members

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist dropped by earlier this week to play a short set to support striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members

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The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson dies, aged 80

Best known for his work with the Band, Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, Robertson passed away after a long illness

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“On a quick trip to interview Paul Reed Smith I was told we were going to the White House so I’d better pack a suit”: Celebrating 500 issues of Guitarist, one of the world’s greatest guitar magazines

From playing Eric Clapton’s Strats to narrowly avoiding knocking out Slash, Guitarist editors past and present share their favourite – and sometimes most embarrassing – memories of working for the esteemed UK publication

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Gary Moore classic interview: "Obviously I don’t play the same way, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a guitar I could sit here and probably get closer than anybody else"

In 1995 Guitarist magazine met Moore as he prepared to release his album of Peter Green songs

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Hear Rory Gallagher's iconic live rigs in action in this in-depth exploration of the guitar legend's gear collection

Trace the history of Gallagher's legendary sound through the decades with help from his famed '61 Strat, original Vox AC30, pedalboard and more

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Barry Cadogan plays Rory Gallagher's iconic guitar and amp rigs – including that '61 Strat!

The Little Barrie man proves a wonderful choice to demo the late blues legend's gear

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Myles Kennedy bought his first PRS guitar after he borrowed one at a gig and accidentally ruined it

The Alter Bridge frontman still uses the red PRS McCarty to this day, proving it wasn’t such a bad move

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Pete Thorn explains why mistakes are part of Jimmy Page’s magic

Though Page's production prowess and legendary chops are usually the focus of praise, Thorn gave credit to a more human aspect of the Led Zeppelin legend's playing

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Steve Lukather voices support for the ‘tone is in the hands’ camp: “There’s no magic guitar, just magic people”

The Toto hero says he's played through both Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck's rigs, and came to the same conclusion both times: he sounds like himself no matter what he plays through

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Yes, it’s really happening: PRS has unveiled Myles Kennedy’s long-awaited T-type signature guitar, and it’s a beauty

At long last, the Alter Bridge guitarist’s hotly anticipated Tele-a-like has become a reality – and it's joined by a standard-run NF 53

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Run out of ideas? Try Scott Holiday's 'mind eraser' songwriting method

Sometimes it's the simplest fixes that yield the greatest results

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