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November 29
- January 2024 Guitar Player Lesson Audio
November 28
- "You son of a b****, you're playing a Fender?" Watch Keith Richards and Les Paul jam in rare footage from 2000
- These 40 huge Black Friday and Cyber Monday guitar gear deals are still live – but they won’t be around much longer
November 27
- The most affordable way to transform your sound: Get a Cyber Monday effects pedal deal before it's too late
- "When I heard him play, it was like fire from heaven": Tributes pour in for Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker who has died, aged 64
- With up to 50% off, Musician's Friend is still offering big savings on Strats, SGs, the PRS Silver Sky and more
- “We worked out a big, long harmonized guitar solo. It’s my little homage to Thin Lizzy.” Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett on his new solo album Lost at Sea and why he's happy to not be the loudest guitarist in the room
- Fender's Cyber Monday sale has up to 50% off: Here are our favourite top 10 deals
- Fender are selling this Mini-Deluxe amp for just $25 this Cyber Monday. Yeah: $25
November 26
- The biggest, fattest, chunkiest Cyber Monday guitar amp deals: save up to $1000 on Bad Cat, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Kemper and more
November 25
- It's one of the best amps available right now: the Yamaha THR30II WL – and others in the same range – is $50 off in the Amazon Black Friday sale
- For those about to rock: we salute the Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive which has wowed lead guitarists for over 40 years with its jagged, granular tone
November 24
- My first amp was an embarrassment. My son's is the Positive Grid Spark Go and it lived up to its name: it ignited something
- “I dreamt up the Super Distortion because I wanted to improve my guitar without chiseling a hole in the body!” On its 50th anniversary, guitarist and inventor Larry DiMarzio remembers how his company changed electric guitars forever
- 6 of this year's hottest Black Friday sales for guitarists are already live
November 23
- Eddie Van Halen soloing on I Fought The Law, joined by John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams, Richie Sambora, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge and more? Watch “the greatest garage band ever assembled”...
- “I had a gold Klon but I lost it in Hurricane Katrina...” Blues supremo Eric Johanson on being both a Metallica and Jack White fanboy and why he’s into tone as much as music
- “I have a few guitars but if I don’t play them for a while, I punish myself by giving them away. It’s not fair to have a guitar in a lockup…” The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne on songwriting and the “solo-shy” James Honeyman-Scott
November 21
- Sweetwater hits Black Friday gold with the biggest savings we’ve seen so far – up to 75% off guitar gear
November 20
- "There's your Top Gun theme!" How Steve Stevens' appearance on Harold Faltermeyer's iconic movie theme was all thanks to Billy Idol
- Get a year's worth of expert guitar lessons for just $99 with Guitar Tricks - plus $321 worth of extras
- The mission: create a better kind of S-style guitar. Joe Knaggs on the inspiration behind his stunning hardtail-bridge-toting Severn Trem SSS
- The best Black Friday Gibson deal so far? Get a massive $700 off the highly-rated Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro V
November 19
- From playing fiddle on street corners during the Great Depression to becoming one of the biggest Telecaster heroes of the 20th century – here's why you should immerse yourself in Jimmy Bryant's Country Cabin Blues…
November 18
- “One of the most seamless, natural and organic-sounding solid-state pedals we’ve ever played”: Crank it up to 11 with Dinosaural’s award-winning three-channel Cogmeister Overdrive
November 17
- Sound better now with the 2023 Ultimate Gear Guide
- ‘‘Creating dreamy sounds that were once only possible in world-class recording studios…’’ The new award-winning range of stompboxes from Universal Audio will blow your mind
November 16
- Watch Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather & Billy Sheehan cover Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles at a 1996 ALS Benefit Concert for Jason Becker
- I've scouted out all 99 pages of the Guitar Center Black Friday sale - here are 5 guitar bargains I'm considering
- Pink Floyd didn't mean anything to him, he told Thin Lizzy he wouldn't jump around onstage and he once had an accidental top 10 hit: The career of Snowy White, rock's easiest-going guitar hero, in five songs
November 14
- Steve Lukather: "I realized it was okay to play a bad note when I saw Larry Carlton six years ago. He broke his E string, and everybody was like 'Oh, no.' Then he took his clippers and clipped off the B and G strings and played a killer solo!"
November 13
- "The keyboard player said ‘Why are you just hitting random chords?’ I said, ‘You never know, I might get lucky!'" How Loverboy's Paul Dean wrote Working For The Weekend
November 12
- "A streamlined hard-charging beast": the Peavey HP 2 Poplar Burl RM reviewed
November 11
- Plastic-free and fully FSC-certified, with a hemp gig bag, the Martin OM Biosphere must be one of the greenest guitars ever – but is it any good?
November 10
- "This is what separates the pros from the Joes…" Gary Hoey's top five tips for guitarists (and a bonus tip from Steve Morse)
- GP Presents Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel with GA-20, November 13 in San Francisco – win tickets!
- Select Fender Player Strats have up to $210 off at Guitar Center until November 15 – these are the models we love
- "Eminently playable and fiercely versatile": the Yamaha Revstar Professional RSP02T reviewed
November 9
- "Every kid who picks up a guitar wants to be Keith Richards, right?" How Andrew Watt kicked Keef and Mick Jagger "up the ass in the studio," connected the Stones back to Muddy Waters, and recruited Paul McCartney for a punky cameo on the band's new album
- Get the most raved-about and lusted-after pedals of 2023: right now the UAFX pedal range is up to $80 off
November 8
- Adrian Belew recounts his audition with Frank Zappa: "We sat on his purple couch. I placed my Pignose amplifier face down on it so I could get a little bit of sustain... At the end of it, he reached out his hand and said, ‘You got the job’"
- Billy Gibbons: “We went to the second change, but Lightnin’ was still in the first... Our bassist said, ‘Lightnin’, that’s where the second change is supposed to be, isn’t it?' Lightnin’ said, ‘Lightnin’ change when Lightnin’ want to change!’”
- Holiday 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio
November 7
- David Bowie: "I've only ever showed one person how to play Rebel Rebel properly. I was downstairs in a hotel and there was some guy playing guitar – dreadful metal stuff. He started playing Rebel Rebel. I went stomping upstairs, and it was John McEnroe”
- Buy An Eligible Taylor Acoustic From Guitar Center And Bag A BT1 Or GS Mini From Just $99 - Plus Our Top Taylor Recommendations
November 6
- Sharon Isbin: "The ability to improvise is something that is a part of all of us, but when it’s developed to the fullest in artists like Steve Morse or Steve Vai, who can just create music on the spot, it’s truly something to marvel at"
November 3
- With up to 40% off popular brands, Musician's Friend proves it's pointless waiting until Black Friday to buy a guitar
- I write about guitar gear for a living - here are my Top 5 bargains from the Guitar Center Holiday Sale
- Get ahead of the Black Friday game with a $70 saving on Positive Grid's Spark 40 and 60% off BIAS software
- Has Fender just dropped the best early Black Friday sale for guitarists? Bag up to 30% off in their Holiday Sale
November 2
- Sweetwater’s epic early Black Friday Sale has up to 70% reductions on guitar gear – these are our top picks
- "For slide, I've always used a glass Coricidin bottle, like Duane Allman. He told me that a bottle sounds different than a steel slide, so I copied him": Gary Rossington on the gear – and unlikely household tool – that inspired Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird