Matt BlackettSocial Links Navigation Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1“It’s always been important for my guitar to sound similar to my voice.” Warren Haynes tells us why he chose P90s for his new signature Gibson Les Paul Standard — and reveals the secret behind its new “tonal options” switch2"It made me think and play differently, and it sounded great. But there were limitations.” Alex Lifeson explains how modding his Stratocaster led him to create one of his most iconic guitars 3“I was looking in the pages of guitar magazines, and I thought, ‘Oh, man, one day, I want to have one!’” Steve Stevens tells how Paul Stanley helped launch him on his way to become a Hamer signature artist in the 1980s4"No one can do this with me as well as he can.” Alex Van Halen enlists Steve Lukather to help create a new Van Halen album from Eddie Van Halen's demos 5“You can't look over and be, 'Omigod! I'm playing with Jimmy Page!'” Twenty-five years after Page and the Black Crowes joined forces, Rich Robinson explains the group’s split with the legend as an expanded ‘Live at the Greek’ arrives