Tom Poak
Tom Poak has written for the Hull Daily Mail, Esquire, The Big Issue, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and more. In a writing career that has spanned decades, he has interviewed Brian May, Brian Cant, and cadged a light off Brian Molko. He has stood on a glacier with Thunder, in a forest by a fjord with Ozzy and Slash, and on the roof of the Houses of Parliament with Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham (until some nice men with guns came and told them to get down). He has drank with Shane MacGowan, mortally offended Lightning Seed Ian Broudie and been asked if he was homeless by Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch.
Latest articles by Tom Poak
Watch the Yacht Rock doc on Max for 70% off this Black Friday
By Tom Poak published
A deal mightier than Kilimanjaro rising like Olympus above the Serengeti,
The most affordable way to transform your sound: Get a Cyber Monday effects pedal deal before it's too late
By Tom Poak published
The clock is tick-tick-ticking and the deals are almost over: check out these deals on some of the coolest pedals around while you still can…
"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
By Tom Poak published
Tributes posted for pioneering Killing Joke guitarist Kevin 'Geordie' Walker, whose fans included Nirvana, Metallica and Jimmy Page
Fender are selling this Mini-Deluxe amp for just $25 this Cyber Monday. Yeah: $25
By Tom Poak published
This Fender Mini Deluxe is half price – it's cute, it's fun, you could hang it from your Christmas tree, stick in a stocking, or just use it as the coolest desk accessory around
The biggest, fattest, chunkiest Cyber Monday guitar amp deals: save up to $1000 on Bad Cat, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Kemper and more
By Tom Poak published
Here be monsters: There are some huge savings on heavyweight guitar amps this Cyber Monday. Here are the deals that are still live…
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
By Tom Poak published
Amazon has just slashed the price of the Yamaha THR series: THR10II, THR10II WL, and THR30II WL
"Wait a minute – that's the guy that plays guitar with his teeth!" Watch the new official mini-documentary that captures the seven crazy nights the Jimi Hendrix Experience spent opening for the Monkees
By Tom Poak published
Experience Hendrix has made a short documentary with archive interviews with Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding and Micky Dolenz about the Jimi Hendrix Experience's explosive few gigs with the Monkees
“It wouldn’t have worked!” Keith Richards on why Jeff Beck wasn’t the right fit for the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney’s bass carnage – and why his 5-string Telecaster works
By Tom Poak published
In a new interview in the latest Guitar Player, Keith Richards opens up about Charlie Watts, Jeff Beck, playing with McCartney and this theory on why his 5-string Telecaster works
The Coolest Headphones? Marshall. And this Cyber Monday There Are Deals Galore
By Tom Poak published
Check out the best bargains on Marshall's iconic range of speakers and headphones
Here Are The Best Bargains in Thomann's Cyber Week Sale – but Hurry Because It Ends Tomorrow
By Tom Poak published
If you live in the UK or Europe, it's your last chance to check out the Thomann sale, with up to 60% off a huge range of gear
Get 50% Off Line 6 Plug-Ins Right Now in Sweetwater's Black Friday Sale
By Tom Poak published
Save $200 on Line 6 Helix Native plus more half-price bargains on Metallurgy, Echo Farm 3 and Amp Farm plug-ins
What's This? Oh, Nothing, Just Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Blasting Through Jimi's "Red House" on the Roof of Hendrix's Last-Known House
By Tom Poak last updated
JIMI AT 80 Jimi Hendrix would have been 80 this week. Kingfish celebrates the occasion in style in this exclusive video
By June 1971, Fleetwood Mac Had Lost Two Guitarists. Watch Them Debut the New Guy on German TV...
By Tom Poak last updated
VIDEO Peter Green cracked up. Jeremy Spencer joined a cult. But for a little while it looked like Bob Welch might actually do just fine.
Like this Bob Weir guitar? It could be yours (if you have over $250k to spare)
By Tom Poak published
Do you have a spare quarter of a mill for this gorgeous Dead & Company guitar?
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