Fender Stratocaster
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Fender 70th Anniversary Ultra Stratocaster HSS review
By Art Thompson published
Graced with a stunning, sports car-like finish, this guitar is a versatile salute to the genius of Leo Fender

Watch John Mayer play Jeff Beck’s custom Strat during Dead & Company’s The Sphere residency
By Phil Weller published
Fans had theorized that the reverse headstock-equipped white Strat was a custom build saluting one of Mayer's heroes, but Joe Bonamassa has confirmed that the guitar is the real deal

Adrian Belew on the time Seymour Duncan set fire to his Strat – and inadvertently created the first relic’d guitar
By Phil Weller published
Belew had sought the expertise of his friend Seymour Duncan to fix his “ugly-ass guitar” – but he didn’t expect his trigger-happy solution

Ritchie Blackmore's first Strat came from Eric Clapton's collection
By Phil Weller published
Blackmore might be a Stratocaster icon now, but if it wasn’t for a bargain deal courtesy of Eric Clapton’s roadie, he may never have been

Walter Trout comes to the defense of CBS Strats
By Phil Weller published
The blues great has championed his “off the shelf” 1973 Strat, which inspired the development of his Delaney Guitars signature model

“I picked up my Fender and thought, ‘How the hell did I ever play this?’”: Jeff Beck once said “there was no turning back” to the Strat – here's why he eventually did just that
By Jackson Maxwell published
Never one to creatively and sonically stand still, Beck – just as he had with the Strat – eventually grew dissatisfied with what he saw as the Les Paul's limitations

"We Set up in a Circle, Just Like We Did Onstage, Put Mics on Everything and Ran Through the Songs a Couple of Times": Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton Tell the Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Game-Changing Debut Album, ‘Texas Flood’
By Mark McStea published
Faced with a choice between David Bowie and his own band, Stevie Ray Vaughan took a bet on the blues and unleashed one of the greatest blues-rock albums ever made

"The Whole Song Turned Into Kind of a Guitar Dialogue Back and Forth": Watch Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton's Infamous ‘Guitar Duel’
By Scott Rowley published
Video “Duel? It was more of a guitar conversation – with a lot of passion,” said Robertson
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