Guitar

A rock legend checks in, and one question hangs in the air like a recently twanged E chord. What has made Bryan Adams so joyful that he titled his new album So Happy It Hurts?. Just a few moments into our conversation and the reason for the pure unbridled joy relating to the new record becomes perfectly clear. Having been off the road for the longest time since he turned professional, Bryan Adams’ time in the solitary confinement imposed by the pandemic is drawing to a close and a world tour is in the offing once again.

With British Invasion record producer Shel Talmy, we unpack the legacy of the Creation. A fractious, brilliant band, who in Phillips had a guitar player with a groundbreaking style. 1989, I sat with legendary British Invasion record producer Shel Talmy in his Hollywood Hills home. We were talking about all...

Noel Gallagher’s guitar that was damaged backstage at an Oasis concert and culminated in the band breaking up has sold for €385,500 (£325,000) at an auction in Paris. The red Gibson was broken at the French capital’s Rock en Seine festival in 2009 towards the end of the band’s year-long Dig Out Your Soul global tour.

Noel Gallagher’s once-prized Gibson ES-355 – the electric guitar reportedly behind the break-up of Oasis – has sold for €385,500 (approximately $403,254) after it was put up for auction last month. The Bigsby-equipped beauty sold for less than what the auction host, Artpèges Gallery, had anticipated,...

Michael Weatherly, the former NCIS star and Gibbs’ right-hand man, introduced a new song he’s creating to his 467,000 followers on social media. He can work full-time on music, if he wants, considering that Bull, is ending its series run this month. And he’s long gone from NCIS, although fans want him back, now that he has some free time.

Ricky Gardiner, a guitarist popularly known for previously collaborating with two of the most significant musicians of all time, Iggy Pop and David Bowie, has passed away at the age of 73. The rock legend confirmed the tragic news on Twitter, writing, "Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your...

Known for his wide-ranging collaborations, LA jazz outsider Sam Gendel’s latest finds uninhibited common ground with his partner’s little sister, Antonia Cytrynowicz

AOR icons Journey are gearing up for the release of new album Freedom this summer, and now you can check out the third single to be taken from the record, Let It Rain. The song follows on the heels of The Way We Used To Be and You Got The Best Of Me.

Staggering as it might seem, it was 40 years ago that a heart-wrenching tragedy claimed one of rock’s finest guitarists. His name? Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne’s brilliant guitarist, who was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida, on March 19, 1982, at age 25. In the space...

Gojira have announced that guitarist Christian Andreu has left their current tour, and confirmed who his replacement is going to be for the time being. The French metal group is currently on the road with Deftones and have eight shows left before the run wraps up. Fret not, all is...

All woods on this variation of the Special Semi-Hollow come straight from the Private Stock Vault, including the maple top, Black Limba back and neck, and ziricote fretboard. Last year, PRS reintroduced the Special Semi-Hollow electric guitar to its US-built Core lineup. Now, the company has created a truly stunning,...

Ernie Ball Music Man has updated its Jason Richardson signature Cutlass electric guitar with two striking new finishes. Along with the previously available Natural and Rorschach Red finishes, Richardson's signature guitar – both the six- and seven-string versions – is now available in Majora Purple and limited-edition Empress White colorways.

Ricky Gardiner, a guitarist for Iggy Pop and David Bowie, has died. Iggy Pop and producer Tony Visconti shared the news on social media on Monday (May 16), with the former writing, “Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your coveralls, nicest guy who ever played guitar. Thanks for the memories and the songs, rest eternal in peace.” A cause of death was not disclosed, but Gardiner’s longtime friend Visconti noted that the guitarist had been living with Parkinson’s disease. Ricky Gardiner was 73 years old.

Watch: Liam Payne Hints at a Possible One Direction Reunion. Once a Directioner, always a Directioner. Harry Styles told Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview how he has much respect and love he has for his One Direction bandmates—Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan—even seven years after they disbanded. The "As It Was" singer said he couldn't have navigated fame without them.

The guitars – sporting grand auditorium-, dreadnought- and parlor-style bodies – feature Sonitone EQ systems, ovangkol fingerboards and weight-relieving open-pore finishes. Cort has expanded its Core Series of acoustic guitars with three new acoustic electric models, the Core GA-Blackwood, Core-DC Mahogany, and Core-PE Mahogany. Retaining the Core Series...

A guitar belonging to Noel Gallagher that was damaged backstage at an Oasis concert has been sold for €385,500 (£325,000) at a Paris auction.The red Gibson ES-355 was broken during a row between Noel and his brother Liam at Paris’s Rock en Seine festival in 2009.The guitar, said by Noel to be his favourite, had been featured for the first time in the “Stand By Me” music video from the acclaimed Be HereNow album, released in 1997.Jonathan Berg, a guitar expert and co-founder of the Artpèges gallery that held the auction, said the instrument was symbolic of “a cult...

From smokin’ hot solid body electrics to natural wood acoustic guitars and fun instruments like lyres and ukuleles, Donner has a wide selection of instruments – all at great prices. The guitars even come with cases, straps, and everything an aspiring player needs to get started. Thank you...

Carl Barât has issued an appeal after two of his guitars were stolen ahead of a rehearsal with Dirty Pretty Things. The Libertines man took to Twitter today (May 18) to share photos of the two instruments and ask fans to keep an eye out and “spread the word”. His appeal was also shared on The Libertines’ account.

“We’ll find a house and garden somewhere / Along a country road a piece,” Joni Mitchell sang on 1975’s ‘Harry’s House/Centerpiece’. “A little cottage on the outskirts / Where we can really find release.” The Laurel Canyon icon’s experimental song, mixing jazz and folk, might have referred to a piece of real estate, but for Harry Styles – whose third album takes its title from the Mitchell track – home is a figurative place.

This V65V is far from shabby, even though that’s what the finish suggests. Boutique in style, budget in price? We’d say so. Dave Burrluck is one of the world’s most experienced guitar journalists, who started writing back in the '80s for International Musician and Recording World, co-founded The Guitar Magazine and has been the Gear Reviews Editor of Guitarist magazine for the past two decades. Along the way, Dave has been the sole author of The PRS Guitar Book and The Player's Guide to Guitar Maintenance as well as contributing to numerous other books on the electric guitar. Dave is an active gigging and recording musician and still finds time to make, repair and mod guitars, not least for Guitarist’s The Mod Squad.