Eric Gales, one of the greatest electric guitar players on the planet, reveals he actually prefers playing acoustic

No guitar quite embodies the devil may care attitude of rock n roll quite like the Gibson Les Paul. In the right hands, the Les Paul is a formidable weapon against dull, lifeless music, with just one strike of a distorted A chord enough to make other genres cower in fear. With that in mind, It's not hard to see why numerous players aspire to one day own their very own LP, with this legendary guitar becoming somewhat of a dream axe for many.

A 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard that spent 25 years gathering dust in a closet has been sold to Joe Bonamassa in a deal reported to be worth more than £150,000 (approx. $190,000). The owner, an unnamed UK resident, was entrusted with the guitar from her father who reportedly...

The 2022 Eurovision Song Contest took place in Turin, Italy this weekend (May 14), and the evening’s performances served up a number of high-profile guitar moments. Most notable was the success of UK entry Sam Ryder – a TikTok star and lifelong Eurovision fan who was inspired to learn guitar after watching Lordi win the contest in 2006. His ’70s rock-tinged entry, Space Man, featured a Brian May-inspired guitar solo at its climax and came second in the overall rankings after winning the judge’s vote.

The Black Keys released their 11th studio album Dropout Boogie on Friday (May 13), and now you can hear one of the record’s highlights – a new track featuring Billy F Gibbons, called Good Love. It’s an insouciant, shuffling blues rocker, full of woozy rhythms and slicing little...

Eric Clapton has tested positive for Covid-19, a statement posted to his official Facebook page has announced. The positive result means the blues guitarist has been forced to postpone two shows scheduled to take place this week at the Hallenstadion, Zurich (May 17) and Mediolanum Forum near Milan (May 18).

Too $hort has worked with a score of legendary producers throughout his almost 40-year career, from Jermaine Dupri and Lil Jon to Daz Dillinger and DJ Pooh. But one big-name beatsmith he passed up the opportunity to work with was Kanye West. During a recent interview with VladTV, the Bay...

Andrew Woolfolk, popularly known for being Earth, Wind & Fire's longtime saxophonist, has passed away at the age of 71; what was his cause of death?. Fellow bandmate Philip Bailey took to Instagram to confirm the tragic news and recalled their early years, saying they met in High School and quickly became friends and bandmates.

The repeats here work great with guitar, and this is an excellent pedal in its own right, chock-full of gorgeous vintage-style echo variations. The Foxgear T7E Baby is designed as a direct emulation of a Binson Echorec, the Italian echo unit that used a rotating magnetic drum rather than tape. Among others, the Binson range included the Echorec Baby and the T7E Echorec 2, which was used by David Gilmour from 1968 up to 1977.

Tilbrook and Difford fold under GW readers’ line of inquiry and reveal their biggest gear splurges, most embarrassing moments, and cast a critical ear across their catalog. Can you tell us what kind of guitars you started on, and what your first "big splurge" instruments were? – Bill Jacoby.

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...

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...

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,...

Blackstar has introduced its all-new St. James family of contemporary guitar amps – a range of combos, cabs and heads that the company says comprises “the lightest 50-watt valve amps on Earth”. For an overview, the St. James range has been debuted with a pair of two-channel...

Dany Villarreal is the lead guitar powerhouse for The Warning – a Mexican rock trio that features Villarreal alongside her two sisters, drummer Paulina and bassist Alejandra. After spending much of their combined childhoods developing a love of their respective instruments through the Rock Band video game, the three siblings later honed their crafts and established The Warning in 2013.

All of us pedal hounds at one point or another have craved getting our hands on a vintage 1970s-era Space Echo unit. Now, thanks to NUX, you can get all the classic sound of the legendary effect, with updated features and minus the hefty price tag, with the company’s new NDD-7 Tape Echo pedal – a floor-based reverb/delay pedal.

The returning guitar hero offers his wisdom from a career of era-defining playing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers – and reveals how to become the player you always wanted to be... When Total Guitar spent the best part of two hours talking to returning Red Hot Chili Peppers...

The Discovery won’t suit tap tempo freaks but it can hold its own in the ‘analog delay with modulation’ genre, with sounds ranging from pseudo 'verb and slapback to rhythmic and spacey repeats. It may have been seen as old and tired technology when digital delay was...

As far back as the 1950s, guitarists such as Link Wray, Hank Marvin, Grant Green and Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (look him up!) taught us compelling guitar-based music doesn’t require vocals or lyrics. To celebrate the release of new Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Animals As Leaders albums – not...

Noel Gallagher has teased a new signature version of his beloved Cherry Red Gibson ES-355 electric guitar on social media. Captioned with the words "August 2022..." and soundtracked to his 2011 song AKA... What a Life!, the brief video features a number of shots of the guitar in question, and Gallagher wielding it on stages across the world.

Mark Speer, guitarist for Texas trio Khruangbin, exhales smoke with a satisfied smile as he ponders the meaning of psychedelic music. “People talk to me like I’m some psych-rock aficionado,” he says. “But our ‘psychedelic’ stuff comes from my deep, deep interest in dub reggae. Western ears hear the echoes and all the reverbs in dub and call it psychedelic, because we’re used to placing these components into that context. But it was never intended that way.