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Plug into legendary dynamic response and organic warmth with my top-rated valve amplifiers for every budget and playing style guitarworld.com/features/bes…

How SRV followed Texas Flood, wrestled blues guitar from the club to MTV and became the guitar hero everyone wanted to copy – all before passing too soon guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed guitarworld.com/gear/best-ne…

“We were in his dressing room, I was having a peek at his guitar… and he went, ‘Nobody touches it!’” Keith Richards on the time Chuck Berry punched him guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“It’s like Shangri-La. It’s an oasis for guitar players”: You can now watch the Norman’s Rare Guitars documentary online for free guitarworld.com/gear/guitars…

Fender's limited edition Player Fusion range has taken its entry level electrics in a radical hard rock direction guitarworld.com/gear/electri…

The Fender legal furore is a damn shame, because Squier just launched its coolest guitars in years guitarworld.com/gear/electri…

“A choice no-one would have seen coming”: Matt Pike has quit doom-metal icons Sleep – and his surprise replacement has been announced guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“There are 1000s of hours on that guitar. I learned everything on it”: The teenage blues sensation hailed as the next Stevie Ray Vaughan has had his main guitar stolen – and Joe Bonamassa has issued a public plea for its return guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“I didn’t like it, but Tom said, ‘No, it’s great. Now you’ve got to double it’”: Mike Campbell on the riff he wanted to ditch – but Tom Petty made him double down guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“It’s like the wind is at your back when you’re playing it”: The difference between a PRS Silver Sky and Fender Stratocaster, according to a blues hero who plays both guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“In musical hierarchies, there was Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and I was like, ‘Where am I?’” Ed O’Brien opens up on his guitar insecurities in Radiohead guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“We had a new guitar tech. The first thing he did was cut all the guitar strings off. It was devastating”: Why Kurt Vile prefers older guitar strings – and hardly ever changes his guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“We were talking like, ‘Let’s do a show with all the bands we grew up with.’ Then, ’What about the Big Four?’” How James Hetfield wrangled Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax for the biggest metal event of the 2010s guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

From studio-style levelers to stomboxes that squash, we put the market-leading compressor pedals for bass to the test guitarworld.com/features/bes…

“We are not going to let the legacy be erased, nor are we going to let it be diluted”: Fender CEO addresses Strat cease-and-desist backlash guitarworld.com/gear/electri…

“I opened for Brad Paisley and his tech jokingly said, ‘Don’t do the B-Bender thing. That’s Brad’s thing’”: John Osborne on the time he got warned off the B-Bender – even though he didn’t have one guitarworld.com/artists/guit…

“That is the most ‘Seattle’ riff I’ve ever heard in my life”: The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song” guitarworld.com/artists/band…

“A full circle moment after all these years of making music side-by-side”: Billy Idol and Steve Stevens inducted into Guitar Center’s Hollywood Rockwalk guitarworld.com/artists/band…