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PRS Mark Holcomb: previously only a limited edition run, the Periphery guitarist's Core Series signature model is now part of the PRS Guitars catalogue, as the Maryland high-end brand continues its 40th Anniversary celebrations by keeping the releases coming each month.

Mark Holcomb’s limited run PRS is officially added to the Core series – and it ships in Drop C

By Jonathan Horsley published

Equipped with the Periphery guitarist's signature Seymour Duncan humbuckers, this is a PRS tooled up for low-end progressive metal riff work

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Otoha holds a blue Fender Strat in a staged setting with neon pink and blue lights overhead.

IDLES, Wet Leg and Sam Fender all graduated from the Fender Next programme – meet its Class of 2025

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Fender Next class of 2025 has been announced and you've got hopecore, punk-rock and the future sound of Chicago indie-rock right here

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Dickey Betts [left] and Warren Haynes trade licks onstage with the Allman Brothers Band at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Haynes's Strat would soon be stolen in New York.

How Warren Haynes turned to Les Pauls after his favourite Strat was stolen

By Jonathan Horsley published

The theft of the Custom Shop Strat in the '90s forced Haynes to think differently

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Miles Davis

“Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: John McLaughlin's baptism of fire with Miles Davis

By Andrew Daly published

He cut his teeth with Miles on the classic In A Silent Way

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"Heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes": Steve Miller cancels tour due to... the weather

By Will Simpson published

Is the guitarist a secret meterologist?

Gigs & Festivals
Charvel Angel Vivaldi Signature Pro-Mod Nova-7 NAT: The new S-style is eight years in the making and in some of the promo pictures it looks like Angel Vivaldi has been on horseback for much of that time.

Angel Vivaldi and Charvel unveil state-of-the-art 7-string for levelling up your shred game

By Jonathan Horsley published

The NJ shred maestro's updated Pro-Mod Nova-7 has a figured maple top, natural finish, gold hardware, reverse headstock... And is so comfortable you can play it while riding a horse

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Jimmy Page plays his cherry red Gibson EDS-1275 double neck live at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Link Wray.

Sundragon unveils the Nymph, a one-watt powerhouse tube combo designed for Jimmy Page

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Nymph is a one-watter with a 1/4-watt setting and a line out – and Page says he used his double neck to test it out

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George Lynch performing with Dokken in the '80s

“I remember Eddie Van Halen asking me, ‘What’s wrong with you?'”: George Lynch, the guitar hero cursed by bad luck

By Paul Elliott published

He almost got the gig to replace Randy Rhoads

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Zach Myers of Shinedown is bathed in blue stage lights and plays his custom-relic'd Silver Sky.

Shinedown’s Zach Myers on Paul Reed Smith, signature model updates, and that relic’d Silver Sky

By Jonathan Horsley published

Myers says he caught so much heat for his distressed hot pink John Mayer Silver Sky that he joked with his tech that he was going to torch it onstage

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Fender Custom Shop Ariel Posen Stratocaster: Posen's new signature model was inspired by the Jazzmaster and has custom-wound AP-90 pickups. Check out those cupcake-style control knobs.

Ariel Posen’s new Custom Shop signature Strat is A) stunning and B) inspired by a… Jazzmaster?

By Jonathan Horsley published

This, you've got to see and hear. Featuring new custom-wound AP90 pickups, hardtail bridge, and cupcake control knobs, Posen's new Strat is a limited edition cracker

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