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Jack White’s Third Man teams up with Black Mountain for the Roto-Echo, a delay controllable by foot
This delay packs a PT2399 chip under the hood and roller wheel for adjusting parameters as you play
“The first heavy metal riff ever written – and I wrote it!”: How Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page created a groundbreaking song
It also features Keith Moon drums – and screams
Gibson goes back to the beginning with reissue of its first-ever signature pickup for Black Sabbath icon Tony Iommi
Is this the power-up your riffing has been waiting for? The Godfather of Heavy Metal's signature pickup makes a comeback
“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song
"For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp," Gibbons recalled
Kirk Hammett orders up custom version of Jack White’s Triplecaster – and gets one for White, too
Jack White's been giving out his Triplecaster to all and sundry and now Hammett returns the favour, with a "cool mod" that White hopes will duly upset Telecaster purists
“I don’t have many guitar players’ albums on my iPhone, but Jeff is there”: John McLaughlin on the magic of Jeff Beck
"His tone was like butter," McLaughlin says of his late friend
Megadeth to come to an end – Dave Mustaine announces final album and farewell tour for 2026
Next year will see the release of the final Megadeth studio album before Mustaine and co ride off into the sunset – and there will be a tell-all memoir coming too
![A composite image of Steve Vai [left] playing his green PIA Ibanez signature guitar onstage with the Satch/Vai band, and right, the late, great Allan Holdsworth playing an S-style with a cigarette smoking wedged on the strings.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4rRFNyBs8iuRk62px4U6yj-840-80.jpg.webp)
Steve Vai on why Allan Holdsworth – the fusion virtuoso who wrote his own rules – was the GOAT
Most players Vai can work out where they were coming from. Holdsworth, he admits, was something different entirely
