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    Author: guitarworld

    “Venus isn’t just about filling a gap. It’s about creating instruments that make women feel seen”: Venus Guitars is a new company aimed at empowering women in the guitar scene – and its first guitars offer smart features that any player will appreciate

    NAMM 2025: Venus Guitars – a brand new boutique guitar company – is making itself known with its Venus Revolution series, while upholding its mission…

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    guitarworld January 22, 2025
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    “I’m not playing the Eagles, so this is probably not the guitar for that. But it’s perfect forme”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe went against conventions to create her Jackson signature model, and it all comes back to being a guitarist with a presence

    Diamond Rowe co-founded the heavy metal band Tetrarch with high-school friend Josh Fore when they were still teenagers in Atlanta. At the time, Rowe could…

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    guitarworld January 22, 2025
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    “I heard the chorus… Then we took it into the studio. I'll never forget it – for me, it was like I wasn't playing the song”: Veteran bassist Nathan East on recording one of Eric Clapton's most personal – and well-loved – songs

    Of all the songs in Eric Clapton’s extensive repertoire, Tears in Heaven is perhaps the most moving – and certainly one of the best known.…

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    guitarworld January 22, 2025
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    “The McLaughlin Strat was stolen after Beck absentmindedly left it in an open-top hot rod”: The highlights of the Jeff Beck guitar auction – from the story of Seymour Duncan’s Tele-Gib hybrid to his legendary Oxblood Gibson Les Paul

    Most successful guitarists inevitably become guitar collectors, eventually amassing dozens or even hundreds of instruments during their careers. Many famous and acclaimed guitarists have owned…

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    guitarworld January 22, 2025
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    “His rhythm playing is tight and in tune in a way that’s rare, and his intonation is stunning”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have detailed the full SatchVai Band lineup – and Pete Thorn is handling rhythm guitar

    Ever since it was announced last December that guitar heroes and longtime friends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai would be forming a band together –…

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    guitarworld January 21, 2025
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    “The first of its kind”: The AmpRx Brownie can tweak your amp’s voltage for maximum tone – and it could be your key to finally unlocking Eddie Van Halen’s coveted ‘Brown Sound’

    NAMM 2025: AmpRx has sought to shake things up for tube amp users by releasing the Brownie – a nifty voltage controller tool that looks…

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    guitarworld January 21, 2025
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    “Friends texted me saying, ‘I wish Taylor Swift would dance to my music.’ I’m like, ‘Put a good song out and she actually might!’” Justin Hawkins on the Darkness going viral, the return of virtuosic playing – and why he finally switched from Les Pauls

    If you picture Justin Hawkins from The Darkness in your mind’s eye, you most probably see him holding a Les Paul Custom of some sort…

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    guitarworld January 21, 2025
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    “Always one of my favorite guitarists – what a loss”: John Sykes, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist, dies at 65

    John Sykes, a legend of hard rock guitar who made his mark with stints in Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Tygers of Pan Tang, among others,…

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    guitarworld January 20, 2025
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    “Designed for musicians and collectors alike, they promise something truly extraordinary“: Martin dazzles with its 3 millionth masterpiece – and a Standard Series double-neck that’s been 100 years in-the-making

    NAMM 2025: Martin has lifted the lid on some truly dazzling new builds, including a double-neck acoustic-electric – a design that, until now, was so…

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    guitarworld January 20, 2025
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    “Whenever I’d see him play live it was an off-the-rack Strat. He was never one to say, ‘I’ve got to play that’”: Joe Perry says he was planning to take Jeff Beck’s Strat on tour with Aerosmith –but its owner was the only special thing about it

    Joe Perry has recalled the time he was loaned a Fender Stratocaster that belonged to Jeff Beck – and revealed that he almost took the…

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    guitarworld January 20, 2025
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