Guitarist

Guitarist is the longest established UK guitar magazine. You'll find authoritative gear reviews, artist interviews, technique lessons and advice. Plus, Guitarist's digital edition now includes all of the same audio and video content as the print edition; available to download from a special area of the Guitarist website!

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Editor’s Highlights

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Different Strings • Epiphone unveils its second Alex Lifeson signature model, this time as a Les Paul Custom. However, there’s a Ghost (or not) at the feast…

Free The Juice • The first offering from Orange in a while highlights some very cool features such as a footswitchable solo volume control and a valve rectifier

Purple Haze • With some three decades of guitar-making experience behind him, Neil Haynes finally gets around to making his own-brand electrics. Worth the wait? Definitely

Definitive Tones • One of the most talked about pickups this year, Bare Knuckle’s Triptych set might just be what you need to cover all bases without losing those sounds

Primate Power • With its latest HRM V2 pedal, J Rockett refines that Hot Rubber Monkey modified Dumble sound

Total Buzz • Beetronics presents a vintage octave fuzz with all the modern benefits of convenient switching technology

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • Robin Trower looks back to the days when guitar-led power trios shook the foundations with high-decibel progressive rock

Je Ne Regrette Rien (PEUT-ÊTRE!) • As someone who typically doesn’t fall in love with gear, selling it as he fancies, Neville Marten sometimes wishes he could turn back time

Hammer It Home • This month Alex Bishop faces the tricky challenge of binding his latest build and guiding his students in the process…

Open Tuning Chords (PART 1) • Richard Barrett takes a leaf out of Keith Richards’ book and presents some chords in open G tuning, no sixth string required…

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

BERNIE MARSDEN 1951 – 2023 • The Whitesnake co-founder and lifelong bluesman left us on 24 August. Guitarist remembers an all-time-great player, writer, collaborator, collector, mentor and friend

JONATHAN WILSON • Eat The Worm, the new album from polymath producer, ex-luthier, songwriter and dynamic performer Jonathan Wilson, is a strange and multi-layered work of art. We chat pitfalls, frustrations, building guitars and letting them loose in the car

CHANGING LANES • AS HE DROPS THIRD SOLO ALBUM, ‘LOST AT SEA’, IN THE BREATH BETWEEN FOO FIGHTERS DUTIES, CHRIS SHIFLETT TELLS US ABOUT BREAKING BAD HABITS, THE “BLASPHEMY” OF HIS NEW BACKLINE, KEEPING THE DEVIL AT BAY, AND THE PERILS OF THE PROVINCIAL CLUB CIRCUIT

ROBBIE ROBERTSON 1943 – 2023 • Founding member of The Band, Scorsese collaborator and one-time lead guitarist for Dylan, Robbie Robertson has died aged 80. We look back on a remarkable career

Second Coming • Cream T’s fledging guitar line-up was upended earlier this year, but now its core model, the Aurora, is back. A classic in the making? Let’s find out

Rebuilding The Brand • While Cream T’s guitars are slowly making a return, its pickups never went away and the range continues to expand. We grab Cream T’s head honcho, Tim Lobley, for...