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!

A Class Of His Own

Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

Upping The Ante • Mixing magnetic and piezo pickups, Godin is back with serious intent if this Radium-X is anything to go by. But it comes at a price. Worth a punt? We plug in…

Cut Above • The well-received and affordable Katana range gets a new top-of-the-line head and matching 2x12 cab. There’s plenty of tech onboard, but does it satisfy the classic tonehounds?

Safe Bet

Engines Ready • With the latest in MXR’s Super Badass series, you’re set for a dynamic and flexible drive

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

Tones Behind The Tracks • We talk to Jared James Nichols about how a guitar that fell to earth in a tornado helped him defy blues-rock cliché on his stellar new album

Beck-Ola! • Neville Marten recalls the impact that Jeff Beck had on guitarists of his generation, plus a story or two about his involvement with Guitarist

Draw A Blank • This issue Alex Bishop tackles the fiddly job of crafting a new guitar nut from scratch

Clean Machine • Jamie Dickson and Nick Guppy look back on how Roland’s JC-120 became the rare transistor amp that everyone loved

Soundtrack Chords • Richard Barrett steps back into the golden era of Hollywood with these orchestral-style chord examples

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

Jeff Beck 1944–2023 • UNIQUE, FEARLESS, PEERLESS. JEFF BECK, WHO DIED IN JANUARY, LEAVES BEHIND A DAZZLING MUSICAL LEGACY. HERE, THE GUITARISTS WHO KNEW HIM BEST SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF A MASTER AND THE GUITARS HE LOVED

LIFE OF A PIONEER • From the rebellious square peg of Swinging London to the still-questing elder statesman of the post-millennium, Jeff Beck reimagined the electric guitar as a magic wand in a career that could be both spellbinding and maddening

THERE’S NO OTHER ME • The guitar world has been shaken to the core at the loss of one of its most original voices and many players wanted to share a personal note of loss, an anecdote, or a tribute to a man who played such an important role in their musical lives

HEART FULL OF SOUL • Whitesnake hero Bernie Marsden recalls the Jeff Beck he knew – quick-witted, funny and so brilliant on the guitar that even his peers knew they couldn’t come near to his freedom on the fretboard, only surrender to it

OUT OF THIS WORLD • Guitarist’s senior music editor, Jason Sidwell, shares an unpublished interview with Steve Lukather that was recorded in the early Noughties – where Lukather praises Jeff Beck’s untouchable, “alien” approach to the guitar

BECK ON BECK • Jeff Beck’s playing was unforgettable and unique. Who better than Jeff himself, then, to explain how his approach to guitar evolved? We open the archives to revisit Jeff explaining his art, in his own words, in classic interviews

THE GUITARS • Jeff Beck was a Strat man through and through, but this wasn’t to the avoidance of all other models. Author and guitar historian Tony Bacon recounts his past conversations with Beck as he charts the various six-strings that were instrumental in his career

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