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10 Top Tips: Charlie Starr – Blackberry Smoke

10 Top Tips: Charlie Starr – Blackberry Smoke The guitarist and frontman in Southern-rock kings Blackberry Smoke shares his songwriting advice. Interview | Gary Walker 1. Write...

PRS Reveals Exotic Top SE Range

PRS Reveals Exotic Top SE Range PRS flamed maple tops are renowned the world over, but every now and again we are able to find...

Private Collection: Malcolm Lindsay – Screen Dream

Private Collection: Malcolm Lindsay – Screen Dream Malcolm Lindsay’s TV and film career has been a creative journey. However, as G&B finds out, the project...

Become An Elixir Strings Test Pilot With G&B

Become An Elixir Strings Test Pilot With G&B We’ve partnered with Elixir Strings to give away 20 sets of their brand new lightweight and natural-feeling...

Vintage Bench Test: 1956 Les Paul TV Special

Vintage Bench Test: 1956 Les Paul TV Special Huw Price finds that this played-in and wonderfully maintained Les Paul Special challenges some of the conventional...

In Pictures: Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Auction, March 2017

In Pictures: Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Auction, March 2017 The Gardiner Houlgate guitar auction returns this month at the Bath Auction Rooms in Corsham.The post In...

Ernie Ball celebrates 30 years of the Stingray

Ernie Ball celebrates 30 years of the Stingray Ernie Ball Music Man is celebrating 30 years since the launch of its Stingray bass with the...

The 20 Best FX Pedals In The World Today

The 20 Best FX Pedals In The World Today Walrus Audio Jupiter Multi-Clip Fuzz An articulate and supremely versatile fuzzbox with a range of switchable clipping...

The Money Shot: 1966 Fender Telecaster

The Money Shot: 1966 Fender Telecaster Last month, the subject of The Money Shot was a gorgeous 1962 Fender Jazzmaster up for grabs at December’s...

Oldamps Filmosound Review

Oldamps Filmosound Review With one foot in the 1940s and the other in the now, this repurposed cine-projector amplifier features vintage valves and transformers alongside...

The Guitar Show 2017: Gallery

The Guitar Show 2017: Gallery We recently paid a visit to The Guitar Show at New Bingley Hall in Birmingham. Running over the 25th and...

10 Top Tips: Tommy Emmanuel

10 Top Tips: Tommy Emmanuel Virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has been playing professionally since the age of six and is one of only five...

Strymon Announce Sunset Dual Overdrive

Strymon Announce Sunset Dual Overdrive Strymon have announced Sunset; a brand new two channel overdrive pedal. It includes six different circuit types which are found...

MUSIKMESSE 2017: Hutchins Guitars to launch two new guitar and bass ranges

MUSIKMESSE 2017: Hutchins Guitars to launch two new guitar and bass ranges Guitar maker launches two new...

Changes at the top for Fender

Changes at the top for Fender Fender’s CEO Andy Mooney has announced a new ‘executive structure’ within the product division for two of the company’s...

The new issue of Guitar & Bass is out now!

The new issue of Guitar & Bass is out now! The April 2017 issue of Guitar & Bass is on sale now! Buy your copy The...

WATCH: Orange amps ambassador Brian 'Head' Welch from Korn on the Rockerverb 100 MKIII

WATCH: Orange amps ambassador Brian 'Head' Welch from Korn on the Rockerverb 100 MKIII The Korn guitarist...

PDP offers travel-friendly kit

PDP offers travel-friendly kit Designed in conjunction with drummer Daru Jones (Jack White) the Daru Jones New Yorker (DJNY) kit from Pacific Drums & Percussion...

Win! Empress effects reverb pedal worth £459!

Win! Empress effects reverb pedal worth £459! Enter our competition for the chance to win a brilliant Empress Effects Reverb stomp box! This month, G&B is...

North East Guitar Show returns for 2017

North East Guitar Show returns for 2017 For 2017, THE NORTH EAST GUITAR SHOW returns to the superb, purpose-built event complex at Rainton Meadows Arena,...

Interview: Hiss Golden Messenger

Interview: Hiss Golden Messenger Hailed widely as one of the best albums of 2016, Heart Like A Levee saw Hiss Golden Messenger receive the critical...

Empress Reverb, Strymon BigSky & Eventide Space Shootout

Empress Reverb, Strymon BigSky & Eventide Space Shootout In search of the ultimate digital reverb pedal? Gary Walker pits two established heavyweights against a new...

Novo Guitars Serus J Review

Novo Guitars Serus J Review Pennsylvania’s answer to Midas goes for gold again. Chris Vinnicombe gives Dennis Fano’s latest creation a spin… Regular G&B readers will...

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive Review

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive Review If overdrive is the final frontier for digital effects, then Strymon is the Starship Enterprise. Beam us up, Richard Purvis… We’re...

Ernie Ball’s Cradle to crave

Ernie Ball’s Cradle to crave Ernie Ball has introduced CradleTune, billed as ‘a workbench in your gigbag’. CradleTune utilises a tuner and tripod to provide an...