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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Guitarist

Around The Bend • Fender and John Osborne have created the first signature model fitted with a B-Bender, plus a host of other custom features

Digital Eruption • EVH attempts to replicate the complex gain, tone and dynamics of the valve-based 5150 in this new digitally based incarnation

King’s Ransom • Epiphone revives its early 1970s Japanesemade El Dorado acoustic in the form of a very special Marcus King limited edition

Basic Instinct • Strymon keeps it simple with this analogue two-knob pedal that provides responsive 60s-style fuzz

Go Green • Mad Professor brings back the overdrive/booster pedal in a hand-wired incarnation with its very own flavour

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 • After a 15-year wait, guitarist Deirdre Cartwright has released a jazz trio album of standards, pop tunes and original compositions

Peculiar Places • Neville Marten recalls gigs he’s played in somewhat unusual venues, and one or two in slightly strange circumstances, too…

Rescue Mission • Alex Bishop plays his part in saving a discarded Romantic guitar and picks up the hand tools to commence its restoration

Count Me In • Pondering the neck-to-body join on your next acoustic guitar? You’re not alone – Michael Watts assesses the implications

Forgetting Your Roots • With the humble C chord, Richard Barrett shows how experimenting with voicings can open up the sounds at your fingertips

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

WAYNE RICHARD CHARVEL 1941 – 2026 • Master luthier and pioneer of the hot-rod guitar leaves a legacy spanning 50 years of innovation

ERIC JOHNSON • Amid the pre-gig chaos of the second UK date of EJ’s Texaphonic tour, we managed to find a quiet-ish space to talk guitars, gear and how learning piano helped Eric develop his signature sound

Hawk Eye • If you’ve hankered for the unvarnished, beautiful acoustic sounds of the 60s British folk scene, you really need to check out Sam Grassie, one of the most authentic, beguiling folk guitar talents we’ve heard in a long time

JOHNNY MARR • As the indie-rock legend clears his vault at next month’s Christie’s auction, he tells us about a life in guitars, hungover shopping trips with Noel Gallagher, why some electrics feel like ‘living things’ (that it would be a crime to keep cased under a bed), and what he’ll do if a tech bro starts the bidding...

EVERYTHING MUST GO • In a cathartic echo of the title of Johnny Marr’s new album, the former Smiths guitarist is selling 100 of his most treasured instruments, including the guitars with which he first won fame in the Smiths. We joined Amelia Walker, Christie’s Head of Iconic and Private Collections, to walk through Marr’s groundbreaking recordings, guitar by guitar

DAVE GREGORY • Twisting punk’s brutal template with angular riffs and solos, XTC’s Drums And Wires was essential listening for artsy kids circa ’79. Dave Gregory remembers butchering his SG, out-of-tune parts, and the gigs that...