The Guitar Magazine – July 2019

ORIGINAL INTRODUCING THE COLLECTION ...

THE GOLDEN ERA RETURNS. WWW.GIBSON.COM ...

How did you get into guitar? “I grew up as a pastor’s kid in Oklahoma. The music minister of our church happened to be an incred ...

“THERE ARE SO MANY PEDAL COMPANIES NOW. YOU CAN’T JUST HOLD SOMETHING UP SAYING, ‘HERE’S MY TAKE ON THE TUBE SCREAMER, WHO WANTS ...

1 This most iconic of solid-state amplifiers is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to the huge list of star playe ...

6 Fender’s history with modelling amps goes all the way back to the original Cyber-Twin from 2001, so it should come as no surpr ...

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WORDS CHRIS VINNICOMBE PHOTOGRAPHY ELEANOR JANE Gibson Custom’s 60th Anniversary 1959 Les Paul Standard is the rejuvenated compa ...

O nce the beating heart of youth rebellion, rock ’n’ roll is now of pensionable age and the tools that powered its evolution are ...

the arrival of wider fretwire and slightly slimmer neck dimensions, while the most desirable period also coincided with the seri ...

This ties in with the philosophy that an electric guitar should be thought of holistically, as a system in which the component p ...

rosewood fretboard. Gibson has only been able to source very limited quantities of high-quality Brazilian rosewood in recent yea ...

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KEY FEATURES PRICE £5,199 (inc. hard case) DESCRIPTION Solidbody set-neck electric guitar. Made in USA BUILD Two-piece figured m ...

RORY GALLAGHER 34 ...

FRESH EVIDENCE WORDS JOSH GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY ELEANOR JANE As we approach a quarter of a century since the tragic passing of Ror ...

“F or me, it’s just the talking between takes. Those are special little moments, as his nephew and also loving his music... hear ...

GUITAR MAGAZINE 37 RORY GALLAGHER ...

Daniel exclaims. “As we were moving them all over, I noted when I thought, ‘Oh that looks a bit odd...’ things that had stuff w ...

“There’s some really cool stuff, but there’s still a tonne of other stuff – there’s only so many tapes I can convince them to le ...