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The blues-rocker recalls the gift of a precious pedal from an old friend and a recent Hendrix-inspired guitar purchase

How’d you get this guitar? I worked at Hogan’s House of Music in Hawthorne, California, when I was younger. I bought it there. I paid $300 for it in 1980. Did you modify it? And what sort of rig did y

Two albums recorded 50 years apart – the gear might have stayed the same, but the recording experience is completely different

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BELLA RAYNE used to run for the hills whenever her parents played Grateful Dead records in the house. “It drove me crazy. It’s like they pushed it on me,” she says. “I liked punk ro

ALL’S BEEN QUIET for several years on Jake E. Lee’s proverbial Western Front. The guitarist has taken extended breaks before, like the one after the demise of his beloved Badlands in 1993. Still, afte

Following on from the superb Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom instruments that recently passed through our hands, we now have three acoustics from a sextet of new historic reissues. Needless to say, expectations are high...