Junior genius

With a raft of recent high-spec reissue launches, is Epiphone now the home of affordable ‘vintage’ Gibsons? On paper, yes. But what about in the flesh?

Blackberry Smoke’s guitarist reveals his greatest guitar triumphs, the pitfalls and blessings of his Les Paul Junior addiction, and his outright disdain of “bad amps”

Five Stratocasters, all sunbursts and all different – so what is the best vintage if you’re craving a classic?

YOU COULDN’T MAKE it up. Take a trip to 1960, and sit at a table in Kalamazoo, Michigan. You work for Gibson and you’re looking at — or at least talking about — what will turn out to be the Holy Grail

1960 Gibson ES-335

ALTHOUGH HE ISN’T related to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, John Page can also be considered a guitar legend — not as a musician but as one of the world’s most respected guitar designers and innovative l