And I was like, ‘I just don’t get it! His work with Guns N’ Roses landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he’s often heralded as one of the best guitarists in rock history. You don’t think about it, you just feel happy doing it!”He wasn’t taking the new Gibsons on tour for fun, however – as Gibson’s most high-profile signature artist, it’s understandable that talks are now in the pipeline for a brand-new Slash signature model that will incorporate these new improvements.“There were developments that were happening right towards the end [of Gibson’s previous regime] there that I couldn’t adhere to,” says Slash. I think it’s great, because you know who the rock fans are now, y’know?”The latest guitar news, reviews and features delivered to your inbox.You could turn on the same air conditioning as the guy who wrote Sunshine Of Your Love.The chances of the petition being successful are another matter, however.The Lancaster rockers channel Marillion, Green Day and more influential artists on their fifth long player, with vintage Flying Vs and homemade overdrive pedals.Lindsay Ell tells all about the challenges of recording her new album Heart Theory when the world shut down halfway through recording, and how legendary producer Dann Huff has become her new guitar coach.The country guitar maestro on how his wonderfully unique Fender Telecaster made it onto Fender’s production line in the shape of his brand-new Fender Stories Collection Brent Mason Telecaster.Gerry Leonard’s career as a pioneer in both the sonic and the live-sphere continues to evolve – here, he discusses his original approach, seizing control of the guitar and being a trusted foil to icons of the music world.Taylor returns with new USA-made Grand Pacific instruments, crafted in the face of adversity and named after its very first workshop.Fender has set out to raise its digital modelling game with this 100-watt evolution of the Mustang amp line – but does it have the tone to match its impressive line-up of emulations?Though the inspiration is obvious, this new double-cut features some well-considered and interesting twists on the student set-neck theme.Under-appreciated on its release in 1993, The Verve's debut is a transcendental space-rock masterwork, lit up by the sonic alchemy conjured by the band's introverted genius, guitarist Nick McCabe. “The guy that’s running Gibson now, I really, really like,” he enthuses. “Not so much in Gibson proper – it was just that there were all these new divisions being added. I don’t need it, so I don’t know why anybody else is going to need it!’“Then there was a lot of turnover happening in the last couple of years with some of the really key people who’d been at Gibson forever, and that’s when it started to get a little weird. “They did the first run of all their key models, and they let me play one of each, and I was like: ‘There’s such a huge difference here… but there’s nothing different!’ There’s something about the mindset going in to making them that’s different. “That was my first discovery of being able to put fingers in different places and come up with something that you actually recognised,” he recalls.The most significant moment, however, was when he got himself an electric guitar with a full complement of strings.

That’s how it was, especially in the late 90s and early 2000s when I was just wandering around! You can always unsubscribe (so you won't receive any more e-mails) by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each e-mail. But they just feel really good and they sound really good. “Axl of course is the focus point of Guns, and I just sort of run around doing my thing! So when it came to touring on this record, we not only have an actual catalogue now, but also I don’t need to play those other songs – there’s no reason to play The ‘Not In This Lifetime…’ tour brought to an end one of the most acrimonious splits in the history of rock and pulled in over half a billion dollars in its two-year run, making it the second-highest grossing tour in history. But back in the 80s, it was like, you had fuckin’ metal or you had no guitars at all! Never has an album's title been more apt.Our favourite new stompbox announcements, releases and rumours of the past month.Our favourite new amp and speaker announcements, releases and rumours of the past month.Strings breaking at the tuner end? In that time, he’s released four varied albums (three with the Conspirators), and discovered something that he hadn’t truly found since he left Guns in the mid 90s – a home.“I think when I first set out on this back in 2010, it was really a vehicle for me to be able to play most of the stuff that I’d been involved with – so it was Guns, Velvet, Snakepit… and stuff off my then-new solo record. “The electric guitar played acoustic is great if you don’t want people to pay attention to what you’re working on. “That was my first discovery of being able to put fingers in different places and come up with something that you actually recognised,” he recalls.The most significant moment, however, was when he got himself an electric guitar with a full complement of strings.