PRS SE Chleo Herman Li Signature Review
marcohageman2025-12-04T17:53:11+01:00In shape and sound, the Chleo Limited Edition is a very different PRS. It is, in part, a product of the vision of Herman [lees meer]
Billy Reid’s Guitar-Obsessed Style
marcohageman2025-12-04T17:53:09+01:00Fashion designer, guitarist and Gibson collaborator Billy Reid joins Axe Lords to talk about Jimmy Page’s favorite jacket, his Gibson Hummingbird collab, the benefits [lees meer]
The ultimate strap for heavy guitars? D’Addario’s new Comfort strap could be the solution to your back problems – and could have you playing for longer
marcohageman2025-12-04T17:27:06+01:00Offering superior weight distribution and a design that molds “seamlessly to the player's body”, could this be the strap your back has been calling [lees meer]
“My inspiration for this tune was Flight of the Bumblebee, but through a funky lens, as if Tower of Power had written and recorded the melody”: Cory Wong on how to arrange guitar and keyboards
marcohageman2025-12-04T17:27:04+01:00The funkmeister puts Direct Flyte under the microscope to deliver a masterclass in arrangement. It's funk, sure, but there's some operatic influence in there, [lees meer]
The lost Ace Frehley interview, the year’s best new gear and 2025’s guitarists of the year – only in the new Guitar World
marcohageman2025-12-04T15:51:29+01:00Includes a tribute to Space Ace and our guide to the biggest guitar news of the year, plus Nuno Bettencourt, 40 years of PRS [lees meer]
“I took it into rehearsals and Frank Zappa said, ‘If you wanted to ruin your guitar, why didn’t you loan it to a friend?’” Adrian Belew shares unseen photos of “the first relic’d guitar” – which he created with Seymour Duncan
marcohageman2025-12-04T15:51:28+01:00The pair’s process was a little more primitive than modern methods
“I don’t know if Jaco was a Van Halen fan. We were both more intent on getting drunk than anything else”: When Michael Anthony met the self-proclaimed “greatest bass player in the world”, Jaco Pastorius
marcohageman2025-12-04T14:50:22+01:00How the accidental meeting of two of the ’70s and ’80s greatest bass icons – neither recognised by the other – came about in [lees meer]
“Words fail me in describing his impact on music”: Steve Cropper, 1941-2025 – the guitar world pays tribute
marcohageman2025-12-04T14:50:21+01:00The influential soul guitar legend has passed away at the age of 84, with Joe Bonamassa, Tyler Bryant, Dave Mason, Mick Fleetwood and more [lees meer]
“Ironically, the quest for a natural sound increasingly meant filling a guitar with wires, batteries and circuit boards”: The challenge of amplifying our acoustics has been one of guitar’s great challenges over the decades – are we nearly there yet?
marcohageman2025-12-04T14:50:19+01:00We’ve come a long way from the “plastic piezo ping” – acoustic players today have more options on how to present their sound onstage [lees meer]
“Does it sound like a J-45? No. Instead, you get the impression that the instrument has been reimagined through the lens of a master craftsman”: Bourgeois Slope D Standard T/S review
marcohageman2025-12-04T14:50:17+01:00The latest in Bourgeois’ Touchstone range has shades of Gibson’s J-45. Will it live up to expectations and carve a legendary niche all its [lees meer]