• Top 50 Guitar Songs of the ’80s

    Top 50 Guitar Songs of the ’80s

    By the Readers and Staff of Vintage Guitar Based on input from Vintage Guitar magazine staff and readers, this feature presents the results of a poll highlighting the 50 coolest…

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Nick Moss

Backbone Shiver

Cornford Hurricane

Exemplary "extension of your playing" amplifier

  • Allen Hinds

    Allen Hinds

    Flowing

    On The Good Fight, guitarist Allen Hinds finds the sweet spot between melodic fusion and good, earthy music for the soul. Joined by a stellar rhythm section, Hinds is a…

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Jeff Beck

Blow By Blow

October 30, 2024 · Wolf Marshall

 What is jazz? What is rock? These questions perpetually confound and divide music experts and listeners. Similar spirited debates have…

Zac Sokolow

LA LA Land

June 25, 2025 · Pete Prown

LA LOM rekindles of the sound of “psychedelic chicha” – a south-of-the-border reaction to the electrified 1960s. Picture the Ventures…

Butch Walker

Butch Walker

Hummingbirds and Ghosts

February 23, 2016 · Ward Meeker

Butch Walker readily admits that when it comes to his life as a musician, performer, and producer, he has some…

It was 27 years ago today

September 26, 2013 · Vintage Guitar

27 years ago today the first issue of your favorite guitar mag came off the presses of a weekly newspaper…


CLASSIC INSTRUMENTS

First-Rate Second Fiddles

Jimi’s Gibsons at the Hard Rock Cafe

April 3, 2019 · Jim Carlton

No two ways about it, as his career hit stride, Jimi Hendrix was a Strat guy. Not famously loyal to…

Martin F-9

February 23, 2010 · Vintage Guitar

1939 Martin F-9. Photo: Kelsey Vaughn, courtesy Gruhn Guitars. One of Martin’s most successful innovations of the 1970s arose, ironically,…

Freddie King’s ’73 ES-355

Thinline Crown

June 11, 2024 · Ward Meeker

Influenced by Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others including jump-blues…

1985 Guild Nightbird Prototype Home Main Big

1985 Guild Nightbird Prototype

March 17, 2016 · George Gruhn

In early 1984, Mark Dronge, son of the Guild founder Alfred Dronge, was president of Guild. That year, Mark and…


APPROVED GEAR

DryBell Vibe Machine 3

Big Deepness

February 8, 2024 · Oscar Jordan

DryBell Musical Electronic Laboratory’s original Vibe Machine (its take on the classic Univibe) was developed 11 years ago and received…

Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Reissue

Dual-Mode Delivery

November 14, 2025 · Dave Hunter

The evolution of Randall Smith’s legendary high-gain Mesa/Boogie design into the revered Mark IIC+ of the mid ’80s established a…

Jim Dunlop BG95 and EVH95 Signature Cry Baby Wahs

Voodoo Chasin’

April 16, 2019 · Oscar Jordan

Wah users needn’t settle for stock tonal options like those heard on the “Theme From Shaft” or “Voodoo Child (Slight…

Rybski Cougar

Wild Cat

December 22, 2015 · Zac Childs

Rybiski Cougar Price: $3,850 Info: www.rybskiguitars.com. Before moving to the United States, Rybski founder Slawomir Waclawik repaired and built upright…

  • Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Reissue

    Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Reissue

    Dual-Mode Delivery

    The evolution of Randall Smith’s legendary high-gain Mesa/Boogie design into the revered Mark IIC+ of the mid ’80s established a rock amp that many guitarists still consider the epitome of the form. Building on what was already a high-gain amp by the standards of the day, the M/B team piled on even more gain, more…

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  • Taylor Guitars Expands Jacob Collier Offerings With Two New 5-String Models

    Taylor Guitars Expands Jacob Collier Offerings With Two New 5-String Models

    Academy Series and GS Mini 5-String Models Bring Jacob Collier’s Innovative DAEAD Tuning To More Players Worldwide At Accessible Price Points EL CAJON, Calif., November 10, 2025 — Taylor Guitars, the leading global builder of premium acoustic guitars, today announces the expansion of its collaboration with Jacob Collier with two new 5-string models designed to make…

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  • Introducing New Slash Options: 4-Conductor, Short-Leg, and Trembucker

    Introducing New Slash Options: 4-Conductor, Short-Leg, and Trembucker

    SANTA BARBARA, November 11th, 2025 – Seymour Duncan, a leading manufacturer of guitar and bass pickups, effects pedals, and pedal amps, is proud to announce  New Slash Options: 4-Conductor, Short-Leg, and Trembucker are now available to order from seymourduncan.com and from authorized Seymour Duncan dealers.  New Slash Options: 4-Conductor, Short-Leg, and Trembucker Slash is known…

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  • Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy

    The Acoustic Sessions

    Thin Lizzy’s first studio release in decades, this album reimagines tracks recorded 50+ years ago by the trio of vocalist/bassist Phil Lynott, guitarist Eric Bell, and drummer Brian Downey. The songs are from Lizzy’s first three albums – 1971’s Thin Lizzy, ’72’s Shades of a Blue Orphanage, and ’73’s Vagabonds of the Western World. Recently,…

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  • Eve Monsees and Mike Buck

    Eve Monsees and Mike Buck

    & Their Groovy Orbit

    This is not a solo album as much as an anthology of Austin artists and styles – from blues to country to ’60s garage and psych, demonstrating the versatility of singer/guitarist Monsees (Eve & the Exiles, Blue Bonnets) and her husband, drummer Buck (LeRoi Brothers), as producers/organizers. The tracks span three years, but the names…

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Al Stewart

Cat’s Meow

March 2, 2022 · Bret Adams

Year of the Cat, singer/songwriter/guitarist Al Stewart’s 1976 smash, is being celebrated with a 45th anniversary three-CD/DVD box set. The…

Echopark Traditional American Acoustic

Small-Body Stunner

January 25, 2017 · Steven Stone

Echopark Guitars is the brainchild of Gabriel Currie, who opened the establishment in 2006, after many years of working as…

Between Gibbons and Holdsworth

John Ziegler Of Volto!

May 13, 2016 · Oscar Jordan

John Ziegler’s band, Volto!, emerged from L.A.’s fusion scene with bassist Lance Morrison and drummer Danny Carey, who’s primary gig…

Not Done Yet

Eric Clapton

September 5, 2025 · Pete Prown

Nearly 60 years after “For Your Love” – the hit that prompted him to leave the Yardbirds – Clapton can…

Fishman’s Aura Spectrum DI, ToneDEQ

Potent Preamps

March 13, 2019 · Pete Prown

Unlike most electric guitarists, acoustic-electric pickers tend to worry about preamps. A lot. This front stage is critical because acoustic…