• Duke Robillard – Lowdown

    Duke Robillard – Lowdown

    Vintage Guitar is happy to offer the premier of the new music video by Grammy nominee Duke Robillard. “Lowdown” is the  first single from his upcoming album, Blast Off!, set…

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    Super PickupGiveaway 2025

    Win Big! 11 Sets! 11 Winners! Win a set of pickups from one of these sponsors: Deadline is March 15, 2026. Complete the survey below to enter giveaway. One entry…

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Classics: Steve Kimock 1968 Goldstop

January 3, 2025 · Ward Meeker

It was a moment when the angels did sing. Wanting to chat with his de facto big brother, one fateful…

Maestro Electronics Titan Boost and Arcas Compressor Sustain

Louder, Tighter

October 11, 2023 · Oscar Jordan

Maestro Electronics has been around for 60 years and is best known for creating the FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone used by Keith…

Pop ’N Hiss: Rage Against the Machine’s Evil Empire

Strife Under Pressure

September 18, 2023 · Oscar Jordan

With a title taken from a Ronald Reagan quip about the Soviet Union, Rage Against The Machine’s second album, Evil…

Check This Action: Dave Davies’ Kinky Journey

April 19, 2024 · Dan Forte

I first saw The Kinks live in April, 1973, at Winterland in San Francisco, where they played a flawless set…

Classics: January 2023

Jay Mitzner’s ’53 Gibson Les Paul.

September 20, 2023 · Ward Meeker

Overhearing his 13-year-old son noodling on a beginner guitar in his bedroom one day in 1958, it occurred to Murray…

Joanna Connor

4801 South Indiana Avenue

February 9, 2022 · Oscar Jordan

Blues-rock queen Joanna Connor’s latest release finds her receiving branding advice from none other than Joe Bonamassa. Impressed by her…

  • Carr Skylark Special 1×12

    Carr Skylark Special 1×12

    Take Flight

    Arriving a little more than 10 years after the original Skylark, Carr Amplifiers’ new Skylark Special adds versatility and enhanced tonal depths to squeeze a lot more into this diminutive…

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Steve Morse

Steve Morse

August 1, 2015 · Pete Prown

Already busy touring and recording with Deep Purple, axe virtuoso Steve Morse has added another dish to the menu –…

Reggie Young

Memphis R & B to Nashville Studios

December 20, 2001 · Guy Lee

Reggie Young passed away on January 17, 2019. Here is an extensive interview he did with VG in 2001. Reggie…

 Fretprints: Larry Carlton

Revisiting Room 335

January 2, 2026 · Wolf Marshall

In 1978, Larry Carlton was atop the unforgiving environs of L.A.’s music studios, where technical prowess, precision, creativity, tone, and…

Steve Dawson

Deeper Roots

April 3, 2024 · Pete Prown

Calling Steve Dawson a “roots” artist seems a disservice to a musician so eclectic and wildly talented. On Eyes Closed,…


CLASSIC INSTRUMENTS

1963 Fender Twin Reverb Prototype

1963 Fender Twin Reverb Prototype

July 7, 2016 · Dave Hunter

The Twin has long been the flagship of Fender’s high-wattage amp lineup, and it achieved/retained that status through several iterations…

1988 Guild Liberator Elite

May 27, 2020 · Michael Wright

Every once in awhile you find a guitar that’s almost too beautiful to play. It’s just enough to sit there…

Classics: September 2021

Fenton Robinson’s Gibson ES-225

May 6, 2022 · Ward Meeker

Kevin Ludwig first became aware of Fenton Robinson in 1975, when he heard Boz Scaggs’ version of “Somebody Loan Me…

Rick Derringer

Explore The Possibilities

May 28, 2025 · Willie G. Moseley

Rick Derringer and his compadres in the McCoys smashed their way into the pantheon of rock and roll in the…


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APPROVED GEAR

Musicvox Spaceranger Guitar and Bass HT

Shagadelic

July 21, 2014 · Pete Prown

Musicvox Spaceranger Guitar and Bass HT Price: $799 (guitar); $899 (bass) Info: www.musicvox.com. Popularized in film and television, Musicvox Spacerangers…

EHX Canyon Delay & Looper, Blurst Modulated Filter

Ambient Possibilities

April 19, 2019 · Oscar Jordan

Today’s guitarists looking to create those sounds they imagine in their heads have it easier than ever before. Electro-Harmonix can…

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SynapticGroove’s SlackJaw OD/Boost/Fuzz

Fuzz for Grown-Ups

May 2, 2016 · Oscar Jordan

SynapticGroove’s SlackJaw OD/Boost/Fuzz Price: $239 Info: www.synapticgroove.com Last year SynapticGroove entered the stompbox arena with the Snapperhead Overdrive/Distortion, attracting high-profile…

Fender’s ’57 Custom Pro-Amp

Big Brother

March 13, 2019 · Michael Dregni

When most guitarists consider Fender’s famed vintage tweeds, the first that come to mind are the 5E3 Deluxe and 4×10…

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Suzi Quatro

The Devil In Me

February 7, 2022 · Bret Adams

Why didn’t Suzi Quatro become a star in America? The ahead-of-her-time Detroit native, now 71, had a distinctive voice, catchy…

D’Angelico Premier Bob Weir SS

Touch of Grey

April 26, 2019 · Michael Dregni

When Bob Weir introduced his D’Angelico Premier SS at NAMM last January, he performed a set of Grateful Dead and…

Have Guitar Will Travel – 022 Featuring Adam Lester

January 28, 2020 · James Patrick Regan

“Have Guitar Will Travel” host James Patrick Regan speaks to Adam Lester, guitarist in the Peter Frampton Band, discussing everything…

Have Guitar Will Travel 073 – Crimson Apple’s Shelby Benson and OTTTO

April 13, 2022 · James Patrick Regan

Episode 73 of “Have Guitar Will Travel” is a two-fer starting with guitarist Shelby Benson from the dark-pop band Crimson…

Guy King

May 15, 2016 · John Heidt

Blues veteran Guy King steps out with a full big band on his latest and proves up to the task…

J.D. Simo

Mind Control

December 8, 2022 · Oscar Jordan

The topic is psychedelic blues, and J.D. Simo is the man with the brown acid. Hypnotic wah, talking hollowbody guitars,…

Recording King Ray Whitley

April 16, 2015 · George Gruhn

As a maker of high-quality instruments, Gibson was hit hard by the onset of the Depression in the 1930s. Company…

Andy Bassford

The Harder They Strum

July 18, 2019 · Tom Guerra

Legendary fish-out-of-water reggae guitarist Andy Bassford has been a first-call sideman for decades. Now, he’s stepping out front with his…

Hilary Gardner returns with a fresh take on a holiday classic!

December 24, 2024 · Vintage Guitar

Hilary Gardner returns! Ready to set the tone for your holidays, Hilary Gardner and her band return for a fantastic…

Michael Bruce

Eighteen Again

October 8, 2019 · Johnny Zapp

Before there was an Alice Cooper, man and solo artist, there was the band called Alice Cooper. From 1969 to…

Todd Rundgren

Rock’s True Renaissance Man

May 9, 2019 · Elliot Stephen Cohen

For 50 years, Todd Rundgren has been compiling one the most eclectic and impressive resumés in music. From forming the…

Ibanez EKM100

Ibanez EKM100

Soul On Ice

March 4, 2016 · Oscar Jordan

Ibanez EKM100 Price: $2,799.99 (list) Contact: www.ibanez.com Fans of contemporary soul, jazz, and funk should be well aware of Soulive.…

Johnny Nicholas

December 8, 2016 · Dan Forte

Central Texas folks might think of Johnny Nicholas as restaurateur; others know him as one of the most experienced, authentic,…

The Real Story of Martin’s 14-Fret Orchestra Models

OM Irony

July 9, 2019 · George Gruhn

Martin Orchestra Model (OM) guitars made prior to World War II are some of the finest ever made for fingerpicking.…

Charlie Parr

A Muse From Olden Times

November 28, 2016 · Michael Dregni

Charlie Parr makes new music from olden times. And he makes it the old way – not only using just…

Strymon’s DIG Dual Digital Delay

Diggin’ In

March 2, 2017 · Phil Feser

Offering the heart and soul of those crystal-clear first-generation 1980s digital delays, California-based Strymon’s DIG Dual Digital Delay provides not only…

Arteffect Bonnie Wah

Cry No More!

May 12, 2010 · Phil Feser

Israel-based Arteffect’s new Bonnie wah pedal is an accurate re-creation of the highly soughtafter vintage Vox Clyde McCoy wah. The…

Paul Gilbert

All About Vintage – Import Style

February 2, 2010 · Lisa Sharken

Paul Gilbert was a teenager when he appeared on the music industry’s radar after Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records introduced…

Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AM93QM

Semi-Hollow Magic

May 13, 2024 · Oscar Jordan

There comes a time in a guitarist’s life when one becomes hollowbody curious, and semi-hollow guitars are often the gateway…

Gibson Super 400 PN

January 27, 2014 · George Gruhn

The Gibson Super 400 Premiere cutaway acoustic first appeared in Gibson literature in the 1940 catalog, on a page showing…

Shawn Purcell’s Jazz from the East (Coast)

October 31, 2025 · Vintage Guitar

Influences Aplenty! A child of the ’80s, Shawn Purcell grew up listening to Stern, Scofield, and Metheny alongside Zeppelin, Van…

The Valley Arts Custom Pro Bass

Keeping the Arts Alive

April 29, 2020 · Art Department

In 1969, when a North Hollywood guitar teacher named Duke Miller teamed up to start a music store with students…

Gibson Johnny Smith

June 29, 2015 · George Gruhn

In 1961, Gibson’s Johnny Smith model not only associated Gibson with one of the most popular guitar stylists of the…

Epiphone Coronet

Epiphone Coronet

March 26, 2016 · George Gruhn

This Epiphone Coronet from 1959 was probably a shocking sight to a guitar buyer of the late ’50s. Not only…

 Joey Molland

January 16, 2026 · Pete Prown

The word “underrated” is belabored in music journalism, but Joey Molland was just that. As co-guitarist in Badfinger, he was…

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Heart & Soul Blues

October 4, 2024 · Ward Meeker

Born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi – homeland of the Delta blues – Christone Ingram learned gospel music in the…

Supro’s 600R DeLuxe

Supro’s 600R DeLuxe

“The Magic of Concert Hall Sound”

January 23, 2017 · Michael Dregni

In the early days of reverb, no one was thinking about surf music; they were striving instead to replicate the…

Larry Collins 1944-2024

January 8, 2024 · Ward Meeker

Larry Collins, a guitar prodigy mentored by renowned flatpicker Joe Maphis, and half of the ’50s brother/sister act The Collins…

Wampler Pedals’ Bravado

Tone Tweaker’s Delight

April 24, 2019 · Chip Wilson

What’s a pedal platform? Nope, it’s not a carbon-fiber Pinarello mountain bike with Shimano shifters and derailleurs. It’s another term…