• Dino Cazares Machete Signature Humbucker

    Dino Cazares Machete Signature Humbucker

    SANTA BARBARA, December 9th, 2025 (EMBARGOED) Seymour Duncan, a leading manufacturer of guitar and bass pickups, effects pedals, and pedal amps, is proud to announce The Dino Cazares Machete Signature Humbucker is…

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  • Zac Schulze gets straight to it!

    Zac Schulze gets straight to it!

    If you’re a fan of Cream, Zeppelin, and Rory Gallagher (who isn’t?), you’ll dig Zac Schulze Gang, a British power trio that’s carrying the torch with both hands; they’ve played…

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  • Jon Butcher’s psychedelia mastery

    Jon Butcher’s psychedelia mastery

    Jon Butcher tales his Olympic White ’63 Strat for a rip on “Jam,” a track from his new album, “Nuthin’ but Soul.” The disc is an homage to sounds of…

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Carlos Santana

Musical Outreach

September 7, 2022 · Bret Adams

Carlos Santana’s creative drive is obsessive, restless – and relentless. For his latest album, Blessings and Miracles, he pooled the…

Rob Fleming

From Bowie to KillerStar

November 1, 2024 · Pete Prown

KillerStar is no David Bowie cover band. Instead, it’s an uncanny project from U.K. guitarist Rob Fleming and drummer James…

Don Leady’s Stylish Instro!

February 9, 2022 · Vintage Guitar

Roots-rock doyen does “Blue Cumbia 3” LeRoi Brothers co-founder (and Tail Gators head honcho) Don Leady used his real-deal vintage…

Spencer Kirkpatrick

Spencer Kirkpatrick

Jammin’ Southern Hero

April 7, 2016 · Pete Prown

In the ’70s, Hydra was a Southern-rock band that owed more to the heavy British blues of Cream and Free…


CLASSIC INSTRUMENTS

Chris Butler’s Vox Mark VI: Waitress Server

December 10, 2024 · Ward Meeker

Melding garage rock with glam, punk emerged in the early ’70s, set on stirring society’s pot. From New York to…

Hallmark Swept-Wing

Brief Flight from South of Bakersfield

March 31, 2017 · Willie G. Moseley

Bob Shade exemplifies the adage “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” The guitar builder has an enviable assortment of…

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…

Jim Lauderdale’s honkey-tonk toe-dip

January 31, 2023 · Vintage Guitar

Singer/Songwriter’s Stylistic Twist Jim Lauderdale paid a visit to one of his favorite Nashville hangs and grabbed a gorgeous 1940…


APPROVED GEAR

JHS’ SuperBolt and Morning Glory Pedals

Zep in a Box

October 7, 2014 · Pete Prown

Started with a quick repair to a Boss pedal in Josh Scott’s Mississippi apartment, JHS has evolved into a well-regarded…

Valley Arts Brent Mason signature model

Pro-Level Versatility

September 7, 2006 · Vintage Guitar

With a client list that included a who’s who of West Coast guitarists – Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Tommy Tedesco,…

Virtuoso Polish and Cleaner

Easy on, easy off, UV protection

April 29, 2003 · Lisa Sharken

Virtuoso Polish and Cleaner Easy on, easy off, UV protection Virtuoso Polish and Cleaner, prominent features at vintage guitar shows…

Marshall JCM800 2203

Marshall JCM800 2203

May 2, 2016 · Dave Hunter

Preamp tubes: three ECC83. Output tubes: four 6550. Rectifier: solidstate Controls: Pre-Amp Volume, Master Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass, Presence. Speakers:…

  • Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

    Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

    Honeysuckle

    Resonator-slide specialist Reverend Peyton returns to his primary influences – early 20th-century African-American music – compelling him to shout from the hollers and the hills. Rootsy, acoustic, inter-war blues is the specific genre, and Peyton doesn’t hold back. With top-tier tutelage from the likes of David “Honeyboy” Edwards, T-Model Ford, and Robert Belfour, he masterfully…

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  • Zac Schulze gets straight to it!

    Zac Schulze gets straight to it!

    If you’re a fan of Cream, Zeppelin, and Rory Gallagher (who isn’t?), you’ll dig Zac Schulze Gang, a British power trio that’s carrying the torch with both hands; they’ve played Clapton’s Crossroads and the Rory Gallagher Tribute Fest. Here, Zac flies solo on “High Roller,” tearin’ it up on his ’54 Guild Aristocrat M75 through…

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  • Mike Campbell with Ari Surdoval

    Mike Campbell with Ari Surdoval

    Heartbreaker: A Memoir

    In his autobiography, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Campbell admits he’s quiet and shy. Self-doubt plagued him his entire life, and when problems arose in the Heartbreakers, a lack of confidence had him blaming himself first, even when he wasn’t responsible. Perhaps his attitude was psychologically rooted in his impoverished childhood and coming from…

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  • Alan Gogoll

    Alan Gogoll

    Lioness Lullabies

    Venture online and watch a few videos by Tasmanian guitarist Alan Gogoll and you’ll see he’s nothing short of a phenomenon. On acoustic, he conjures artificial harmonics in a manner that almost defies gravity. Better still, he never shows off these chops – everything on Lioness Lullabies is in the service of the song and…

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  • Jimmy Vivino

    Jimmy Vivino

    Gonna Be 2 of Those Days

    A veteran vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist and purveyor of blues, R&B, and rock’, Jimmy Vivino has an incredible résumé. A longtime fixture in Conan O’Brien’s house band, he has played on movie, radio, and Broadway projects and worked with Levon Helm, Hubert Sumlin, Al Kooper, Jimmie Vaughan, Donald Fagen, Warren Haynes, Laura Nyro, along with innumerable others. He’s…

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Dan Wilson’s celebration of jazz legends

September 28, 2023 · Vintage Guitar

Homage with Superb Musicality On his latest album, “Things Eternal,” jazz wizard Dan Wilson fuses post-bop, spirituality, and the songs…

Jon Butcher’s psychedelia mastery

December 5, 2025 · Doug Yellow Bird

Jon Butcher tales his Olympic White ’63 Strat for a rip on “Jam,” a track from his new album, “Nuthin’…

This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick

Brian J. Kramp

September 12, 2023 · Bret Adams

Bearing an incredibly accurate subtitle, the story told here is presented mostly as an oral history, loaded with minutiae about…

The Mavericks

March 30, 2017 · Rich Kienzle

Since reforming five years ago, the Mavericks have released two studio albums and 2016’s All Night Live, Vol. 1. And…

JMI Vox AC15 “Two-Tone” 1×12″

TV Star

May 19, 2025 · Dave Hunter

The permutations of early Vox models remain endlessly fascinating to vintage-amp enthusiasts, and few get us as worked up as…