Rachel Roberts

Steve Vax playing his heart shaped guitar as part of David Lee Roth's band

Before Steve Vai, another guitarist piqued David Lee Roth’s interest for his solo band

Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell playing guitar together on stage in 2012.

“I thought, this is not me”: Kim Thayil explains why Chris Cornell played guitar during the verses of Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun

Neural DSP Quad Cortex Major Update

Neural DSP’s new Quad Cortex update will bring long-awaited plugin compatibility

Paul Gilbert playing guitar with a small drill on stage

Watch: Paul Gilbert spontaneously jams with guitar shopper he overheard playing Little Wing

Jennifer Batten on stage. She is looking directly at her fretboard as she is playing and has vibrant pink in her hair.

“Every musical era finds a way to screw the artists – and they’ve succeeded yet again”: Jennifer Batten on the challenges musicians face today

Jimi Hendrix (left) and Joe Bonamassa (right). Hendrix is captured playing a Strat, Bonamassa has a Les Paul in hand. Both are photographed on stage.

Watch Joe Bonamassa put budget gear to the test as he plays Hendrix’s Band Of Gypsys Rig “for real and for less”

Kirk Hammett Greeny Les Paul

“It freaks me out”: Kirk Hammett owns another iconic rockstar guitar as well as Greeny

Adrian Bellow (left) and Steve Van (right). Both have electric guitars in hand and are on stage.

Adrian Belew forms supergroup with Steve Vai, Tony Levin, and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson music with Robert Fripp’s blessing

Universal Audio plugin

UAD’s Essentials bundle is currently just £49, saving you £250 on “rich analogue tones heard on decades of classic albums”

Alex Lifeson performing live

“For a little while I thought it’d be good to get back out on tour. And then I thought… ‘Nah, not really’”: Alex Lifeson says he’s “not interested” in touring with Rush

Gilby Clarke playing guitar under purple lighting. He's wearing shades and has his mouth open as if singing.

“Slash called and said, ‘You got the gig. We leave next week. Learn the whole catalog’”: Gilby Clarke on how he joined Guns N’ Roses in the ’90s

The Zoom MS-70CDR+. It is a blue, small pedal with four large buttons for memory and scroll, with the pedal switch situated in the middle. It also hosts a coloured screen.

Zoom unveils the MS-70CDR+ MultiStomp with over 140 effects and 100 patch slots

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