“This bass has plenty of cutting power, and it’s versatile enough to handle just about any gig”: Cort GB-Fusion 4 review
A new entry to the wallet-friendly bassmarket, the Cort GB-Fusion 4 combines impressive pickups and hardware with classic J-Bass style
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Five For Friday: May 16, 2025
Get ready to rip and tear with the latest in metal from Full of Hell, Blood Monolith, Desekryptor and more!
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“Eric had sweated through the paint job – not long after that the headstock snapped off”: Also owned by George Harrison, Eric Clapton’s “Fool” SG was already legendary by the time it ended up in Todd Rundgren’s hands – but that journey had taken its toll
An emblem of Clapton’s Cream days and the Summer of Love, it was in dire need of some TLC by the time Rundgren got his hands on it
Read more » Guitar World deals of the week: save over $1,000 on a Gibson acoustic, bag a chunky $100 off a J. Rockett pedal, plus all the week’s best bargains
We’ve been hard at work grabbing hold of all the best deals on guitar gear from all across the web
Read more » “Johnny will sometimes come out with something and we’ll laugh at the bludgeoning nature of it”: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs on happy accidents with broken pedals, collabs with hip-hop royalty, and the riff that’s so heavy they can’t play it live
Death Hilarious finds Pigs x7 in full-on destroy everything mode, splitting the atom with low-end guitar. As Sam Grant and Adam Ian Sykes admit, this sonic maximalism is not without risk
Read more » “Ilike doing weird things like playing myphone through my pickups, and then looping that while playing over the top”: How Bonnie Trash’s Emmalia Bortolon-Vettor is reinventing guitar sounds with a $1 ring slide, a looper and her imagination
Meet the Canadian quartet twisting post-rock with gothic noise and avant-garde surrealism, whose freewheeling approach requires economical gear and a curious mind
Read more » “We wrote a song based on a riff I had. The idea was to be Mahavishnu Orchestra with vocals”: After Deep Purple decided not to hire him after Ritchie Blackmore’s departure, Clem Clempson almost formed a wild supergroup with Glenn Hughes and David Bowie
The Colosseum and Humble Pie guitarist was in with a shot at joining the band –but says Tommy Bolin got the gig for one specific reason
Read more » “A rare and culturally critical guitar directly tied to the end of the Beatles and Cream”: A 1913 Gibson acoustic – played and owned by George Harrison and Eric Clapton – has been listed on Reverb
The historically significant guitar was featured on the final albums by the Beatles and Cream and helped launch the guitarists’ solo careers
Read more » “The first thing you need to do islisten to what the other instrumentalist isplaying and see if what you’re doing can enhance that”: Cory Wong on the secrets of collaboration and how to stack and blend guitar parts that complement the song
Looking for the perfect part to play with another guitarist? Wong says it’s all about finding the compositional “hook” – and he has some practical examples to show us
Read more » “If Bobby and Mickey want to do it, I want to do it”: Dead & Company’s Sphere residency is drawing to a close – but is new music from John Mayer and Bob Weir on the cards?
The band had originally formed as a live act, but the project could yet live on after the residency wraps this week
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