CONTACT PJD Guitars PHONE 07891 201729 WEB www.pjdguitars.com 1 These look more expensive than the previous PJDs you’ve reviewed. Yes, both guitars here are from PJD’s new Custom Shop and give the company’s founder Leigh Dovey and Josh Parkin the op

“John Hammond Jr is the son of John Hammond, the great A&R man at CBS who signed Bob Dylan. Oddly enough, he never signed his son, but Rory loved John Hammond Jr’s albums and his playing, and one of his ambitions, once he got out to the States, was t

Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Knaggs Choptank, Keeley Boss SD-1 & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty 30 mins per example THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT for this Headlines was going to be ‘Some Useful Vocabulary For Slide Using Standard Tuning’ – or words to that effec

As a sibling to the famed Roland Corporation, Boss began its own ascent in the mid-1970s with the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble pedal, an effect that, until then, had only been available in Roland’s Jazz Chorus amps. Very quickly, the Boss CE-1 found its way

CONTACT Fender Musical Instruments PHONE 01342 331700 WEB www.fender.com Greasebucket Fender’s Greasebucket circuit first appeared in 2005, removing high-end without losing gain or muddying your sound. It does so by effectively applying a bandpass f

Auden acoustics have featured many times in these pages, even claiming top spot on the winners’ podium for the Austin 12-string in issue 441’s Gear Of The Year. And so we always keep a keen eye open whenever the company lets us know that a new model

Fans of Rory’s famous Irish Tour ’74 album – one of the great live rock and blues recordings of our time – will know the National as the guitar used on the track As The Crow Flies, with its metallic yet soulful voice evoking so many of the old blues

Rory’s 1959 Fender Esquire, the earliest photos of which date from live gigs in Milwaukee, 1971, saw many changes over the years. A crude engraving on the guitar’s neckplate, still visible today, gives a clue to the guitar’s origins, reading: “Proper

With no fewer than 18 CDs and two Blu-ray discs, this boxset is the definitive record of Rory Gallagher’s appearances at the BBC. The CDs consist of everything Rory recorded for The Beeb from 1971 to 1986 and covers radio concerts and sessions. Meanw

What was the first serious guitar that you purchased with your own money? “My Jackson… no, my BC Rich Bich 10-string.” What was the last guitar you bought and why? “I just bought a Gibson Les Paul Silverburst; it’s the second guitar in my collect

By her own description, Ani DiFranco set out on her career in the early 80s as “this little chick in the corner with an acoustic guitar, trying to get the attention of people who were not naturally predisposed to pay attention to her little heartfelt

Future Publishing Limited, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath, BA1 1UA Telephone 01225 442244 Email [email protected] Online www.guitarist.co.uk This issue’s cover feature about the upcoming sale of Rory Gallagher’s guitars got me thinking about what

Sometimes, when music theory ties us in knots, it’s good to remember that so much of what we’re dealing with is just names for sounds. And sometimes those names struggle to keep up with the complexities of music as much as we do! One term that can th

Gibson had used the ‘Electric Spanish’ or ‘ES’ designation since the launch of its first electric guitar, the ES-150, in 1936, but it would later become synonymous with the thinline double-cutaway ‘semi-acoustic’ ES-335T, which first appeared on the

Sony Music (release date: 6 September) 9/10 A wistful, moody and reflective epic from the Floyd legend Gilmour’s solo albums have always lived outside the Floyd canon, while also still displaying evidence of an irrevocable link. There are reference

Although people know me as a maker, repairer and educator of guitars, it’s not uncommon to see some unusual instruments pass through the workshop. Anything that has strings and requires plucking tends to qualify for my attention and this month alone

Album: Electrified (Rattle Shake Records) Was there a particular track that kicked off your latest record, Electrified? “One of the tunes that kicked it off is a deep cut, which is a song called Moving. With this record, I wanted to keep it true to

CONTACT Gibson & Epiphone PHONE 00800 44427661 WEB www.gibson.comwww.epiphone.com 1 Isn’t Gibson celebrating the Junior with an anniversary model? Not as far as we know, although it is the company’s 130th anniversary, so maybe they have their hands

Rory had a lifelong affection for single-pickup student guitars that he often modded with more powerful pickups then played on the major stages of the world. Arguably, this guitar – serial number 60937 – is the most famous guitar of that style in Ror

29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024 On 22 July, blues legend and bandleader John Mayall died at his home in California. He was 90 years old. Mayall was born in Macclesfield in 1933, and first courted music by scouring his father’s imported collection of

During the years when Rory’s Strat saw use in hundreds of gigs, Donal was Rory’s de facto manager – travelling the world with him and handling everything from air freight to negotiating record deals. He was the only person Rory trusted to handle busi

A little over 45 years ago, a then pretty unknown English band released a self-financed album called Outlandos d’Amour. It had been recorded out of hours at a small studio in Leatherhead, Surrey, between January and September of 1978, on secondhand t

Is the single-pickup ES-330 quietly one of Gibson’s best guitars – and why does it sound so uniquely good? Bob Wootton finds out p82 We join one of the most original and brilliantly introspective songwriters in America to talk acoustic guitars and mo

ESTIMATE £10,000–15,000 Bought by Rory in honour of Brian Jones of the Stones ESTIMATE £1,500–2,000 Mahogany solidbody made for Rory by Chris Eccleshall ESTIMATE £12,000–15,000 A stage-used cult-classic with a Res-O-Glas body ESTIMATE £2,000–3,000 A

With the prices of classic-model and boutique amps going up a fair bit in recent times, I thought I’d offer an informal round-up of relatively inexpensive combos, heads and amp-like devices that have impressed us a lot at Guitarist over the past few

Electronic tremolo employs circuitry to mimic musical effects that have traditionally been produced by playing techniques on certain instruments. If you were ever required to memorise Italian terms for music theory exams, you may be familiar with the

For this issue we photographed Rory’s guitars, for perhaps the final time, in the Royal Albert Hall – the scene of some of Rory’s most glorious moments. So perhaps it’s only fitting we share a story about the one occasion where Rory, the consummate l

Rory Gallagher’s ’61 Stratocaster is one of the most iconic guitars of all time. Fender’s Custom Shop replica of it is a good guitar, make no doubt, but no craftsperson could truly recreate what that guitar has been through, where it’s travelled and

Why do most single-pickup guitars have the pickup at the bridge and the more jazz-oriented guitars have theirs at the neck? I wish some manufacturers offered a middle-position, single-pickup guitar model like my cool 1950s Kay-built, single-pickup el

John Lennon’s aunt Mimi told him, “The guitar’s all right as a hobby, John, but you’ll never make a living at it.” After The Beatles made it he put the phrase onto a plaque and sent it to his aunt at the house he’d bought her with his musicianly earn