Guitarist

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Loss & Legacy

Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

Strange Times • Danelectro presents a pair of far-from-historically-correct Short Horns. Where to start?

Smooth Operator • Orange swaps the grit for growl to make this new release its purest-sounding premium all-valve head yet

Wild Wood • Cort introduces a gold standard to its acoustic line with a grand auditorium model that pairs two of the mightiest tonewoods

Hazee Days • Beetronics cross-pollinates delay and modulation to create textural sounds that blur the boundaries between them

Found Fuzz • Long-lost circuitry featuring two op-amps is resurrected for the latest iteration of the classic Electro-Harmonix pedal

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • Simon McBride tells us how Splat! ’s “big, powerful sound” evokes Purple’s 70s-era heyday – and is one of their heaviest albums yet

Old Is The New New • Neville Marten digs out a few old guitars that were moved to the back burner and discovers some great players and fond memories, too

Back In Sync’ • This month Alex Bishop inherits a 1940s Gretsch archtop and restores it back to its deserved ‘gig-worthy’ spec

Hybrid Guitars • Sonic expansion or evolutionary dead-end? Acoustic/electric mash-ups can be extraordinary, as Michael Watts discovers

Recycled Chord Shapes • Richard Barrett shakes up conventional fretboard positions and finds some interesting new sounds from familiar chord shapes

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

ALAN ENTWISTLE 1947 – 2026 • The great electronics designer has died at 79, leaving his retro-modern pickups to echo his genius in countless electric guitars

STEVE CLARKE 1955-2026 • A scrupulously accurate expert and author on historic instruments who authenticated some of the most iconic guitars in the world

LAURA COX • Now a fully fledged touring artist with three albums to her credit, Laura tells us about her journey from YouTube stardom to taking her rightful place in the touring spotlight

BRIAN ROBERTSON • Scott Gorham has long been the public face of Thin Lizzy. Now, Brian Robertson, the man behind Lizzy’s trademark six-string harmonies, gives Guitarist his perspective on the band’s classic era

ICED CREAM • When Eric Clapton’s fabled ‘Beano’ ’Burst was stolen at the height of his mid-60s Bluesbreakers fame, he turned to Andy Summers for a replacement. That guitar, a 1960 Les Paul Standard, was the one Eric used for his next project, an all-new power trio named Cream. Hidden away from public view for nearly 60 years, the guitar – as influential in its way as ‘Beano’ – has now resurfaced in Paris, and we were able to get up close with it and tell its remarkable story in the following pages

TALES OF CREAM ELECTRICS • Beyond the stories of Clapton’s lost ’Bursts, the guitarist reached for a variety of instruments during his tenure in Cream, from the iconic ‘Fool’ SG to a mid-60s ES-335

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