Peter Hodgson

Mike Campbell is the guitar voice of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, co-writer of ‘The Boys Of Summer’ with Don Henley, collaborator with ...

Every Steve Vai tour brings with it some sort of unusual guitar upon which Steve makes some kind of jaw-dropping musical and aesthetic statement. On the Fire Garden tour it was a ridiculously tricked-out Stratocaster (belonging to his guitar tech, the legendary tinkerer Thomas Nordegg). Ultra Zone? A triple-neck,

Adelaide-based musician Nick Vulture and his debut solo album Dust Off The Trails is like a musical distillation of this concept – at times it gets pretty sombre, ruminating on feelings of disconnectedness and helplessness, but always with an eye to when things will be okay again. Read up

When Fender Musical Instrument Corporation (FMIC) acquired the Jackson brand in 2002, it felt like a great opportunity to set up a kickass US production line to bring this classic Californian brand back to the masses. But it didn’t quite happen that way. Sure, you could order a USA

The guitar world is well and truly sorted for pastel blue and pink Superstrats with roasted maple necks and two-point tremolo systems, right? Naaaaah, there’s always room for more. And the Sterling Cutlass CT50HSS, based on a USA-made model by Sterling’s big brother Ernie Ball Music Man, can certainly make a case for itself as […]