Chris Gill

6 days ago | guitarworld.com | Jackson Maxwell |Chris Gill

For an incredible 50+ years, Elton John's live band – truly one of the most underrated in rock – has been anchored by guitarist Davey Johnstone, who first teamed up with the pop superstar at the tender age of 19. It shouldn't come as a big surprise, then, that Johnstone has stories aplenty from all those years of touring madness – but a particularly great one is how he came into possession of one of his most prized guitars, a three-pickup, gold hardware-adorned Gibson Les Paul Custom.

3 weeks ago | guitarworld.com | Chris Gill

Designed in collaboration with guitarist Lee Kiernan of Idles (whose records, T-shirts and commemorative plates we hoard and treasure), Gary is a versatile dirt box with a split personality, with one side providing gnarly automatic pulse-width modulation fuzz while the other side offers robust op-amp overdrive based on the green channel of EarthQuaker’s classic Gray Channel dual overdrive.

1 month ago | guitarworld.com | Chris Gill

So many cool new thinline semi-hollow electric guitars have emerged recently that it would be safe to say that we’re in the middle of a semi-hollow renaissance. D’Angelico has played a big part in that development, with the company currently offering 22 different semi-hollow models across its entire line, from the upscale Deluxe series to the affordable Premier series.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Chris Gill

“More stupid than rock and roll”: The genre John Lennon hated with a passionRock and roll has always been a fairly self-contained genre. Some of the biggest artists in the world have never been afraid to dip their toes into …

1 month ago | guitarworld.com | Chris Gill

In my humble opinion, the B.C. Rich Mockingbird is the most symbolic electric guitar of the ’70s, both because it is so damn wickedly cool and because it checks all of the right boxes. Natural laminated-wood hippie-sandwich with neck-through construction? Check. High-output humbuckers? Check. Custom electronics with a confusing array of switches? Check. Radical original body shape? Check.