Matt Parker

Liverpool, Manchester

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Features Editor at GuitarWorld

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“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender - the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics - and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer |

2 weeks ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

Great Grandpa is a band full of surprises. They’re an indie rock group from Seattle, with a Berklee grad guitarist/producer in their midst, yet you’ll hear no ironed-out shred or impenetrable prog riffs. Their songs are full of lush left-turns, sliding transitions and melodic complexity, but their chief songwriter has had no formal training.
“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender - the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics - and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer |

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Matt Parker

NowWhat to eat at the Boston-area James Beard finalist restaurantsSteph and Deehan here. We wanted to know what made our Boston-area James Beard finalists stand out. So we stopped by before these spots started …1 hour agoHow Contracting Work Became a Race to the BottomBen Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof.
“It’s always in the back of your mind saying, what can we improve on? What would I do? What would I dream of in an amp?” How Clapton collaborator and session great Nathan East is teaming-up with Laney on a signature amp unlike any other

3 weeks ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

As one of the most-recorded bassists of all time – working across more than 2,000 sessions with the likes of George Harrison Stevie Wonder, and longtime collaborator Eric Clapton – Nathan East has a clear idea of what he needs from his gear.
“I used to give myself a hard time about imperfections - the challenge now is finding out what makes it human”: Guitarists need to change their approach in the face of AI. Just ask Charlie Cunningham, the acoustic virtuoso fusing Meshuggah and fingerstyle

1 month ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

In the past you had to be able to play to create any kind of music – but the arrival of AI has overturned that completely. Now you can go from a standing-start to streaming audio without touching an instrument or performing a note. So once you take away the mechanics of music creation, what’s left? UK guitarist and songwriter Charlie Cunningham is not your typical AI protestor.
“I used to give myself a hard time about imperfections - the challenge now is finding out what makes it human”: Guitarists need to change their approach in the face of AI. Just ask Charlie Cunningham, the acoustic virtuoso fusing Meshuggah and fingerstyle

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Matt Parker

16 hours agoJulien Baker and Torres "Who needs excellence when you've got charisma?" Julien Baker quipped at Wednesday's SXSW performance with Torres. The pair both oozed charm and exuded greatness at their inaugural festival set, offering a sneak peek at their forthcoming album, Send A Prayer My Way. The duo's …
“There’s a tradition in country music where an older musician - in order to give respect to a younger musician - would give them his guitar. Dad gave Bob Dylan one of his guitars”: Rosanne Cash on her father’s six-string salute to Dylan | Guitar World

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

Country icon Rosanne Cash is interviewed in the new issue of Guitarist and discusses her involvement in “the family business”, alongside the release of two new Gibson signature guitars, based on her father Johnny Cash’s SJ-200 and her own J-185. Amid the discussion, she describes her father’s contrasting attitude to guitars and guitarists – pointing to the ready accessibility they had as children to even his most valuable instruments and his honoring of Bob Dylan as evidence of his thinking.
“That’s 15 less than I’m used to….” ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis was saddled with his 17-string bass after a joke appearance went viral - now he’s experimenting with a 2-string build | Guitar World

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

ZZ Top bassist Elwood Francis has posted an update, introducing the world to his new two-string bass. Francis was formerly the band’s guitar tech: the man tasked with maintaining their fuzzy guitars (“I hated dealing with keeping the fur clean – we got little brushes for it!” he recently told GW) and keeping one of rock’s most amusing guitar collections in operable shape.
“I gave him my Les Paul to use, which, just by him holding it, increased its value by like a million dollars”: In 1992, Steve Lukather was still getting over meeting his Beatles icon - then there was a knock on the stage door | Guitar World

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

Steve Lukather has had the good fortune of playing alongside three of the Beatles – and could even go so far as to call them friends. He has been a longterm member of Ringo Starr‘s All-Starr Band and recorded and hung out with Paul McCartney during the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. However, the Toto man and session ace says it was a 1992 meeting with George Harrison that was the most rewarding for him.
“Now the minds of Kerry King and Dean are available at the perfect price for everyone”: Dean Guitars unveils a Kerry King Overlord for under $500 - and an affordable Misfits signature that’s not afraid to make a point... | Guitar World

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

NAMM 2025: Dean Guitars steadied the ship in a (mostly) drama-free 2024. Now it’s looking increasingly confident and has ramped up production on a host of new signature models for 2025 – complete with some bold ‘X’ import builds. The most striking of the new builds is the new affordable Annihilator X variant of Misfits man Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein’s signature guitar.
“In line with my creative spirit and DIY methodology, I've chosen to create one from the ground up”: Coheed and Cambria guitarist Claudio Sanchez has designed his own signature guitar - and launched his own brand to make it | Guitar World

2 months ago | guitarworld.com | Matt Parker

NAMM 2025: Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez has unveiled a new signature guitar, the Jackhammer, which he’ll be producing under his own Evil Instruments brand. Those familiar with Sanchez, the restless creative mind behind the band – who alongside 11 studio albums, has also penned a series of comic books and novels and has a musical side project The Prize Fighter Inferno – will not be surprised by this seemingly bold step into luthiery. However, he’s not going at it alone.

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