Arteconciencias: “I've had hundreds of thousands of guitars pass through my hands – there's a difference between a good guitar and a great guitar”: The Music Zoo founder Tommy Colletti has launched his own USA-built custom guitar line, Colletti Guitars

What’s the best guitar solo of 2023? | “This is unforgettable. This guitar will stay in my private collection”: Paul Stanley played this Gibson Flying V at the final Kiss concerts – now he’s gifted it to a high-profile vintage guitar dealer | “Even if there are only a few sounds, I try to play in a way that directly expresses my feelings and touches our hearts”: Boris guitarist Wata is an experimental rock legend – and three decades on, her playing is still impossible to pigeonhole

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December 8, 2023

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“I've had hundreds of thousands of guitars pass through my hands – there's a difference between a good guitar and a great guitar”: The Music Zoo founder Tommy Colletti has launched his own USA-built custom guitar line, Colletti Guitars

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The guitar retailer has turned to manufacturing with a high-spec, customizable, Strat-styled six-string – with an eye-popping headstock

What's the best guitar solo of 2023?

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"This is unforgettable. This guitar will stay in my private collection": Paul Stanley played this Gibson Flying V at the final Kiss concerts – now he's gifted it to a high-profile vintage guitar dealer

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Don't expect it to crop up on the private collectors circuit soon, though – its new owner has decided to add it to his personal collection, and we don't blame him one bit

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"Even if there are only a few sounds, I try to play in a way that directly expresses my feelings and touches our hearts": Boris guitarist Wata is an experimental rock legend – and three decades on, her playing is still impossible to pigeonhole

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Wata reveals what inspired the Japanese noise-rock icons to team up with NYC industrial metallers Uniform for an album rich in atmosphere and ambiguity – and how the bands' three total guitarists each found their own space in the mix

"There was no way I was shredding like them – I had to find my space in their universe": Meet Shubh Saran, the shred chameleon whose jams with Jakub Zytecki and Mark Holcomb helped him find his voice – and left Plini asking, "What the f**k is happening?"

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Armed with a Fender John Mayer Strat and a host of diverse musical projects, Saran's guitar approach draws from blink-182 and Allan Holdsworth in equal measure – and his unique solos have blown his shred peers' minds

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How Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, and "the Randy Rhoads school of soloing" helped Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde write No More Tears

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As Wylde recalls, this 1991 Osbourne classic virtually wrote itself

"If you don't get your act together, then you can't expect your band to be." Session player and bandleader Ben Misterka shares his wisdom on playing savvy in the post-pandemic world

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With performance budgets crunched to the max, life on the road these days is more challenging than ever. Here's how to make the most of your opportunities