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Reverb x St. Vincent Studio Tour

Coming in February 2025!

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Enter to Win Joe Bonamassa's Way Huge Deep State #10!

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Vintage Electric Guitars

Fender Bass Guitar

Slash reflects on the Gibson guitars that made an impact

We caught up with GNR guitar hero Slash and asked him about his music gear preferences. Learn more in the link!

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"You Just Do It": Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth on the Secret of Great Basslines | Bacon's Archive

Tony Bacon interviewed Tina Weymouth in London toward the end of 1988 when Tom Tom Club were in town. He wanted to know about her bass playing, primarily in Talking Heads—their final album, Naked, had come out earlier that year—as she'd always seemed to him a fine and underrated bassist, from that perfectly simple intro to "Psycho Killer" to the spacier realms of "I Zimbra" or the worldly charm of "Totally Nude." She began their conversation with an ominous evaluation of her own instrument.

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Slash's First, Last & Best Gear

Slash, dishing the dirt. In our "First, Last, Best" series, we ask musicians to give us the first guitar, last guitar, and best guitar they've ever had. Guitar, in this example, can really be swapped out with any piece of gear. With Slash, we talk his go-to brand Gibson in particular, some of his favorite pedals, and even some of his most sought-after dream gear.

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Exchange the Experience: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI

40 years before Stranger Things re-introduced her single "Running Up That Hill" to a younger generation of curious listeners as the character Max's favorite song, a 24-year-old Kate Bush would release her 4th studio album The Dreaming. Not only does it remain among the British art-pop provocateur's boldest statements, but it would also be the first of several albums she'd produce herself. But what was the canvas that Kate used to turn these tales into sonic experiments?

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Guitar Riffs

Philosophy

All About Time

Slash Shows Off His Touring Rig & Talks Gear Philosophy

What is one of Slash’s all-time favorite guitar riffs?

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Peter Frampton Shares Guitar Stories—George Harrison, Electric Lady & More

We here at Reverb had a chance to sit down with Peter Frampton a few years ago to talk about the return of his 1954 Phenix Les Paul Custom. The musician graciously shared with us lots of excellent stories about his career and collection.

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Brian Eno's Most Surprising Music Gear Choices

Throughout his career, Brian Eno has been fascinated by affordable, quirky, and often malfunctioning gear for use in his music. His unconventional instrument choices prioritize sound quality over technical specs or brand names.

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Big Boi

Exchange the Experience: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI

Forty years before Stranger Things re-introduced her single "Running Up That Hill" to a younger generation of curious listeners as the character Max's favorite song, a 24-year-old Kate Bush would release her fourth studio album The Dreaming. Not only does it remain among the British art-pop provocateur's boldest statements, but it would also be the first of several albums she'd produce herself. So, what was the canvas that Kate used to turn these tales into sonic experiments?

"You Just Do It": Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth on the Secret of Great Basslines

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Liverpool Club

Echo And The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen's First "Echo" Was This Drum Machine

A humble Korg Mini Pops Junior, purchased for £80 by Will Sergeant, provided the early backbone of the Liverpool post-punk group that Sergeant formed with singer Ian McCulloch in 1978. In fact, as Sergeant jokes, in the band’s early days “the drum machine was the only professional among us.” The machine’s nickname, Echo, was just a band joke that caught on when the press took it seriously. And the Mini Pops lasted for less than a dozen early Bunnymen shows before it was replaced.

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Joe Bonamassa Plays Hendrix's "Band of Gypsys" Rig—For Real & For Less

What has Joe learned after amassing one of the most impressive collections of vintage gear in the world? You don't really need it. On a recent trip to Bonamassa's Nerdville museum of vintage guitar gear, we put a sound test together with him and Dunlop's Jeorge Tripps. Could we, first, set up a period-correct rig of Hendrix gear? (Thanks to Joe's collection, that was easily done.) And, second, see how a $1,000 setup compared?

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Mike Dean

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Mike Dean Building a Track Is Analog Synth Mayhem | The Process

Even if you don't know his name, you know Mike Dean's sound. The super-producer and "Synth God" solo artist is a pillar of modern music production. The Weeknd, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Madonna, Jay-Z, Christine and the Queens—these artists and more have made classics with Dean, and that's just his recent work. Ahead of an upcoming solo performance at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre on March 1, Mike Dean treated us to an afternoon session. We arrived to talk synths and ending up catching a full track get built from scratch. Inspiration struck, and a new song was born.