Guitar World – Vol 47 No 4 April 2026 – Guitar World (1)

I bought that guitar… I guess it had been around Boston. Different people had it and sold it, and then I came across it — and for a good price! I can’t remember what I paid for it, but it was around $2,500. It was your main Les Paul in the Seventies, but you sold it after you left Aerosmith in 1979. Yeah — I had a few extras, but I wasn’t really into collecting guitars.

If I needed a guitar, I’d just go down to the music store and buy one, usually a new one. After I left Aerosmith, I needed money for Christmas, and I remember selling it for $4,500. Do you remember who you sold it to? I’m not sure, but once it left my hands, I lost track of it. That had to be 1980 or so. At some point, you tried to track it down but had trouble finding it.

After Aerosmith got back together [in 1984], we owed the record company a lot of money and had to buy our way out of our old record deal. That’s how low we’d sunk as far as the business end of things. It wasn’t until we signed to Geffen Records that we started to have a little money, and I thought, “It would be great if I could track down some of the guitars I lost.” I started making calls and talking to some of my techs, and it seemed like every six months, the dollar signs in front of those ’59s were going up.

But I really wanted to try and get back some of the guitars I’d had, and I remember calling everybody. It was Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford who told you that Slash had it, right? Yes. I told Brad, and he said, “I know where it is.” I said, “Really? Where?” He opened up Guitar Player, I think, and there was a spread of Slash’s gui- tar collection, and right in the middle of it was my ’59 Les Paul — right there in the magazine.

Is it true that Slash wasn’t really into selling you the guitar? Right. We’d gotten to be friends, and when I asked him, he went, “Oh, man… don’t ask me that.” I said, “I’ll buy it back and pay whatever you want.” But he said, “Don’t ask me, please!”

30 Bob Weir (1947-2026) Guitar World salutes Grateful Dead original Bob Weir, who passed away January 10 at age 78. Weir’s final performances were with Dead & Company last July before massive crowds at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary. 38 Tailgunner The rising U.K. rockers’ new album is a love letter to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the Eighties. Hell, it’s even produced by former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing. Meet young guns Rhea Thompson and Zach Salvini. And yeah, we spoke to Downing too!

42 Alter Bridge When it came to tracking their new album, Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy found themselves in a truly inspirational environment — L.A.’s 5150 Studios, the late Eddie Van Halen’s longtime creative space. 48 The Joe Perry gear guide Did you know Joe Perry’s “Aerosmith phase 1” 1959 Les Paul randomly found its way into Slash’s collection and was dramatically returned to Perry? Read on! 50>>> Guitars: From a well-traveled vintage Gibson Les Paul to a mid- Eighties Guild Blade Runner to a late-Seventies 10-string B.C.

Rich to a nearly forgotten Gibson Custom Black Burst (plus a little dose of Dazzle), Aerosmith’s Joe Perry reveals the stories behind at least nine standouts from his impressive and ever-evolving guitar stash — and nominates the coolest pointy ax of all time 60>>> Amplifiers: A casual guide to the Hollywood Vampire’s go-to guitar amps, decade by decade, including the Orange Terror Stamp he used when recording last year’s One More Time EP with Aerosmith and Yungblud 64>>> Effects: We found out what pedals were on Perry’s “home” pedalboard one random day in the not-too-distant past.

Hey, why not? D E PA R T M E N T S 15 Tune-Ups Billy Gibbons discusses the making of ZZ Top’s 1981 album, El Loco, and Marillion’s Steve Rothery lists his three favorite guitars. We also catch up with Haim’s Danielle Haim and Tiles’ Chris Herin, plus Warren Haynes, who revisits a vintage Guitar World cover, and Göran Malmberg, who built ABBA guitarist Björn Ulvaeus’ star guitar.

And hey, we’ve also got the Wedding Present’s David Gedge and Rachael Wood.

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