Guitar Player is the world’s most comprehensive, trusted and insightful guitar publisher for passionate guitarists and active musicians of all ages. Established as a print magazine in 1967, Guitar Player continues to live at GuitarPlayer.com, where it covers the latest guitar news in rock, blues, metal and jazz, and presents exclusive interviews, gear reviews and video lessons. Stay up to date by joining the Guitar Player community on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The Guitar Player Story
As the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, Guitar Player began giving guitarists exclusive insights into their favorite artists and music in 1967, when it was the first — and only — magazine of its kind.
Guitar Player established its reputation as an authority by featuring groundbreaking interviews with players like Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman and other guitarists from the classic rock era. In 1978, the magazine helped usher in a new era of guitar pyrotechnics when it published the first in-depth interview with Eddie Van Halen. It would go on to help launch and further the solo career of Steve Vai, whose solo debut, "The Attitude Song," was featured on the magazine’s first flexi-disc Sound Sheet recording, which was bound into the October 1984 issue.
Today, Guitar Player continues in the tradition of its founders online at GuitarPlayer.com, where we provide exclusive in-depth interviews with your favorite guitar heroes, deep instructive video lessons and authoritative gear reviews. Whether you want to catch up on your favorite artist’s work, discover new playing techniques or read honest, in-depth reviews that help you choose your next guitar, amp, pedal or recording gear, Guitar Player delivers. And because we embrace rock, blues, fusion, jazz, metal and world music, we are the first stop for guitarists whose interests run both wide and deep.
Guitar Player Editorial team
Guitar Player editorial team
Christopher Scapelliti (Editor-in-Chief): chris.scapelliti@futurenet.com
Postal Address: Guitar Player, Future, Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, USA
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Advertising contacts
Advertising contacts
Robert Dye (Account Executive): Robert.Dye@futurenet.com
Jeff Donnenwerth (Account Executive): jeff.donnenwerth@futurenet.com
Why you can trust us
Our editorial team prides itself on its impartiality and independence. Our writers have years of experience in guitar playing, gear retail, live performance, recording and music journalism to bring you hands-on reviews that you can trust.
You can trust that information you read on Guitar Player is accurate and has not been paid for. Any sponsored articles will be clearly badged as such. Supported articles are created as part of a paid partnership, but the contents of this article are entirely independent and solely reflect the editorial opinion of Guitar Player. A client may pay us to create content on a topic, but has no say in how we do that or what angle we take. Again, any examples of this will be clearly badged.
Advertisers cannot buy reviews, buyer’s guides, ‘best lists’, or deals posts.
Affiliate & Advertising disclosure
We are committed to helping you find the best products and services for your needs and connecting you with trustworthy retailers where you can purchase them at competitive prices. Within our editorial content, we often provide links to products and services on retailer sites for which we can receive compensation – called an affiliate fee – if you click on those links or make purchases through them. That affiliate fee is paid to us by the retailer and does not directly affect the price you pay for the product or service.
Our expert editorial teams are independent. This means the products and services they select to appear in our articles are chosen based on their unbiased, expert judgement and relevance to the readers' needs and article content. While our editors may be informed by commercial insights to understand the market, our goal is always to provide independent, objective, valuable and useful advice to our readers.
Our curated product widgets that you see in some of our articles are intended to help you find the best products and services, at competitive prices, at trusted retailers. Those widgets are powered by our own software, called Hawk, which displays the latest product and price information from thousands of retailers. We will always do our best to ensure that we display the most up-to-date information possible. On occasion, a retailer may have updated their prices, up or down, before the adverts displayed by Hawk are updated. Retailers may also add delivery or other costs to the purchase – please see the retailer's site for more information. The affiliate fees we receive help us to continue developing Hawk as well as helping to pay our teams and other website costs.
We also run advertising in various forms. Ads on our websites are designed in a way that makes them clearly identifiable as ads and distinguishable from our editorial articles.
From time to time, we also publish paid-for editorial content on the site. This content is labelled so you can see who has funded it and how it was created. We have a full guide to content funding on Guitar Player here. You can also see the full terms and conditions that apply to your use of our sites right here.
We are regulated
Guitar Player is a member of the IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) which regulates the UK print and digital news industry.
We abide by the Editors’ Code of Practice and are committed to upholding the highest standards of journalism. If you think that we have not met those standards and want to make a complaint, please contact legal@futurenet.com
If we are unable to resolve your complaint, or if you would like more information about IPSO or the Editors’ Code, contact IPSO on 0300 123 2220 or visit www.ipso.co.uk
