Gretsch G6636-RF RICHARD FORTUS SIGNATURE FALCON. Indeed, when MusicRadar spoke to Fortus in 2022 about the Falcons, he said “They’ve proven to be incredibly stable on this tour”.

Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Richard Fortus will unveil a new signature guitar with Paoletti this week at the NAMM show in Anaheim. I spoke with Fortus about the guitar, playing with Slash and much more.

Richard Fortus is at his home in St Louis, Missouri. He’s recently returned from a spate of club gigs with electronic rock experimentalists Headtronics, and is currently in the midst of producing the ...

Richard Fortus says it was so hot in Saudi Arabia that his pickups melted. Guitars Gretsch’s unveils new MIJ high-end semi-hollows with redesigned bodies and Pro Twin Six humbuckers. Artists Periphery ...

Brett Hellings and Richard Fortus of Guns N’ Roses chatted about the rock band Hellings and their new music. Hellings, with lead singer Brett Hellings on vocals and an all-star supergroup ...

But Richard Fortus has identified two of the biggest changes that can be made to a Strat and he credits Jimi Hendrix with finding them. In a recent interview with Total Guitar, ...

In 2017, when guitarist Richard Fortus stood on the biggest stage in town — at the Dome at America’s Center, where he was performing as a member of Guns N’ Roses — he was wearing a T-shirt ...

Richard Fortus believes Jimi Hendrix inadvertently fixed two glaring issues with Leo Fender’s Stratocaster design, and ...

Richard Fortus is a familiar sight onstage in his native St. Louis. Richard Fortus of Guns N' Roses gets experimental with Headtronics Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

Richard Fortus was invited to join Guns N’ Roses in 2002. Seeing a full-blown rock star — the shoulder-length black hair, the skin-tight black jeans, the Chuck Taylors, ...

Fortus adds, "People talk about not doing stuff for money, but he really will not do something strictly for money. He's all about the music. It's gotta be about the music.

Oh, and on some occasions it do something even more drastic – like what happened to Richard Fortus just the other day. Fortus was playing at the Mohammed Abdu Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.