Wolfgang Van Halen. "I'm not a guitarist of the year - I'm just a dude! The Wildest guitar news of 2022. Our guide to the biggest and weirdest guitar news of the year — including the one about the ballsy thief who stuffed a Gibson Les Paul down his pants in Canada! Our Guitarists of the year. GW's editors round up — all in one tidy place — the guitarists who made the biggest splashes in our crazy universe in 2022.