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“Automatically you go into blues when you do that”: Big Country's golden guitar rule that steered them clear of the blues

The band drew great inspiration from Thin Lizzy’s sonic template, but they made a concerted effort to avoid being labeled as a blues band

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“I’d buy a ‘54 Strat, and then I’d sell it, buy one, sell it… I just kept trading them off. I’ve been disappointed in some of those”: Eric Johnson on why a guitar's age, value, and cool factor don't necessarily make it a better instrument

Flirtations with vintage gems haven't always yielded the results the virtuoso wanted

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“The company that handles all our equipment has completely boned us. We have literally nothing to play”: The All-American Rejects cancel show after gear is “mistakenly shipped across the country”

The band have staked their claim for the ‘weirdest gig cancellation’ of the year

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“I certainly didn’t know how to build a studio. It was all Donn’s magic”: Donn Landee, the engineer who masterminded 5150 Studios, and helped shape Van Halen’s sound, dies at 79

The recording engineer was a key figure in Van Halen’s first eight albums and made Eddie Van Halen's ahead-of-his-time vision for 5150 Studios a reality

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“I was 8 and Andy was my first guitar teacher – to me he was Mr. Summers with a funny accent!”Doug Pettibone on taking lessons from Andy Summers, touring with Jewel, and not getting fired by John Mayer

The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel until Mayer helped him make it

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“I put it in the freezer overnight and took a blowtorch to it”: Joe Perry put his “desert island guitar” through hell but it’s still his number one

Perry’s Fender/Warmoth “Burned Strat” aka the “Rat Strat” was the main guitar on Aerosmith’s recent collab with Yungblud

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“That changed everything for me. ‘It doesn’t hurt. I could play like this all day long. And it sounds great!’’ How a Hendrix hack helped The Collect Pond’s Danny Moffat play through his health issues

A jangle-pop-inspired Boston post-punk band that shares its name with a putrid body of water in 19th-century Lower Manhattan? What’s not to love!

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“There are really good ’Bursts, average ’Bursts and some that are not that good at all”: What this pristine 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard tells us about the myth of the ’Bursts

A so-called Double-O, this 1960 Les Paul was made from ’59 parts, and is a bona-fide grail. But this was not always the case. Back in the day, players just didn't get the appeal

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“I wasn't trying to make a retro album. I went through a Fractal”: Avenged Sevenfold’s Zachary Baker rides alone on Dark Horse – cooking up a country album with little more than a modeler and an Epiphone acoustic

He built his name shredding stages with one of metal's biggest bands. Now, Zacky Vengeance talks us through the making of his debut album and why he relied on digital modelers over amps

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“I told myself I’d stop buying JHS Pedals gear. At this rate, my pedalboard is going to look like a shrine to the company”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the most outrageous Ibanez I think I’ve ever seen

Feast your eyes on all the weird and wonderful guitar gear that dropped this week, with new releases from Strymon, Ibanez, Catalinbread, and more

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“I am 10 times the player when I hold a guitar pick the ‘wrong’ way”: A blues guitar hero showed me how he held his pick – and it changed the way I played guitar

Some sage advice has shaped my entire playing journey – and anyone can give it a go for immediate results

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“I’ve never met Noel Gallagher, but I’ve heard he liked Strange Times”: The unsung 1986 album that inspired the ’90s Britpop boom

The big-name fans. The studio where the Smiths tracked The Queen Is Dead. The bird that got caught in the control room. This is the story of the Chameleons’ Stranger Times

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“We continued being friends for 69 years. I don’t think there’s nobody living today that knew him as long as I did”: Bobby Rush salutes his old friend B.B. King

In his own words, Rush reflects on the brilliance of B.B. and what he learned from the King of the Blues

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“It was a lot of trial and error with Dave – a lot of just trying to find out what worked, fine-tune it and then do it again”: Jimmie Vaughan on the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Top 40 hit that got Al Bundy – and Hollywood’s – seal of approval

The year was 1986, London was calling for Jimmie Vaughan, where album sessions alongside Dave Edmunds led to a classic LP, and this is how it all went down

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“Something you’ll hear a lot of is, ‘Oh, you didn’t earn that relicing.’ But people who like it aren't thinking of it like that”: The real reason why relicing is so popular, according to a Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilder

The pre-worn fad is sweeping the guitar community, but why do some deride the concept as ‘stolen valor’?

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“He rolled up with his guitar on his back and his Fender Deluxe in his right hand”: Mark Lettieri on his jams with John Mayer, and how they ended up working together on one of the biggest PRS shows in history

Three guitar greats needed a band, and Lettieri came to their rescue

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“They’re 16 bars, and that’s it. There’s no extended solos”: Adrian Smith on why making music outside of Iron Maiden lets him stretch his soloing wings

In Smith/Kotzen, he’s relishing the chance to improvise and color outside of his usual lines, but admits that keeping up with Kotzen isn’t easy

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Philip Sayce: The 5 techniques that define my sound

Turbocharge your fretting hand stretches, screaming bends and blues-rock intensity with the core techniques that shaped Philip Sayce’s signature sound

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“He will be remembered for his unwavering empathy and compassion, and his magnetic, inimitable presence on and off the stage”: Harm’s Way guitarist Bo Lueders dies at 38

The guitarist released five albums with the Chicago hardcore veterans

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Who is the most iconic Fender Telecaster player?

The Telecaster doesn’t get enough credit for its versatility – and in its 75 years of production, it’s found its way into every genre. Let us know who you think is the greatest Tele wrangler of them all

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“The first time Sonic Youth went to England, people hated us: ‘Oh, you’re playing guitar? That’s so old-fashioned’”: Alt-rock icon Kim Gordon on the secret to making great music on bad guitars and why she never saw herself as a bassist

Returning with solo album Play Me – a stinging broadside against the modern age – the alt-rock talisman remembers the bad guitars andrenegade tunings of her ’80s breakout with Sonic Youth

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“Other groups tell everyone they’re the ‘proper’ metal band on the bill, but they’re all using 8-string guitars”: Tailgunner are flying the flag for old-school metal (with a little help from K.K. Downing)

Tailgunner’s new album, Midnight Blitz, is a love letter to the '80s, Yngwie, Priest, and all things shred – and it's produced by a bona-fide Metal God

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“We would roll into, say, Portland, and go to the pawn shops. You could find a ’57 Les Paul for $200!” Melissa Etheridge learned more from a grouchy old man who’d lost his fingers than she did at Berklee

The veteran hitmaker charts her evolution from acoustic to electric and back again and explains how she went digital, how she keeps her classic songs fresh, and how her family deal with her incredible guitar collection

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Turnstile co-founder and former guitarist Brady Ebert arrested for attempted murder after allegedly hitting former bandmate's father with his car

Ebert was recently fired from his latest band, The S.E.T., following a social media outburst against his former Turnstile bandmates

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“When I was asked who was the best up-and-coming guitarist, I had no hesitation”: Alice Cooper announces new 22-year-old guitarist, handpicked by Nita Strauss to be her replacement

Anna Cara was cherry picked for the role and will join the Cooper band on the road in the US and Europe this year

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