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“It felt like the worst moment of my life. I walked up to the truck, saw the padlock on the ground, and my heart sank”: The moment Wings’ former sound engineer had to tell Paul McCartney his priceless Höfner bass guitar had been stolen

The 500/1 violin bass was a cornerstone of the Beatles’ early successes, but went missing for 50 years after it was stolen in 1972

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Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Pete Thorn trade solos over Led Zeppelin classic at recent SatchVai Band show

Huge tunes from Led Zep and Steppenwolf, and three shredders brought the house down in Portland

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“Ithought, ‘Is the guitar in open G tuning?’ But I soon discovered it wasn’t a standard guitar at all”: Charlie Starr on the magic of the B-Bender – and 5 bender-inspired licks you can play on any electric

The Blackberry Smoke guitarist gives us a lesson in how to sound like you've got a B-Bender, even if you don't

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Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham’s alleged attacker charged with stalking and threatening his family for years

On March 25, Buckingham was allegedly attacked with an unknown substance by an assailant who claimed to be his daughter

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“I didn’t expect this to inspire me so much”: Jackson finally releases Misha Mansoor’s Surfcaster – one of the most anticipated offset guitar releases of the modern era

Almost two years after the Periphery maestro first showed off his baritone Surfcaster, Jackson has made it available as a limited-edition custom shop model

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“I turned up at my first audition with my Squier Telecaster – that was all I owned”: The 18-year-old who replaced one of Britpop’s most revered guitarists

In his late teens, Richard Oakes joined Suede at a point when they had released two hit-and-miss albums and were desperate for a global breakthrough

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“On our earlier recordings, we experimented with low tones that only dogs can hear”: Sunn O))) on the challenge of working with 130 guitar tracks and why their live shows are like jumping into a frozen lake

Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson on the drone pioneer's Sub Pop debut, the restorative but draining power of volume and the gear behind their sound

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“He’s not doing any of the lead work he’s known for. He came up with 10 tracks of textures and atmospheres”: His main band went on indefinite hiatus. Now this cult prog guitarist has enlisted Alex Lifeson and Peter Frampton for an all-star solo album

Tiles guitarist Chris Herin returns with Hiding in Plain Sight, a poignant, brilliant album inspired by his father's battle with dementia

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“I couldn’t be more excited about what’s ahead”: ESP appoints new US CEO – as outgoing head retires after 39 years

Todd Binder has been appointed as the firm's new CEO

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“If I can help wake up a new generation of African or female players, that makes me twice as proud”: Fatoumata Diawara on Hendrix’s genius, the making of her Epiphone SG – and the message she wants it to send

With its Malian-inspired graphic finish and expanded switching options, Diawara's signature model is one cool guitar

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“Guitars haven’t changed that much in the last 50 years. We’re about to change that”: Guitar Center is setting up its own in-house guitar brand – and it’s asking players for their help

Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto says the retailer is going to build “the best guitar that has ever been made”

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“I don’t know how it happened, but somewhere along the way, my right hand just wasn’t doing the job anymore”: Dethklok’s Brendon Small started struggling to play, so he took a lesson with a metal virtuoso

Ahead of touring with Amon Amarth, Small reveals the positive side of having a dozen guitars stolen, the “perpetual motion” of his band’s shows, the best guests on Metalocalypse, and his quest for the perfect concert

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“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

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“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album

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“My student tricked me into getting an Instagram”: The off-hand advice from a student that helped kickstart Yvette Young’s career

The virtuoso may now be one of the most recognizable guitarists on social media, but Young admits she was initially reluctant to share her chops online

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“After his funeral, me and my buddy snuck into his house and took the guitar”: Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after a tragic accident

The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock

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“It absolutely blew my mind”: Why Dave Grohl is obsessed with viral Canadian microtonal duo Angine de Poitrine

The math-rock wizards have taken the internet by storm, racking up millions of views in the space of just a few months

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“The guitar community came through and sent about one million solos to me”: The world’s buzziest guitarists fought to get on this Bilmuri track – now the winning solo has been revealed

The winner beat out the likes of Intervals' Aaron Marshall and Connor Kaminski to have their solo featured on the final song

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“I got acrylic nails, because my mom told me that’s what Dolly Parton did. It allows me to play in a flamenco style”: Ashley Reeve leads the low-end for everyone from Cher to Filter – and her right-hand tone is her most important asset

When she’s not performing with Cher, Ashley Reeve has honed her bass playing prowess with the likes of CeeLo Green, Adam Lambert and alternative rock band Filter

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“Is it worth the higher price tag? For some, it won’t matter, but for others, it is something to weigh on heavily”: Act Entertainment Sterling Vermin RAT Distortion pedal review

The Sterling Vermin impressively presents itself as an evolved and cultivated RAT pedal dressed in shining armor

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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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