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“It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common

“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

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“Do I get advantages that other collectors don’t? Absolutely! But I just got a 1959 Les Paul from a music store in Boston. Anybody could have walked in and bought it”: Joe Bonamassa on why he’s no ’Burst hog – and putting on his “British hat” with BCC

Joe Bonamassa checks in to tell us what it’s like to playing in rock supergroup Black Country Communion, why his rig is bigger for his solo shows, and channeling Andy Summers

Guitar World

“I was like, ‘OK, so how many songs am I not going to play bass on?’” Nate Mendel on the time John Paul Jones arrived for his Foo Fighters cameo

Foo Fighters’ ambitious double-disc In Your Honour included guest performers Josh Homme, Norah Jones and Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones

Guitar World

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“They put on an incredible show. It was a crazy night”: Jason Momoa has been ripping through Metallica, Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix hits with his raucous new band

Öof Tatatá have played alongside the likes of Jack Black and Gibson's Cesar Gueikian, and have curated a live setlist that also features The Stooges, Stevie Nicks and Led Zeppelin covers

Guitar World

“It’s not about playing whatever the lowest note available is. You have to consider melody, rhythm and harmony”: Listen to John Paul Jones’ isolated bass on Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On

Recorded in 1969 when John Paul Jones was just 23, Ramble On stands apart from the rocked-out blues songs that dominate Led Zeppelin II

Guitar World

"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus

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“Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs

Gong and Knifeworld guitarist recalls his time in Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog

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"I often wonder what would have happened if Keith Moon and I had formed Led Zeppelin": How The Who stopped hating each other for long enough to shape the sound of the future

In 1966, The Who were a bunch of drinking, drugging, brawling rock stars-in-waiting. Pete Townshend was about to change all that

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Why Aussie supergroup have been given a Stairway To Heaven hall pass

ARC return to tackle Led Zeppelin's most popular album, IV.

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That time Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes were attacked by Conan O'Brien's Masturbating Bear

"You think a masturbating bear will faze me? The Led Zeppelin jet was flown by a masturbating bear!"

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"I must say, they were absolutely phenomenal": Jimmy Page's review of the Black Crowes' London show is in

Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page has posted about last week's London show from the Black Crowes

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"We have spent years designing this film to be experienced on the big screen with the best possible sound": That long-awaited Led Zeppelin documentary is finally coming to a cinema near you

Becoming Led Zeppelin premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021: Now it's finally found a distributor

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Robert Plant once pledged money to a radio station that promised never to play Stairway To Heaven ever again

Robert Plant: He's not like other rock stars

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"I've always been a believer. I never felt it was a mass hallucination": The mystery of the Led Zeppelin show that may never have taken place

On January 20, 1969, Led Zeppelin played one of their first US shows, at a community centre in smalltown Maryland. Or did they?

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These 6 guitar chords are great for classic rock – and more besides

Try these '70s rock-inspired chord shapes for size and then use them to play along to our backing track

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“People think of them as a heavy metal band, but they swing. It‘s not just bash bash bash”: how Deep Purple changed Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith’s life

RHCP drummer Chad Smith is a card-carrying Deep Purple fan, and here he explains why

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A new limited-edition Rhodes piano and Gibson doubleneck guitar aim for the stars

The new Rhodes Mk8 Earth Edition piano and Gibson Jimmy Page EDS-1275 Doubleneck guitar revisit classic instruments at a price

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Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Led Zeppelin classic for a "top-secret project"

Mystery surrounds the song (or is it 'songs'?) recorded during the session in Wolverhampton this week

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“I instinctively dislike ‘try hard’ musicians. I pretty much learned my bass rudiments from Led Zeppelin II”: Why Squarepusher is an artist in a vast left-field league of his own

You may or may not know Squarepusher (aka Tom Jenkinson), but chances are he doesn’t care to know you

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"I like to make women happy. I don't play for guys": That time Carlos Santana made an album of classic rock covers including songs by AC/DC and Led Zeppelin

You’ve got to have big balls to do an album of covers of songs from rock’s crown jewels. Or be totally bonkers

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"Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox… there's some good music going down": In 1981, Rush's Geddy Lee was ready to blow the boundaries of progressive rock wide open

From Led Zeppelin copyists to sword and sorcery maestros to purveyors of über-prog, Rush have always pushed the envelope

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“It shows every member of the band doing what they did best – Gillan’s vocals, Jon Lord’s keyboards”: the In Rock classic that’s Tony Iommi‘s favourite Deep Purple song

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi reveals his favourite song by fellow rock pioneers Deep Purple

Guitar World

“B.C. Rich guitars were God back then. They weren’t like a Strat or a Les Paul – they were something different. They had so much power”: Lita Ford on her trailblazing guitar journey – and that time she nearly joined Led Zeppelin

Ever since she lied about her age to save for her first electric guitar, Lita Ford has been all about lead and leading. She looks back at life-changing encounters with Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, and explains why Kemper profiling is like “putting a Rolls Royce into a Volkswagen body”

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"We were young and crazy. We were trying to do all the things that Led Zeppelin did": What happened when Billy Corgan interviewed Eddie Van Halen

In 1996, Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan collared his hero Eddie Van Halen to hear tales of parachutes, parties and, er, practising

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"Jimmy's very lucky to be even playing tonight": Watch an ailing Jimmy Page lead Led Zeppelin through a truncated show as unseen live footage emerges

Rare live footage from Chicago in 1977 finds Led Zeppelin frustrating fans with a six-song set

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