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How Positive Grid reinvented the digital guitar amp: “People began to see that amp as a companion when the rest of the music scene shut down”

From lightbulb moments to the Amp Intelligence tech that turns cellphone snaps into sound, the Californian amp-builders tell GW about their wild 15-year ride

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“Iron Maiden was the hardest to get right. Musically, it’s not the most challenging, but we choreographed the entire song”: You have to be top of the class – of 80,000 students – to make it on the School of Rock AllStars tour

Meet the new crop of young musicians touring the US as School of Rock AllStars

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“I flew to his funeral in England, and I delivered a eulogy. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do”: Billy Morrison on collaborator and best friend Ozzy Osbourne, his partnership with Steve Stevens, and his all-star new album

Hollow features guest spots from Dexter Holland, Nuno Bettencourt, Duff McKagan, and more, with a credits list that reads like a who’s who of rock royalty

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A year without Ozzy Osbourne: all the biggest tributes, covers and controversies since the Prince Of Darkness’ death

Award wins, all-star celebrations, a divisive AI avatar – these are the ways that Ozzy’s passing rocked the heavy metal world

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“Long before King Edward, there was King Luis”: Nuno Bettencourt pays tribute to his first guitar hero as he brings his brother on stage to shred an Extreme classic

It was a 70th birthday to remember for the older Bettencourt brother

Guitar World

“Without that song, I might be working at Burger King right now”: Nuno Bettencourt names the Extreme track that changed his life overnight

Bettencourt and his bandmates fought hard for the song that would eventually become Extreme's most enduring hit

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"The time is right for a revolution in rock'n'roll. It's yours for the taking. I believe it’s coming." Def Leppard and Extreme are currently on tour together, so we put their guitarists in a room

Def Leppard and Extreme are currently playing a bunch of dates on what promises to be a cracking double-header

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“I must have rewound that solo on cassette 300 times, trying to understand what I had just heard”: Nuno Bettencourt pays tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen – and names the one thing most people get wrong about his playing

The Extreme guitarist thanks the Swedish virtuoso for giving him a guitar-playing epiphany

Guitar World

Nuno Bettencourt and Rick Beato form unlikely partnership to rip through a Thin Lizzy Classic at the Six-String Sanctuary

The two guitarists were joined at the Las Vegas guitar camp by Steve Vai, Eric Gales and Mateus Asato

Guitar World

“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind

Bettencourt rarely reposts players on his social media accounts, but this Instagram guitarist-producer has got him all worked up

Guitar World

Like Nuno Bettencourt, Mark Morton isn’t afraid to use a classic dirt pedal in an unorthodox fashion – here he reveals the secret behind his crushing Lamb Of God rhythm tone

Take one classic overdrive pedal, and use it in a way that suggests you forgot it was was ever an overdrive pedal in the first place

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“I kept saying, ‘I’m not the guy. Call Nuno’”: Joe Satriani put Nuno Bettencourt’s name forward for failed EVH tribute tour with Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Before embarking on the Best of All Worlds tour with Sammy Hagar, Satch was close to hitting the road for a Van Halen tribute tour with Roth and Alex Van Halen

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Rock on: Portuguese guitarist Nuno Bettencourt wins Grammy for best performance

The Portuguese singer won the Grammy in the category of Best Rock Performance for his participation in 'Changes (Live from Villa Park)'. The show took place in Birmingham in 2025 at the final concert of legendary British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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“I want to dedicate it to everyone in the guitar shop I grew up in and everyone in a bedroom with a dream”: Guitar at the Grammys 2026 – Slash and Andrew Watt pay tribute to Ozzy, Bruno Mars takes a solo, but Brent Hinds excluded from In Memoriam segment

Guitar acts and guitar-driven records won big at music’s biggest night, across myriad different genres

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Nuno Bettencourt’s new guitar company has gone live – and there’s a surprise new acoustic in the drop

The Lusitano is available at two price points and lines up alongside the first entries into the Extreme virtuoso's burgeoning guitar lineup

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“After it was called the ‘solo of the century,’ I remember saying to Steve Lukather, ‘Come on, this is ridiculous’”: Nuno Bettencourt on turning down Ozzy, Sabbath’s final show and how Extreme finally got their dues

Having torn up the rulebook and raised the bar once again for lead guitar, Nuno Bettencourt promises no let up – he’s out for blood again

Guitar World

“Nuno’s shoutout was an emotional moment for me. I was gobsmacked. Without my brother showing me Extreme’s music, I would never have been there”: From Plini to Polyphia, how Rick Graham quietly became one of progressive guitar’s most influential names

From Guthrie Govan, through to Jason Richardson and Andy James, Rick Graham has garnered friends, fans and guest-spots with guitar’s most technical talents – and helped a huge chunk of players to hone their craft along the way

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“Washburn didn’t know I was leaving – it was probably a messed-up thing to do”: Nuno Bettencourt gave his new guitar brand its debut at Back to the Beginning – but Washburn had no idea it existed

The Extreme icon took to the stage at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show with a guitar that no-one – not even the brand he had played for 35 years – knew about

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The lost Ace Frehley interview, the year's best new gear and 2025's guitarists of the year – only in the new Guitar World

Includes a tribute to Space Ace and our guide to the biggest guitar news of the year, plus Nuno Bettencourt, 40 years of PRS Guitars and our first official transcription of Young Man Blues from Live at Leeds

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“I texted Jake and told him, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m taking that solo. You’re going to play it!’” Why Nuno Bettencourt said no when Jake E. Lee asked him to play one of his iconic Sabbath solos at Back to the Beginning

The Extreme virtuoso played plenty of guitar during Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show, but he drew the line at this solo

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“I just walked off the stage. I wanted Jake to have his moment. And Jake nailed it”: Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show

Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”

Guitar World

“If you go down in flames on that stage with Ozzy there, your career is over”: Nuno Bettencourt reflects on Wolfgang Van Halen's absence at Back to the Beginning

Wolfgang Van Halen reluctantly had to drop out of the historic concert due to scheduling conflicts

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“We shot this at the high school I went to”: Nuno Bettencourt solos while ‘ice skating’ – as he shreds guitar and shaves ice in new Extreme music video

Is there anything the man can’t do?

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“Watching him and the musicians rehearsing their songs while I was standing there waiting my turn, I started to get really nervous”: Jake E. Lee names the guitar virtuoso who had him sweating backstage at Back to the Beginning

Lee insists he doesn’t usually get nervous before shows – but watching one guitar player from the wings was too much for him

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“Everybody thinks playing technical and fast is harder. It takes a lot more courage to tone it down and play what’s right for the song”: Nuno Bettencourt on what Ace Frehley taught him about guitar playing

The Extreme guitarist has looked back on how the Spaceman shaped his childhood and his unique brand of soloing

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