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"He seems kind of all over the place but this thing is spot on": Brendan O'Brien on his first encounter with John Frusciante and how they recorded the Under The Bridge intro

O'Brien engineered and mixed 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and saw the secret to a great guitar tone first-hand

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“It continues to be bittersweet. Part of me is like, 'I wish there wasn’t a reason for me to be the drummer in the Foo Fighters.’” Josh Freese on getting the call from Dave Grohl to take over from Taylor Hawkins

Plus, 5 other things we learned from the session ace’s interview with Rick Beato

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Danny Carey reveals that Tool have never recorded to a click: “As soon as I count it off, the click goes off. We’ll do however many takes it takes for me to be happy with my thing”

The Tool drummer also spoke to Rick Beato about playing with Jeff Buckley, his favourite Led Zeppelin drum parts, and why he loves turning his snares off

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“I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself

Tool drummer Danny Carey has named the very first album he bought with his own money – and it was funded by him doing chores around the house

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"It's mental as much as it is physical for me" – Big Wreck founder Ian Thornley's extensive guitar and vocal warmup routines reveal just how much work can go into being a great live performer

And he can thank (or blame) Myles Kennedy for some of it

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Tosin Abasi and Rick Beato love his playing. Now Josh Meader shows you how to solo over one of the most important chord progressions in jazz

The II-V-I progression is a fundamental classic of jazz guitar – Australian virtuoso Josh Meader has three great licks to dazzle your digits (and they might just blow your mind, too)

Guitar World

“I actually never learned how to play with a pick. It’s my weak point”: Matteo Mancuso is revered for his virtuosic fingerstyle approach – but what happens when he tries to play with a guitar pick?

Mancuso has developed a reputation as one of the most formidable fingerstyle players on the planet, but in a new video with Rick Beato and Mateus Asato, the young virtuoso was confronted with the prospect of playing with a pick

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"I charged him £200 for it. It's worth about two million now": The Police's Andy Summers on the guitar he deeply regrets selling to Eric Clapton

For The Police guitarist Andy Summers, seller's remorse is a very real emotion

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"I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown

How forcing Chris Cornell to be more selfish sparked the creation of Soundgarden's finest work

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"This big guy comes in like he owns the place, and we all hate him immediately": the truth about Chad Smith's audition for the Red Hot Chili Peppers

When drummer Chad Smith walked into the Red Hot Chili Peppers rehearsal studio to try out for the band, their first impressions were not good

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“These bones don’t have the cartilage any more, so they’re very painful. Rather than roll over, I’m like, ‘No, I still want to play’”: Steve Morse is plagued with pain when playing guitar – so he innovated a new string mute to help him adapt his technique

The virtuoso revealed the lengths he's gone to in order alleviate pain caused by arthritis and years of playing – which also includes a changing approach to picking

Guitar World

“Eric’s Les Paul gets stolen, and he knows I’ve got the other one. He starts calling me relentlessly. I charged him £200. It’s worth about two million now”: Andy Summers recalls selling Eric Clapton his Gibson Les Paul ‘Burst for a bargain price

After Slowhand‘s legendary Beano ‘Burst was stolen in ‘66, Summers reluctantly sold his own Les Paul to the bluesman for a measly £200

Guitar World

“Jimi turned round and said, 'Hey man, mind if I play the guitar for a while?' We played for about half an hour. That was probably the last time I saw him”: Andy Summers recalls his “outrageous” jams with Jimi Hendrix

In a new interview with Rick Beato, The Police guitarist also discussed his abandoned duet with Robert Fripp, and what he learned from a guitar lesson with “the world’s greatest guitar player” Lenny Breau

Guitar World

“The narrative is I grew up in a rich family – wrong. The narrative is it was handed to me – wrong. It’s sweat equity over 35 years”: Joe Bonamassa sets the record straight on the humble beginnings of his world-famous guitar collection

In a conversation with Rick Beato, the gear connoisseur revisits the roots of his collecting journey – and responds to those quick to claim his buying habits take stock away from aspiring players

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‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd

As energised by Taylor Swift as Schoenberg, Beato has earned millions of fans with his YouTube videos and become the man musicians seek out to discuss their craft

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Beato it: Gibson reveals second Rick Beato signature model finish - "My signature guitar is the one that I reach for every morning"

Les Paul Special Double Cut now available in Sparkling Burgundy Satin as well as last year's TV Blue Mist

Guitar World

“Designed to be something special”: Gibson just made Rick Beato’s signature Les Paul Special Double Cut even more desirable

Sparkling Burgundy Satin has joined TV Blue Mist on the finish list for the model, which sports a thinner, lightweight mahogany body

Guitar World

“I hate admitting this but I started bawling like a baby”: Kirk Hammett says his iconic ‘Greeny’ Les Paul recently had another gut-wrenching injury

Another footnote has just been added to the iconic Les Paul's long medical history – but, as the Metallica maestro explains to Rick Beato, it could have been a whole lot worse

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“If you have too much distortion it feels like a sponge”: Kirk Hammett reveals the secret behind his Metallica rhythm tone and advises against high-gain overkill

Save the distortion pedals for the solos and keep that rhythm tone “harmonically tight”

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ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus says that AI will be “the most fantastic co-writer you will ever have”

The legendary Swedish musician reports back on a “mind-boggling” demo he recently received from an unnamed big tech company

Guitar World

“The biggest challenge for digital products is not the tone”: John Petrucci, Tosin Abasi and Devin Townsend explain what modelers don’t do as well as amps – yet

The trio of prog metal guitar titans sat down with Rick Beato and went deep on the state of modeling

Guitar World

Nuno Bettencourt on why Instagram players make his jaw drop, how Eddie Van Halen inspired Extreme's new album – and why he apologized to Brian May for one of its leads

The Extreme virtuoso talks wowing everyone from Steve Lukather to Mateus Asato with his awe-inspiring Rise solo, the state of modern guitar playing, and the gear secrets – and mistakes – behind one of the year's biggest rock guitar albums

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Julian Lage once performed a whole tour on his Telecaster’s bridge pickup to “settle a bet” with himself

The jazz guitar maestro admits that sticking on the bridge pickup was a difficult experiment in treble and overtones – “I would go back to my room and my ears would be ringing”

Guitar World

Watch Nuno Bettencourt shred Van Halen's Hot for Teacher – on a Strat

In a long-form chat with Rick Beato, Bettencourt also discussed a part of EVH's guitar arc that “nobody talks about”

Guitar World

Nuno Bettencourt says the Rise solo opens with a mistake

The Extreme guitarist reveals his recent technical masterpiece starts with an error: “I miss the whole string completely, I was so excited”

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