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Rival Sons’ Scott Holiday on his greatest gear hits and misses: “You can basically install a pair of EMG active pickups into a cardboard box and get the same sound”

Holiday is no fan of active pickups, and his life in gear involves a flaming Line 6 amp, a foolish trade that said goodbye to some PAFs, and the epiphany that TV Jones Filter'Trons are all you ever need

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Watch Joe Perry tackle Beck's Bolero in tribute to Jeff Beck

Armed with a custom Telecaster equipped with both a whammy bar and a reverse headstock, the Aerosmith man doffed his cap to one of his heroes with a faithful, impassioned cover of the iconic instrumental

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Jon Bon Jovi: “I was in the room with Jeff Beck when he took a guitar out of a cardboard box, with a rented amplifier and no pedals and created that sound”

The frontman was asked to name the greatest guitarist of all time and wasted no time in selecting Beck

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10 revolutionary instrumentals that inspired the guitarists who invented rock music

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and the rest: They all owe so much to the instrumental artists of the 50s and 60s

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Celebrity deaths in 2023: All the stars we've lost so far this year

We've lost some of our most loved famous faces in 2023

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How Jeff Beck passed the Telecaster torch to Jimmy Page and changed the course of rock history

A tale of Jeff Beck’s generosity, Jimmy Page’s enduring gratitude and a 1959 Fender Telecaster that helped define a whole generation of rock music

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We once asked Leslie West who his favourite guitarist was: his answer was not what we expected

Mountain's Leslie West on the guitarist who sounded like a "45-year-old blues guy when he was barely in his twenties"

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Watch Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Joe Perry join Metallica for a pulverizing performance of Train Kept A-Rollin' at 2009’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony

The two Yardbirds alumni and Aerosmith icon – who each had history with the song – were joined by Ronnie Wood and Flea for the rendition, which featured a who's who of rhythm heroes and lead legends

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10 Jeff Beck deep cuts you need to hear

The often-overlooked recordings that reveal Jeff Beck’s genius and vision

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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: 11 of our favourite performances from past years

The 2023 line-up is phenomenal and features past artists that helped set the standard including John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr and Vince Gill

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Phil Collen on Jeff Beck: “Jeff’s amp blew up and his pedalboard didn’t work, so they just brought in another Marshall – he sounded exactly the same. He didn’t even flinch”

The Def Leppard guitarist reflects on the life and legacy of Jeff Beck, and explains how Beck's trailblazing style is all over the the Leppard catalog

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Jeff Beck’s 10 most iconic guitars

From the Oxblood Les Paul and the Strat we all know and love to Beck's lesser-spotted favorites, here are the greatest hits from one of guitar's finest collections

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Slash on his love of Les Pauls: “That Kris Derrig Les Paul came in the 11th hour when we were doing Appetite. It just sounded f**kin’ perfect – like a gift from on high”

The Guns N' Roses guitarist and rock icon talks about the guitars he treasures most – including buying and returning Joe Perry's Dark Burst LP – and reveals how his love for Les Pauls has inspired and shaped him as a player...

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Vivian Campbell on Jeff Beck: “It was equally inspiring and depressing to witness him live. You go there thinking you’re a guitar player and leave realizing you’re a guitar owner!”

The Def Leppard guitarist pays tribute to a singular guitar talent, and explains why it wasn't just what Beck played but how he played and the idea behind it that made him great

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Joe Perry on his longstanding love affair with the Gibson Les Paul: “The neck is just right, the radius across the fretboard. It’s just an amazing thing they stumbled on”

The Aerosmith legend demystifies the myth of the vintage classics and discusses his own signature models, and just where the iconic single-cut figures in finding his sound

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Jeff Beck – the lost interview: “There are many guitarists who can play like a typewriter. Technically they’re great, but that’s not my style”

In this interview from 1999, Jeff Beck talks candidly of how it might all end before staring a career downturn in the face and getting back on the horse with the spectacular Who Else!

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Cory Wong on Jeff Beck: “I’m a diehard Strat guy. There are so many reasons why, but Jeff Beck was on that list of reasons”

In his own words, master of Strat funk Cory Wong remembers Jeff Beck and parses his genius approach to the guitar

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How Jeff Beck and Seymour Duncan created humbucker magic with the classic JB pickup

While the classic Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB was never actually a signature pickup, without Jeff it may never have happened…

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15 Jeff Beck guitar lessons that will change the way you play

From whammy bar gargles through picking techniques led by the thumb, it's time to take a deep dive into the style of guitar's most original player

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Queen's Brian May reveals his favourite guitarists of all time

Brian May names his favourite guitar players, and shares love for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain for "some of the greatest guitar music of all time"

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Joanne Shaw Taylor on Jeff Beck: “He was my favorite guitar player – he made the guitar a different instrument”

Remembering Jeff Beck in her own words, Joanne Shaw Taylor speaks of a player who took the guitar to the edge and beyond

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Watch Jimmy Page demo his most iconic guitar gear, including his Les Paul, the Telecaster that “built Led Zeppelin I,” and the Gibson double-neck behind Stairway

Led Zeppelin fans have been enjoying newly surfaced footage of Page playing through the most significant guitars and amplifiers from his playing career

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Johnny Depp loving the quiet life in the British countryside

Pirates of the Caribbean superstar has purchased £13m estate in the south west

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Johnny Depp shuns LA for quieter life in Somerset at his £13m estate which allows him to ‘just be me’

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 59, bought the 850-acre West Country estate in 2014

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Joe Bonamassa names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The king of modern-day blues-rock on "the greatest rock guitar player that ever was", who he considers "the Frank Sinatra of the blues" and "Immaculate Conception as a guitar player" – and why he regularly apologizes to Eric Johnson

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