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"I think that losing a parent as a child had an adverse effect. There was this melancholy, a sadness that never really went away." How a profound loss informed Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy's solo album Year of the Tiger

The Alter Bridge and Slash frontman channeled a childhood tragedy into his emotionally raw 2018 solo debut album

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“I was a little uncomfortable, to be honest. I gradually convinced myself that it was okay”: Myles Kennedy on what it was like to play Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster – and how he felt unworthy to play it

Kennedy saluted one of his all-time heroes in 2019 when he performed Hallelujah live in Paris, and it was the first time Buckley's Tele had been played in public since his death in '97

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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 think the only thing was ‘Please, don’t play Eruption.’ He didn't say that, but I wasn't going to do that”: Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on making an Alter Bridge album at Eddie Van Halen’s studio

An invite from Wolfgang Van Halen led to the recording experience of a lifetime as Alter Bridge decamped to 5150 Studios for their new “straight-ahead hard-rock record”

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“I was a little uncomfortable, to be honest”: Why Myles Kennedy felt uneasy using Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster to play Hallelujah

Kennedy played Buckley’s iconic 'Grace' Tele for a special tribute performance of Hallelujah in 2019

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"We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game

Velvet Revolver's loss was Alter Bridge's gain when Myles Kenendy helped his bandmates shake off the bad taste of Creed

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"I remember finishing the lyrics and literally feeling sick to my stomach." How Alter Bridge regrouped, faced the dark side, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant album

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out

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“Have I held Frankenstein? Was it a total, Excalibur-level experience? I don't even know how to articulate that, but I got emotional”: Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at Eddie Van Halen's legendary 5150 Studios

The guitar duo recall the surreal experience of going into the “sacred” studio – and how that impacted the DNA of their latest record

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“It’s a pretty unique instrument. There’s only two of these on the planet”: Myles Kennedy bassist Tim Tournier on the EVH prototype that Wolfgang Van Halen gave him

Tournier's prototype Wolfgang bass was is a dual-humbucker doozie, masterbuilt by Chip Ellis, and it is being road-tested hard. But will EVH Gear ever release it?

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“I opened the door... he had the guitar in his hands. It was him playing the jazz. I had no idea that he was that good”: Mark Tremonti on Alter Bridge’s “secret weapon” and his soloing strategies for avoiding the same old pentatonic patterns

The self-confessed Dumble “addict” talks all things guitar

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"Towering riffs come to them as easily as dreaming does to the rest of us": Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge

It's more of the same on Alter Bridge's self-titled seventh album, but who’s complaining when their same is this good?

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“It’s so intense – but man, I love that song! Often, the songs I love the most are the most difficult to pull off”: Myles Kennedy on why karaoke “terrifies” him, the secret to a perfect take – and the hardest Guns N’ Roses song to sing live with Slash

The man with the best pipes in rock and metal checks in to talk monastic vocal preservation, the challenges of Axl’s range, and that "magic mic" Paul Reed Smith gave Mark Tremonti

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"I live in my childhood home, so the studio's right there. It's what I need to watch and protect, for the rest of my life": Wolfgang Van Halen on 5150, battling demons and the good ship Mammoth

On his third Mammoth album, Wolfgang Van Halen raises his playing, singing and songwriting game - and channels experiences with A-listers and legends

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Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver: “I knew that I wasn’t mentally prepared to jump into something of that magnitude”

After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver and their lineup of then-former Guns N’ Roses members

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"We are in and out of there – sometimes in an hour-and-a-half! – and we’re done with the track": Burned out recording vocals? Myles Kennedy shares his top for getting the perfect take

Kennedy says Alter Bridge producer Michael 'Elvis' Baskette knows his voice better than anyone and has worked out how to get it sounding 100 per cent on record

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"I think the more metal people are, the nicer they are." Alter Bridge on the huge impact one wrestling star has had on their career - and why metalheads are the nicest people going

One metal-loving wrestling legend using an Alter Bridge song as his theme tune helped gain the band countless new followers

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“Being able to go into a sacred space like that and start the process was a dream come true”: Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at the studio that Eddie Van Halen built – and the 5150 amp that gave them their fire-breathing tone

“It was literally, the minute we walked in the door, it was very Wayne’s World. ‘We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!’”

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“Every now and then, you’ll look at the wall and think, ‘I can’t believe we’re here’”: Wolfgang Van Halen welcomed Alter Bridge into the hallowed halls of the legendary 5150 Studios to record their new album

Eddie Van Halen’s iconic studio recently opened its doors to Mark Tremonti, Myles Kennedy and co

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Wolfgang Van Halen goes big on the two-hand tapping in new Mammoth single – and recruits Slash and Myles Kennedy for a horror-inspired music video loaded with an Eddie Van Halen Easter egg

Mammoth – now without the WVH tag – returns with a statement video that features rock royalty, Hollywood-level special effects, and one hell of a song

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Mammoth return with horror-themed video starring Danny Trejo, Slash, Valerie Bertinelli and multiple zombie flesh-eaters

Wolfgang Van Halen is back with a new single, The End

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"This is the first time in my career we’ve had to speak to the local police about civil unrest": Mark Tremonti on the political climate, being a guitar hero and Frank Sinatra

Take care of business. Quit your comfort zone. Don’t listen to rock journalists. And never forget you could still be washing cars. Life advice from The Book Of Tremonti

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"I never wanted it to be just about me": John Sykes on Blue Murder, the band he formed after leaving Whitesnake

A rare interview with the late John Sykes, who died this week at the age of 65 – and some personal memories from Myles Kennedy

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Myles Kennedy provides progress update on new album with Slash

Myles Kennedy says he just needs to find the time to lay down his vocals in the studio for the next Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators record.

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“Someone once said to me, ‘Why do you make solo records?’ And it’s like, ‘So I can play solos!’” Myles Kennedy on the blues-rock hero who shaped the way he plays, why he’s an accidental frontman, and what the power of the riff made him do

We’ve been saying it for years, but the man best known for his soaring vocals with Slash and Alter Bridge also happens to be one hell of a guitar player. On his new album, he busts out his riffs, his roar and his signature PRS

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“Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

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