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• Shredding legend Yngwie Malmsteen selling his Ferrari on Ebay

  You too can now Unleash The Fury™ on the school run! That’s right, a Ferrari 1983 308 GTS QV owned by Swedish shredding sensation Yngwie Malmsteen is up on Ebay right now and currently going for the bargain price of $15,000.

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• Lizzy and Queensryche UK dates

  It’s like heaven for the grey panthers: two of the best classic rock bands of all time have announced an extensive UK trek for November and December 2007.

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• Bloody Doherty

  No, no, nothing like that. The Troubled Troubadour™ is reported to be staging an exhibition of his art that will include various scrawls created using his own blood as a medium.

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• Sign up to Frontline for the lowdown on Fender

  Having effortlessly captured and distilled the spirit of rock ’n’ roll, Fender is now keen to distribute it through the post.

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• Velvet Revolver to release EP / reveal new album's tracklisting

  While the neverending wait for Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album goes on and on (although more 'demo' tracks apparently 'leaked' on the internet last week), Axl Rose's former bandmates are busy getting on with reality. According to SonyBMG in Poland Velvet Revolver will issue an EP titled Harmony And The Tyranny a month before the release of their second album Libertad on 2 July.

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• Ronnie Wood’s luthier

  Kari Nieminen's Versoul guitars are some of the most exclusive made anywhere in the world. The Finnish luthier also has an impressive list of artists that own Versoul instruments including Kenny Burrell, Allan Holdsworth and Michael Landau. But...

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• Latest guitar innovation unfolds

  What madness is this, exactly? A guitar that folds in half without the need to restring it? Does not compute. Yet this latest take on the folding guitar, the Centerfold from Swedish company DeVillain now has a fancy website with an intriguing FAQ and plenty of pics to demonstrate it going through the motions:

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• Uli Jon Roth in bizarre partnership with Smashing Pumpkins

  We don't know about you but this seems like a very odd match to us: former Scorpions guitarist and bandana aficionado Uli Jon Roth will appear as special guest of the reunited (well, two of them) Smashing Pumpkins at two major festivals in Germany — 2 June at Rock am Ring in Nürburgring and 3 June at Rock im Park in Nürnberg. Uli will join the band during the encores and will guest on a couple of songs.

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• Classic Satriani album to get 20th anniversary reissue

  Joe Satriani's breakthrough 1987 album Surfing With The Alien will be re-released on August 7 to celebrate its 20th anniversary – and will be packaged with a second bonus disc for good measure.

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• New ESP basses

  We love ESP and LTD guitars at Guitarist and now you bass players can join the party: ESP have announced the introduction of no less than 30 new basses!

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