Anyone who's ever played a live set will know that good and bad gigs go with the territory, and in June former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was good enough to tell us about his best and worst gigs ever.
Elsewhere, we courted controversy by naming eight underrated guitarists (some of whom you said were already highly rated), and Apple announced a new flagship computer, the Mac Pro.
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