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![Justin Hawkins [left] of the Darkness plays an open G on his offset electric and closes his eyes as he performs onstage; soul-reggae icon Johnny Nash [right] frets a chord on his acoustic and wears a patched denim jacket.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hWzCjD9ZWQiPPjMtTWiFfa-840-80.jpg.webp)
How Darkness’ Justin Hawkins learned diminished chords from a reggae-soul icon
The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process
“I was thinking, oh, the monkey’s going to be jumping around…”: When Steve Stevens played on a Michael Jackson hit
Lizzo set to pick up her guitar and play ‘godmother of rock 'n’ roll’ Sister Rosetta Tharpe in new biopic
It seems she may have been honing her six-string skills in preparation
How Chappell Roan’s former touring guitarist handled the Pink Pony Club guitar solo live on stage
"If she didn’t like a voicing or a rhythmic pattern, she was great at communicating that," says Eliza Petrosyan
Former Huey Lewis and the News guitarist Chris Hayes on that Ghostbusters plagiarism dispute
“Ivan Reitman, he came to us and said, ‘Hey, we want to use I Want a New Drug for our movie, Ghostbusters’”
Ernie Ball Music Man shakes up Steve Lukather signature series with new pickup options and finishes
But if these high-end electrics are a bit out of your price range, Sterling By Music Man has you covered with its $649 Lukather signature model in all-new finishes
"I’m not a blues player - but this song called for a bluesy touch”: Steve Vai’s greatest song is 30 years old today
Tender Surrender is Vai at his most poetic
“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones remembered
“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says
