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Mancuso on his blockbuster Steve Vai collaboration – and the crucial advice the guitar icon gave him
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on

Oliver Ackermann on the break-stuff tone philosophy behind guitar's most unorthodox pedal brand
By Jonathan Horsley published
Frontman/guitarist of NYC's A Place To Bury Strangers, pedal designer, noise enthusiast, renaissance man... Ackermann explains why all bets are off in his search for new sounds and tones

The story of Wichita Lineman. the song Bob Dylan called the greatest ever written
By Neil Crossley published
“When I heard it I cried”
![[L-R] Khemmis' Phil Pendergast and Ben Hutcherson [inset] A Behringer Super Fuzz](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iHZMti6MNfGkUXXpDcEADb-320-80.jpg)
Khemmis just made one of the heavy metal records of the year using a $28 plastic fuzz pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Phil Pendergast's secret weapon was cheap, effective, and perhaps a lesson that cork-sniffing about gear can be a waste of time – and money

PRS and Ed Sheeran just unveiled a hollowbody baritone electric for all occasions
By Jonathan Horsley published
The pop megastar's SE Hollowbody I Piezo Baritone officially joins the main PRS lineup, and it's joined by a regular scale sibling – and a refresh of the SE amp lineup's finish options

Misha Mansoor’s Evertune-equipped 8-string might be the heaviest signature Jackson of all time
By Jonathan Horsley published
“I think the Evertune was the final piece of the puzzle,” says the Periphery riff-master as this extended-range monster arrives in a Nardo Gray finish and Mansoor's signature humbuckers

“It was the record that changed our lives”: Rush frontman Geddy Lee on the band's classic 2112
By Jonathan Horsley published
No one at the record company was happy to hear that Rush had another concept record. But this time the prog trio stuck the landing on a sci-fi epic that changed everything

“Keith said, ‘You never leave’”: When Slash turned to Keith Richards for career advice
By Paul Elliott published
“One of the things about Keith that I love so much is that he hangs in there – thick or thin”
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