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“I remember saying, 'You’re gonna edit it down to, what, four bars?’": The epic guitar solo for a classic movie theme
By Andrew Daly published
"We got the whole thing done in three hours"

Joe Satriani and Steve Vai get their teenage kicks in video for new single featuring Glenn Hughes
By Jonathan Horsley published
I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

Fender and Brad Paisley introduce the Custom Shop 1967 ‘Lost Paisley’ Telecaster
By Jonathan Horsley published
This limited edition Tele resurrects a unicorn finish and applies it to a top-tier vintage build featuring Seymour Duncan pickups and Glaser G Bender

Steven Wilson reveals the $20 plugin he used for all the guitars on his new space rock epic
By Jonathan Horsley published
And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

“Then it’s how you smack it, or zing it or strum it”: Guitar legend Michael Thompson talks clean tone
By Daniel Griffiths published
In a new video Thompson tells the backstory of his playing for NSYNC, All-4-One, Monica, Gloria Estefan and more.

“That feel is something you can’t teach": Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her slide guitar style
By Ben Rogerson published
“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” she says

Magic Mike Dawes has turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius
By Jonathan Horsley published
Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

How Rush marshalled Alex Lifeson’s dreams to write a bona-fide prog-rock classic
By Jonathan Horsley published
A tour-de-force of instrumental prog, La Villa Strangiato is the sound of Rush at the height of their powers, and this is how the Hemispheres epic came together

How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad
By Andrew Daly published
And the result? 'A beautiful record,' says guitarist Elliot Easton
![YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aqcaqZZK7FsRFWvoMPzMF9.jpg)
Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves the final part of the mystery – Kurt Cobain's In Utero guitar
By Jonathan Horsley published
Rash’s many years down the rabbit hole have been rewarded as he finally gets his hands on the exact same model Cobain used and it’s an oddball offset with “absolutely wild” pickups
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