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![Buddy Guy [left] smiles as he takes a solo on his Fender Stratocaster. He wears a red jacket and black hat. Billy Gibbons [right] wears shades, a wide-brimmed hat and a red blazer as he plays his custom SG-style electric with the V-style headstock.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/76UyXk5sHdLGiSWvdTexbA-320-80.jpg)
Billy Gibbons on the tip Buddy Guy gave him after they jammed a T-Bone Walker classic
By Jonathan Horsley published
Blues guitar's greatest showman shared a little stagecraft after the ZZ Top man's cameo during a live show

“In the classic tradition…”: Pat Smear is out of upcoming Foo Fighters dates after “bizarre gardening accident”
By Will Simpson published
Band announce news with fake National Enquirer front page

Ted Nugent has only qualified praise for Jack White, Green Day and Tom Morello, but calls Yungblud "the real McCoy"
By Will Simpson published
Elderly rocker 'talks music'... but can't resist dipping into politics, too
![Brian May [left] leans back and feels a chord as he performs live with his Red Special. Steve Vai [right] wears a ballcap and looks pleased as punch as he shows off his custom 'Green' Red Special that May had built for him.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDnBpLna8mmLjc7LM4CpmU-320-80.jpg)
Steve Vai once played Brian May’s guitar “like a baby giraffe on roller skates” – now the Queen icon has gifted him his own ‘Green’ Red Special
By Jonathan Horsley published
“I will treasure it for the rest of my life, and yes, I’m taking this one to the grave with me,” says Vai

“It’s not ‘puppet show Megadeth’”: Dave Mustaine says he doesn't want guesting ex-members on Megadeth’s final tour
By Will Simpson published
Band’s supposedly ‘final’ album arrives in two weeks
![John Mayer [left] plays his signature PRS Silver Sky live onstage in 2025. George Harrison plays a Les Paul during a 1975 live performance.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4njaLNzrwJVuLTKZcxrnka-320-80.jpg)
Don Was on how John Mayer “might” be even better than George Harrison – but they definitely have one thing in common
By Jonathan Horsley published
The producer of Sob Rock says Mayer is the best arranger he has ever worked with – and he has the late Beatle’s gift for creating guitar sounds that transform a song

“Clapton hated it when the volume went up. He actually said to Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, ‘You’re too loud!’”
By Paul Elliott published
He also claims that Page "begged" John Paul Jones to join Led Zeppelin

Myles Kennedy on why karaoke “terrifies” him, the secret to a perfect take – and the hardest Guns N’ Roses song to sing
By Jonathan Horsley published
The man with the best pipes in rock and metal checks in to talk monastic vocal preservation, the challenges of Axl’s range, and that "magic mic" Paul Reed Smith gave Mark Tremonti
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