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“Some riffs have that swing. You hear it in the first Van Halen album”: Wolfgang Van Halen's new song echoes classic VH
"It’s very much the kind of idea that mixes heaviness with funkiness”
When Jeff Beck gave Imogen Heap an impromptu guitar lesson she had no idea who he was
“A week later I got a message from my manager asking: ‘Did you meet Jeff Beck?’”
“So, Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies picks up a razor and slashes a speaker on camera to demonstrate how he got the Kinks’ iconic proto-fuzz guitar tone
There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how he got the guitar tone on You Really Got Me
Mark Ronson on having to come to terms with the fact that he would never be a great guitar player
“I remember thinking, ‘that’s what being a guitarist sounds like. I need to find a new thing’”
Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa range with humbucker set based on pickups from his ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul
Like JoBo says, got a cheap Les Paul? Give it a high-end power-up with a pair of replica humbuckers from his iconic Bolin Burst, fresh out the custom shop – and the first 500 sets come signed
“Yes you will be getting a new album next year. It is done”: Ronnie Wood confirms a new Stones album is on the way
And band are planning live dates
“"There is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls ever
All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural
“Usually I’ve done the demos on my laptop, which can be a bit creatively stifling”: Wolfgang Van Halen on his new album
“Some of these songs couldn’t have existed on a prior album,' he says
“I would like to do it. We’re having conversations”: Brian May suggests a Queen Sphere residency could be on the cards
Guitarist is fed up with traditional touring
“He wanted all that at an undoable selling price”: Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith confirms rumours that it built James Hetfield a signature model – and it combined three iconic amps in one
A Diezel, a JC-120 and a Mark IIC+ all in one? That would have cost a whack – and it would have, which is why the Metallica frontman's prototype never got released