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“My mom said, ‘I’ll lend you a quarter if you become a guitar player.’ I think I did!”: Steve Cropper dies aged 84
A key figure in shaping the sound of soul music in the ’60s
Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars
The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend
Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature collection
Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass
Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo
Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show
Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”
“It wasn’t anywhere close to being a single”: The classic track that defines John Mayer as a guitarist and a songwriter
“Without Pearl Jam there is no Slow Dancing In A Burning Room,” he said
“Miles Davis would just record right to the vinyl”: Why Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry loves to record with no safety net
It happened recently with a cover of a Bowie classic
Joe Bonamassa just teamed up with Fuchs Audio on a signature tube amp that might just save you spending $175,000 on a Dumble
This 100-watt 1x12 combo has heaps of EQ options, top-shelf digital reverb, a series/parallel effects loop and signature Celestion speaker – all without the six-figure vintage price tag
"It’s bittersweet, of course”: Soundgarden’s final album is “pretty close” to completion
But Morello says don’t expect unreleased Audioslave music any time soon
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“You can be an educated musician but also have feel and be a street player”: Alex Skolnick on what he learned from Joe Satriani
When a teenage Skolnick studied under Satch, he found a man who was “like the equivalent of studying with a classical piano or classical violin teacher” – except this guy could rock