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Dave Mustaine, founder, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of US band Megadeth, performs at the Iconica Sevilla Fest, in Seville on July 3, 2025. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP) (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images)

“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

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John Mayer [left] plays his signature PRS Silver Sky live onstage in 2025. George Harrison plays a Les Paul during a 1975 live performance.

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

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Yardbirds

“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

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Myles Kennedy performs with his signature PRS during 2025's Tons of Rock Festival. He wears a brown denim jacket.

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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Miles Davis

“Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: John McLaughlin's baptism of fire with Miles Davis

By Andrew Daly published

He cut his teeth with Miles on the classic In A Silent Way

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“Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative": Perry Bamonte, of the Cure, dies aged 65

By Will Groves published

Guitar and keyboard stalwart passes away

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Keeley Electronics Nocturne: this new stereo reverb is the latest signature pedal for Andy Timmons and has a dark metallic blue enclosure with a similar control surface to his Halo Core pedal.

“I turn this thing on, I don’t want to stop playing”: Keeley Electronics has made Andy Timmons fall in love with reverb with his new signature Nocturne pedal

By Jonathan Horsley published

Robert Keeley gives reverb the Halo treatment for an all-new signature reverb that has officially made a convert of Timmons

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Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X – The latest and most high-profile addition to the Finnish brand's signature plugin range, Mayer's plugin is replete with captures of boutique, rare and one-off amps and pedals

It’s official! Neural DSP’s John Mayer Archetype plugin suite is here – and with Dumble, Klon and Reverberator captures, it is the motherlode for boutique electric guitar tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Neural DSP bags its most high-profile artist yet and present players with a cornucopia of gourmet tone options

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Myles Kennedy makes his point during an early evening festival performance. He plays his signature PRS T-style and wears all black.

Burned out recording vocals? Myles Kennedy shares his top for getting the perfect take

By Jonathan Horsley published

Kennedy says Alter Bridge producer Michael 'Elvis' Baskette knows his voice better than anyone and has worked out how to get it sounding 100 per cent on record

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Olivia Rodrigo playing guitar

Olivia Rodrigo explains why she loves playing her custom Ernie Ball Music Man St Vincent Goldie signature model

By Ben Rogerson published

She also discusses her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance of a White Stripes song and duetting with The Cure’s Robert Smith at Glastonbury

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