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“I didn’t even know what we would play. He would just be like, ‘Honey, we’re in G.’ And I’d be like, ‘Okay, here we go’”: When she was just a teenager, Lindsay Ell was playing blues with Buddy Guy – and being mentored by Randy Bachman

The Canadian singer-songwriter was recently handpicked by Shania Twain as her lead guitarist and recently reflected on her early guitar mentors

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“We took 36 hours to cut Good Vibrations. We knew it was a big deal”: Carol Kaye’s 10 greatest basslines

The session legend was responsible for some of the finest bass playing ever committed to tape – here are her best moments

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“I’ve always missed being in Kiss”: Kiss announce unmasked Vegas show with former guitarist Bruce Kulick, as Gene Simmons postpones 17 solo dates

November’s set will mark the 50th anniversary of their Kiss Army fan club and see Bruce Kulick reunite with the band after they snubbed the guitarist during their farewell tour

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“The X100 is very good at what it does – some might say even too good”: MXR Rockman X100 Analog Tone Processor Pedal review

The legendary Tom Scholz headphone amp and signal processor gets reborn in pedal form

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“The Food Network couldn’t spend all day mic’ing a guitar amp. Every time I went into the studio, the engineers would say, ‘Don’t bring your amp’”: Meet Tim Rockmore, the TV and session veteran who’s recorded entire tracks with a Fender headphone amp

After recording jingles for Sprite, Sears and Pringles, Rockmore learned how to gain attention in a world where you can never overplay, and where the analog-vs-digital amp argument ended 30 years ago

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“I looked out into the audience and saw Neil Young sitting in the middle – I froze”: How Mike Campbell sideman Jason Sinay ended up playing with his hero after spotting him in the crowd

Sinay has jammed with his fair share of bonafide music legends – but admits he was starstruck when the Godfather of Grunge asked to play with him

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“It licked me!” Nita Strauss gets licked in the face by Alice Cooper's snake while playing – but doesn't drop a note

The shock rocker’s boa constrictor ensured Hurricane Nita got a warm welcome back after she’d temporarily stepped aside to fulfill solo dates

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“Why didn't nu-metal bands do any solos? They couldn't do solos. Thank God that genre went away”: Dave Mustaine says nu-metal guitarists aversion to solos was down to a lack of lead talent – not stylistic choice

He believes nu-metal players had limited abilities, but could the movement’s shred-friendly second coming change his mind?

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“For some players, their approach to rhythm guitar is, ‘Oh, someone else gets to do all of the fun stuff while I do this…’” Think playing rhythm guitar is boring? Cory Wong is here to change your mind

In his inaugural Guitar World column, Cory Wong establishes the principles – and the mentality – of good rhythm playing, and how you can make yours fun

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“It is clear that lawsuits like this in the guitar industry are just not worth the time and expense”: Dean owner issues response to court loss over Gibson trademark verdict

Gibson successfully filed against Dean’s use of V, Z, and SG-style guitars in 2022, and the courts have reached the same conclusion in a recent retrial

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“A lot of Slayer riffs aren’t really for bass players – there’s just too many notes”: Slayer’s Tom Araya charts his incredible 4-string journey

From starting on a Paul McCartney Höfner ripoff to pioneering some of the heaviest metal ever committed to tape, Tom Araya admits he's no bass virtuoso… but he “can play fast sometimes”

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“He was a one-off… We will never see his like again”: Paul ‘Wags’ Wagstaff, guitarist for Happy Mondays, Black Grape and Paris Angels, has died aged 60

Wagstaff was a key figure in Manchester's thriving “Madchester” scene in the '80s and '90s

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“I would bringthis guitar out once or twice because it looked like a curvy version ofmy main guitar”: Marty Friedman takes us back to Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction era to tell the story behind one of the rarest Jackson guitars ever

It was December 1991, and the cover of GW featured Friedman with a prototype Jackson that begged further investigation. Just where was his signature model? And what became of the Firebird-inspired design?

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“I used really weird things like the Tristan chord and the Prometheus chord to give some of the songs a mystical vibe”: With the return of Mike Portnoy, Dream Theater are fully reborn – and John Petrucci's still not done exploring new guitar frontiers

Wielding naught but his signature Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty, Petrucci has been studying different types of scales and different types of chords – and he says having Portnoy back on the drum stool makes the prog-metal institution feel like they're all 18 again

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“He fell in love with my SGs, so now I have to buy him one. I told him that one day it would show up at his door”: Looking to take his post-Cars career in a more guitar-heavy direction, Ric Ocasek formed an unlikely partnership with an alt-rock icon

For what would become his fifth solo album, Ocasek reached out to Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan, and came away impressed by his arranging talents and technical abilities

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“We’re all looking for new inspiration. Some of us have been playing humbuckers for a long, long time”: Are we witnessing a P-90 renaissance? Warren Haynes has his say

Need some fresh sounds? The Allman Bros guitarist says P-90s are "instantly the tonal change I’m looking for"

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“A great choice for guitarists seeking an affordable semi-hollow electric that both looks and sounds different”: D’Angelico Premier SS review

Because a super-classy, versatile semi doesn't have to break the bank

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“I had a phone call from Paul McCartney, and he wanted me to come in and work with him…” How a Beatle helped Hans Zimmer conquer his stage fright with some priceless advice

Turns out even a film composer extraordinaire needs a little help from his friends…

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“I’m about 85 or 90 percent there. But it’s that 10 percent that sets me off. I can’t knock out those old solos as smooth as I used to”: Ace Frehley is practicing more than ever as he keeps his demons behind him and returns to arenas

The Spaceman on his most recent solo album – which won’t be his last – his self-designed $200,000 studio, the state of play with his former Kiss colleagues, and his family connection to an object on the Moon

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“The jury’s decision reinforces the validity and strength of Gibson’s intellectual property rights”: Gibson emerges victorious in copyright infringement retrial battle with Dean

A Texas federal jury once again sided with Gibson, rejecting Dean's argument that the former's Flying V, Explorer, and SG guitar shapes are generic in the minds of the guitar buying public

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"This seems like the missing link for anyone who uses an amp modeler at home": Headrush FRFR-Go speaker cab review

Headrush was early to spot a demand for giggable FRFR cabs in the market, and now it has seen another one for home users – has it got it right again?

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“For guitarists to push the boundaries of what’s possible”: Meet the SlideSaddle – a guitar slide that offers infinite sustain like an EBow

An IndieGoGo campaign has been launched to get this futurist take on the humble guitar slide off the ground

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“A lot of old-school guitar players can play amazing. But sometimes they’re not so innovative with the actual sound”: Steven Wilson on why guitarists need to switch up their tones to prevent their solos sounding stale

Alongside guitarist Randy McStine, the musical polymath took a tone-first approach to composing – and playing – solos on his new album, The Overview

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Amps as furniture? This brand of high-end cabinets puts Celestion speakers into luxury furniture inspired by ’70s hi-fi consoles – and aims to blend guitar gear seamlessly into your life

If the rugged appearance of touring gear feels out of place in your house, this brand thinks it has the solution

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“A few poorly intonated sustained bends in a solo can make the guitar's most emotive technique sound bad”: Learning how to bend strings correctly is one of the quickest ways to make your playing sound better

String bending is a core technique for lead playing. Here's how to take it from beginner to pro

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