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“Someone once said to me, ‘Why do you make solo records?’ And it’s like, ‘So I can play solos!’” Myles Kennedy on the blues-rock hero who shaped the way he plays, why he’s an accidental frontman, and what the power of the riff made him do

We’ve been saying it for years, but the man best known for his soaring vocals with Slash and Alter Bridge also happens to be one hell of a guitar player. On his new album, he busts out his riffs, his roar and his signature PRS

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“We’re all doing things. I think that keeps Creed healthy”: Mark Tremonti on the importance of Creed’s members working on other projects

The guitarist has a new record out now, and next on his schedule is another Alter Bridge album before returning to Creed duties

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“Coming up with a solo is like searching for treasure”: Mark Tremonti reveals his favourite Alter Bridge and Creed songs - and discusses his heavy new album

Plus: his new gear and new tricks

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“I’m really, really stoked about where this one’s going. It’s gonna be cool.” Myles Kennedy talks new Slash and the Conspirators album

Hot off releasing blues album Orgy Of The Damned this year, Slash is diving back into his work with Alter Bridge man Myles Kennedy

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"People said, 'You're going to be a one hit wonder.'" How Higher cemented Creed as rock's new superstars

Inspired in part by recurring nightmares and visions of heaven, Higher cemented Creed as one of the most successul rock bands of the new millennium

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"Would you rather sell tons of records and have people come at you or sell no records and have everybody love you?" Mark Tremonti isn't losing any sleep over the Creed haters

There's nothing new about popular bands attracting a lot of hate – and Creed are just fine with that

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“I plugged into my first Dumble at a PRS gig. I ran right for it. I beat Carlos Santana and David Grissom to it. I’m like, ‘Out of my way!’” Mark Tremonti on how Paul Reed Smith got him hooked on Dumbles

The Alter Bridge guitarist looks back on how he beat his PRS peers to play the amp of his dreams – and never looked back

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“I don’t like brand-new guitars. I’ll see a new guitar and I’m like, ‘That’s gonna look good after I drag it across the driveway’”: Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy spills his tone (and drop tuning) secrets

Whatever you do, don’t lend Kennedy your brand-new 10 Top PRS, but do check out his new solo album, The Art of Letting Go, which he promises us is a “a rock ’n’ roll record – a lot of loud guitars”

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"Ultimately, you realise that people will forget about you": Myles Kennedy on being in three bands, how Jim Carrey changed his life, and why he worries about Billie Eilish

For some people, travelling life’s road is easy. For lifelong worrier Myles Kennedy it’s anything but

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“I went in there and I was like, ‘I need a really good fuzz.’ And they had this pedal there”: Myles Kennedy names the “secret sauce” stompbox he thinks every guitar player should own

The Alter Bridge icon used the sub-$200 octave fuzz pedal on his recent solo record

Guitar World

"This album is a riff-filled inferno, the work of a master craftsman": Myles Kennedy is at the top of his game on colossal solo album The Art Of Letting Go

Riffs and sky-high choruses galore on Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy’s third solo record, The Art Of Letting Go

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“You plug into a great Dumble and it is this awe-inspiring warm feeling you get”: Mark Tremonti reveals how he bought one of his sweetest-sounding Dumbles at a swap meet and explains why they are the holy grail of tube amps

The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist is the proud owner of four Dumbles, confessing that he now has a whole room dedicated to amps and he'll just go in there to look at them

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Mark Tremonti says Creed are here to stay

Guitarist Mark Tremonti is working hard to make future room for reunited Creed in his jam-packed schedule

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"It's the best-sounding album I think I've ever recorded": Why Mark Tremonti believes his 20th studio album recording raises the bar for his guitar tone

A very special Dumble amp is involved

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“A lot of metal players won’t care – they just want to play metal. But cleans are important to me”: Mark Tremonti on what his signature PRS MT 100 amp has in common with his Dumbles – and why it does more than breathe fire

One of the best metal amps on the market? Sure. One of the most versatile? Most def. The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist's signature head has three independent channels and they're all their own thing

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Creed wrote megahit Higher onstage in front of 4,000 people, reveals Mark Tremonti

Singer Scott Stapp “liked to play this game where he would put the band on the spot and say, ‘We’re going to write a song,’” the guitarist explains

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“I think it’s time to play some rock ’n’ roll”: Myles Kennedy announces 2024 headline tour, supported by Devin Townsend on an acoustic guitar

The Alter Bridge main man and Slash collaborator will return to the road in November – and he’ll be joined by a prog metal superstar

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“Someone’s spiked Derek Sherinian and Bumblefoot’s cornflakes – their virtuosity is hotwired for the next gen”: Whom Gods Destroy’s Insanium

Sons Of Apollo offshoot deliver a jawdropping and sometimes preposterous prog-metal storm with their debut release

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"Once we had it all arranged, we all looked at each other and it was one of those hairs-standing-up-on-your-arms moments": the story of the landmark Alter Bridge song that won them a greatest guitar solo award

Is this still Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti's greatest work?

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"It's mental as much as it is physical for me" – Big Wreck founder Ian Thornley's extensive guitar and vocal warmup routines reveal just how much work can go into being a great live performer

And he can thank (or blame) Myles Kennedy for some of it

Guitar World

“Let’s be clear: this is not a bedroom amp. It’s designed to fill huge halls and stadiums with ferocious rock riffage”: PRS Mark Tremonti MT 100 review

Bucking the recent trend for compact heads, PRS goes large with its latest signature amp for the Alter Bridge guitarist

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"Dave Grohl said Arms Wide Open was one of the best songs ever written." Mark Tremonti on Creed, Alter Bridge, singing Sinatra and everything in between

Mark Tremonti regales us with the life lessons he has learned through a career in music

Louder

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Royal Republic, The Pineapple Thief, Bob Vylan and more

In which we burst into 2024 with eight songs that confirm that this year will like every other: packed with hot rock'n'roll action

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Watch Mark Tremonti perform O Holy Night at Christmas Special concert

Creed and Alter Bridge star Mark Tremonti releases pro-shot footage of track from Christmas show in Florida

Louder

“I called Keith Richards about doing it. His manager said: ‘Keith has already got a band. They’re called the Rolling Stones’”: the epic story of Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup

Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band

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