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“I discovered that you need to be anxious – it keeps you motivated. I try to feed off the anxiety and play guitar”: The life and times of Brent Hinds, the visionary guitarist with a maverick style who made Mastodon a big beast of metal

Guitar World pays tribute to the late Brent Hinds, one of metal's wildest and most inventive players, who died on 20 August

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“Instruments that shaped metal forever”: The mystery Gibson SG Kirk Hammett played at Ozzy Osbourne’s last show is heading to auction – along with more than 150 other guitars from his collection

The SG was used to play a Black Sabbath cover at Back to the Beginning, and it’s headed to the auction block alongside some other choice picks from Hammett's collection

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“Back to the Future has been the number one trending search on Reverb”: Epiphone Back to the Future ES-345s are being listed for up to $7,000 as scalpers strike the second-hand market

Punters are taking advantage of the hype surrounding the release by attempting to flip the sold-out guitars at extortionate premiums

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“A counterpart to the legendary Hummingbird”: Kirk Hammett and Gibson have released the Raven – putting a horror-themed twist on the classic dreadnought design

The Edgar Allen Poe-themed acoustic has been dressed up for Halloween, and only 100 are being made

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“Tony was a very successful professionalguitarist who played for Frank Sinatra... he designed this guitar with Les Paul”: Through a Dumble it sounds “like Madison Square Garden” and it’s totally unique – meet Tony Mottola’s 1968 Gibson ES-355TDR

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“It’s like the Hummingbird only evil”: Kirk Hammett’s new Custom Shop signature Raven dresses up the classic Gibson acoustic for Halloween

This collector's item is limited to 100 units worldwide, has a soundhole label signed by Metallica guitarist, and has aesthetic updates that just the thing for the horror superfan

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“It took nearly 20 years for the Hello Kitty Strat to return, and now it’s raining cats and… er, more cats”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including two replicas of the Marty McFly ES-345 that inspired a generation to play guitar

It's been quality over quantity this week, with a few blockbuster drops

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“It’s very simply the best guitar you can buy today”: Eddie Van Halen’s Kramer Ad guitar sells for $2,734,000 at auction

The eye-watering price tag makes it the sixth most expensive guitar ever sold publicly

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“Liam goes to his dressing room and picks up a guitar, comes back and starts throwing it around like an axe”: The Gibson ES-355 that broke up in Oasis in 2009 has sold at auction – but the Wonderwall acoustic failed to sell

The two guitars, tied to the highs and lows of the band’s career, hit the auction block with mixed results

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“Every working player knows a day will come when something goes wrong with their financial affairs. They’ll need an instrument for that day”: Robert Fripp on the guitars he’s kept, and the one he bought with no intention of playing

The King Crimson mastermind is best known for his ’59 Les Paul Custom, and there’s a reason most of his key instruments have been Gibsons – but he has a few “honorable mentions” too, like the '57 Strat Robin Trower gave him...

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“It’s something I’ve never seen in my lifetime. Biggest reunion of all time”: Johnny Marr, one of the Gallagher brothers’ earliest supporters, gives his thoughts on the cultural impact of Oasis’ reunion tour

Marr famously loaned an up-and-coming Noel Gallagher a few guitars when the band was finding its feet – and has been a strong champion throughout their career

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“For Bon Jovi, I run through the big, thematic solos. You really don’t want to mess those moments up. One bad moment will be there forever”: Phil X on his upcoming Gibson signature, lead discipline – and how to prepare for shows in the YouTube age

Canadian guitar hero Phil X, known worldwide for his fleet-fingered playing in Bon Jovi, takes us through the making of his side band’s new album

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Michael J. Fox Addresses The Back To The Future Inconsistency That Can't Be Blamed On Time Travel Shenanigans

Chuck Berry and Gibson guitars!

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Oasis Guitars Among Music Memorabilia Worth GBP3 Mn At UK Auction

Legendary guitars, iconic glasses and handwritten lyrics from some of the biggest names in music are going under the hammer at a London auction this week.

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“I wanted something that, when you hear it, it’s not obvious. I wanted people to go, ‘What is that?’” The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on why she’s ditching Fenders and Gibsons in favor of this genre-bending guitarist’s signature model

Roberts discusses embracing offsets and off-kilter guitars – and reveals what would top her list if she ever designed her own signature model

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“Celebrating the most treasured guitar scene in movie history”: Gibson has launched Custom and Epiphone replicas of the Back to the Future ES-345 – but its search for the long-lost original guitar goes on

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic film, Gibson has launched two replicas of Marty McFly's generationally inspiring ES-345

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“During a high school dance in 1955, a Gibson guitar helped change the course of music history”: Gibson unveils Custom Shop Back To The Future ES-345 Collector’s Edition – and there’s a limited edition Epiphone too

The hunt goes on for the original ES-345 used by Michael J Fox in movie, but these limited run replicas have arrived just in time to celebrate 40 years of Back To The Future

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“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India's biggest metal band

Determined to retain folk roots in his heavy output, he talks manifesting their Babymetal collab, inexperienced luthiers, a knock-off Strat with a strangely quiet third string, and how to choose a modeler now they’re all as good as each other

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“I was pissed off at Steve Thompson – he was sitting on the chair there, razzing me. So I said, ‘Let me just practice it once.’ He rolled it, and I was just in his face”: How Frank Hannon accidentally wrote one of Tesla’s most iconic guitar solos

Wielding a Gibson EDS-1275, Hannon helped define this quintessentially ’80s power ballad with a very last-minute solo

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Michael J. Fox's Back To The Future Guitar Has Been Missing For Decades, And The Story Behind The Famous Lost Item Deserves Its Own Documentary

Let’s find this piece of movie history!

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Gibson aims to expand its retail and live presence with third global Gibson Garage location

Following its Gibson Garages in Nashville and London, the legacy brand is opening a new space in Miami which aims to feature “unique discoveries intertwined with Latin culture around every corner”

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“I’m a big Metallica fan. I’ve seen Kirk playing it over the years and know what a big deal that guitar is”: Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil is a Strat player through and through – but here's why he couldn't say no to Gibson's ‘Greeny’ reissue

Buying such a pricey guitar wasn’t an easy decision, but he’s been making the most of his purchase

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“Ace reminded us all that rock should never apologize for being fun and that a little chaos can sound downright heavenly”: The guitar world pays tribute to the late Ace Frehley – the Spaceman who took Kiss into orbit

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons lead tributes to the Kiss co-founder and larger-than-life former lead guitarist, who has died, aged 74

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“I toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was sober and he was a freak of nature. I couldn’t relate to his playing”: The Outlaws' Henry Paul on opening for The Rolling Stones, finding fame thanks to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his one-of-one red Gretsch Falcon

The Gibson loyalist who’s served three stints with the Outlaws has been there, done that – he's played to stadium crowds, seen rock's greatest guitar heroes up close, and witnessed prime-era Keith Moon debauchery

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“They’re not speaking up”: Michael J. Fox has a theory about the fate of Back to the Future’s long-lost Gibson ES-345

Gibson is conducting a global hunt to track down the iconic ES-345 that went missing after filming wrapped on Back to the Future

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