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“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene

By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything

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"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

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“I would definitely advise trying classical guitar – it’s really easy to translate classical chord shapes to pop music”: How NY duo The Lemon Twigs are leading the ’70s glam rock guitar revival

Power-pop enthusiast Brian D’Addario on his love of 12-strings, surprising guitar heroes, and how fingerstyle on a nylon-string can be the foundation for all songwriting on guitar

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Sunn’s first official drop revives amps used by Adam Jones, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix

The Beta Lead and 100S are back, and they're joined by a host of bass heads, speaker cabs and monitors

Guitar World

13 Great Hayley Atwell Movies And TV Shows And How To Watch Them

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One star Hayley Atwell has many other great movies and TV shows under her belt.

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“The world needs it back”: Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender

All-new models and “historic reproductions of the classic Sunn designs” are expected to arrive later this year

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“Mick came in with his Les Paul, plugged in to my amp and fiddled with the controls. All of a sudden there it was, the full Ziggy Stardust tone”: The post-Bowie career of Mick Ronson, rock ’n’ roll’s most quietly spoken guitar hero

Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie’s classic early ’70s albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others

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Stevie Ray Vaughan defined the sound of contemporary blues guitar – here are 20 techniques you can learn from the Stratocaster master

Get inside the Texas blues icon’s style with this in-depth lesson on his incendiary playing

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“You would make Jimi proud if he heard that solo”: Greg Sover and Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox cover Hendrix’s deep cut, Remember

The Philadelphian guitarist and singer steps up to fill some of the biggest shoes in guitar history – with David Bowie’s amp along for the ride

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"I'm finally getting up there with Eric Johnson… and the amp goes to s**t!" Orianthi on her A-list collaborations and the guitarists who shaped her sound

The Aussie virtuoso reflects on playing with Steve Vai and Santana, meeting B.B. King, and why Gary Moore was a pioneer of blues-metal soloing

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50 guitar chord shapes guitarists need to know

Increase your fretboard vocabulary now!

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“The others realised they couldn’t stop me because it was too close to the show… I got away with it, although it was a close-run thing”: How Peter Gabriel developed his Genesis frontman act

It may have caused conflict, but his insistence on sticking with his artistic vision paid off in countless ways

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“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

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Vito Bratta recorded White Lion’s All You Need is Rock 'n' Roll with Jimi Hendrix’s black Stratocaster – and Leslie West’s Marshall amp

West's 100-watt Mountain Marshall is still owned by Bratta, who got his hands on the fabled Strat through Al Kooper – who was gifted the guitar by Hendrix himself

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“Beyond special”: Watch John Mayer and Dead & Company nail Knockin’ on Heaven's Door, All Along the Watchtower and Not Fade Away with Dave Matthews

Dead & Co turned into a classic rock covers band for a portion of the night, with a setlist that also featured The Band's The Weight

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Jill Scott's remixed national anthem goes viral after performance at Essence Festival

Fans often ask R&B singer and actor Jill Scott why she doesn't sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at sporting events.

Guitar World

Jeff Beck said Stevie Ray Vaughan “was the closest thing to Hendrix when it came to playing the blues”: watch the two guitar heroes duke it out on Goin' Down

Filmed for MTV, this electrifying 1989 performance showcases the Strat titans' uniquely forceful playing

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Learn the ultimate Jimi Hendrix rhythm guitar chord lesson

Master Jimi's 'thumb over the neck' and finger barre chord techniques – plus his approach to funk rock and much more

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Hendrix's Epiphone Wilshire guitar is up for sale at $1.25 million

It's one of Jimi's early guitars

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Jimi Hendrix’s 1961 Epiphone Wilshire guitar goes on sale for over a million dollars

The instrument is reportedly being sold on behlaf of a private collector

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Joe Bonamassa teaches you his favorite Fender Stratocaster blues licks

The blues guitar superstar takes us on a tone tour on his 1954 Fender Strat, with licks inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson and more

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In celebration of Jan Hammer: so much more than great film and TV soundtracks

You might know Jan Hammer as the talented film and TV score writer, but he also redefined keyboard technique and performance

MusicRadar

ThorpyFX promises Uni-Vibe perfection from the compact and easy-to-use ER-2

Send your guitar tone through that chewy psychedelic swoosh without losing any low end in ThorpyFX's latest high-end stompbox build

MusicRadar

10 of the best songs for beginner guitar players to learn

Classics from Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac – and you'll just need some simple chords

The Independent UK

US guitar maker Fender opens flagship store in Tokyo banking on regional growth

Fender, the guitar of choice for some of the world’s biggest stars from Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton, is opening what it calls its “first flagship store” in its 77-year history

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