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“You should know the music so well that you could still play it perfectly while someone is screaming in your ear”: 15 pro guitarists share their tips for memorizing music

We've all been there. Or worse still, you're playing, all is well, and then the mind goes blank. Here, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Joel Hoekstra, Marty Friedman, and a dozen of their fellow pros share their strategies for memorizing their parts

Guitar World

"Phil Mogg sings so unusually so it's difficult to copy, but Axl did a fantastic job": Michael Schenker's track-by-track guide to his new album My Years With UFO

Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO features contributions from Axl Rose, Slash, Roger Glover, Joey Tempest and many more

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Michael Schenker launches version of UFO classic Only You Can Rock Me aided by Joey Tempest and Roger Glover

Only You Can Rock Me comes from Michael Schenker's upcoming album My Years With UFO

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"I think an official Michael Schenker Gibson model will make a lot of people happy": The Flying V-loving guitar legend looks forward and back on his classic songs

In our new interview the maverick talks cocked wahs, Axl Rose asking to appear on his new album and self-perception: "I don’t think of myself as a technical player"

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“He came over and he said, 'You did a really good job up there.' I thought, 'Man, my guitar was off…’” Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra on the time Ace Frehley complimented his guitar playing… even though he wasn’t actually playing anything

Hoekstra says he only “really understood” the KISS veteran after partaking in an intimate and exclusive jam, during which Frehley insisted on cranking his amp to ear-splitting volumes

Guitar World

Michael Schenker reveals that Axl Rose sang three songs during sessions for his upcoming album My Years In UFO

According to Michael Schenker, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is "a perfectionist"

Metal Hammer

Michael Schenker releases epic, 11-minute version of UFO's Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom comes from Michael Schenker's upcoming album of UFO songs and stars Helloween frontman Kai Hansen

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“I’d always said to the Scorpions, ‘If any band from England asks me to join, no matter who it is, I’m doing it’”: Michael Schenker celebrates his tenure with UFO with a new reimagined greatest hits record – and it features Slash

Michael Schenker's new album, My Years with UFO, marks the 50th anniversary of the guitarist's tenure with the British classic rock band

Guitar World

Axl Rose appears on an upcoming Michael Schenker album of classic UFO songs

The first song released from Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO album stars Slash and former Skid Row man Erik Grönwall

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Watch Joel Hoekstra put on a riff and solo clinic as he performs and teaches his blazing single, Far Too Deep

From chugging powerchords to multi-finger tapping, this exclusive Guitar World playthrough and lesson breaks down one of the highlights from Hoekstra's new album, Crash of Life

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