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“What do you say when you meet Vernon Reid by chance at the Memphis airport and he suggests you swap signature guitars? You say, ‘Yes sir, coming right up’”: Jack White and Vernon Reid exchange signature guitars after serendipitous airport encounter

Reid received one of White's TripleCaster Telecasters, while White got his hands on a customized Reverend Vernon Reid Signature Totem Series guitar

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“The Who, Van Halen – the whole thing where there’s a separate singer from the lead guitar player. That started with Hubert Sumlin and Howlin’ Wolf”: Vernon Reid on the 7 riffs that inspired him, from Hendrix to Chic, Cream, and more

The Living Colour guitarist reveals the seven riffs that stopped him in his tracks – and hints at how Jimi Hendrix might have inspired Cult of Personality

Guitar World

“It's not the same, but one thing eventually led to the other…” Vernon Reid on the Jimi Hendrix riff that inspired Living Colour's Cult of Personality

The Living Colour guitarist has also paid homage to Hendrix's influence on fusion music

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Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson

Can't Be Found comes from the MC5's Heavy Lifting, their first album in more than half a century

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“I’m able to pick these instruments up for the first time and play them like I’ve already had them for years”: Spector unveils two new Doug Wimbish USA Custom Series basses, including a replica of the Living Colour bassist's iconic 1987 5-string

With signature EMG pickups and an era-specific headstock design, Spector's new basses promise to deliver “the sound and feel that inspired Doug Wimbish's signature style”

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“I already know it's gonna be a stunner”: Vernon Reid is working with Reverend on a new signature guitar – and it’s set to be the firm’s first Floyd Rose-equipped build

Believed to be called Talisman, the guitar might be arriving sooner than you think

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“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble

Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US

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"You expect white supremacy, but not from your own people": Living Colour claim they've been shunned by black entertainment outlets for playing "white people" music

Living Colour issue statement backing up Lenny Kravitz's comments about black rock musicians being ignored at awards shows held by the black entertainment industry in America

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WWE Fans May Have Given Up On CM Punk Appearing At Survivor Series, But Another Possible Clue Has Popped Up

WWE fans are still debating whether or not CM Punk will appear at Survivor Series, and a new clue popped up that feels too timely to be a coincidence.

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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

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"If you swing too much, it interrupts the head-banging, and that’s the last thing I wanted to do – the head-banging reigns supreme!" In praise of Living Colour's Vivid

Jagger produced them but that sound was all theirs. Inside Living Colour's late 80s classic debut

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The great White Lines robbery: How a bassline by art-rockers Liquid Liquid became one of the biggest hip hop anthems of all time

In 1983 Doug Wimbish was asked to recreate a bassline that was tearing up NYC clubs. Transformed into White Lines (Don’t Do It) it became an enormous worldwide hit – but the original creators never received a dime…

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“I still have the strings I used on that session in a Ziploc bag”: Listen to Muzz Skillings' isolated bassline on Cult of Personality

Muzz Skillings kept things fresh on this heavy, riff-based smash from Living Colour's debut album

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Forget broken guitars – what the TSA did to Vernon Reid’s pedalboard is something else

The Living Colour legend had his rig torn apart ahead of a recent flight, and touring guitarists can’t believe the state it’s in

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