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“Against his wishes, his doctor insists that he refrain from travel at this time”: Ace Frehley cancels show after fall in home studio

Frehley had been slated to appear at the Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster, California, last Friday

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“We were like Dime and Vinnie and the Van Halen brothers combined… Then when everything went down, I found out that we were not as close as we thought”: Max Cavalera on Sepultura’s bloody roots, the rise of Soulfly and how metal became the family business

Max Cavalera takes GW back to the beginning in Brazil and the search for a sound more brutal than anyone, the bitter splits and blessed reunions, and what comes next for Soulfly and Cavalera

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“Sometimes I go to a Guitar Center, see a kid jamming and I’ll start jamming with them. We look at each other and it’s, like, a moment”: Yvette Young-backed emo icons Algernon Cadwallader are back – and as giddy and technically dazzling as ever

Reunited double-lead guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony on writing complex songs on drugs, the album’s secret ska song and connecting with next-gen rippers at Guitar Center

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“Two shots fired by a frantic chick at her boyfriend missed him and hit T-Bone’s guitar”: T-Bone Walker’s 1949 Gibson spearheads the reopening of iconic Denmark Street guitar store Regent Sounds

The guitar is now on display in a new lounge dedicated to high-end and historically significant guitars

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“Losing Jeff was devastating. He was the most powerful talent of my generation”: Bassist Mick Grøndahl looks back on his time with Jeff Buckley, and the song that took 19 takes to perfect

Produced by Slayer and Nirvana collaborator Andy Wallace, Last Goodbye was the most cinematic track from Buckley’s only studio album

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“A shut-up-and-take-my-money fuzz pedal if ever there was one”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week, featuring Manson, Martin, Ibanez, Positive Grid, and more – plus, will Boss' XS-100 Poly Shifter steal the DigiTech Whammy’s crown?

PRS, Boss, a trio of sweet, sweet fuzz boxes, and the guitar plugin that gets AI to do the tone seeking for you? It's just another week in gear

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“It’s quite lyrical and different from a lot of other Stones songs... I played in a different mode”: Mick Taylor lent stunning slide work to golden-era Rolling Stones classics, but he says this obscure album cut is his best performance with the band

“Because of the structure of the song, it pushed my guitar playing in a slightly different direction,” the ex-Stone said of his unlikely pick

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“The guy in the support band was playing a Jazz Bass. We agreed to swap instruments… That guy was Ian Hunter who went on to form Mott the Hoople”: Leo Lyons on the bass that appeared at Woodstock, has been played by Hendrix, and is on three UFO classics

The Ten Years After bassist’s 1962 Fender Jazz Bass is one of the coolest four-strings you will ever see, with buckle rash on the back that any Fender Master Builder would kill to recreate

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“Is this the best guitar I've ever played? Including the ones in your museum? I believe so”: Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt teams up with Martin to create a new signature acoustic that blends traditional style with a key, ultra-modern twist

Mixing the old and the new, the front porch and campfire with devil's horns, the limited-edition model is luxurious from top to bottom

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“One thing led to another, and a jam session turned into Warren Haynes sporting some of rock and roll’s most iconic guitars on stage”: Warren Haynes becomes the latest to wield Jeff Beck's ‘Yardburst’ on stage – following Marcus King and Craig Ross

The guitar icon is currently out on tour with Gov’t Mule, and was spotted brandishing Beck's Yardbirds Gibson Les Paul Standard while jamming with Derek Trucks at their tour stop in Chicago

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“I don't even really know where all the notes of the guitar are because I learned to play by ear”: Why Tim Henson believes that “learning everything by ear” is the best thing aspiring guitarists can do

The Polyphia virtuoso shares his own experience switching from the rigidity of classical music – to finding a sense of freedom learning guitar by ear

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“We’ve had some progression in the case, thanks to all the tips you guys have been sending in”: Gibson has found an ES-345 that Michael J. Fox played in Back to the Future – but it’s not the one they’re really looking for

Gibson's Mark Agnesi says they have found the ES-345 from the Back to the Future Part Two, but that is helping them eliminate false leads in the hunt for the O.G. McFly guitar

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“Quite unlike anything I’ve ever played. Every guitarist, at some point in their playing life, should experience this”: Strandberg Boden N2 Original review

The most advanced Boden platform to date is here, bringing with it some choice upgrades and pickups designed in collaboration with Fishman

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“Dickey came to one of the shows. He whispers, ‘Hey, is that the guitar I loaned you?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ He goes, ‘Good. Use it for as long as you want’”: Frank Hannon on how guitar instrumentals helped him grieve father-in-law Dickey Betts

How the Tesla guitarist wound up with the Allman Brothers legend’s Gibson prototype on permanent loan, and why it features alongside a Brian Setzer Gretsch on new solo album Reflections

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“An instrument that actually solves the problems holding guitarists back”: Ibanez and Bernth team up for a classy high-performance signature electric that makes you play “faster” and “cleaner”

Is this the guitar that makes you a better player? The Austrian virtuoso believes it will, and it’s got multi-voice signature Fishmans that give you more core tones than you have days in the week

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“We were trying to do the perfect crossover between a Telecaster and a Les Paul. I love both”: Mikey Demus on making a Manson signature guitar that suits him down to a T

Artist guitars have played a big part in the long-running history of Manson Guitar Works. We catch up with Mikey Demus to discuss his latest collaboration

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“The pickups on that old Univox were amazing. It really makes you wonder about the Japanese guitars produced backthen. They weren’t so bad at all”: How Vintage’s REVO range breathed new life into the oddball electric

Just back from a long stint in China where he oversees the design and production of Vintage guitars, Alan Entwistle delves into what makes REVO that little bit different

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“I looked at the page and I went, ‘John, you’ve written a classic – a song like the greats; Lennon and McCartney or Bob Dylan’”: John Fogerty recalls the moment he wrote one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s most iconic tracks

In a recent interview with Rick Beato, Fogerty discussed his songwriting process, and how being discharged from the National Guard inspired him to write his calling card

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“I pushed my design and engineering skills to the limit”: Former Fender Custom Shop head John Page has built instruments for Eric Clapton and David Gilmour – but his latest masterpiece is a cathedral within a guitar

The Retablo is a six-string like no other – and it doubles as an ode to some of the most influential guitar greats who ever lived

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“It’s going to change guitar as it is. That’s a big statement”: The MyTrem looks to spark a vibrato revolution with a configurable bridge system that brings whammy bar pitch-changing to the guitar

Swiss firm MayTrem has pioneered a radical new bridge that can be completely configured for whole-chord pitch drops, single-string shifts and more

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“By the time I realized I was in, I was a deserter from the Marine Corps. Johnny was was like, ‘Do your time. When you get out, you’ve got a job’”: CJ Ramone landed the gig of a lifetime with the Ramones, but his audition got him sent to naval prison

Replacing Dee Dee was no easy task, but CJ helped energize the band’s last stand by relearning how to play and using his predecessor’s rig – and he has no regrets about how it ended

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“I said, ‘If you don't want it, I'll have it,’ very calmly, trying to control myself. It's the best Strat I've ever had”: Gary Moore's iconic 1961 Strat is up for sale – alongside his ‘Still Got the Blues’ ’59 Gibson Les Paul

The Gary Moore Collection: The Final Encore kicks off in November and is the last of a series of sales of Moore’s collection that have taken place at Bonhams

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“He’s swinging this guitar around and nearly took my face off with it. It ended up on the floor and I put it out of its misery”: The “smashed up” Gibson ES-355 that broke up Oasis in 2009 is headed to auction

The guitar, damaged during a Gallagher brothers bust-up before their cancelled show at Rock en Seine, Paris, and the Wonderwall acoustic are set to be sold

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“Reshaping the nut to look more like a Gibson from the ’50s is too tempting not to do”: How I made the Epiphone Jeff Beck Oxblood 1954 Les Paul a little more Jeff Beck

After quite a few playing hours under its belt, Dave Burrluck gets the Epiphone Oxblood Les Paul back into the garage for a bit of a tinker and a tune-up

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“A new benchmark for heavy guitar sounds at a relatively accessible price point”: Blackstar DA100 Ruby review

Blackstar created this fire-breathing signature head for guitar icon Doug Aldrich. But does it rock our world?

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