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“My right ear pretty much lost 80 percent of its high end”: Joe Bonamassa reveals temporary hearing loss diagnosis following an incident at one of his recent shows

The condition, Acute Acoustic Trauma (AAT), is characterized by sudden hearing loss due to an injury to the ear drum

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“We parked up outside Steve Vai’s caravan. His guitar tech saw me. Next thing you know, Steve’s there, and I’m trying my best to play Tobacco Road”: He was a guitar god at 8, then he disappeared – the unlikely story of Thomas McRocklin

Vai handed him the Passion and Warfare guitar and produced his debut album, only for his protégé to give it all up. Decades later, McRocklin came back stronger – and pursued his own guitar path

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"If heaps of retro charm and a sound that truly stands on its own are what you’re after, then you’ve just found your new delay pedal”: Strymon Olivera Vintage Oil Can Echo pedal review

Strymon proves it's a well-oiled pedal-making machine with yet another knockout delay unit

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“A single-note solo played over just bass and drums runs the risk of sounding empty… The solution is to include some chord tones”: How to use triads in blues solos like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix

When you’re the only guitarist in the band, triads are your best friends in a guitar solo – and Hendrix and SRV were the masters

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“One promoter just bailed… So we stole his PA and sold it for gas money”: The life and times of infamous Philly punk icons Ink & Dagger

With a comprehensive retrospective announced via Trust Records, and the band back in session, Don Devore returns to the Ink & Dagger storyand the “psychedelic hardcore” sound that made them

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“Eric said that the only way he’d play on it is if he sounded like the Beatles”: Legendary Abbey Road record producer, Ken Scott, explains how Eric Clapton ended up playing an uncredited solo on a Beatles classic

Scott also reveals the recording technique the team used to make sure Clapton's solo sounded Beatles-esque

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“Our most compact all-in-one unit ever”: Fractal goes up against IK Multimedia and Line 6 with the AM4 – its most affordable and user-friendly amp modeler to date

With a new UI and Axe-Fx III at its core, the AM4 becomes the perfect entry point to the Fractal ecosystem

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“It was extremely humbling. It made me want to get really good at it”: Polyphia's Tim Henson on the challenges he encountered while learning guitar after playing the violin for years

Long before he changed the progressive metal game with Polyphia, Henson struggled with transitioning from violin to the guitar

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“I have a 1968 Plexi and Leslie West’s old Sunn amp, which Joe Bonamassa gave me”: Jared James Nichols owns a few vintage amp gems – but here’s why he still prefers Blackstars

Nichols and Blackstar have collaborated on a handful of signature amps over the years

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“The worst-kept secret in the amp world”: Joe Bonamassa’s new signature combo has landed – and it’s been built by a renowned disciple of Howard Dumble

The Fuchs JB-ODS was originally conceived as a go-to gigging combo for small club shows – but it developed into something more

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“Young bass players should diversify their sound if they want to land gigs. Not everyone can be in Foo Fighters”: How Juan Alderete’s infatuation with bass gear made him one of the world’s greatest authorities on pedals and effects

The Mars Volta and Racer X tone wizard imparts decades of wisdom on stompboxes and all things bass effects

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“Right before we get on stage, Paul said, ‘I don't want to discourage you, but you’ve got 4,000 people in the crowd – and a worldwide stream’”: Meet Magnolia Boulevard, the soulful rockers personally backed by Paul Reed Smith

The PRS founder heard the Appalachian soul outfit at a dealer event and soon became their biggest champion, hooking them up with connections, guitars and custom amps

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“I’m gonna fight this thing”: Great White guitarist Mark Kendall reveals Stage 4 cancer diagnosis

Kendall says he's being treated by a world class team of doctors and early signs are positive

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“We drove two hours down to meet the seller, who ended up being someone who worked on production for Slash”: Kiki Wong recalls her biggest amp bargain – when she found a vintage Marshall on Craigslist

At the time, Wong was touring with punk-rock supergroup She Demons and was in desperate need of an amp...

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“I’d put it right alongside any of the classic Fender amps. I think it’s earned that right”: 30 years of the Blues Junior – the Fender combo that came, saw and conquered the tube amp market

Compact, affordable and full of Fender DNA, the Blues Junior celebrates three decades as one of the company’s most iconic and celebrated tube amp designs. This is its story

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“A no-brainer purchase for ambience freaks, shoegazers and experimentalists”: Source Audio Encounter review

Building on what it started with its Collider delay/reverb pedal, Source Audio delivers a close Encounter of the ambient kind

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“It would have been okay if I had an acoustic guitar, but the electricity made it like ‘you're not allowed’”: Joan Jett on the battles she faced to become a rock guitar icon

Growing up, Jett defied the norms and expectations that “girls don't play electric guitar” – and went on to become a bona fide trailblazer and legend

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“It was the perfect guitar for him to pay tribute to Tony”: Kirk Hammett’s guitar auction shatters expectations – with his mystery Back to the Beginning SG fetching $70,000 more than anticipated

Around 150 of Hammett’s guitars were part of Julien’s latest Played, Worn & Torn auction

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"I feel closer to what I'm playing, more connected in a way I've never really felt with other semi-hollow guitars": Orangewood Clementine review

Orangewood's second-ever electric guitar release leans into its acoustic roots and a high spec, but can it win you over from the established giants of semi-hollow guitars?

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“Thank goodness it wasn’t painted”: John Entwistle’s Warwick bass triples in value after analysis reveals links to another rock great

The prototype's natural finish and some sharp eyes have helped it to a huge bump in value

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“They each have their own weird little soul”: Tom DeLonge has unveiled 10 new Fender Starcasters – and they’re made with actual meteorites from the Moon, Mars and more

The Ad Astra 10 guitars are inspired by DeLonge's Custom Shop model, with each featuring fragments of different meteorites

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“I couldn't stop vomiting. The room wouldn't stop spinning”: Ritchie Blackmore issues health update after tour cancellation

The guitar legend has opened up on his recent health issues after a handful of Blackmore's Night shows were cancelled

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“They can show you what a guitar is about right away”: Wolfgang Van Halen names the 2 classic rock tracks he plays to test any electric guitar

Forget the forbidden riffs and the flashy taps. Wolfgang finds it's better to keep things simple...

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“If all you want to do is sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’re screwed. There was only one of him and he did it better than anyone else”: What Guthrie Trapp learned while escaping the country player label – and how the fretboard can change your life

The session ace explains what’s wrong with modelers, why anyone emulating SRV is doomed to fail, and how he nearly missed out on jamming with Billy Gibbons

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“Tony Rice is the closest guy to a shredder that I was fixed on – but he could only influence me so far because I didn’t really understand his vocabulary”: Robbie Fulks on the “miracle” of bluegrass and the ecstasies of improv solos

Don’t plan guitar solos, says this acoustic mastermind – let them fly naturally

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