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“He didn’t just work here – he lived and embodied the spirit of the brand”: Mike Lewis, the head of Fender’s Custom Shop – an industry legend who played with Chuck Berry and toured with the Rolling Stones – has passed away

From sideman to session player, retailer and 30-year Fender employee, Lewis worked on everything from the firm’s amps to revamping Gretsch and launching the first mass-produced humbucker Strat

Guitar World

“He didn’t just work here; he lived and embodied the spirit of the brand”: Mike Lewis, legendary head of the Fender Custom Shop, has died

Lewis had toured with Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, and owned a guitar store before joining Fender in 1991, and his attention to detail was such that he once gave a '59 Gretsch an actual MRI and CAT scan

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“My God, it’s hard to get in tune when they’re booing": when Bob Dylan faced down his detractors with a Strat and made rock n' roll history

In 1965, Bob Dylan strapped on a Stratocaster, then a Telecaster, and ushered in a bold new folk-rock sound. But he'd actually gone electric six months earlier…

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Wayne Kramer obituary

Founder member of the influential rock band MC5 whose explosive live act was captured on the album Kick Out the Jams

The Guardian - UK

“I felt like I’d stumbled upon this magical sound radiating off people’s turntables… my Strat and Gretsch together had this sound of one guitar, even when it was two”: As Randy Bachman prepares to part with his guitar collection, he’s still burning bright

The 80-year-old Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive pioneer is hitting the road with extra energy after hearing remastered live recordings: “We were on fire! We went to Japan and played as good as Led Zeppelin”

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"I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems

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"Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles

After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

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“It looked cool – especially when you took acid… those horns looked like the devil!”: The Doors’ Robby Krieger on his love of the SG, studio accidents and a challenging move away from his signature fingerstyle

The influential Doors guitarist is back with a new record. He explains how he’s (almost) found comfort in a new way of playing

Guitar World

“Eddie was like a new sun appearing in the sky. You could sense that the world would never be the same”: From the big bang of Eruption to tone tips and warm-ups – Paul Gilbert shares the knowledge gleaned from a lifetime studying Eddie Van Halen

The shred icon salutes his greatest influence – with the insight of a fellow guitar obsessive

Guitar World

32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

Louder

Is Prince's Purple Rain really the second-greatest guitar riff of all time? A new survey says 'yes'

And Seven Nation Army is the only riff recorded after the '80s to make the top 20

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Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ Voted Best Guitar Riff Of All Time

Poll of music fans reveals iconic rock classics and modern hits in the top rankings.

Zenger

"There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever

"When Jimi played with Cream... he walked offstage with this smirk; he knew exactly what he was doing" – we look back at the seismic impact of Clapton and Hendrix on the British guitar scene

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“Malcolm Young would shred picks. It's like he would pick them up and they’d turn to dust!”: Richard Fortus breaks down his role as Guns N’ Roses’ rhythm machine – and explains the overlooked details that separate good players from great ones

GNR's resident Gretsch signature artist discusses his chemistry with Slash – and how it echoes that of Izzy Stradlin's – and pinpoints his approach to staying in the pocket

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“I listened to a lot of T-Bone Walker when I was a kid, and to suddenly have one of those guitars in your arms was really special”: In his final interview, Bernie Marsden opens up on selling his guitar collection – with one notable exception

Just days before his unexpected death, we spoke with Bernie Marsden for what was sadly to be the final time. He shared the story behind the guitars he was selling, and the one he finally chose to keep

The Guardian - AU

Three things with Anthony Burke: ‘It was lost forever in the demolition’

In our weekly interview about objects, the architect and Restoration Australia host tells us about a milk jug that is a parable on acceptance – and his surfboard called Maybellene

Louder

30 guitarists on the guitar heroes who changed their life

Slash, Angus Young, Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons reveal the guitarists who made them want to play in the first place

The Guardian - UK

Gold vinyl for aliens may outlive humanity

Letter: This record of our existence is now gliding through space, way beyond our solar system – we may as well forget about it, writes Antony Barlow

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Chuck Berry-by-way-of-the-gutter riffs and choppy Strat-isms from Fender's latest signature artist: This week's essential guitar tracks

Must-hear new cuts from Brian Setzer, Steve Lacy, Of Mice & Men, Buck Meek, Bad Wolves and loooads more

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Happy 80th birthday Mick Jagger: here's 5 of the Stones' finest moments on record

Nobody has moves like Jagger – follow his evolution in The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll Band

The Guardian - UK

Symphony for the devil: Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday

The singer who invented the very idea of the frontman has reached his ninth decade. We pick out the Jagger-iest moments of all, from killer lyrics to self-mocking sketches

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Peter Green classic interview: "I'm only Eric Clapton's replacement, I'm not Eric Clapton"

Three years on from his passing, we remember the self-effacing Fleetwood Mac and Bluesbreakers guitar legend with this 1998 interview

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All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

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50 guitar chord shapes guitarists need to know

Increase your fretboard vocabulary now!

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The Groundhogs guitarist and frontman Tony McPhee dies aged 79

The influential British rock guitarist backed John Lee Hooker, recorded with Jimmy Page and played with Eric Clapton and John Mayall

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