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“My favorite British guitar players are amazing, but they all pale in comparison to the original blues guys. That was their own personal technique, from its origin”: Slash on his journey to discover the original guitar heroes

Orgy of the Damned finds the Guns N' Roses guitarist and A-list guests tackling blues standards that shaped his sound. Here he talks blues gear, the ethos, and how blues can be a force for good

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"I did a Mountain Dew commercial": Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner on making a living as a musician away from the limelight

"You have to be resourceful"

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"I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince

Duff has some serious regrets about meeting the iconic Prince, but it seems he actually made a solid impression

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“Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant

Death stares, Axl Rose and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy are all part of the story of Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel’s A Perfect Circle

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“If Pavarotti had come along and offered to sing Sex Action, I’d have probably said, ‘Yeah, you’re in’”: the wild tale of LA Guns, Hollywood’s most chaotic band

LA Guns laid the groundwork for the Sunset Strip glam metal scene, but they were too combustible to become superstars

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"You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile and mysterious to ever hit Europe. This is the full story

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“You can hear the influence of those riffs on Guns N’ Roses, but I’m sure it’s not a conscious thing. It’s in our subconscious, ingrained in our DNA”: Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

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The 50 greatest acoustic guitar songs of all time

As voted for by you, this list spans some of the most significant acoustic moments ever committed to tape – and features a controversial winner…

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Iconic Los Angeles recording studio the Record Plant to close its doors after more than 50 years of rich rock and metal history

Record Plant in LA has hosted Guns N' Roses, Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, Fleetwood Mac and many others

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“I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up”: Robert Trujillo compares supporting Metallica and Guns ’N’ Roses in the ’90s

Metallica’s bassist supported two of the biggest bands in hard rock during his time in Suicidal Tendencies

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"You’re going to have to prioritize staying clean over everything else." The vital advice Guns N' Roses legend Slash gave Lamb Of God's Mark Morton on kicking addiction

Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton reveals that the Guns N' Roses icon was one of the people that helped him on his path to sobriety

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Slash on the chemistry he felt when he and Axl reunited Guns N' Roses: "I missed him."

Slash and Axl Rose got the old GNR gang back together in 2016 after putting years of animosity behind them

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“2025 is all about Guns N’ Roses”: Slash plots course

Guns N' Roses are set for a busy 2025

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"When you're cold-calling musicians, some of whom you don’t even know, it doesn't matter who you are. It's a hard gig": How Slash organised Orgy Of The Damned

With his recent album Orgy Of The Damned – a selection of classics, each sung by a different guest singer – Slash is the latest rock superstar to take the blues road

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“That’s what sets guitarists apart… how they attack the strings. Stevie Ray Vaughan was the master of that – and I think Slash is right there with him”: Guns N’ Roses producer Mike Clink on having a front-row seat to Slash’s most iconic guitar moments

Having reunited with Slash for Orgy Of The Damned, the producer of Appetite for Destruction recalls the magical sessions with Guns N' Roses

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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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"A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy":Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

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“There are five million disgraceful heavy metal bands. What’s the point of being just another Metallica imitator?”: how Avenged Sevenfold took on the haters with their epic fourth album

Avenged Sevenfold’s self-titled fourth album found them ripping up their own blueprint - with brilliant results

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“If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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“I’m funny with amps. I love Marshalls, but I also love old Fender Deluxes. Dumble built one for me just before he passed away. I think it was the last one he ever built”: With Strats, Magnatones, and plenty of all-star guests, Slash embraces the blues

Turning to spontaneity, and changing habits both gear and playing-wise, Slash's new record is a laid-back, charming tribute to an ever-lasting strain of guitar playing

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“From supporting beginners to legends like Jimi Hendrix, it’s unquestionable the impact Manny’s has made on the world of music”: Legendary guitar store Manny’s Music poised to return after Sam Ash sells trademark

Manny’s was so iconic it featured in a Guns N’ Roses video – and now the company behind Heritage Guitars has acquired the trademark

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"Imagine a tour with Bon Jovi reuniting with Richie Sambora and the reunited Skid Row as an opener?" Sebastian Bach talks feuding with Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Jericho, Ronnie Radke and just about everyone else

Sebastian Bach pulls no punches answering your questions on everything from celebrity feuds to Skid Row regrets and hopes for the future

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“I think the biggest pitfall about learning the blues is faking it”: Slash talks true blues, his love for the pedal steel and valuable advice for new players

Switching out his fabled Les Paul for an ES-335 and his Marshall for Magnatone, Slash goes all in on the blues for Orgy Of The Damned – and lifts the lid on the gear that powered the album

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“I'm not super-excited by this development... There’s just gonna be too much of the same kind of look or sound for different things. I see it happening already”: Slash dismisses AI

Slash dismisses AI

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“They were very important albums, not just for us, but also in the history of heavy metal”: how Helloween invented power metal with Keeper Of The Seven Keys Parts I and II

The story of German power metal icons Helloween’s landmark late 80s Keeper Of The Seven Keys albums

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