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“He doesn’t make it sound like he's trying”: Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix on the S.E.R.P.E.N.T tour

Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix at S.E.R.P.E.N.T festival

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“You all might know this tune, I think”: Eric Gales calls upon Slash and unleashes his inner Hendrix for Purple Haze jam

Slash's S.E.R.P.E.N.T blues travelling festival is well underway, and he's already served up perhaps the tastiest team-up of the tour with the help of blues virtuoso Gales

Guitar World

Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

As the Police’s biggest hit album Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer answers your questions on punk, his CIA dad and Sting’s ‘magnificent’ pecs

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“Some of the greatest sounds were created on junk!” Joe Bonamassa reveals the secret to getting great tones from affordable gear

Bonamassa is one of the world's highest-profile vintage guitar collectors but here the blues maestro assures us that affordable options from today's market past the taste test

Guitar World

“He had this ’65 Firebird III hanging on the wall. It was one of the best guitars I’d ever played. Some weeks later, I dreamed about it. I was like, ‘That’s the Holy Grail!’” DeWolff’s Pablo van de Poel on the quest to land his literal dream guitar

The Dutch psych-rock maestro checks in to show us his guitars and in the process makes us A) want a Firebird and B) wonder if it's time to have three fuzz pedals on our pedalboards

Guitar World

"The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

Louder

Two guitarists have the ultimate 4th July cookout as they crank two Marshall stacks in an empty warehouse and let rip with The Star-Spangled Banner

Two gear nuts go full on Strats ’n’ stripes in a deserted 250,000 sq ft warehouse, and it sounds magnificent

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“It has four solos, all of which are contenders for the greatest solo ever played”: This is the top guitar cover of all time, as voted for by Total Guitar readers

The winning cover has a quartet of masterful guitar solos, including one that was reportedly delivered with the help of a Zippo lighter...

Guitar World

“Something so amazing and so big that it has lived on for decades since its inception”: New doc tells the story of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios, and how it could have ended up being a nightclub

New documentary tells story of Hendrix's Electric Lady studio

MusicRadar

“This guy was just up on stage playing guitar behind his neck and now he’s barely even talking to me”: Junior Marvin saw Jimi Hendrix blow away the Beatles at a London club show – but says the guitar hero was too shy to speak to him

The Bob Marley and The Wailers guitarist says Hendrix was “like two different people” on and offstage

Guitar World

"His experimentation with the physicality and tonal possibilities of the electric guitar seemingly knew no bound": 5 songs you need to hear by Jeff Beck

The guitar player's guitar hero has a discography and a bag of six-string tricks like no other

MusicRadar

“The producer showed me a great recording trick – he covered my pick with a thin layer of paper. The sound was pure Bowie”: He played with John Squire and KT Tunstall. Now George Vjestica is exploring his experimental side as one of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds

You may not know him at first glance, but the work of Stoke-on-Trent native George Vjestica has probably appeared on some of your favorite albums and movies

Guitar World

"It's like trying to fathom the people who built the pyramids": Joe Satriani on the Jimi Hendrix performance that still blows his mind

"For Jimi, every song was a unique opportunity for expression, exploration and exposition" - Joe Satriani

Louder

“I played House of the Rising Sun in my fifth-grade talent show. Afterward Stevie Ray Vaughan walked up and said, ‘I play guitar, too’ and our friendship began”: Meet Rocky Athas, the guitarist who went to school with SRV and inspired Brian May to tap

The Texan player recalls how Queen witnessed his trick-filled live show, jamming with Double Trouble and filling Clapton’s shoes in John Mayall’s band

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Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth

The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis did it his way, turning down the Rolling Stones and David Bowie in the process

Louder

“Nothing’s worse than hearing someone say, ‘Deep Purple? They’re just like Black Sabbath, knocking out riffs’”: the birth of Deep Purple Mk II and the transformation that changed rock

How Deep Purple went from one-hit-wonders to become one of the greatest rock bands in history

Louder

"Sure, Trower sounded like Hendrix, but he certainly didn't play like him": Robin Trower's classic Bridge Of Sighs gets a lavish 50th birthday makeover

British guitar hero Robin Trower’s finest hour, expanded

Guitar World

“A brand-new Marshall and an Epiphone, if you dial it in right, can sound like a sunburst Les Paul through a vintage Bluesbreaker”: Joe Bonamassa explains why great tones are “much cheaper than people realize”

The blues ace and vintage guitar collector says you don't need expensive gear to get classic tones

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These 15 pioneering Fender Stratocaster players made the model their own – and learning their trailblazing approaches shows why the Strat is still one of the most versatile electric guitars

Learn the signature styles of 15 Strat-wielding icons – including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Nile Rodgers, H.E.R., Mark Knopfler and more

Guitar World

“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

Louder

“There’d be three numbers in the set; Dave Swarbrick would go berserk with his Echoplex and wah-wah. Especially in America, with substances being consumed”: The origins of Fairport Convention

The folk-rock pioneers’ 80s resurgence was no less unlikely than their earlier years, as they meandered towards success and influence

Guitar World

“It’s a five-string guitar, since I don’t use a high E string. That came from when I broke a tuning peg”: Pat Beers honed a one-handed, five-string guitar technique so he can cause more onstage chaos with The Schizophonics

With Hendrix, MC5, and Stooges influences, these antsy San Diego rockers put on a show you’re not likely to forget

Guitar World

“If we lose the amp-making business, we lose everything. We’ve got to go back and show the guitarist community that Marshall truly cares about them”: From digital amps to modelers and mods – Marshall’s new CEO has big plans to win back guitar players

Jeremy de Maillard has gone from Marshall headphones to the head of the iconic amp firm – now he’s tasked with raising a sleeping giant

PC Gamer

Do you need esports peripherals? Unless you have the reaction times of a gnat or money to burn, nope

Super fast esports mice, keyboards and headsets might sound tempting, but they're not going to make you a better player.

Guitar World

“When I was very young I didn’t have access to Western music. In 2016, I was first introduced to Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix”: Mdou Moctar is one of Africa’s premier guitar heroes – and he’s using his Stratocaster to spark a revolution

As the Niger guitarist releases a bristling new collection of protest songs, he explains how injustice puts the fire in his fingers, what keeps him loyal to the Strat, and why everybody in his hometown wants to play guitar

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