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- October 31
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- Watch Adam Jones play Stinkfist onstage with Tool in a full Dwight Schrute costume
- 15 Britpop guitar heroes who shook up the UK in the '90s
- That Pedal Show rate the most legendary pedals of all time: the deserving, the overrated and the total sleepers
- Pale Waves on embracing “heavy distortion and chaos and power” and how The 1975's Matty Healy got them hooked on Vox's coffin-shaped Phantom
- Amon Amarth on what drew them to baritone tunings over 7-strings and why no amount of pimping can polish a turd of a riff
- How Bob Dylan’s infamous Newport Folk Festival Fender Stratocaster ended up in the back of a woman’s attic – and why its discovery was so controversial
- October 28
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- The Beatles' Revolver: a comprehensive guide to the guitars and recording equipment the Fab Four used to make the landmark album
- Snake Sabo: “I'm not as good as I used to be. But it inspires me – if I don't feel like I need to get better, then what's the point?”
- Mike McCready breaks down the gear and inspiration behind 15 landmark Pearl Jam tracks
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is also a world-class gypsy jazz guitarist – watch him channel Django Reinhardt in this insane performance
- How Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan recorded a bass classic with Sweet Child O’ Mine
- The rarest Gibson Firebird of all time might just be this 1964 Kerry Green example
- Alter Bridge: “By learning how to turn down the noise in my brain, I can centre in on the music”
- October 27
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- Mick Mars on his favorite Mötley Crüe solo, how he (unintentionally) ended up on Aerosmith's Pump, and the Dr. Feelgood Garnet amp
- 3 hell-raising bands taking modern metal guitar to new heights
- Michael Amott: “I actually play quite soft – I’m not as aggressive as people might think. I prefer to explore the dynamic range”
- Slash once joined Nile Rodgers and Chic for a marathon Le Freak solo spot – but the show ended in tragedy
- October 26
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- Vinnie Vincent's controversial Kiss solos drove Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley mad – watch one of the guitarist's craziest live wigouts
- How Lexii Lynn Frazier became Top Gun: Maverick’s new guitar hero and recorded her parts with just hours to spare
- Pepper Keenan on why Corrosion of Conformity switched from “beat-to-s**t” Gibson SGs to ESPs: “James Hetfield said, ‘Man... these guitars ain't gonna make it!”
- Sleep’s Al Cisneros: “For my lifespan, I’ll be playing Rickenbackers. When I hear the sound of Rush’s Permanent Waves, there’s nothing else like that’”
- Spotlight: Bec Sandridge
- How Supersonic Blues Machine are evolving the art of blues guitar and doing everything in their power to stop the genre becoming a "museum piece"
- October 25
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- K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton dissect 17 of Judas Priest's loudest, fastest and toughest tracks
- Metal bassist and YouTube hero Kello Gonzalez: “How I went from zero to 75k subscribers...”
- Minnie Marks on mastering the dance between guitar and drum for a solo sound that takes retro styles in bold directions
- October 24
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- Robert DeLeo on how his vintage guitar collection inspired his first-ever solo album and the songwriting secrets behind Stone Temple Pilots' Core
- The Amazons' Chris Alderton: “Is it boring if I go with three distortion pedals? I do like things quite loud!”
- Behold Rickenbacker’s new Midnight Purple 330
- Fabrizio Grossi has worked with everyone from George Clinton to Billy F.Gibbons, Steve Vai to Ice-T. But in the event of an unlikely effects-based apocalypse, which pedals would he save from the flames?
- How Metallica changed metal with their groundbreaking 1986 classic Master of Puppets
- Nashville session ace Dave Roe: “The night I played bass with Jaco Pastorius on drums”
- John Petrucci: “If a guitarist is onstage playing their ass off, backing tracks don't bother me. But if they're faking it or pretending, that's a whole different thing”
- October 21
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- Scott Reeder: “I got a call: ‘Can you come over and jam with Tool?’”
- Watch a 16-year-old Shawn Lane blow minds with warp-speed solos onstage with Black Oak Arkansas
- The Gibson ES-345 Marty McFly played in Back to the Future was actually from the future
- Sophie May on confronting TikTok-fried attention spans and setting Leonard Cohen-style arpeggios to slam poetry
- Orianthi: “I wanted the verses to focus more on storytelling than aggression”
- Gavin Rossdale: “Modern tones are where it's at – and if you're not where it's at, where are you?”
- Guy Pratt reveals the gear he uses to replicate vintage Pink Floyd tones with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets
- How the MXR Dyna Comp became the go-to compressor pedal for countless all-star guitarists
- October 20
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- Blackbyrd McKnight on his tumultuous tenure with Red Hot Chili Peppers, the secret to great funk guitar playing, and why Jimi Hendrix is far from overrated
- Meet Dom Martin, the Belfast-born guitarist who may just be Rory Gallagher’s musical inheritor
- Fairport Convention’s Simon Nicol looks back on 55 years of the band that transformed British music
- Watch John Mayer cover Van Halen’s Panama with an Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein
- October 19
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- Jason Richardson on his love of Alexi Laiho, soundtracking Lifetime movies and how his late pet pug's progressive drinking habits shaped his new album
- Who really played bass on I Want You Back by The Jackson 5?
- Wilco’s John Stirratt: “With the bass, you can change the tone of different parts... I try to find a really good rhythm track that aids the melody”
- The story of the Fender Rosewood Stratocaster that never made it to Jimi Hendrix
- Joji Malani, aka Pei: “As a solo artist, I’m able to be way more intentional about everything”
- How to change your guitar amp speaker
- 15 glam rock guitarists from the '70s who defined the decade and beyond
- October 18
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- How Chuck Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, and created the first rock and roll guitar hero
- Alan Gorrie: “There was no big time about Jimi Hendrix or Keith Moon – we hung out with those guys every night”
- Watch Kinga Glyk’s Jaco Pastorius-inspired solo – played on a ukulele bass – which became one of her most watched videos ever
- How to tell Jim Root and Mick Thomson’s Slipknot guitar parts apart
- Laura Veirs on how she took overdriven riot grrrl electrics into the realm of nylon-string country blues
- October 17
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- October 14
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- 15 of Kiss's best guitar songs that don’t feature Ace Frehley
- Watch Vito Bratta bring the house down at New York's Ritz club with White Lion in 1988
- Dan Auerbach breaks down the guitar playing on 5 classic Black Keys tracks
- The history of Fender Telecaster pickups
- Kirk Fletcher: “These days, the attention to detail on blues songwriting has been neglected in a lot of ways – and I wanted to address that”
- Country music star Jimmie Allen talks mental health: “Music has always been my go-to, but there are times I can't get out of my head long enough to write”
- Blues? Prog? Floydian grunge? 5 guitar highlights from Return of the Dream Canteen, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most eclectic album yet
- Big Scary: “Our mental ethos played a big part in how the songs came together”
- October 13
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- Watch Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic perform ‘Sweet Child O' Mine’
- Ritchie Blackmore based Smoke on the Water on a classical masterpiece – and the riff’s roots might surprise you
- The art of pivoting as a musician: how to overcome uncontrollable curveballs and carve a path to success
- 10 times fans played guitar onstage with their heroes – and absolutely killed it
- S.G. Goodman: “Music is healing for the listener and the writer... You don’t always know exactly what a song is trying to teach you while you’re writing it”
- This unearthed 1960 prototype reveals what the Gibson SG Special nearly looked like
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 341
- October 12
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- Les Claypool: the 5 basslines that changed my life
- Level 42’s Mark King: the man with the 3 million dollar thumb
- Matt Bellamy’s 10 greatest Muse guitar moments
- Leprous guitarist Tor Oddmund Suhrke on his prog fanbase’s insatiable appetite for odd time signatures and going from massage table to festival stage
- Bloodbath’s Tomas Akvik on stepping up and inaugurating his whammy bar for the death metal supergroup’s sick new album
- The Bobby Lees on how no-holds-barred songwriting and a musical molotov cocktail helped them create primal new album, Bellevue
- Spotlight: Max Jacobson of Grenade Jumper
- The missing Beatles bass and the one track that Paul McCartney refused to play on
- Lamb of God’s Mark Morton and Willie Adler on making “combative and confrontational” new album, Omens
- October 11
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- Nili Brosh: “For me, the playability is big... I don’t think anybody’s wish is to feel like the guitar is fighting them and everything is harder to play”
- Al Di Meola: "I see a lot of young players online with such super-phenomenal technique – but very rarely do I see it in the framework of a composition"
- Bootsy Collins: “James Brown said, “Son, just slow down and give me The One”
- 6 times the legendary “Greeny” Gibson Les Paul was used to create electric guitar magic
- How gender equality in the guitar industry has improved – and what more needs to be done
- October 10
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- October 5
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- Watch Nathan East play a virtuosic Sir Duke... while having a conversation with Stevie Wonder
- Machine Head's Robb Flynn: “When we were first starting out, I used to say, ‘I want us to be the Grateful Dead of metal’”
- 5 albums shaping the sound of modern guitar music
- The ‘Led Zeppelin III’ bassline that wasn't played by John Paul Jones
- Meshuggah’s Mårten Hagström: “Fredrik is the mad guitar genius. So for him to come back was natural and made me want to go on with it, too”
- The Wonder Years: “We only want to put out records that respect our fanbase and our legacy”
- October 4
- October 3
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- Jack Bruce: “Jimi Hendrix regarded the guitar as an extension of himself. But in an instrumental sense, I would argue that Eric Clapton was probably better”
- Shinedown’s Eric Bass looks back at the band's top five bass albums
- Stevie Ray Vaughan's 10 greatest guitar moments
- The Big Moon’s Soph Nathan: “When I first started playing, I thought I should be noodling over everything. But space is really important”
- John Mayer once bumped into a fan at a music store, and ended up buying her the guitar of her dreams
