“It may not have the same EQ options as other FRFRs, but the Laney LFR-110 amplifies your digital tone in a way that will easily get you heard on stage”: Laney LFR-110 review

Laney introduces its most compact FRFR guitar cabinet yet, in what could be the perfect on-stage companion to your carefully curated modeling tone

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“Two of his right-hand fingers were bleeding afterwards”: Tony Visconti on Pete Townshend’s one-take David Bowie Heathen session

The producer also recalls Dave Grohl’s remote cameo on the album and the “ludicrous” $10,000 invoice that followed.

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“He says stuff off the top of his head, and I’m sure regrets it later”: Chris Poland says he “doesn’t hold a grudge” against Dave Mustaine over the “terrible s**t” he said about him after he left Megadeth

The guitarist recounts his close – and often chaotic – bond with the Megadeth frontman, dubbing him the “riff master”.

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“I didn’t know if I wanted to be on that train”: Original Trivium frontman explains why Matt Heafy’s “laser focus” on perfection made him leave the band

“I see the updates, and that’s not the kind of life I could sustain,” says Brad Lewter.

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“I couldn’t help overplaying”: John Mayer on nerves during first Dead & Company tours

The guitarist says those early tours were about proving himself – both to fans and to Bob Weir.

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“Rick Rubin heard something. He had to convince those guys – they were kind of tentative. But Aerosmith was up for anything”: Joe Perry on how Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. united rock and rap – and the secret role the Beastie Boys played

Walk This Way was a seminal moment that gave an iconic track a second lease of life as it crossed genres and became one of 1986’s most explosive pop-cultural moments

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“They already had Buckethead. I was thinking, ‘Who’s the craziest and the best?’ I knew there was only one guy”: Joe Satriani on the guitar ace he recommended for the Guns N’ Roses gig

Axl Rose was on the lookout for a player who could match Buckethead’s ability and eccentricity – and Satch knew just who to call

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Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he and his dad jammed a song on the new Mammoth album before he died: “I taught him how to play it on guitar, and I played drums”

The multi-instrumentalist says there’s even footage of the jam lurking around somewhere…

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“I was asked to sit in with Buddy Guy. John handed me his 1930s National and smiled while I struggled to get anything out of it”: Joe Bonamassa leads tributes for musical troubadour John Hammond, who has died aged 83

The prolific blues great once had Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton both sit in with his band

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“I used to give Stephen s**t because he wasn’t a shredder like Eddie Van Halen”: Original Deftones bassist says he used to make fun of Stephen Carpenter’s guitar skills

“Maybe it was low-key bullying.”

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“It’s fast-feeling, streamlined, and distressed already, so go ahead and beat it up – this under $700 guitar is geared for many road miles and serious shredding”: Fame Custom ST RW review

Fame delivers an absolute burner of a guitar that exceeds expectations.

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“I was just shy of crying from pain that was in my right arm. I couldn’t even move it”: Stephen Carpenter sheds light on the health struggles that have impacted his playing

The Deftones guitarist opens up about how his undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes impacted the writing and recording of Private Music

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“I made it with realism in mind”: Inside Masayoshi Takanaka’s ridiculous six-kilogram surfboard guitar

What’s red, weighs six kilograms, and turns shredding into a full-body workout?

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The best looper pedals for all needs and budgets

A looper is the ultimate modern guitar tool – whether you’re gigging, songwriting, busking or just noodling the night away. But which one to get?

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“Ed was under the same pressure we all were. You can play your old gear, but it sounds old”: Billy Corgan on what drives guitar heroes to change their tone – and how it led him to package his sound in a pedal

The Smashing Pumpkins guitar icon reflects on a tonal journey four decades in the making, what pushes him to make signature gear like the new Laney Supergrace affordable, and why he’s the most excited he’s been to make a guitar album in 25 years

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Which guitarist should every beginner listen to?

Someone you know has just picked up the guitar for the first time. They ask you: which guitarist should I listen to and really study first? Who can I learn the most from? You can only name one

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Billy Corgan thinks rock has been “purposely dialled down” in culture: “All I know is I saw the gravity shift”

“Of course, great music came out of it, but there was this overt shift. I saw it happen…”

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It’s time you ditched your tube amp for a modeller: this is why you should do it

More and more guitar players are trading in their old-school guitar amps for modelling options – and you should be the next one to do it.

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