“I am 10 times the player when I hold a guitar pick the ‘wrong’ way”: A blues guitar hero showed me how he held his pick – and it changed the way I played guitar

Some sage advice has shaped my entire playing journey – and anyone can give it a go for immediate results

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“I’ve never met Noel Gallagher, but I’ve heard he liked Strange Times”: The unsung 1986 album that inspired the ’90s Britpop boom

The big-name fans. The studio where the Smiths tracked The Queen Is Dead. The bird that got caught in the control room. This is the story of the Chameleons’ Stranger Times

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“What the f**k should we call it, Iron Maiden?” Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson “twisted ourselves into a pretzel” coming up with a reunion name that wasn’t ‘Rush’

“It just seems silly to go on as Lee and Lifeson Present The Music Of…” Lee says. “Let’s cut to the chase, shall we?”

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“I wasn’t trying to make a retro album. I went through a Fractal”: Avenged Sevenfold’s Zachary Baker rides alone on Dark Horse – cooking up a country album with little more than a modeler and an Epiphone acoustic

He built his name shredding stages with one of metal’s biggest bands. Now, Zacky Vengeance talks us through the making of his debut album and why he relied on digital modelers over amps

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“I told myself I’d stop buying JHS Pedals gear. At this rate, my pedalboard is going to look like a shrine to the company”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the most outrageous Ibanez I think I’ve ever seen

Feast your eyes on all the weird and wonderful guitar gear that dropped this week, with new releases from Strymon, Ibanez, Catalinbread, and more

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