“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet
The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio
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“The guitar community came through and sent about one million solos to me”: The world’s buzziest guitarists fought to get on this Bilmuri track – now the winning solo has been revealed
The winner beat out the likes of Intervals’ Aaron Marshall and Connor Kaminski to have their solo featured on the final song
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“I don’t know how it happened, but somewhere along the way, my right hand just wasn’t doing the job anymore”: Dethklok’s Brendon Small started struggling to play, so he took a lesson with a metal virtuoso
Ahead of touring with Amon Amarth, Small reveals the positive side of having a dozen guitars stolen, the “perpetual motion” of his band’s shows, the best guests on Metalocalypse, and his quest for the perfect concert
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“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup
Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album
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“Is it worth the higher price tag? For some, it won’t matter, but for others, it is something to weigh on heavily”: Act Entertainment Sterling Vermin RAT Distortion pedal review
The Sterling Vermin impressively presents itself as an evolved and cultivated RAT pedal dressed in shining armor
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Why Sweetwater’s Guitar Gallery gives you the reassurance of a brick and mortar guitar store with the convenience and value of shopping online
Whether it’s choosing your perfect wood grain, the ideal weight, or simply the reassurance of knowing that the guitar has been carefully checked and set-up for you, the Guitar Gallery offers a new world of guitar buying confidence.
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“Guitars haven’t changed that much in the last 50 years. We’re about to change that”: Guitar Center is setting up its own in-house guitar brand – and it’s asking players for their help
Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto says the retailer is going to build “the best guitar that has ever been made”
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“Automatically you go into blues when you do that”: Big Country’s golden guitar rule that steered them clear of the blues
The band drew great inspiration from Thin Lizzy’s sonic template, but they made a concerted effort to avoid being labeled as a blues band
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“After his funeral, me and my buddy snuck into his house and took the guitar”: Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after a tragic accident
The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock
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“I’d buy a ‘54 Strat, and then I’d sell it, buy one, sell it… I just kept trading them off. I’ve been disappointed in some of those”: Eric Johnson on why a guitar’s age, value, and cool factor don’t necessarily make it a better instrument
Flirtations with vintage gems haven’t always yielded the results the virtuoso wanted
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What’s the point of a guitar’s pickguard anyway? This is what it’s actually there for…
Some guitars have scratchplates, some don’t… so what are they actually supposed to be doing? Well, a lot more than you might think, it turns out…
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“It absolutely blew my mind”: Why Dave Grohl is obsessed with viral Canadian microtonal duo Angine de Poitrine
The math-rock wizards have taken the internet by storm, racking up millions of views in the space of just a few months
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Kiko Loureiro accuses Arch Enemy of copyright infringement – Arch Enemy fire back: “So 3 notes are the same?”
Does this make Kiko and Arch Enemy… arch enemies?
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Charvel recreates Jake E. Lee’s Bark at the Moon/Ultimate Sin-era Blue Burst guitar
“The Pro-Mod Blue Burst captures the exact visual intensity that made Jake’s guitar iconic under the lights.”
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“I got acrylic nails, because my mom told me that’s what Dolly Parton did. It allows me to play in a flamenco style”: Ashley Reeve leads the low-end for everyone from Cher to Filter – and her right-hand tone is her most important asset
When she’s not performing with Cher, Ashley Reeve has honed her bass playing prowess with the likes of CeeLo Green, Adam Lambert and alternative rock band Filter
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“My student tricked me into getting an Instagram”: The off-hand advice from a student that helped kickstart Yvette Young’s career
The virtuoso may now be one of the most recognizable guitarists on social media, but Young admits she was initially reluctant to share her chops online
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“It doesn’t matter how fast you can speak – it matters what you’re actually saying”: Uli Jon Roth explains the problem with the pursuit of technical perfection in guitar playing
“Too many players start sounding like typewriters,” the former Scorpions guitarist says.
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