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    “Ed Van Halen was a lot more than his tapping solo. Unfortunately, all the other players in LA thought it was all tapping and dive bombs, and they became cartoon versions of Eddie”

    guitarworld.com/news/pat-trave

    #PatTravers #EddieVanHalen #VanHalen

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    “I had the audacity to say, ‘Are we gonna rehearse, Mr. Berry?’ He whipped around and yelled, ’We don’t rehearse rock ‘n’ roll!’”: Session great Carlos Alomar on his time as Chuck Berry’s rhythm guitarist
    Alomar also recalls his tour with James Brown and the time the King of Soul yelled ‘Hit me!’ and he didn’t hit back

    guitarworld.com/news/carlos-al

    #CarlosAlomar #ChuckBerry #JamesBrown #DavidBowie #MickJagger #PaulMcCartney #AliciaKeys #MarkRonson #BrunoMars

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    He’s played with Michael Jackson, Elton John and three of the Beatles, and was a world-class soloist while still in his teens – why Toto guitarist Steve Lukather is one of rock’s greatest players

    guitarworld.com/lessons/steve-

    #SteveLukather #Toto #GuitarTechniques #MichaelJackson #EltonJohn #Beatles

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    “I drank my liver into submission and snorted a mountain of cocaine, and I didn’t die. Now I’m trying to stay away from that stuff so I can still be around. I keep myself really busy with music”: The redemption of High on Fire and Sleep icon Matt Pike

    guitarworld.com/features/high-

    #MattPike #JeffMatz #HighOnFire

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    “I drank my liver into submission and snorted a mountain of cocaine, and I didn’t die. Now I’m trying to stay away from that stuff so I can still be around. I keep myself really busy with music”: The redemption of High on Fire and Sleep icon Matt Pike

    guitarworld.com/features/high-

    #MattPike #JeffMatz #HighOnFire

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    “I drank my liver into submission and snorted a mountain of cocaine, and I didn’t die. Now I’m trying to stay away from that stuff so I can still be around. I keep myself really busy with music”: The redemption of High on Fire and Sleep icon Matt Pike

    guitarworld.com/features/high-

    #MattPike #JeffMatz #HighOnFire

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    “I drank my liver into submission and snorted a mountain of cocaine, and I didn’t die. Now I’m trying to stay away from that stuff so I can still be around. I keep myself really busy with music”: The redemption of High on Fire and Sleep icon Matt Pike

    guitarworld.com/features/high-

    #MattPike #JeffMatz #HighOnFire

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    “I drank my liver into submission and snorted a mountain of cocaine, and I didn’t die. Now I’m trying to stay away from that stuff so I can still be around. I keep myself really busy with music”: The redemption of High on Fire and Sleep icon Matt Pike

    guitarworld.com/features/high-

    #MattPike #JeffMatz #HighOnFire

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    “We did a show where someone dosed Eric with LSD, and I had to take over doing a few tunes”: George Terry says he had to step up during Clapton's bad nights on the road in the ’70s – but it wasn’t always the guitar hero’s fault

    guitarworld.com/news/george-te

    #EricClapton #GeorgeTerry #LSD

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    “He's the first person that thought of this setup. I'm going to use it in the future”: Keanu Reeves’ new Fender Custom Shop P-Bass inspired an all-new circuit called “the Keanu wiring” that has never been used before

    guitarworld.com/news/keanu-ree

    #KeanuReeves #FenderCustomShop #PBass #KeanuWiring #FenderDreamFactory

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    “There’s no point trying to compete with Steve Morse or Ritchie Blackmore… One of the things that the guys in the band like about me as a player is I do my own thing”: How Simon McBride brought new color to Deep Purple's iconic sound

    guitarworld.com/features/deep-

    #SimonMcBride #DeepPurple

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    Surf guitar is on the rise thanks to guitarists like Khruangbin's Mark Speer, and it can teach you a lot about attitude and note choice – Arianna Powell shows you how your playing can benefit from catching the wave

    guitarworld.com/lessons/pickup

    #TotalGuitar #SurfGuitar #Khruangbin #MarkSpeer #AriannaPowell

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    “I’d cover the strings in cheeseburger grease, barbecue sauce – even blood. I didn’t want the bass to sound like a friggin’ guitar!” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut took bassist Stephen Stills on an unlikely tone journey
    Nicknamed Captain Manyhands, Stephen Stills ranks among pop music’s finest unsung bass talents

    guitarworld.com/features/steph

    #StephenStills #BassPlayer #CrosbyStillsNash

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    “I’d cover the strings in cheeseburger grease, barbecue sauce – even blood. I didn’t want the bass to sound like a friggin’ guitar!” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut took bassist Stephen Stills on an unlikely tone journey
    Nicknamed Captain Manyhands, Stephen Stills ranks among pop music’s finest unsung bass talents

    guitarworld.com/features/steph

    #StephenStills #BassPlayer #CrosbyStillsNash

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    “I’d cover the strings in cheeseburger grease, barbecue sauce – even blood. I didn’t want the bass to sound like a friggin’ guitar!” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut took bassist Stephen Stills on an unlikely tone journey
    Nicknamed Captain Manyhands, Stephen Stills ranks among pop music’s finest unsung bass talents

    guitarworld.com/features/steph

    #StephenStills #BassPlayer #CrosbyStillsNash

  16. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #guitarworld
    “I’d cover the strings in cheeseburger grease, barbecue sauce – even blood. I didn’t want the bass to sound like a friggin’ guitar!” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut took bassist Stephen Stills on an unlikely tone journey
    Nicknamed Captain Manyhands, Stephen Stills ranks among pop music’s finest unsung bass talents

    guitarworld.com/features/steph

    #StephenStills #BassPlayer #CrosbyStillsNash

  17. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #guitarworld
    “I’d cover the strings in cheeseburger grease, barbecue sauce – even blood. I didn’t want the bass to sound like a friggin’ guitar!” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut took bassist Stephen Stills on an unlikely tone journey
    Nicknamed Captain Manyhands, Stephen Stills ranks among pop music’s finest unsung bass talents

    guitarworld.com/features/steph

    #StephenStills #BassPlayer #CrosbyStillsNash

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    “Eric Clapton’s roadie brought a Strat with him. I said, ‘Do you want to sell that guitar?’ He said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’”: Ritchie Blackmore on why he switched from the 335 to the Stratocaster – and the one he used to record Smoke on the Water

    guitarworld.com/features/ritch

    #RitchieBlackmore #EricClapton #FenderStratocaster #DeepPurple #Rainbow

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    “Eric Clapton’s roadie brought a Strat with him. I said, ‘Do you want to sell that guitar?’ He said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’”: Ritchie Blackmore on why he switched from the 335 to the Stratocaster – and the one he used to record Smoke on the Water

    guitarworld.com/features/ritch

    #RitchieBlackmore #EricClapton #FenderStratocaster #DeepPurple #Rainbow

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    “Eric Clapton’s roadie brought a Strat with him. I said, ‘Do you want to sell that guitar?’ He said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’”: Ritchie Blackmore on why he switched from the 335 to the Stratocaster – and the one he used to record Smoke on the Water

    guitarworld.com/features/ritch

    #RitchieBlackmore #EricClapton #FenderStratocaster #DeepPurple #Rainbow

  21. #TheMetalDogArticleList
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    “Eric Clapton’s roadie brought a Strat with him. I said, ‘Do you want to sell that guitar?’ He said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’”: Ritchie Blackmore on why he switched from the 335 to the Stratocaster – and the one he used to record Smoke on the Water

    guitarworld.com/features/ritch

    #RitchieBlackmore #EricClapton #FenderStratocaster #DeepPurple #Rainbow

  22. #TheMetalDogArticleList
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    “Eric Clapton’s roadie brought a Strat with him. I said, ‘Do you want to sell that guitar?’ He said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’”: Ritchie Blackmore on why he switched from the 335 to the Stratocaster – and the one he used to record Smoke on the Water

    guitarworld.com/features/ritch

    #RitchieBlackmore #EricClapton #FenderStratocaster #DeepPurple #Rainbow

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    “I still have my uniform on, and I said, ‘I’ve been at work all day and I cut off all my hair.’ Gary said, ‘Bring your guitar. I’ll see you at six’”: Steve Morse quit music to become an airline pilot – until Lynyrd Skynyrd persuaded him to return

    guitarworld.com/news/steve-mor

    #SteveMorse #LynyrdSkynyrd #DeepPurple #DixieDregs

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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...

    guitarworld.com/news/tg-greate

    #TotalGuitar #JimiHendrix #AllAlongTheWatchtower

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    That doesnt make any sense. It was not worth that: Guitar collector and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay doesnt think Kurt Cobains MTV Unplugged acoustic was worth $6 million
    The renowned guitar collector has had his say on the sale of Cobain's Martin D-18E, which currently stands as the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction

    guitarworld.com/news/jim-irsay

    #JimIrsay #KurtCobain #MTVUnplugged #Nirvana

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    “We face our amps backwards so that they can be as loud as possible. Feedback is really important to us”: DIIV are reimagining shoegaze with cheap pedals, communal gear and all-encompassing distortion
    Melding dirt boxes and cranked amps with loops and drum machines, the NY rock group are not playing around as they steer shoegaze into bold new soundscapes

    guitarworld.com/features/diiv-

    #DIIV #shoegaze #guitar #pedals #amps #guitarists #rock #indie #experimental

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    “He’d call me at four in the morning and leave a 15-minute guitar solo on my voicemail”: Serj Tankian on his collaborations with the enigmatic Buckethead – and the time they played a high school battle of the bands together
    From taxidermy-inspired music videos to playing a high school battle of the bands as fully grown adults, the System of a Down frontman recalls his artistic camaraderie with Buckethead

    guitarworld.com/news/serj-tank

    #SerjTankian #Buckethead

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    “I blew up. I had tears in my eyes because I was so upset. I grabbed the guitar, and I just ripped through it”: Elliot Easton on the emotional rollercoaster that helped him record one of his most iconic guitar solos
    The Cars guitarist was particularly proud of the part he wrote, but was reduced to tears by his bandmates' initial reaction

    guitarworld.com/news/elliot-ea

    #ElliotEaston #TheCars #TouchAndGo #GuitarSolo #EmotionalRollercoaster #IconicSolo #SteelyDan

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    “I knew my pentatonic scales before I went to Berklee – and 90% of the time that’s what I’m called upon to play”: For the third time in his career, Chris Chaney has landed one of bassdom’s most coveted gigs – a slot in the re-energized AC/DC
    Jazz-schooled bassist Chris Chaney has now secured three career-defining gigs – first with Alanis Morissette and Jane’s Addiction, and now with AC/DC

    guitarworld.com/features/chris

    #ChrisChaney #Bass #ACDC #AlanisMorissette

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    “Ozzy would never stand in front of the bass rig. He told me to turn it down one night, so for a laugh I turned it up”: Geezer Butler names the Black Sabbath album that captured his favorite bass tone
    Geezer Butler’s pioneering bass tone with Black Sabbath helped set heavy metal’s mood before the term even existed

    guitarworld.com/features/geeze

    #BlackSabbath #GeezerButler #BassTone #HeavyMetal #OzzyOsbourne

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    “It was funny when I first met James Hetfield. I was like, ‘Thank you for teaching me how to play guitar. You paved the way for me’”: Mastodon's Bill Kelliher on how meeting his guitar heroes pushed him to improve his craft
    Mastodon's Bill Kelliher also credits Slayer's Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman for changing his previously nonchalant attitude to warming up...

    guitarworld.com/news/mastodon-

    #Mastodon #BillKelliher #Metallica #JamesHetfield #Slayer #KerryKing

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    “It was a quality instrument to learn on. Without my dad, who knows what kind of tree trunk I would’ve had”: You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on
    Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

    guitarworld.com/news/slayer-ke

    #KerryKing #GibsonES175 #HollowBodyGuitar #JazzGuitars #Strat #LSeriesStrat

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    “It was a quality instrument to learn on. Without my dad, who knows what kind of tree trunk I would’ve had”: You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on
    Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

    guitarworld.com/news/slayer-ke

    #KerryKing #GibsonES175 #HollowBodyGuitar #JazzGuitars #Strat #LSeriesStrat

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    “It was a quality instrument to learn on. Without my dad, who knows what kind of tree trunk I would’ve had”: You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on
    Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

    guitarworld.com/news/slayer-ke

    #KerryKing #GibsonES175 #HollowBodyGuitar #JazzGuitars #Strat #LSeriesStrat

  35. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #guitarworld
    “It was a quality instrument to learn on. Without my dad, who knows what kind of tree trunk I would’ve had”: You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on
    Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

    guitarworld.com/news/slayer-ke

    #KerryKing #GibsonES175 #HollowBodyGuitar #JazzGuitars #Strat #LSeriesStrat

  36. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #guitarworld
    “It was a quality instrument to learn on. Without my dad, who knows what kind of tree trunk I would’ve had”: You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on
    Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

    guitarworld.com/news/slayer-ke

    #KerryKing #GibsonES175 #HollowBodyGuitar #JazzGuitars #Strat #LSeriesStrat

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    “In the ’80s, I was very much into playing fast and wanting to be the best. Later on I realized it was just a waste of time”: Europe’s John Norum on the one guitar he kept from the Final Countdown era, and what he learned from Don Dokken

    guitarworld.com/features/7-que

    #JohnNorum #Europe

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    “In the ’80s, I was very much into playing fast and wanting to be the best. Later on I realized it was just a waste of time”: Europe’s John Norum on the one guitar he kept from the Final Countdown era, and what he learned from Don Dokken

    guitarworld.com/features/7-que

    #JohnNorum #Europe

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    “In the ’80s, I was very much into playing fast and wanting to be the best. Later on I realized it was just a waste of time”: Europe’s John Norum on the one guitar he kept from the Final Countdown era, and what he learned from Don Dokken

    guitarworld.com/features/7-que

    #JohnNorum #Europe

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    #guitarworld
    “In the ’80s, I was very much into playing fast and wanting to be the best. Later on I realized it was just a waste of time”: Europe’s John Norum on the one guitar he kept from the Final Countdown era, and what he learned from Don Dokken

    guitarworld.com/features/7-que

    #JohnNorum #Europe