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“Guitars should be played”: Kirk Hammett has been anonymously selling his guitars online
By Jonathan Horsley published
One owner, gigged in stadiums, used on the recording of a Grammy-nominated metal album. Serious offers only...

Jack White on why he rerecorded half of the guitars on No Name after he got his new Fender tube amp
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Pano Verb's weird and wonderful concoction of tube amp mojo, 10" and 15" speakers, reverb and tremolo, had White so excited that he ripped up the No Name recording schedule

Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he took Duane Allman’s '57 Goldtop to a Metallica show
By Jonathan Horsley published
Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

Fender unveils DiMarzio-loaded Strat and Jazz Bass for Khruangbin’s Mark Speer and Laura Lee
By Jonathan Horsley published
This historic signature run presents limited edition replicas of the psych-rockers' go-to instruments

“I said, ‘Damn, I wish I'd cut that song faster!’”: How a master guitarist made a cult classic instrumental album
By Andrew Daly published
The story of Brent Mason's much-loved Hot Wired

The Grammy-winning hit that Eric Clapton wrote to order, with a little help from Foreigner’s Mick Jones
By Ben Rogerson published
With Phil Collins on drums and Pino Palladino on bass, it was pretty much a sure thing

Your chance to win Kurt Cobain's plectrum — used during Nirvana’s legendary Unplugged show
By Paul Elliott published
Visitors to the new London exhibition can enter the prize draw

Lifeguard on abstract noise and pop hooks – and the creative epiphanies behind their stellar debut
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Chicago trio's debut LP, Ripped And Torn, is a half-hour riot of post-punk urgency, freewheeling experimentalism and the sound of a band figuring out how to give their audience whiplash

“You hear the record and they took you off!”: Ace session guitarist Brent Mason reveals how he made it to the top
By Andrew Daly published
And he admits: "I've messed up a lot!"

Exhibition featuring life-sized photos of 100 legendary artists' guitars to open in London
By Jonathan Horsley published
Scale will feature 1:1 front-and-back portraits of guitars belonging to Paul McCartney, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Kerry King, Brian May, Joan Jett and more – and it'll tell the stories behind them
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