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“G&L is no longer – and we still have a lot of unanswered questions”: Former G&L employee speaks out following quiet closure of company – as Fender purchases the 'Leo Fender' trademark

Steve Araujo, who worked with G&L for nearly a decade, has shed light on the fate of the company following weeks of speculation

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“Morello was like, ‘Hey, you can't do that. I think Metallica was gonna do that…’” Halestorm reveal the song they were originally set to play at Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s final show

The band ended up putting their own spin on Perry Mason, from Ozzy’s 1995 record, Ozzmosis

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“Do you want to recycle or try something new? I never chased popular opinion as much as I chased my inner feelings”: How surviving cancer inspired Ana Popovic to take blues guitar to the dancefloor

Dance to the Rhythm is Ana Popovic once more torching convention and presenting a take on the blues that's true to herself and animated by an energy and life she could hardly contain

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“I never thought I’d get hired by a pop band. Opening for Coldplay with Willow Smith was never a career goal”: Few bassists can match the technical ability of Mohini Dey, thanks to her work with Steve Vai, Willow Smith and just about everyone else

The very definition of ‘prodigy’, Mumbai-born bassist Mohini Dey has enjoyed a rapid ascent to worldwide renown. And she’s only just getting started

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“I’m not sure why the tour ended so abruptly. I never got a bunch of my gear returned. People don’t get sacked from Sabbath – they just don’t get spoken to again!” Ask Jo Burt about Freddie Mercury, Brian Setzer and The Troggs – just not Black Sabbath

The veteran bassist on his Queen and Led Zeppelin links, love for fretless, fighting with a Music Man EQ, and Tony Iommi’s smile when Geezer Butler’s Ampeg rig made a bass feel like an animal

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"Some might say this is far from a valid Oasis signature guitar, having only come into play earlier this year": Gibson Noel Gallagher Les Paul Standard review

What started this year as a ’mystery’ guitar and then became a 25-only £17k collector’s piece is now a Gibson USA ‘Paul for the people

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“On a guitar, it's built so weird with that one string in the wrong position, and so everybody plays the same crap all the time”: Phish's Trey Anastasio thinks all guitar music sounds the same – so he radically switched up his songwriting process

Anastasio says that, in an effort to push compositional boundaries, he writes a lot of his guitar parts on piano

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“Absolutely fearless”: Teenager shredding Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name at her valedictory goes viral

Erin Phelan’s take on the Bon Jovi classic has become a hit on social media

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“A treasure trove of undiscovered harmonies”: She’s played with Bruno Mars and Jay-Z – now Ella Feingold’s signature string set brings her wild inverted tuning to the masses

The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La Bella string set makes it easier than ever to replicate

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“Changing from active to passive was huge – I’d forget to change the batteries and have a meltdown pre-gig when my EMGs died”: Conjurer just dropped a modern sludge-metal classic – and they made it using custom guitars with satanic scale lengths

The UK progressive sludge-metallers are one of UK heavy music’s most potent forces. Dani Nightingale and Brady Deeprose break down their Carillion and Mozer guitars, and why they write material using Guitar Pro – then send the tabs to their fans

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“I’d say, ‘How is your latest record, Jeff?’ And he’d go, ‘Oh, it's a lot of rubbish’”: Ritchie Blackmore on Jeff Beck’s imposter syndrome

Both guitarists revolutionized rock guitar – but Beck wasn’t always the biggest fan of his own work

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“In all the years I’ve been playing since I was a child, I don’t remember ever adjusting a tone knob. I’m not going to miss it”: Why Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe believes that tone knobs on guitars are overrated

The fast-rising metal guitar star released her very first signature model with Jackson last year – which also marked the first signature guitar model for a Black female heavy metal artist

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“Let’s hop to it”: James Hetfield wins Halloween by donning inflatable kangaroo costume to rip through a thrash classic – and he doesn’t miss a beat

Two Metallica members didn’t get the Halloween memo for the gig

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“The quality of guitars didn’t plummet overnight – some might argue that it remained high for at least a decade”: Fender CBS guitars get a bad rep – but what actually changed?

The CBS takeover of Fender was many things but it was not an overnight revolution. We track the key changes to its builds through the era

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“He had Double Trouble on a couple of his records. He had a relationship with Stevie Ray Vaughan. He was a touring machine who did it the hard way”: Eric Gales on his all-star blues tribute to his brother, the man who started him on guitar

With a stirring tribute to his older brother Manuel, who performed as Little Jimmy King, the master southpaw returns with one of thefinest albums of his career

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“I would run across the stage and ‘break’ the bass over my head while our sound guy played samples of trees cracking”: Described as the 4-string equivalent of painting with a sledgehammer, Van Halen’s Ultra Bass was not your typical bass solo

Michael Anthony’s Yamaha BB2000 would get rebuilt after every show following his foundation-shaking solo spot

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“From 1991 to 2016, I did no lead playing at all. By the time I started playing again for my YouTube channel, I’d forgotten everything I knew”: Why Rick Beato stopped playing solos – and why it was good for his playing

Beato’s approach to soloing was revolutionized by his break as he came back with a clean slate

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“I had a really bad detox. I fell down a flight of stairs. I screwed up my shoulder and neck and couldn’t play guitar for a while. I thought God had taken it all away”: How Ace Frehley came back from the brink with his first solo album in 20 years

In 2009, the late Spaceman took GW inside the inner workings of rock’s makeup-clad warriors – like that time he forged ahead after getting electrocuted onstage – and explained why he always valued spontaneity over rigorous practice

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“Instant, precise control right under your foot”: This innovation might have completely changed the way you dial in effects pedals forever

The Knobyfier could revolutionize the way you interact with your pedalboard

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“That’s the last barrier we have to tear down”: The one thing stopping headless guitars being embraced by traditional players, according to Ola Strandberg

Strandberg instruments have been pigeonholed as metal guitars, but the company wants guitarists to realize they aren't just for prog players

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This Japanese guitar maker is fashioning phone cases that make your mobile look like vintage instruments – and the internet is going crazy for them

Moonshine Craft & Custom has been overwhelmed by demand for its phone cases, which flash burst finishes and pickguards

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“I hate new basses. I think they are terrible. I don’t want to have one in my hands”: How Sting’s 1953 P-Bass set the tone for this Police classic

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline

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“A first-class build that’s impossible to fault… it would be criminal if this didn’t hit a stage”: Patrick James Eggle Oz-t Cabronita Thinline review

Upholding the craft of the luthier, Patrick James Eggle’s latest build is another reason to look to the UK if you want the best

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“Who’d have thought the Oasis reunion would be such an event for signature guitars?” All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the Hummingbird’s evil twin

A host of highly anticipated signatures, some surprising company-firsts, and the evil twin of the classic Hummingbird all landed this week

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“Me and Chino rowed a lot when we were working on it. It was a really abrasive process”: Deftones' White Pony was one of the first metal masterpieces of the new millennium. Its creation was anything but smooth sailing

Resident riffmaster Stephen Carpenter minced no words in this 2000 interview, rolling his eyes at “our friends” Korn, and even – before walking it back – calling his bandmate's guitar-work “awful.” Still, though, he was proud of the band's “really awesome record”

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